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Commercials You Probably Shouldn't Admit You Miss

TheOldMole Mar 08 2007 05:01 AM

Crazy Eddie! His prices are insane!!!!

MFS62 Mar 08 2007 07:26 AM

Dinah Shore singing "See the USA in your Cheverolet" and ending it with a kiss. Later

Yancy Street Gang Mar 08 2007 07:47 AM

Not that I miss it, but just yesterday, for some reason, I recalled the ads that Henry Fonda used to do for GAF film. Is there even a GAF film brand anymore?

Methead Mar 08 2007 09:24 AM

"Hey man, is that Freedom Rock?" "Yeah, man." "Well, turn it up, man!"

MFS62 Mar 08 2007 09:29 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Not that I miss it, but just yesterday, for some reason, I recalled the ads that Henry Fonda used to do for GAF film. Is there even a GAF film brand anymore? Yancy - about Fonda/GAF. I read years ago that when he was their spokesperson, his contract called for him to appear in person at x-number of events per year. They would pay his "expenses". One year, the event was in Las Vegas and he submitted an expense report that included over $250,000 in gambling losses. They paid him, then fired him. As for whether GAF still sells film. I think I saw some GAF film on the shelf a short while ago. But I didn't check the freshness date. Later

DocTee Mar 08 2007 10:24 AM

The annoying, bespectacled twerp who spoke to an unseen, off camera Encyclopedia salesman-- this was in the late 80s and I suppose with the birth of the internet, no one buys 26 volumes to clutter their bookshelf anymore.

Centerfield Mar 08 2007 11:02 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 08 2007 11:15 AM

I miss the "Be Like Mike" Gatorade commercials. ON EDIT: I especially like the one where they have an array of stars singing the song and the commercial closes with Larry Bird looking into the camera saying "I'm not gonna sing."

HahnSolo Mar 08 2007 11:08 AM

"I dare you to knock this off!" "Do you know me?"

Johnny Dickshot Mar 08 2007 11:23 AM

Tastes great. Less filling.

KC Mar 08 2007 12:52 PM

"But Daaaddd, it's Smokey" (from some low-budget record offering of Motown stuff ... that line used to crack me up and I'd mimic it a lot)

TheOldMole Mar 08 2007 12:53 PM

"What's the story, Jerry?"

KC Mar 08 2007 12:57 PM

"Free house-breaking wee-wee pads with every purchase" PuppyCity on Ocean Avenue and Avenue U in Brooklyn?

Yancy Street Gang Mar 08 2007 01:05 PM

="KC"]"But Daaaddd, it's Smokey" I remember that! ="KC"]"Free house-breaking wee-wee pads with every purchase" I remember that too!

Edgy DC Mar 08 2007 01:22 PM

"No, my brother! You got to get your own!"

soupcan Mar 08 2007 01:32 PM

Have a fine winter time in the Poconos At your host with the most in the Poconos Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge....

soupcan Mar 08 2007 01:33 PM

Dick Lewis is watching.

Johnny Dickshot Mar 08 2007 01:42 PM

Why, my royal motorcycle, of course!

Frayed Knot Mar 08 2007 01:48 PM

I remember a lot of these ... doesn't mean I miss any of them.

TheOldMole Mar 08 2007 08:26 PM

Automobile Club of America...did you have to be that good?

Nymr83 Mar 08 2007 08:37 PM

wheres the Energizer Bunny been? I miss the Budweiser Frogs too.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 08 2007 09:05 PM

Tom Carvel -

KC Mar 08 2007 09:36 PM

I had the vuja de today re: this thread and couldn't place it until this jingle just popped into my noggin' (we've had parts of this discussion before): When the prices go up up up And the values go down down down Robert Hall will show you The reason they give you High quality, economy Er, or something like that. Who was that big bald dude who did the Uncola bits with the cool accent, I think from a James Bond movie or two?

Yancy Street Gang Mar 08 2007 09:56 PM

Now-Shop Rite's got the can can Selling lots of brands of Everything in cans, cans Today it's great to save some cash So come to Shop Rite's can can bash From can to can and can to can You'll save much more on every brand You'll save much more on every brand Now's-the-time-to Come to Shop Rite's can can bash Now's-the-time-to Stock up while the values last

cooby Mar 08 2007 09:58 PM

="Yancy Street Gang"]Now's-the-time-to Stock up while the values last Indicating (to me anyway) that the low prices will soon be going up... That was a cute ad, though

cooby Mar 08 2007 10:06 PM

There was a Dial soap ad in the 70x that I really liked. It showed a young pretty African American lady in what I assumed was Queens (it looked like Archie Bunker's neighborhood, that's the only way I would know). It showed her doing various stuff, working, meeting her boyfriend, riding a bike, etc...she had on the coolest overall shorts with a big mod flower on the bib. The background song was ( da da da...are horn blasts) "Aren't you glad you use dial ( da da da da DA da da) As the day rolls on (da da da da DA da da) Yeah Dial turns on (da da da) Turns on your cool (da da da da DA da da) Hour after hour.... Like a summer shower (da da da da DA da) Aren't you glad you use dial (da da da da DA da da) (she turns to camera and says "Don't you wish everyone did?") Anyway, I wanted to be that girl so bad

Yancy Street Gang Mar 08 2007 10:21 PM

I can bring home the bacon Fry it up in a pan And never ever let you forget you're a man...

HahnSolo Mar 09 2007 11:21 AM

Some women lunch at the Plaza ski in St. Moritz and wear expensive furs all winter. Others just look that way! They shop at the Ritz Thrift Shop!

ScarletKnight41 Mar 09 2007 12:02 PM

The Milford Plaza "Lullabye of Broadway" ads.

TheOldMole Mar 09 2007 10:33 PM

KC -- you forgot "Low overhead, low overhead." When the last Robert Hall store shut down, the Daily News ran a picture with the caption: Robert Hall: No overhead.

Nymr83 Apr 07 2007 08:33 PM

theres a new commercial with Vaughn from "major league" for directtv