Post a Great Old Commercial!

[warrprayer]

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and explain what memories it berings back, why it would be controversial today, etc.!

This Anacin commercial would never fly today for obvious reasons... dude needs to seriously chill...

extra unspecified secret ingredient - smack?

On edit - "Gee, honey, I took two Anacin, 6 Percodans and washed it down with half a fifth of Jack and passed out! My headaches gone! Now, can you please pull this potato masher out of my ass?

[Ptah]

1. I hate to see them work so hard. Let's go around back where we can't see them

[warrprayer]

2. Hey Fred!

Lets burn one!

ROTF

[mercymechap]

3. Nothing's that complicated!

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[warrprayer]

4. tape a cheetah

to her back!

[a la izquierda]

48. This commercial makes me die laughing!!!

[In_The_Wind]

5. Fluffo

too sweet

[warrprayer]

8. Great Caesars Ghost!

great post!

[olddots]

27. we are lucky to be alive

the crap we grew up with is unbelievable .

[In_The_Wind]

28. There is a jar of fluff in my kitchen to put on peanut butter sandwiches.

I still have a sweet tooth.

However yep. Now I take Glimepiride once daily.

[Dr. Strange]

6. Thatssa some spicy meatball!

[warrprayer]

9. Never fly today

this one caused an uproar with the anti-defamation league!

[Ron Obvious]

70. Thanks for posting that one!

I remembered that one, including how it ended, but I hadn't seen it in years.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Back in my days, the commercials were embedded into the programs

[warrprayer]

10. Boomer memories!!!

thanks what a great show!

[surrealAmerican]

72. chiparoons?

Those actually sound good. I wonder whatever happened to chiparoons.

[warrprayer]

11. gotta run

feel free to post your oldie mad ave.!

[LeftInTX]

12. There were so many headache ads, they really got kids curious about headaches!

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Everyone's favorite. My dad was into football, I hated football, but us girls would gather around and dance whenever this commercial came on.
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[narnian60]

14. The Xerox commercial-totally stupid.

Noxema commercial-still love it.

[narnian60]

13. Another Anacin commercial had the line,

"Mother, please! I'd rather do it myself!" Video not to be found anywhere, unfortunately.

[pipi_k]

16. Did you know

it was also a song?

[narnian60]

17. No, I didn't.

Hahaha.

[pipi_k]

15. See the USA!

I was just a kid, but I loved her voice

[RebelOne]

20. Ah, Dinah Shore. I remember that commercial well. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

34. Big San Francisco Chevrolet dealership piggybacked the campaign with their own radio jingle

They totally saturated the airwaves with it for decades and decades, even after Dinah Shore's ads were discontinued. I guarantee there isn't a person who lived in the Bay Area who can't remember the words.

See Ellis Brooks today, for your Chevrolet,
corner of Bush and Van Ness.
He's got a deal for you, oh what a deal for you,
a Chevy deal you will like the best.

[PuffedMica]

84. By 1970, General Motors had a different concept about advertising cars

[font size=3]Pontiac factory commercial for the new GTO Humbler with the ultra rare VOE vacuum operated exhaust system.
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[pinboy3niner]

18. Cal Worthington - a SoCal/West Coast institution

A medley of classic "Cal and his dog Spot" commercials:

Calvin Coolidge "Cal" Worthington (born November 27, 1920) is an American car dealer well-known throughout the West Coast of the United States, and to a more limited extent elsewhere due to minor appearances and parodies in a number of movies. He is best known for his unique radio and television advertisements for the Worthington Dealership Group. In these advertisements, he was usually joined by "his dog Spot," except that "Spot" was never a dog. Often, Spot was either a tiger, a seal, an elephant, a chimpanzee, or a bear. In one ad, "Spot" was a hippopotamus, which Worthington rode in the commercial. On some occasions, "Spot" was a vehicle, such as an airplane that Worthington would be seen standing atop the wings of while airborne. "Spot" was officially retired in the mid 1980s, however he is mentioned in some commercials today.
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For nearly a quarter-century, from the 1960s until the 1990s, Worthington ran a series of offbeat television and radio advertisements for his auto dealerships patterned loosely after the pioneering "oddball" advertisements of Earl "Madman" Muntz. They were known as the "My Dog Spot" ads because each commercial would introduce "Cal Worthington and his dog Spot!" However, the "dog" was never a dog. In most cases, it was an exotic animal being led around on a leash, such as a tiger or elephant. These commercials began as a parody of a long-running series of commercials produced by salesman Chick Lambert, who worked for multiple Los Angeles-area Ford dealers over many years. These commercials invariably began with "I'm Chick Lambert, Sales Manager here at Ralph Williams Ford, and this is my dog, Storm." Storm was a German Shepherd, who was usually lounging on the hood of the first car to be featured in the ad.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Worthington

[LeftInTX]

67. Oh my!!!!

I lived in So Cal 1967-69, how could I not have noticed!!

[olddots]

71. The Fire Sign Theater did great Cal Worthington spoofs

Cal stole from even dopier commercials too ,without Cal L.A. has lost some of it's charm .

[Doc_Technical]

75. If you're thinking of "Ralph Spoilsport",

They were doing a parody of Ralph Williams, the car dealer who
got in legal problems.

Cheech and Chong did a parody of Cal Worthington and called
him "El Monte Slim".

[cyberswede]

19. I'd like to Buy the World a Coke

I remember seeing this when I was little. We didn't have coke at our house, though. I also remember a commercial that used "Let the Sun Shine In" from Hair, but I don't remember the product.

[narnian60]

30. Still beautiful.

[trackfan]

41. The "Let the Sun Shine In" ad was for some kind of window cleaining product

like Windex, or something of that sort.

