# What the oldest television commercial you remember? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [July 17, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-oldest-television-commercial-you-remember/312900 "2005-07-17T20:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-oldest-television-commercial-you-remember/312900/201 "2019-08-29T15:45:17Z")
> [@Gremson](#): > > Thinking back, there was Micrin Mouthwash, there was Brylcreem and Williams Lectric Shave. > > I seem.to remember Prell shampoo with a pearl, but that might be a hallucinogenic creation on my part. I remember the first time I saw a ‘Lectric Shave’ commercial. It was in cartoon form ( animated ) and I remember it cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-oldest-television-commercial-you-remember/312900/202 "2019-08-29T19:30:55Z")
It’s a toss-up between Good ‘n’ Plenty and Dr. Ross Dog food. I think it’s because they both had catchy songs: Once upon a time there was an engineer Chew chew Charlie was his name we hear He had an engine, and he sure had fun He used Good ‘n’ Plenty candy to make his train run Charlie says: Love my Good ‘n’ Plenty Charlie says: Really rings the bell Ding Ding! Charlie says: Love my Good ‘n’ Plenty Charlie says: Don’t know any other candy that I love so well. Get Dr. Ross dog food and do him the favor It’s got more meat and it’s got more flavor It’s got more meat to make him feel the way he should Dr. Ross dog food is doggone good Woof woof! It was sung by an animated Scottie dog. Oh, and the obligatory local ad for Troy Upholstery. The owner’s creepy son sang the ad song accompanying himself on an electric guitar: Troy Troy What a joy. Get all you upholstery done at Troy … etc. All I remember. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-oldest-television-commercial-you-remember/312900/203 "2019-08-29T19:36:59Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Oh yeah–Maypo!!! _That_ may be my earliest. And it just jogged loose the memory of the Mr. Bubble ad. (“Madam, how do you do!” “Operator! There’s a man in my bathtub, operator!”) > > And a bank ad with live bunnies, sung to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel” (“Get more, get more, something something, _Coast_ Fed-er-al Savings!”) Oh yeah! Ninth and Hill on the ground floor, start your savings account at Coast, Coast Federal Savings! I recently found an old bank of the building with a rabbit next to it at a vintage store in Venice. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-oldest-television-commercial-you-remember/312900/204 "2019-08-29T19:40:51Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > That I actually saw run on live TV? Probably “Mikey.” The original spot pre-dates my birth by 5-6 years, but they were still running it well into the 80s. My wife worked as a dental assistant in the North End. She’s worked on “Anthony”'s teeth. He was all grown up by then. They did an updated commercial with the grown-up Anthony. Only they didn’t really – they got an actor instead. Real grown-up Anthony didn’t get to be in the new commercials [http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/anthony\_072309/](http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/anthony_072309/) > **[Globe Interviews Original Anthony About Prince Spaghetti Commercial Remake...](https://northendwaterfront.com/2013/09/globe-interviews-original-anthony-about-prince-spaghetti-commercial-remake-without-him/)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-oldest-television-commercial-you-remember/312900.md?page=10)