Tell Me Your Age, Without Telling Me Your Age, Using Contemporaneous Ad and TV Show Slogans

Uh oh, Spaghetti-o!

I’d rather fight than switch

Where’s The Beef?

He won’t tell you, I just did.

Who you gonna call?

Norm!

Whenever I hear Rossini’s William Tell overture, I have to restrain the urge to gallop round the room.

I got my first AARP solicitation when I was in my 20s. They sent something to my parents house, where I was no longer a resident.

Back to the topic:

“De plane, de plane!”

[German accent]“I hear you!”[/German accent]

Also known as the Lone Ranger overture.

But do you call out “Hi Ho, Silver! Away!” at the appropriate time?

“Now I know!”
“And knowing is half the battle”

Also

We make holes in teeth! We make holes in teeth!”

In HS Film Art class, we watched a movie that covered the making of a well-known commercial. I want to say it was for 7up, involving delivering the tasty, cold beverage somewhere deep in the sandy Sahara.

Ooey gooey, rich and chewy inside…
Golden cakey, tender flakey outside…
Wrap the inside in the outside–is it good?
Darn tootin’!
Doin’ the Big…Fig…Newton!
(here’s the tricky part!)
The Big…Fig…Newtonnnn!

Good morning, yesterday
You wake up, and time has slipped away
And suddenly, it’s hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember
Do you remember?
The times of your life.

Don’t squeeze the Charmin!

No, but sometimes I do when I play Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Hi Ho Silver Away, Bang, Bang!

Hi kids! Put your Winky Dink magic screen in front of your TV screen and rub it hard with your magic cloth to make it hold fast…

“I can’t stand to live another day without air conditioning”
“Paper says tomorrow’s gonna be hotter!”

One from the UK, a slogan that famously killed the product it was promoting - a moody noir-ish scene of a man wandering along the Thames Embankment, and lighting a cigarette : “You’re Never Alone With A Strand”.

Cary Granite, as the hard-boiled private detective Fred wanted to hire when he found Wilma’s stash of love letters that he didn’t remember he’d written.

Whaddya want
When ya gotta have somethin’
And it’s gotta be sweet
And it’s gotta be a lot
And you’ve only got a dime?
Whaddya want?

And…

You’ve got a good thing going when you light up a Kent!

I just washed my hair and I can’t do a thing with it!

Noooobody…

(central IN market)

“Two big pieces! Take a look at my fries, fries, fries! I’m in a crispy-breaded mood!”

“Friday night is Amami night!”

“I’d love a Babycham!”