M-A-Y-E-R
and
B-O-L-O-G-N-A
Manly, yes. But I like it, too.
TWOALLBEEFPATTIESSPECIALSAUCELETTUCECHEESEPICKLESONIONSONASESAMESEEDBUN
On a side note, anyone remember when…
- The McDonalds menu had both a Quarter Pounder, AND a Quarter Pounder Cheese?
- 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!
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.
It’s called “Solfeggio”.
Nope, Mennen Skin Bracer. See
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!
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
I believe this man is more well known for this ad for Federal Express than his ad for Micro Machines.
Treat. The San Francisco treat.
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.
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
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.”
Sylvania
“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…
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: “CHOColate!”
[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 deliCIOUS!”
SHE: “DeLIIIIIIcious!”
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)
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.”
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?
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.”
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?