I loved the old “Got Milk” ads. I know, a few are still playing, but I never see my favorites anymore:
• The one where the kid gives his dog a huge bite of peanut butter and the dog licks it for about 30 seconds. That kills me.
• “Aarrrnn Brrr!” “Arrrrrnnnnn Brrrrr!!!” “No, I’m sorry, the answer is Aaron Burr!”
And my favorite from childhood, the Connect Four commercial:
“Where? I can’t–”
“Here! Diagonally!”
“…pretty…sneaky…sis.” ::dumps the checkers out::
From my childhood:
My Buddy
My Buddy
Wherever he goes, I go!
My Buddy
My Buddy
My Buddy and Me!
I never thought I’d say this, but I miss that Old Navy commercial with the Jeffersons and the woman with the big eyeglasses where they sing, “Old Navy, Old Navy, Old Navy Performance Fleece! Old Navy, Old Navy, Perfor-mance Fleece” I loved annoying my family with that commercial.
Out of all of these commercials, I’m surprised they still play that “Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take…” Tootsie Pop commercial (I saw it recently on Nickelodeon). How old is that commercial? At least thirty years old, I’d imagine.
Oh, there was one I remember as a kid (mid-70s) and I think it was for selling some type of insurance, but I’m not sure. Anyway, guy’s walking down the sidewalk with his umbrella in the rain. Stops at the corner, then steps off into a puddle. Promptly sinks all the way to the bottom (?!) with only the top of his umbrella sticking out.
Probably should have freaked me out, but instead, I found it enticing.
Then there was the “Chuck Wagon” ones where the dog chases the minature wagon into the cabinets.
The “I’m a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper” with the cool satin jackets and undoubtedly ‘Mork from Ork’ suspenders while they dance around the streets and swing around light poles. Very Saturday Night Fever-ish.
More recently, I also loved the “baconbaconbacon” bits. Every. Single. Time. Kinda like the “stuck on fleas” song with the singing pets. And the “Doomed!” Fed-Ex commercials.
Not on TV, but print billboards… the “Hello!” from some tele-communications business with the super huge head of a dog, big ol’ honkin’ nose up front, and the little body. Hilarious!! And that was before the stuffed animal version trend.
This should conjure up memories for anyone from the midwest:
"Five-eight-eight, two-three-hundreeeed…
EMPIIIIIIIIIRE!"
I will live to see 100, and never once forget the number for Empire Carpet. Ever.
Might still be on, but I like the one for Target(?) where all the mascots are traveling to be in the store.
Okay, so when I first saw this, I was like… “whatever, this is lame”. What sold me on it was the very end where Kool-Aid busts through the wall and the casual way in which the store clerk looks over and says “hey, Kool-Aid”.
…must kill…Chastain86…must kill…
OK bastard, how about this: Hey, Culligan Man!
I can’t believe I’m the first to mention this one:
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to buy the world Coke
And keep it company…
I also used to love the old Joe Isuzu commercials, whre they provided subtitles like this:
Joe Isuzu This car is so affordable, you could buy it with the change in you couch cushions.
subtitle (provided you have $9,949 in quarters, dimes and nickles)
“Now I hear you whining, ‘But Iron Head, aren’t body washes for ladies?’ LISTEN, CHUMPS!”
“Where is everybody? Where did everybody go?” “Arby’s. Roast beef sale.” “Oh.”
It’s not old at all, but I haven’t seen the commercial for Mountain Dew Code Red in a while, i.e. the one with the goofy mascot at a basketball game halftime going to dunk using a trampoline when some guy comes out of the stands and leaps through the air to deliver the perfect block. It makes me so happy every time I see it that I almost hope the shitty soda takes off, so they’ll keep showing it.
I want to block like that!
Fitting this year’s campaign, I want the Flip-Flop Tumbler back.
Yeah, I miss those too. I dug the corny jingles. I also miss the claymation Levi’s ads; especially the one with the pigeons on the wire that loosen their cloacas before being turned into little roasters. 
And I also miss the '70s motorcycle commercials.
*Climb aboard the silver bird, it’s a magical machine…
Forget your troubles, get on Suzuki…
Kawasaki lets the good times roll…
Get yourself a Honda
Built like a watch that was meant to last a hundred years…*
Finally, two words: Joe Isuzu. 
