# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/41 "2006-02-11T02:38:13Z")
More Ovaltine™ please! ---
**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, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/42 "2006-02-11T02:44:05Z")
A triumph for my Triumph A victory for my Volve Whoopdeedoo for my Subaru! ---
**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, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/43 "2006-02-11T02:44:55Z")
_Get your hands on Toyota! You’ll never let go!_ _Piston engine goes ‘Boing! Boing! Boing!’ But a Mazda goes ‘Hmmmmmmm!’_ ‘So that’s a Matador!’ ‘Rich Corinthian leather.’ _Me and my RC! Me and my RC! What’s good enough for other folks Ain’t good enough for me Me and my RC! Me and my RC!_ ‘The wet-head is dead! Try the Dry look From Gillette’ ‘Schwepp-ervesance’ Popiel’s Pocket Fisherman! ---
**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, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/44 "2006-02-11T02:48:32Z")
‘I’m Rula Lenska. Friends are visiting from Europe.’ What were the words to the BankAmericard commercial set to _Jingle Bells_? ---
**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, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/45 "2006-02-11T02:52:00Z")
Gads, these things just keep popping into my head. There was the Porsche 914 commercial in the early-'70s that corrected my pronunciation of the marque. It showed happy people driving their 914s along the beach while a woman sang: _Sunnnnn… PORSCH-ah! Saaaaaand… PORSCH-ah!’_ ---
**Author:** ![PooterMommy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@PooterMommy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PooterMommy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/46 "2006-02-11T03:21:57Z")
“Hey, Good-looking, we’ll be back to pick you up later!” “Armour Hotdogs. What kind of kid eats Armour Hotdogs? Tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks. Short kids, tall kids, even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs, Armour Hot dogs. The dogs kids love to bite!” “Ask any mermaid you happen to see, what’s the best tuna? Chicken of the Sea.” Also, the Rhinestone and Stud setter. By Ronco, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/47 "2006-02-11T03:25:00Z")
You asked for it! you got it! Toyota! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/48 "2006-02-11T03:31:39Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > You asked for it! > you got it! > Toyota! except, I now only hear William Hickey’s voice saying that - over and over and over… ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/49 "2006-02-11T03:36:44Z")
I remember a model wearing an army helmet, advertising a battery operated face scrubber. On the helmet was the logo ‘Zap the Zits’. Don’t remember what the product was called. Maybe a ‘Zit Zapper’ ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/50 "2006-02-11T03:48:00Z")
I recently acquired a copy of _The Star Wars Holiday Special_ and what do you know, the commercials from 1978 were left in, so I actually have these on DVD: -A few from GM, showing their assembly line workers as just regular folks. Their jobs have probably been shipped to Mexico by now. -CBS Sunday Night: Short blurbs for 60 Minutes, All In The Family, Alice, Lucy Comes To Nashville (a Lucille Ball variety special), and Dallas. -Comtrex cold remedy: "This side of the medicine cabinet is _mine!_ -The classic “Look for the Union Label” ad, with garment workers in head to toe polyester singing. -Bell System selling some bizarre looking telephones. -The CBS Movie of the Week: The Bible. Probably rerunning on TBN nowadays. -A rather suggestive commercial for Pillsbury cake mix, showing extremely tight closeups of women’s mouths as they shovel cake into them and moan “mmmmmmmmmmmmmm”. -The classic Hungry Jack with the woman serving biscuits to her fifty foot tall son. -Another variety special, “Bobby Vinton’s Rock 'n Rollers”, starring Penny Marshall, Eric Estrada and Stockard Channing! -McDonald’s collector mugs: Captain Crook this week. -“Tobor is robot spelled backwards”. That says it all. -“A second look deserves Woolite”. -Another McDonald’s one. “There’s more in the middle of an Egg McMuffin than an egg in the middle of a muffin”. I will never get this out of my head. -A TV spot for the movie “Animal House”. -One for FTD, showing Mercury passing out flowers at a hospital. -A classic Fruit Of The Loom, with Emma clowning around with The Guys. That woman need to take her meds. -“Feelings. Nothing more than----feelings”. Bell System again. -And of course, all the Star Wars toys from Kenner. All this woven throughout a two hour Wookie soap opera. Is it 4:20 yet? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/51 "2006-02-11T03:53:45Z")
> [@bup](#): > > and the best commercial of all-time: > > “See ya 'round, Mean Joe.” > [beat] > “Hey kid…catch!” Amen. I was born in '78, but I still remember seeing that commercial when I was but a wee one. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/52 "2006-02-11T03:57:16Z")
> [@bup](#): > > “See ya 'round, Mean Joe.” > [beat] > “Hey kid…catch!” I like the outtake I saw once better, when Greene says that last line, then belches hugely. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/53 "2006-02-11T04:01:55Z")
> [@Harvey The Heavy](#): > > I-Comtrex cold remedy: "This side of the medicine cabinet is _mine!_ This reminded me of the one with the double door’ed medicine cabinet and the person on the other side saying “Hi, guy…” to the bewildered man ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/54 "2006-02-11T04:09:40Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > This reminded me of the one with the double door’ed medicine cabinet and the person on the other side saying “Hi, guy…” to the bewildered man Heh! That was [Chuck McCann](http://www.donnareed.org/html/templates/dr_profile.php?drf_person=mccann). The series of ads ran for YEARS! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/55 "2006-02-11T04:22:43Z")
Am I crazy, or was the _GI Joe_ jingle set to the tune of _Kum Ba Yah_? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/56 "2006-02-11T04:38:36Z")
“Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.” ““Bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never, never let you forget you’re a man.” ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/57 "2006-02-11T05:16:04Z")
There was a commercial for a motorcycle (the details are lost to me now) but it showed a group of scientists (from the future?) gazing upon this motorcycle. (Paraphrased) “What is it for?” “People used to drive it for … fun.” “Fun? What is that?” (pause) “We don’t know.” ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/58 "2006-02-11T12:06:34Z")
_The world looks mighty good to me, 'cause Tootsie Rolls are all I see! Whatever it is I think I see, Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me!_ Anyone remember those animated PSAs they showed on Saturday mornings with that weird looking potato-ish guy with the long nose and the top hat singing about nutrition? ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/59 "2006-02-11T13:23:21Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Anyone remember those animated PSAs they showed on Saturday mornings with that weird looking potato-ish guy with the long nose and the top hat singing about nutrition? “Don’t be a Yuck-Mouth!” ---
**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, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/60 "2006-02-11T14:42:01Z")
Ooey gooey rich and chewy inside Tender flakey golden cakey ouside Wrap the outside on the inside and what do ya get? You get a the big Fig Newton (oh yeah) The big Fig Newton (here’s the tricky part) The big Fig Newtooooooon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883.md?page=4)