# The classic commercial appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395 "2003-02-20T20:24:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/41 "2003-02-21T17:51:06Z")
“I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” Catch phrase around the schoolyard for a year or two. “This stuff’s made in New York City!” “New York City?!” “Git the rope.” ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/42 "2003-02-21T18:25:17Z")
“These are the amazing Lee Press-On Nails! They press on in seconds…no glue, no mess! Simply press on Lee Super-Stick tabs, then press on Lee Press-On Nails. That’s all! Easy on, easy off; they just won’t break or split! Polish, and they’re nearly impossible to chip. So press on! Lee Press-On Nails!” Only commercial I’ve ever memorized from start to finish. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/43 "2003-02-21T18:39:42Z")
Muh dawgs can breathe! Ah kin go ta school! No more Rice Krispies! ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/44 "2003-02-21T18:54:01Z")
I want my Maypo! Victory is his, for the Cheetah has won but the Ford won’t give up, tomorrow will come… howdoyouhandleahungryman? the man-handlers… we wear short-shorts! Parkay? Butter! ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/45 "2003-02-21T19:16:40Z")
you can watch the Mean Joe Green commercial and other Coke commercials, [here](http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colaTitles1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/46 "2003-02-21T19:33:17Z")
_The-ee Universe Kuwait, me lads, Japan and Portugal, too. Are sailin’ on the seas, So we can bring more oil to you. And the Universe Oireland, I’m very proud to say, Is a-one of the many tankers Bringin’ oil into Bantry Bay. Hey! Bringin’ home the oil, me boys. Bringin’ home the oil. Sailin’ all around the world A-bringin’ home the oil._ [/ ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/47 "2003-02-21T19:54:00Z")
Okay, now I’m confused. I remember the “I’d like to teach the world to sing” ad as at night with candles, but stills from the commercial [here](http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/cola:@field(TITLE+@od1(Hilltop))) (where it is known as the “Hilltop” commercial) show a daytime setting. I’m assuming there were two commercials. The original (which first aired in 1971 when I was two) and a follow-up one with the same song with candles shown at Xmas. Can someone verify this? Or is this another false memory? _Hershey is … real milk chocolate, I love that Hershey bar. Hershey is … that something special no matter where you are. Anytime you want delicious chocolate, there’s no need to go looking very far. (Heshey’s great!) Cause Hershey is … the great American, great American chocolate bar._ Ends with a smiling Amerindian father and son on horseback proudly holding up there **Hershey** bars for the camera. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/48 "2003-02-21T21:03:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MikeyWorld \* > \*\*Remember the guys filming on the back of a truck saying “show me your Lark pack”. I expected to see raised blouses, but it was for a cigarette. But a great line none the less. \*\* All the better for being satirized in Stan Freberg’s Jeno Pizza Rolls commercial. Man running through a party with a sign saying “show me your Pizza Roll” to the tune of the William Tell overture. Man from Lark commercial, with cigarette, says “I want to talk to you about that music.” Clayton Moore, in his Lone Ranger costume, grabs the Lark guy on the shoulder and says “Funny, I wanted to talk to you about the same thing.” And it goes on from there. Johnny Carson ran it as a segment because it was so good. I have it on the video that came with the Stan Freberg boxed set. Also, I can’t believe no one mentioned the Apple 1984 Superbowl commercial, that started the whole Superbowl as advertising showcase deal. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/49 "2003-02-21T21:11:12Z")
Speaking of the advertising genius of Stan freberg, he also made a commercial that had a baritone announcer speaking in very serious tones, “9 out 10 doctors reccomend Chun King Chow Mein” As the camera pans back you see 10 men in doctor coats with stethoscopes. 1 is a caucasian, 9 are Chinese! ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/50 "2003-02-21T21:18:28Z")
