# Share your favorite YouTube... commercials!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-youtube-commercials/460193>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 16, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-youtube-commercials/460193 "2008-08-16T04:36:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-youtube-commercials/460193/1 "2008-08-16T04:36:02Z")

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I LOVE vintage commercials, especially the ones that would never fly now. What are your favorite commercials (you don’t have to remember them from when they were on TV) on YouTube or Archive or otherwise online?

I’ll open with this one, which I’d LOVE to see them try to do today (even if the star was still alive).

[After less than a year in L.A., a beloved American icon has gone from a model of traditional virtues to such an addict that he threatens to kill an endangered species to feed his habit.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKajmN62PPY)

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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-youtube-commercials/460193/2 "2008-08-16T04:56:27Z")

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While this is an exclusively queer thread, I cannot help but share [this](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-95526610840221447) little nugget that I’ve had on my MySpace page forever.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-youtube-commercials/460193/3 "2008-08-16T05:24:30Z")

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OMG **Cookies** , that was hilarious 🙂

I just saw this [old Hugh Laurie Polaroid ad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5BA9rrrcrs) for the first time tonight. Cute!

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-youtube-commercials/460193/4 "2008-08-16T05:28:49Z")

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[QUOTE=Sampiro]  
[After less than a year in L.A., a beloved American icon has gone from a model of traditional virtues to such an addict that he threatens to kill an endangered species to feed his habit.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKajmN62PPY)  
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Wow, that’s really long for an ad. Were they generally that long back then?