“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.”
“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.
Muh dawgs can breathe! Ah kin go ta school!
No more Rice Krispies!
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!
you can watch the Mean Joe Green commercial and other Coke commercials, here
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.
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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 (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.
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.
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!
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
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!
*When you order a beer, do like Smokin’ Joe!
Order Lite Beer from Miller, and say no mo’
*
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.
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).
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!
The series of Schlitz Malt Liquor commercials in a which a bull tears up the place. Parodied in Johnny Dangerously.
*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?*
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?
"What do you want,
Good grammar or good taste?"
(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!
I don’t remember the dialogue, but the guy in the hardhat crazyglued to the I-Beam counts as a classic, I think.