That Freberg is great. And to think, for years I only knew him as the host of “When Radio Was.” He also did The Great American Soup from [this article](http://www.venturemagazine.co.uk/highlights/0104/06-art.html) > [@](#): > > His television commercial for HJ Heinz Great American Soups has gone down in the annals of advertising history as a classic. “You have maybe five to seven seconds to make the commercial hit and capture the viewer’s full attention. This commercial starts when the husband walks into the kitchen and says: ‘Hi honey what’s for dinner?’ and she says: ‘Make way for The Great American Soup!’ At that point the music comes up, the kitchen walls split apart and Ann Miller rips off her house dress. She is now in a beautiful outfit dancing across 5,000 square feet of a sound stage with 21 dancing girls. A large can of Great American Soup rises out of the stage as they dance and sing the song I wrote about the soup. So people say, ‘WOW, look at this!’” And then Freberg with a large grin on his expressive face sets me up for the punch line. “Ann Miller finishes the song and dances back into kitchen as the wall closes behind her, she winds up in the arms of her husband who says, ‘Why do you always have to make such a big production out of it?’ That always gets screams of laughter from the viewers!” _Up at the Ritz they pass the word to 42nd Street: Make way for the Great… American Soup! Hey, mister, have you tried the soup that’s good enough to eat? Shake hands with the Great … American Soup!_ ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/51 "2003-02-21T21:35:58Z")
\*When you order a beer, do like Smokin’ Joe! Order Lite Beer from Miller, and say no mo’ \* ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/52 "2003-02-21T21:48:51Z")
Remember **“Messy Marvin”**? The little boy who always made such a mess with everything but was always very careful about making his chocolate milk. IIRC, he was the kid from _A Christmas Story_. There was a commercial set in the old west and the good guy and bad guy face off in the street for a showdown. But instead of drawing weapons, they each blow a big bubble with their bubblegum. The bad guy’s bubble pops and sticks all over his face. The good guy’s bubble pops, and he pulls it off his face easily. “ **Hubba Bubba** bubble gum – won’t stick to your face.” Damn, I miss Hubba Bubba. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/53 "2003-02-21T21:57:24Z")
I wouldn’t call this a “classic,” because I saw it only one time, but. . . The old Colt .45 Malt Liquor adds used a very recognizable theme (the name of which I do not recall). That same theme was used by Ernie Kovacs’ “Nairobi Trio.” And, in the early '70s, Colt .45 actually made a commercial that had the Nairobi Trio playing their theme(s). ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/54 "2003-02-21T21:58:12Z")
_Out of the land of the tobacco plant Come a tall, fast-drawin’, long lean look Feared by his friends and enemies alike Feared by all who come to know the name of…JOHNNY SMOKE!_ ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/55 "2003-02-21T22:13:13Z")
The series of Schlitz Malt Liquor commercials in a which a bull tears up the place. Parodied in _Johnny Dangerously_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/56 "2003-02-21T22:29:22Z")
\*Whadda you want When you gotta have somethin’ An’ it’s gotta be sweet An’ it’s gotta be a lot An’ ya’ve only got a dime? –Whaddaya want?\* ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/57 "2003-02-21T22:34:16Z")
The only one I remember from a kid is one where a guy(the micromachines guy) is sitting at a desk talking REALLY fast and an officer assistant is running around behind him trying to do what the guy is saying. Remember that one? Remember what it was for? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/58 "2003-02-21T22:38:07Z")
**"What do you want, Good grammar or good taste?"** ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/59 "2003-02-22T00:08:22Z")
(Cartoon boy & girl are in a darkened closet) Girl: I’m scared! Boy: Ghostill…is going to FLY…into your hair!..Watch out…for Lowly Moon… and Pumpykin!! Girl: Well Sharkey’s going to bite your ear! Offscreen voice of mother: Lunchtime kids. (Boy & girl burst out of closet) B & G : YEAH! SCARY-OHS! ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/60 "2003-02-22T05:10:09Z")
I don’t remember the dialogue, but the guy in the hardhat crazyglued to the I-Beam counts as a classic, I think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395.md?page=4)