# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/61 "2003-02-22T05:35:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TGWATY \* > \*\*My baloney has a first name. > It’s O-S-C-A-R. > My baloney has a second name. > It’s M-E-Y-E-R. > I love to eat it every day > And if you ask me why I’ll sayyyyyy > 'Cause Oscar Meyer has a way with B-O-L-A-G-N-A. \*\* M- **A** -Y-E-R and B-O-L- **O** -G-N-A ---
**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/62 "2003-02-22T05:36:28Z")
Manly, yes. But I like it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/63 "2003-02-22T05:42:01Z")
TWOALLBEEFPATTIESSPECIALSAUCELETTUCECHEESEPICKLESONIONSONASESAMESEEDBUN On a side note, anyone remember when… 1. The McDonalds menu had both a Quarter Pounder, AND a Quarter Pounder Cheese? 2. McDonalds used styrofoam containers? You know what? What a good idea for a thread. “Things I remember about McDonalds.” Look for it soon at a thread near you! ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/64 "2003-02-22T06:00:43Z")
The ad for the Living Playtex bra, where the woman is so happy with it, she starts to unzip (or unbutton) her top, and someone cat whistles at her so she doesn’t do it. It was very sexy in it’s time. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/65 "2003-02-22T06:28:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*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.”\*\* It’s called “Solfeggio”. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by TGWATY_ > **(Slap!) Thanks. I needed that! > (which after shave was this? Aqua Velva?)** Nope, Mennen Skin Bracer. See [http://www.charliehawkins.com/CharlieHawkinsBio.html](http://www.charliehawkins.com/CharlieHawkinsBio.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/66 "2003-02-22T06:32:11Z")
_Just turn the crank that snaps the plank that boots the marble right down the chute, now watch it roll and hit the pole and knock the ball in the rub a dub tub, which hits the man into the pan, the trap is set here comes the net! Mouse Trap, it’s the craziest game you’ll ever see!_ ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/67 "2003-02-22T06:33:35Z")
From the land of sky blue waters, Hamms, the beer refreshing Rice…a-roni, the San Francisco dish We’re having Beef-a-roni It’s made with macaroni Beef-a-roni’s really neat Beef-a-roni’s fun to eat HOORAY for Beef-a-roni ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/68 "2003-02-22T17:16:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BioHazard \* > \*\*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? \*\* I believe this man is more well known for this ad for **Federal Express** than his ad for Micro Machines. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/69 "2003-02-22T17:57:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > **Rice…a-roni, the San Francisco dish** **Treat.** The San Francisco **treat.** ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/70 "2003-02-22T18:37:42Z")
I vaguely recall an ad for some brand of television, from sometime in the late 70s or early 80s. The brand being advertised was, I believe, an “American” brand. I put “American” in quotes because these days, most corporations are so multinational that it is really almost beside the point to say which are from which country. Anyway, what I remember is that most of the commercial consisted of some guy talking about how good the TV brand being advertised was. Then right at the end, a Japanese guy would enter the picture and the first guy would say something like “Yes, it (brand being advertised) is even better than Sony!” The Japanese guy would then start cursing in Japanese or something. Does anyone else remember this, and what was the brand that was actually being advertised? I want to say that it might have been RCA, but I am not really sure. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/71 "2003-02-22T19:20:25Z")
Do you rember when McDonalds had the BLT (?) that came in a container with half on one side and hlaf on the other side? The comercial went something like “To keep the hot side hot, and the cold side cold”. Aaah, the old wastefull 80s ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/72 "2003-02-23T01:43:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BioHazard \* > **Do you rember when McDonalds had the BLT (?) that came in a container with half on one side and hlaf on the other side? The comercial went something like “To keep the hot side hot, and the cold side cold”.** It was called the “McDLT.” Not only do I remember the ad(s) you’re talking about, I remember Jack-in-the-Box commercials from around the same time **attacking** the McDLT: “And we keep the cold side cold by putting it under a heating unit.” ---
