# Let's remember our favorite 70s TV commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883 "2006-02-10T17:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/21 "2006-02-10T21:29:50Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Rosie, the Quicker Picker-Upper. (In case you didn’t know, “Rosie” was the person who directed the Village People vehicle “Can’t Stop the Music”). Oh yeah, and then there was Cora the coffee lady. She was wicked good. And Mr. Whipple! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/22 "2006-02-10T21:38:21Z")
_You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the great big Texaco star._ Then there was another one… something about getting a refined cocoa product in a peanut based paste but if I’m just imagining things… well… don’t want to steal anyone’s Thunder. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/23 "2006-02-10T21:56:59Z")
“You’re soaking in it.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/24 "2006-02-10T22:01:22Z")
Was it from the 70’s or 80’s when John Goodman did the 7-up commercial that started out with him sitting at a table, when his wife comes in, and he says, “My wife…I love her.” She then walks off, and he then says, “I hate her. She can eat whatever she wants and never gain a pound?” ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/25 "2006-02-10T22:05:43Z")
“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!” “You tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends, and so on, and so on…” And does anyone remember a commercial where a man is walking along down a sidewalk, in the rain but has an umbrella, then steps of a curb into a puddle and sinks all the way to the that pointy thing on top? That thing was kinda oogy. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/26 "2006-02-10T22:06:18Z")
_V-deeeeee is for everybody, not just for the few. Anyone can share VD with someone nice, like you_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/27 "2006-02-10T22:16:07Z")
Ancient Chinese secret, huh? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/28 "2006-02-10T22:20:07Z")
“It’s hard to put a Muriel down.” and the best commercial of all-time: “See ya 'round, Mean Joe.” [beat] “Hey kid…catch!” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/29 "2006-02-10T22:21:58Z")
The Taste-Buds on SNL ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/30 "2006-02-10T22:28:58Z")
The commador computer commercial where the kid is trying to use the Atari joystick to control the goldfish. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/31 "2006-02-10T22:43:26Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > There was the one with Gene Shallit’s long lost brother playing pool, and just as he’s taking his shot, a spectator bites into a Dorito. The pool player slips and rips the pool table felt. [Avery Schreiber](http://www.saturos.net/under/underpics/avery%20schrieber.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/32 "2006-02-10T22:50:28Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Crying Indians\* as Miss Molly American dumps what has to be a weeks worth of garbage outside of her speeding car. > > \ > > \*Now “Native Americans”, but in 1972 they were “Indians” Of course, he was really [Italian](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mindiantear.html). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![furnishesq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@furnishesq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furnishesq)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/33 "2006-02-10T23:30:03Z")
Gentlemen prefer Hanes (pantyhose) ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/34 "2006-02-11T00:12:52Z")
You’ve got trouble… wait don’t run! This kind of Trouble is lots of fun! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/35 "2006-02-11T00:40:34Z")
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. _AS_ a cigarette should. Whadda ya want — good grammar or good taste? ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/36 "2006-02-11T01:13:36Z")
Let’s not forget the [Super Bass-o-matic](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75qbassamatic.phtml) … ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/37 "2006-02-11T01:25:17Z")
We’re prepared to pay… anything. _Anything?_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/38 "2006-02-11T02:23:23Z")
My buddy! My buddy! My buddy and me. A sprinkle a day helps keep odor away! By Whammo! It seems I remember a lot of toy commercials. Funny, just yesterday I was talking about a commercial for a coffee maker that turned itself on in the morning. The wife would roll over in bed and say, 'I’m making COFFEE!" ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/39 "2006-02-11T02:32:10Z")
_Inchworm, In the garden, oh! Want you with me everywhere I go Inchworm, inchworm I’m telling you true Inchworm, I love you Inchworm! I love you_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/40 "2006-02-11T02:37:53Z")
\*Yamaha, won’t you fly me away Today is the day. Don’t look the other way Yamaha Today is the day! Get yourself a Honda! Built like a watch that was meant to last a hundred years! … Forget your troubles Get on Suzuki We’re looking for a better way… Kawasaki lets the good times roll… Levi’s Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee Vi’s!\* ‘Yaaaaaa-Hoo! Mountain Dew!’ (I wish I could remember the Orange Crush commercial. ‘Re-Crushing’?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883.md?page=3)