Give me a mountain
Give me a Dew
Give me some good friends
Give me a Dew
Give me something simple and smooth
All I need is sunshine
And smooth refreshing Mountain Dew, yeah!
Give me a mountain
Give me a Dew!
Drug PSA:
Don’t let a friend push you in
to taking drugs
You’ve got a riiiiiight
To say ‘no’, ‘no’,
right to say ‘no’
It seemed like this ran for eight or ten years, or at least my entire saturday morning cartoon-watching career.
The commercial for Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link.
It had this guy dressed as Link running around in a castle/dungeon, and showed Princess Zelda asleep on the platform, like at the start of the game.
I remember it ended with him jumping down a pit and yelling,
“Zeelllllllllldaaaaaaaaa!”
It was new commercials kinda cool, they have the kid as a grown up. They used to play the old commercial right through my childhood so it was pretty interesting to see him all grown up.
I still don’t like McCain french fries.
Max Headroom.
Craftmatic Adjustable Bed: “I have trouble eating in bed. I spill stuff!” Dude, that’s what happens when you put popcorn in your eye.
GI Joe, a real American hero.
I remember the anti-drug PSAs of the 80s. Probably from sitting up stoned late at night watching TV.
“But I have to do coke. So i can work harder. so i can make more money. So i can buy more coke. So I can do more coke. So I can work harder. So I can make more money. So I can buy more coke. So I can do more coke. So I can work harder…”
And IMO the most accurate one:
Early 30-ish guy: (lighting a joint) Since I started smoking pot, i haven’t graduated to harder drugs. i haven’t started committing crimes. In fact, I’d say I haven’t really changed at all since I started smoking pot."
Voice off screen: Son, is that you? Did you go out and look for a job today?
Early 30-ish guy: No, mom. I was going to, but…
A schoolmate was in a commercial for Polly-O String Cheese that we never let him live down. The one that had the kid ordering a pizza, “hold the dough, and hold the sauce”… “Hey Vinny, gimme a pizza with nothin’!” “Nothin’??” He was the kid who said, “C’est si bon!” at the end, with the little French kissy-gesture with the fingertips.
How about those ads for MTV when they first came out, with the guy in sunglasses sitting in the recliner and a thin black tie blowing over his shoulder due to the waves of hipness emanating from his TV set?
I still remember fondly the ads for a local discount electronics chain called “Crazy Eddie’s”, “with prices so low we’re practically GIVING it all away!”. They were doing pretty well, had stores all over the NYC metro area, until the owner embezzled a bunch of money and fled to Israel and the chain collapsed, or something like that. Still… You don’t forget seeing a guy in a Santa Claus suit shaking Christmas lights in an ad aired in the summer, advertising “Crazy Eddie’s Christmas Sale… IN AUGUST!!” (With “Joy To The World” playing in the background)
I liked the Apple ‘1984’ commercial. I’d just re-read the book.
No love yet for Where’s the Beef? Man, it brings a smile to my face and a song to my heart even now.
Remember those PSAs about not electrocuting yourself they used to run during cartoons? “Now keys go here, and fingers go here, but smart little buddies know they don’t go here! (No, no, only plugs go here!)”
Itself a take-off on an earlier ad for (Maxell?) audio tape, wherein the hipster was being blown back by the sound from his stereo
See post #5
Oh, yes, and as for ads:
background; the girls going doodo-doodo-doododoodoo-doodo-doodo…
pan to the street corner: Lou Reed, leaning on a Honda scooter
Lou: “Hey, why settle for walkin’?”
I’m starting to remember this one.
Oooh, the Crash Test Dummies!
Those dumbass long distance spotss, like the one where the girl is in college, and she’s on the phone with her dad, and he tells her to put her arms around herself and squeeze. “You just got a big hug from Daddy.” Ugh.
And just let the Trix Rabbit have some cereal, you selfish little bastards!
You’re a woman of the 80’s!
You’re a SPA LADY!!
Hey, that reminds me of the “Is it live… or is it Memorex?” ads for Memorex tape. Especially the one with Ella Fitzgerald singing a note high enough to shatter a wine glass, then a playback of her singing (via Memorex) that did the same.
'I [insert amazing feat], and all you give me lite beer? :mad: ’
(I recently found a cartoon book that I bought way back when: I Survived World War Three, And All You Give Me Is Lite Beer? – or something like that. I’ve packed it away again.)
I’M NOT A CHICKEN! YOU’RE A TURKEY!