[Moondog]

21. Alka Seltzer Prison Cafeteria Ad

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[In_The_Wind]

29. I wonder how much the cost of that is inside.

I've heard it's expensive to buy toothpaste in Texas jails.

[Moondog]

33. I'd rather not know.

[In_The_Wind]

36. The only knowledge I have is about: a truck driver's stepdaughter.

[cyberswede]

22. Calgon

I still say "Ancient Chinese Secret" when someone asks me how to do something (with my sisters only - it's not PC, so I don't say it in public!)

[abbeyco]

23. Not a super old commercial but it cracks me up

Love watching them together at the end of the ad:

[talkingmime]

24. Well, it's only 15 years old, but still my favorite of all time...

[struggle4progress]

25. Levy's

[Pool Hall Ace]

26. 'The Whopper' from Burger King

[Arugula Latte]

31. This brings back fond memories of wasting hours on Saturday mornings in a TV coma ...

[pintobean]

32. M&M's - The Dirty Dealer

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Sticking with the western theme

[hedgehog]

35. looking back, i wonder if the dude in the first commercial

was a WWII/Korean war vet dealing with PTSD?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

37. Timex Motorboat Commercial

[edbermac]

38. My two: earliest one I recall and a public service one that is still relevant.

[MicaelS]

39. Mattel Toy Gun commercials.

Would never fly today. Just imagine the shitstorm these would cause today.

Check out #4 the "Sonic Blaster". Hell, they would call out a SWAT unit for that.

Check out "Will Robinson" Bill Mumy Jr. in #6.

[trackfan]

42. I had the Zero M Radio Rifle

My brother gave it to me as a gift when I got my tonsils out.

[warrprayer]

47. I had the sonic blaster

and the agent zero. this is the one I wanted but never got. Some Vietnam vets still swear the plastic components on their M-16s were "made by Mattel"

[marzipanni]

40. Stan Freberg radio advertising commercial, with jazzy jingle sung by Sarah Vaughn

arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.

My friend and I had fun singing parts of the tune and ending with, "Who listens to ra-a-a-dio? Only one-hundred and fifty million people, that's all!", together when we were 14 on Cape Cod in the summer of '65. I'm going to send this to her now.

[Art_from_Ark]

43. Here is one of my absolute favorites

This Polaroid Swinger camera commercial always had me racing to the TV to get a close-up view of Ali "Love Story" MacGraw strolling along the beach

[warrprayer]

46. when I was 10

this commercial gave me a crush on Ali that I never fully recovered from!

[Art_from_Ark]

68. I know what you mean

There was something truly mesmerizing about that commercial

[Bombero1956]

44. I can't believe I ate the whole thing

[warrprayer]

45. One of the best!!!

memories!!!

[warrprayer]

49. this is not a commercial

but brings back memories! Dance and sing before you get vaporized!

[warrprayer]

50. Ring Around the Collar!

Who could forget those dirty rings?

[warrprayer]

51. And a political commercial

from days of cold war fear...

[pinboy3niner]

52. Time to make the doughnuts...

[warrprayer]

53. I once worked in a bakery

you started working about 10:30 P.M. and finished about 5 A.M.. Lots of fun!

[pinboy3niner]

56. I worked for a time in a doughnut shop/diner during HS

I remember frying the raised doughnuts and using wooden chopstick-like wands to turn them. All the vending trucks in the area would come by to pick up their orders at oh-dark-thirty. Lost my taste for doughnuts for a while after having all I wanted. I still remember Barney, our old, short, hard-of-hearing, curmudgeonly master baker.

[warrprayer]

54. Another alert

[pinboy3niner]

62. Wow. That's a blast from the past. JFK...Vietnam...Lawrence of Arabia...Password...

Interesting times!

[warrprayer]

64. Chinese curse

" May you live in interesting times"

Thanks always for your service!

[AsahinaKimi]

55. Where's the Beef!

[warrprayer]

57. Best Japanese Car Commercial EVER!

I love this...

[pinboy3niner]

58. And the Kinks!

[warrprayer]

59. It doesn't get

... much better!!!!

[AsahinaKimi]

60. This is my favorite

[warrprayer]

61. hilarious!

ROTFL

[warrprayer]

63. My earliest exposure

... to Japanese cartoon was "Speed Racer". I sat GLUED to every episode, and I swear I never even knew it was a Japanese cartoon! This is the Japanese version of the Speed Racer theme song, which I must say is even cooler than the American one!

freakin' AWESOME

and I am NOT makin' fun! I truly loved this - still do!

[AsahinaKimi]

66. This was mine.. Project Aiko

and this one I loved

[warrprayer]

65. gotta fly-

see younz tomorrow!

[secondvariety]

69. Not that old but....

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[Tabasco_Dave]

73. Fig Newton

[msu2ba]

74. Stan Freberg Pizza Roll Ad

This was a satire of a Lark cigarette commercial that asked people on the street to "Show Us Your Lark".

Great ending!!

[Doc_Technical]

76. Dial soap.

This commercial was shown right after the opening of
"The Untouchables" and for a moment I thought this was
part of the program when I first saw it, over 50 years ago.

[BootinUp]

77. Everyone wants a Slinky

[warrprayer]

80. happier

than a slinky on an escalator!!!

[BootinUp]

78. Folgers Sexist Ads from the 60's

hilarious.

[warrprayer]

81. geez

that would NEVER fly today!!!! Cora to the rescue!!!

[MgtPA]

79. Kodak "Turn Around" Commercial

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I was only about 10 or 11 when this commercial aired, but it just killed me.

[warrprayer]

82. nostalgia

the look of those cube cameras was so cool....

[warrprayer]

83. Thanks, I needed that!

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