You all want annoying local commercials?
I give you Little John from Little John’s Pawn Shop.
Clown-nosed bring-down Mr. Malden’s melodramatic exhortation “What will you do? What will you do?”
For the old Bostonians…
“I’ll finance the Olds for nothing!”
–Ernie Boch.
“You’re killing me, Larry!” – oft heard commercial for Sit 'n Sleep stores in Southern California.
I suspect this is just a minor variation on “You’re Killing me, Smalls” from the 1993 movie The Sandlot.
I haven’t seen the movie and have no idea what the context of the line is, but I’ve sen it on posters, and I’ve seen it used in at least one commercial.
“Travis! You’re a year too late!”
“Anna Maria Alberghetti!”
I think the first is from a Levi’s ad(?) I’m picturing a pretty blonde in a western desert setting.
The second is from a salad dressing commercial(?)
When I see AMA’s name it makes me think of an old joke:
“knock knock”
“Who’s there?”
“Anna”
“Anna who”
“Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi honey”
I remember this from an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore show. It had bothered me for a long time because, although it’s clear that this was supposed to be a well-known song, I’d never heard of it and had no idea what it was. And without that the joke doesn’t completely work.
It’s from a 1917 jazz song called The Darktown Strutter’s Ball
Although it’s considered a Jazz Standard, and has been performed up to the present (just not while I was around), that title seems very non-PC.
Right on. Now picture it being sung Michigan J. Frog style.
“That’s ‘andy ‘Arry, stick it in the oven…”
Line used regularly when bacon gets saved…
You are correct. It was to announce Levi’s introduction of button-fly 501s for women.
The cavalry is coming,
It’s Vigilante Plumbing!
“…con Gleem.”
The Lucky Strike logo is red, not white.
“Mr Bubble” kids’ bubble bath.
American Express.
You got it! Well done!
Line at 0:40.
Correct.
More precisely, the pack is and (so far as I know) always has been white; it was the logo that changed from green to red.
When I was growing up, my brother had a stack of Life magazines from the 1940s, and I remember seeing that ad in almost every one of them. (“Lucky Strike green has gone to WAR!” with a painting of an M3 Stuart.)
Here’s one for Twin Citians: “Tell them Oscar sent you!”
No. The Lucky Strike logo has always been black letters on a red circle. The pack itself was predominantly green prior to WWII; it changed to predominantly white during the war. The reason (and I’m going on memory here, from a book I read years ago) was that the green ink/dye required something—copper, maybe—that could be better used for war materiel. Here’s a side-by-side look at them both:
Lucky Strike went from green to a white pack, and never went back. Now, getting back to slogans and such, does anybody know what “It’s toasted,” and “L.S.M.F.T.” means? (I do; I’m just curious if anybody else does.)