# Old commercials you sorta miss **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590 "2004-09-08T03:05:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/1 "2004-09-08T03:05:05Z")
I’ve been thinking about starting this thread for a few days and now with the “current commercials you hate” thread now seems like as good a time as any. So what are some commercials from the past that you kinda miss seeing? Three come to mind for me. First, a commercial for some Time-Life style collection of new age songs. Would never have bought the thing but the audio clips worked so well together that the commercial was quite enjoyable. Second, an ad for another Time-Life type product about nature, a video series the first of which was about predators. There was a bit in the commercial with a big-ass bird facing down a shark, scampering backward along the water’s surface with the shark in pursuit and the image was so cool. Again not something I’d buy but I spent more time than I should have wondering how that confrontation turned out. Third, my all-time favorite commercial(s), for Snickers. The ones featuring the guy obsessed with pandas who scares all his coworkers into hiding in an office rather than go to lunch with him and hear more about pandas. Never failed to crack mr the hell up. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/2 "2004-09-08T03:42:26Z")
I kinda miss the Scotish family from the Oatmeal Crisp commercials. Raving about the Oatmeal Crisp before at the end going all gruff “But it’s no oatmeal!” It’s at least better than the new guy going on about how “The Blueberries and strawberries comingle with the oatmeal… lethal…” ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/3 "2004-09-08T13:27:56Z")
Yeras ago , there was a secret ingredient in toothepaste…it was called “GL-70”! It was so strong, that it would stop a 120 MPH fast ball! The commercial used to advertise it showed the pitchman behind a glass screen…and a pitcher fires in a fast ball, which bounces off the GL-70! Man, where do you buy GL-70 these days? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/4 "2004-09-08T14:14:03Z")
I kinda miss the old Bud Ice commericals with the penguins. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/5 "2004-09-08T14:38:39Z")
_Butter or margerine? Parrr-Kayy!_ - You got chocolate in my peanut butter. You got peanut butter on my chocolate!\* Rmemeber those mid-late 70’s commercials for the cheesey Bigfoot movies? The movies about Bigfoot might have been lame-o, but the commercials kicked ass. Action figure commercials: they were always cool. Kids always had a stream out back to sail GI Joe in his raft, and they had perfect size hills and rocks for the adventure. The old “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” commercials were way better. And here is a song to have stuck in yer head all day: “Honey Comb’s big, yeah yeah yeah…It’s not small, no no no…Honey Comb’s big, yeah yeah yeah…” ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/6 "2004-09-08T14:55:09Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > And here is a song to have stuck in yer head all day: > > _Honey Comb’s big, yeah yeah yeah > It’s not small, no no no…_ _Honey Comb’s got A big, big bite, Big big taste In a a big, big bite **RIGHT!** _ Damn you, **Philster**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/7 "2004-09-08T17:47:02Z")
“There’s only one thing that smells like bacon, and that’s _bacon!_ Oh boy oh boy oh boy hey, what’s in the box? I _can’t READ!!!_” Hush puppies. “Muh dawgs can breathe… Ah kin go ta skewl!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/8 "2004-09-08T19:37:45Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > “There’s only one thing that smells like bacon, and that’s _bacon!_ Oh boy oh boy oh boy hey, what’s in the box? I _can’t READ!!!_”!!!" I usually type it "There’sonlyonethingthatsmellslikebaconandthat’s **bacon!** 🙂 My nominee: “Another one bites the Crisp, Talkin’ 'bout Coffee Crisp…” ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/9 "2004-09-09T01:10:22Z")
I liked that Pepsi one where they bet the guy he couldn’t have everything on the menu, if he did he’d eat for free. He got through it all bar one unmentioned cola drink \coca cola\ **Waitress:** “Stanley you’re not really gonna make him drink that stuff?” **All:** “Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan the maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan” **Stanley (proprietor):** _\_ Get outta here, you guys kill me" I _ **loved** _ that ad. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/10 "2004-09-09T02:50:37Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Third, my all-time favorite commercial(s), for Snickers. Ooh! Ooh! I got another one: “Great job.” “Thanks.” “Who are the ‘Chefs?’” " . . . Great googley moogley . . ." DD ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/11 "2004-09-09T03:21:13Z")
“Driver, do you have Bud Light in your limo?” “Yes” “Then I am Mr. Gal-ee-week-itz” “You mean DOCTOR Galackeweicz?” “Yes I am” “This is so cool” “First time in a limo, DOCTOR?” “In a limo this small” Also, the Charles Barkley add for Right Guard in which he says that it’s clear… with no FLAKY WHITE STUFF! ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/12 "2004-09-09T04:31:47Z")
I’d like to see the anti-pot PSA that ended with “From you, all right?!? I learned it by watching you!” And for some bizarre reason, I’d kind of like them to start re-running those Encyclopedia Britannica ads that had the unbelievably annoying kid. “I’ve got a report due on space.” And more recently, the Sprint ads with the monkey with a cold. Still just cracks me up thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/13 "2004-09-09T04:40:57Z")
I still to this day miss the old Cocal-Cola ad where “Mean Joe” Greene throws his jersey to the kid in the tunnel after getting a Coke. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/14 "2004-09-09T04:42:19Z")
From the Land of Sky Blue Waters (Waters), From the land of pines, lofty balsam, Comes the beer refreshing, Hamm’s the Beer Refreshing. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/15 "2004-09-09T05:12:51Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > I still to this day miss the old Cocal-Cola ad where “Mean Joe” Greene throws his jersey to the kid in the tunnel after getting a Coke. IMHO, the best commercial of all time. The one I miss isn’t that old…and I can’t believe I’m saying it…but I miss Steve the Dell Guy. I still yell “Dude! You’re gettin’ a Dell!” at the TV when I see a Dell commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/16 "2004-09-09T06:20:13Z")
I really miss those condom PSAs from the early 90s. Watching Rob Lowe and Alec Baldwin demonstrating how to put on a condom. :shiver: _Wow_. Now that was a public service and it was HOT. Whaddya mean I dreamed it? Are you _sure_? Damn. What about those condom PSAs where Rosie Perez showed how to put a condom on a man with your mouth? I _knew_ that was real! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/17 "2004-09-09T12:24:03Z")
I haven’t seen the Honda one with the 16 head shots and 16 car shots lately. That’s my all time favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/18 "2004-09-10T15:53:58Z")
CALGONE…“Take Me Away” (Please) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/19 "2004-09-10T16:31:59Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Hush puppies. “Muh dawgs can breathe… Ah kin go ta skewl!!!” AH KIN BE SOMEBAHDY! ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590/20 "2004-09-10T19:53:47Z")
From childhood: Psychedelic \*\*Levis \*\* ads (A pre-cursor to what became music videos) Lee-E-E-E-vi’s Hah-Hah Lee-E-E-E-E-vi’s Uh-Uh-Uh-Uh Lee-E-E-E-E Lee-E-E-E-E E-E-E-E-E Lee-E-E-E-E-vi’s From adulthood: Any **Yellow Pages** commercial (Furniture Striiping, Herbs, Rock Drills, et al) From the present: The **HP** ads that feature the Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley’ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-commercials-you-sorta-miss/263590.md?page=2)