# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/101 "2006-02-13T15:37:07Z")
- “What I’m really giving you is a part of me” This was from an ad for Hallmark cards. Even at the age of 9 I thought that this had some potentially sick interpretations. - “Honeycomb’s big! (YEAH YEAH YEAH) It’s not small! (NO NO NO)” Now I challenge you to get that one unstuck from your minds. - “Hi! I’m the Tidy Bowl Man”. There’s something profoundly disturbing about lifting the cover of your toilet and finding a tiny guy on a miniature yacht floating within. - “Big Mac, Fillet o’Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shakes, Sundaes and Apple Pies”. I can’t believe a remembered that one. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/102 "2006-02-13T16:33:43Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > - “Honeycomb’s big! (YEAH YEAH YEAH) It’s not small! (NO NO NO)” Now I challenge you to get that one unstuck from your minds. Also: _“Let’s hang out at the Honey Comb hideout…”_ “Dig’em” the frog from Kellogs SUGAR SMACKS cereal…I can’t remember if he had a song though. ---
**Author:** ![Rock-n-Rolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@Rock-n-Rolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock-n-Rolga)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/103 "2006-02-13T21:05:39Z")
"Here comes spider out of the night/don’t worry honey, it won’t bite/it’s a… …MMMMONNNZZZAA!" ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/104 "2006-02-13T21:06:34Z")
Marina toilet paper: Maaarriiinaaaaaa Soft as a sea breeze but strong as the seeeaaaa! Charleston Chew candy, with King Louis XIV: “It’s chewy, Louis, but not too chewy.” ---
**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 13, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/105 "2006-02-13T22:22:14Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > Marina toilet paper: > Maaarriiinaaaaaa > Soft as a sea breeze but strong as the seeeaaaa! > > Charleston Chew candy, with King Louis XIV: > “It’s chewy, Louis, but not too chewy.” That reminds me of another Charlston Chew jingle. Charleston, Charleston! That cholcolate chewy. That blast Can last That’s why the call it the biggie. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/106 "2006-02-13T22:47:29Z")
_There’s a fragrance that’s here today, and they call it— CHAR-LIE!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/107 "2006-02-14T01:48:20Z")
Wasn’t there an ad that went “Martini and Rossi on ice. That’s nice!”? And while I’m on the subject of booze, I seem to remember a Boone’s farm Strawberry Hill Wine ad with a hayride scene. ---
**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 14, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/108 "2006-02-14T02:36:26Z")
> [@Bomzaway](#): > > Wasn’t there an ad that went “Martini and Rossi on ice. That’s nice!”? Riunite, not Martini & Rossi. M&R was an 80s commercial, “Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante” as some sort of tongue-twister. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/109 "2006-02-14T04:45:34Z")
99 calories never tasted so imported – till they imported Amstel Lite. (Or was that early 80s?) ---
**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 14, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/110 "2006-02-14T20:31:31Z")
meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow ---
**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 17, 2006, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/111 "2006-02-17T09:05:46Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > _Oh-oh-oh What a feeling, Toyota!_ > > _If you think it’s butter, but it’s not, It’s Chiffon!_ “It’s not NICE to fool Mother Nature!” > [@furnishesq](#): > > Remember those Irish Spring soap commericials? The one where we see a man in a beautiful valley in Ireland, dressed as a sheep herder or something. He walks up to a waterfall or, well, an Irish Spring, and he takes a pocket knife and cuts into the bar of soap to show us how fresh and wonderful everything is inside the bar of soap? “Manly yes, but I like it, too!” [/quote] > [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Speaking of bananas, didn’t Charles Nelson Riley do a Bic Pen commercial dressed as a banana? I remember him (or whoever) spelling ‘banana’. Yep, for the Bic version of the Flair: a felt-tip pen in a rainbow of colors. They were called Bic Bananas. I had a 12-color set when I was a kid. Charles was famous to me as Hoo-Doo, the green villain on Sid&Marty Kroft’s “Lidsville”. God, what a weird show. ---
**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 17, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/112 "2006-02-17T15:37:40Z")
> [@Dijon Warlock](#): > > Sid&Marty Kroft’s “Lidsville”. God, what a weird show. _Lidsville is the koo-koo-kookiest Lidsville is the ki-ki-kickiest Lidsville is the groo-groo-grooviest Lidsville is the living end…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883.md?page=5)