You missed the best part, said to his teenage daughter: “Derek with the mustache and the Mustang Derek?..Yeah, it’s weird, there’s a ‘No Derek’s with mustaches’ clause, it’s in the fine print. Aw what a drag, duuude.”
Alex.
from Stroh’s.
And I don’t even drink.
I think I get to be the first to mention Geoffrey Holder for 7-Up. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
Anyone remember that annoying Canadian Tire guy, and his wife and kid? He was always showing off his new Canadian Tire stuff to his neighbours and generally being kind of a dick.
Anthony Stewart Head and his wonderful coffee commercials.
Well, that’s a relief. My searching skills aren’t dying, it’s my memory.
We’re all still angry with him for diddling Dudley.
Look what I found–Crazy Eddie Outtakes!
Remember when all the coffee was “hand-picked by Juan Valdez”? When I was a kid I thought poor Juan had to be the busiest s.o.b. on the planet, based solely on my mother’s coffee consumption.
The Jack Klugmanesque victim of the Hawaiian Punch commercials always made violence totally acceptable to my generation.
Couple that with the perfect woman who cooks, provides for the family, AND satisfies her man:
and I call the 1970’s is what screwed up the USA.
That brings to mind the pink-haired secret agent from the eSurance commercials. Also, does the lady in the Progressive commercials sorta remind anyone else of Kari Byron?
Some others:
The Hamburger Helper Helping Hand.
The Whopper and the stress he deals with raising Junior.
The Coca-Cola bears (and, having said that, Santa Claus).
Chad from Alltell and the Sprint, T-mobile, etc. guys with their unrequited crush on him. 
The Budweiser frogs.
She had a small roll on “The United States of Tara” last week.
She looks quiet a bit different without the dramatic makeup they have on her. I think she’s just sort of average on the looks scale. Having said that, I think she’s quite a bit better looking than Kari Byron. I’ve never gotten that particular attraction.
Rosie the waitress, of course. She was played by Nancy Walker, who was famous as Rhoda Morgenstern’s mother, Ida, and as Commissioner and Mrs. MacMillan’s maid, Mildred.
Since Ralph from the Alka-Seltzer commercials and Alex the dog were both mentioned, I have to come up with something else.
Cora from the Maxwell House commercials, who was played by Margaret Hamilton, the famous Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz.
I also remember a struggling young actor named Dustin Hoffman, who did commercials for Volkswagen in the late 60’s.
Oh, my god…the husband in that commercial is an ASSHOLE!
There’s also the other side of the Great Old Coffee Lady War of the 1970s: Mrs. Olsen for Folger’s. And I’m beginning to detect a pattern, because THIS husband is an asshole, too…
The original Ronald had an interesting vibe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXP_TUZqsk
Then there’s the androgynous clown pulling a hamburger out of his ass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6n9JBlebFw&feature=related
The Mr. Whipple Charmin ads used to disturb me. Who are these women who find squeezing toilet paper to be such a sensual delight, and why is Mr. Whipple obsessed with denying them pleasure? But they weren’t nearly as disgusting as Charmin’s current ads with the Buttwhipe Bears.
Ronald was played in that commercial by none other than the happy 100th birthday-wishing weatherman on NBC’s Today Show, Willard Scott, who claims to have created the character.
What about that old person who played a payphone like an accordian for 1-800-CALL COLLECT?
Seems like it should be '90s, but I think those ads didn’t start until 2000.
I think you might be misremembering the ads (from the late '60s, I guess). If I recall, the premise was that the protagonist opened his medicine cabinet in the bathroom, only to find that it had no back, and instead went straight through to the medicine cabinet in the bathroom of the adjoining apartment. The “Hi, guy!” neighbor would then reach through and borrow his Right Guard (spray, not stick). The hapless protagonist would call to his wife: “Mona!”
Anybody remember Cal Worthington’s car ads? I lived in the Mojave in 1976, and we got LA tv stations. Worthington used an earworm jingle and each ad featured “my dog Spot”, which was never a dog; might be an ostrich or a hippo.