**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 23, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/73 "2003-02-23T02:58:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Does anyone else remember this, and what was the brand that was actually being advertised? **Sylvania** ---
**Author:** ![DeaconBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DeaconBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeaconBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/74 "2003-02-23T22:32:17Z")
“If it says Libby’s Libby’s Libby’s on the Label, label, label, you will like it, like it, like it on your table, table, table…” “My men wear English Leather–or they wear nothing at all…” “I’m John Cameron Swazee for Timex…” “Our Legg’s fit your legs…” The Samsonite commercial where the gorilla beats the %@#% out of the suitcase… The VW floating in the pond… OK–I watched WAY too much TV in my formative years… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/75 "2003-02-24T01:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > \*\*You got chocolate in my peanut butter! \*\* The most memorable of those Reese’s peanut butter cup commercials was the one with the opera singers changing the words to _The Barber of Seville_: HE: “La, la la la la la la la la la, peanut butter!” [doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo] SHE: “ **CHOC** olate!” [doo doo doo doo doo] HE: “You got’cher choc’late in my peanut butter!” SHE: “Well, your peanut butter is on-a my chocolate!” [doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo] HE: “It’s deli **CIOUS!** ” SHE: “De **LIIIIII** cious!” ---
**Author:** ![ECJones29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ECJones29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ECJones29)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/76 "2003-02-24T02:07:39Z")
Look for the Union label When you are buying A coat, dress or blouse Remember somewhere our Union’s sewing Our wages growing To feed the kids and run the house We work hard, but who’s complaining Thanks to the IGU we’re paying our way So always look for the Union label It says we care enough to make it in the USA! (International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union ad, circa late 1970s) ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/77 "2003-02-24T16:48:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeaconBlues \* > \*\*"If it says Libby’s Libby’s Libby’s > … > OK–I watched WAY too much TV in my formative years… \*\* Great post, DeceanBlues. I’m so glad I started this thread. _Ho, ho, ho, Green Giant_ “I coulda had a V-8.” _Oh, Oh, Oh, ice cold milk and an Oreo cookie - they forever go together; they’re the classic combination. When that dark delicious cookie meets that icy cold sensation_ … (somebody else help me with rest here)… _O-R-E-O! Keeps your milk from getting lonely._ “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down.” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Gretchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Miss\_Gretchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Gretchen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/78 "2003-02-24T18:43:15Z")
OK, I gotta know - does ANYONE remember the “Alphagetti Gobbler”?? Anyone? As I recall, it aired about 20 years ago in Canada (not sure if other places have Alphagetti, you see): Kids would come screaming into the kitchen to scarf down a delicious bowl of Alphagetti, only to be greeted by an enourmous, foam, yellow lobster kinda creature with weird dreads and letters of the alphabet at the end of his dreads. Instead of vomitting with fear at a Stephen King style creature, the kids would be delightedly shout “Hey! you’re the Alphagetti Gobbler!” He’d respond with a coy “Who? Me?” and start giggling this maniacal laugh. Creeepy! Then the announcer would trumpet the delights of this canned pasta and sauce product, and the final shot would be of this repellant creature hoarding all of the bowls of alphagetti, quivering and chanting “Goblagetti! Goblagetti!” over and over. Oh, how I loved it. Please tell me I’m not crazy. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/79 "2003-02-24T19:04:09Z")
And the ultimate jingle ever… “Honeycomb’s big. Yeah yeah yeah. It’s not small. No no no. Honeycomb’s got a big big crunch Big big taste in a big big bite.” ---
**Author:** ![Tiburon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395/80 "2003-02-24T20:37:01Z")
I can bring home the bacon! Fry it up in a pan! And never let you forget you’re a man! Cause I’m a woman! Some perfume pronounced “ah-jah-leen.” Never saw it spelled out. heh. How about those Doublemint Twins on the bike? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-classic-commercial-appreciation-thread/156395.md?page=5)