Funny thing, I remember this commercial, but not the product it was advertising:
Mid-1980s, at a Soviet fashion show. The Rosa Klebb-like hostess says -
“Eess SVIMVEAR! Very nice!”
followed by short, stocky, frumpy women in drab, unrevealing clothes carrying beachballs.
Then,
“Eess EVE-U-NEENG VEAR! Very nice!”
followed by the same frumpy women, wearing the same clothes, carrying flashlights.
The Soviet embassy actually complained about the ad.
And how about the Nynex ads featuring “Rock Drills”, “Permanent Waves”, “Vanity Cases”, “Herbs”?
There were some great ones a few years ago that referred to how Germans do some things well, but not other things.
There was the German comedian “I just flew in from Zürich, und my arms are tired. Thank you, I vill be here all zee veek.”
And the German relaxation therapy. “Lay vith your arms at your side and begin to relax. NOW.”
I knew after I posted I think of some more!
As a child of the 70s, these two stick out as so quaint, dated and amusing that I miss them:
Enjoli (sp?), with that whole “bringing home the bacon, frying it up in the pan and never, ever, let him forget he’s a man” thing because she’s a WOMAN. :rolleyes:
Hey, and Barbies can be baby doctors too!!
And the shampoo commercial (for who, I can’t remember) where “you tell two friends, then they tell two friends, and so on and so on…”
Ah, the good old days.
My mom knows the guy who sang the bass line (Yeah, I was surprised, too.) on that when it was recorded in 1974. He says he’s very sorry.
Art Vandelay, I’m pretty sure that was a Wendy’s ad.
My absolute favorites were the “Benson & Hedges” cigarette ads - “Oh the disadvantages”.
They were the first company to come out with a 100 milimeter cigarette and so it would show people combatting the disadvantages of the longer cigarette. (It would get crushed as a car window was rolled up, or get stuck in a door as someone was closing it and so on.) The ads had a GREAT theme song (an instrumental called “The Disadvantages of You”)
Okay, my favorite Benson & Hedges ad didn’t have anything to do with the disadvantages, although it still had that great theme song. It showed someone named Jeremiah Hedges. He had the biggest idea sing king size. He was looking for Ezekial Benson, who was renowned for having the finest tobacco. Hedges goes searching all over the world (at sea, in the desert, the Arctic) all the while yelling “Benson !!!” They finally meet and the story goes back to the present-day Mr Hedges who says “and that was the beginning of our business success. On that day we founded Hedges and Benson cigarettes!!! Well … Benson had other ideas about the company name.”
Great commercial.
Pepsi as others have mentioned have had some great commercials.
How about the Michael J Fox ad in which his sexy new neighbor wants a Pepsi? He’s all out but that doesn’t stop him. He goes out the back window in the pouring rain to get that Pepsi, finally returning and handing it to the lovely lass. She then says - “oh Do you have some for my friend Danny?” The camera shows an obviously saddened Michael J Fox until “Danny” walks in the door and says “Hi I’m Danny but my friends call me Danielle”. A quick pan back to Michael J Fox and you know he’s heading out in the rain again!!! Fantastic ad !!!
Not so much “I miss these” as “I can’t believe they are still stuck in my head”.
“My name’s ‘Ice-Cream’ Jones,
With Cereal called Ice Cream Cones
A crunchy new cereal for breakfast…”
and
"Hello my name is Crispy
How do you do?
Crispy Critters cereal 's
Entirely new
Yes it’s indubitably… delicious"
It’s been, what, 20 years since I heard these? If only they would leave my brain and make room for Physics and Calc…
That was Wendy’s.
We are the Freakies
We are the Freakies
And this is the Freakies tree
We never miss a meal
'Cause we love our cer-ee-eel…
I used to love Freakies cereal.
Oh, yeah…
Ai-yi-yi-yi
I am the Frito Bandito
I love Fritos Corn Chips
I love them, I do
I love Fritos Corn Chips
I’ll steal them from you
And then there was the commercial for – I think – Colt 45 Malt Liquor that had an unflappable man at a little white table who was calmly sitting while he headed for danger. I think there was one where he was floating toward a waterfall. The music was the same that Ernie Kovacs used in his “Nairobi Trio” routine (which I discovered many years after seeing the commercial).
Not only are those still playing in the Midwest, but I was in Boston last week and heard the same commercial there - I nearly got whiplash from the double-take I did looking at the TV.