Let me have it. I want to hear those commercials that you remember from days gone by. Please none that are on currently!
I will go with one for A-Team action figures:
(set to music)
We’re the A-Team, You know we’re soldiers of fortune
We’re the A-Team, Helping people in need
Remember Hannibal, Murdock, and Face?
And even B.A. Barracus, you know each one is an ace
Each is sold seperately with rifle and gear,
If there’s trouble to face,
you know the A-TEAM’s here!
There were A-Team action figures? gasp I need to have those!
That Nike one where Sampras and Agassi were playing tennis in a garage (or something like that), and they just kept on going and going and going.
The Norelco commercial with the Santa sledding down the hill in a Norelco shaver.
“We are the baddest bugs in town, we love to sneak around, we’re gonna come in to your house and drive you crazy…” Terminix I think?
I always liked the commercial for British Airways that was shown in the States, where they had the mob of people wearing different colored clothes walking across a beach and stuff, so that from above they looked like different parts of a face: lips, eyes, etc. No words, just that music.
Stan Freberg’s “Gino’s Pizza Rolls” commercial. It was absolutely unforgettable – and I’ve only seen it twice (once in its original incarnation and another a couple of years ago in a “best commercials” show).
Stan Freberg is a genius. I don’t think I ever saw that commercial though.
“How fast is the new Isuzu Imark?”
action
“Faster then a speeding … Well, you know.”
“Christmas trees, christmas trees
Here at Frontier Ford.
Come on out and get them
Before they’re out the door.
HEY!”
Alaska Airlines had a lot of funny commercials. One that comes to mind is the guy on an airplane (competitor’s airline of course) tightly wedged between two big men who are each bobbing their heads around in unison as they’re listening to their headphones.
One that scared me as a child was for butter or margarine. I don’t recall the brand, but the tagline was “don’t fool with Mother Nature.” A lightning strike and some thunder would follow.
And who could forget the Wendy’s “Where’s the Beef?” ads, which briefly became a popular catch-phrase.
All the Energizer bunny commercials that started out looking like it was an ad for something else. I was always mildly irritated when I heard the drum start up and have the bunny enter the frame, realizing that they fooled me once again. Towards the end of its run I began to wise up and could tell beforehand that it was going to be an Energizer commercial.
A few year’s ago Sprite had a commercial that started out looking like it was an ad for one of those “not available in stores” CD offers, featuring a ficticious pan flute player named “Yablo.” I thought it was for real at first.
It’s not nice to fool mother nature was Chiffon Margarine.
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