Classic Commercials

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In 1980, Richard Avedon photographed and directed the Calvin Klein Jeans campaign that featured a fifteen-year-old Brooke Shields. Some of those television commercials were banned, including the infamous ad where Brooke asks "Do you want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing!"



In the 1970s, actor Robert Conrad was the spokesman for Eveready Alkaline Power Cells, in which he compared his tough physique to the performance of the battery placed on his shoulder, and daring someone to knock it off.

 

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Mars Blackmon is a fictional character in the film She's Gotta Have It (1986), played by its writer/director, Spike Lee. In the film, he is a "Brooklyn-loving" fan of the New York Knicks, sports and Air Jordans (the basketball shoes worn by Michael Jordan). This led to late 1980s and early 1990s appearances in NikeAir Jordan commercials alongside Jordan and Mars becoming well known for his use of the phrase, "It's gotta be da shoes."



"Bo Knows" was an advertising campaign for Nikecross-training shoes that ran in 1989 and 1990 and featured professional baseball and American football player Bo Jackson.

 

[FLoss]

You beat me to them Schlitz commercials. I used to love watching the bull bust through the wall as a kid.

But I didn't know they were running schlitz commercials way back in the 70's. Niggas was bugging.



The bull back then was scary af. Shit was probably terrorizing kids so they had to send in the tame bull.

 

[Knuckles666]

But I didn't know they were running schlitz commercials way back in the 70's. Niggas was bugging.



The bull back then was scary af. Shit was probably terrorizing kids so they had to send in the tame bull.

 

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Morris the Cat (voiced by John Erwin) is the advertisingmascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials.



Spuds MacKenzie is a fictional dog character created for use in an extensive advertising campaign marketing Bud Light beer in the late 1980s. The Spuds MacKenzie mascot and campaign were created by a 23 year old art director, Jon Moore.

 

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The Cheetos brand is commonly recognized by association with its second and current mascot, an anthropomorphic sly, smooth-voiced cartooncheetah named Chester Cheetah. Chester first appeared in television commercials in 1986, known for concluding Cheetos advertisements with slogans, which have evolved over time. He used both "The cheese that goes crunch!" and "It ain't easy bein' cheesy" as slogans from 1986 to 1997.


Green Giant and Le Sueur are brands of frozen[1] and canned vegetables owned by B&G Foods.[2] The company's mascot is the Jolly Green Giant.

 

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he brand's best-known product became the 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioning formula, Pantene Pro-V (Pantene Pro-Vitamin). The product became most noted due to an advertising campaign in the late 1980s in which fashion models said, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."Kelly Le Brock and Iman gained notoriety as the first television spokeswomen to speak the line.The line was criticized by feminists and became a pop-culture catchphrase for "annoying" narcissistic behavior.


Rothschild was a chocolate candy that was chewy like caramel. In the commercial the character would always say, "Not now, I'm right in the middle of a Rothschild"

 

[PsiBorg]

This commercial was eerie, but I liked it as a kid.

 

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Suzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympicalpine ski racer and actress. She is perhaps best known by the nickname, Suzy Chapstick, from the 1970s, when she was a spokesperson for ChapStick lip balm.


The first endorsers of "The Weapon" were Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, who were prominently featured in a Converse commercial set in Bird's hometown of French Lick, Indiana in 1985.

 

[Bumpee]

Buddy whole face is crooked

 

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Black Flag also makes a series of pesticide-free insect traps, under the "Motel" brand, including its Roach Motel, Fly Motel, and Yellow Jacket Motel. The common slogan for all of these is that the insects thus trapped "check in, but they don't check out."


In an advertising campaign that lasted over twenty years, American advertisements featured actor Dick Wilson, playing the fictional grocer Mr. George Whipple. Mr. Whipple told his customers, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!"

 

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From the 1960s to the 1990s, veteran character actress Nancy Walker appeared in a popular and long-running series of commercials in the US, in which Walker played Rosie, a waitress in a diner, using Bounty to clean up spills made by the diner's patrons and demonstrating its better absorption compared to other brands. The tagline was originally "The quick picker-upper," later changing to "the quicker picker-upper", which became a common catchphrase.


Ty-D-Bol is best known for its nautical spokesperson, the Ty-D-Bol Man. Nattily attired in a captain's hat, blazer, and turtleneck, he piloted a toilet tank-sized boat in TV commercials from 1968 to 1984.

 

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Once upon a time Malt Liquor was marketed to fine upstanding Middle Class White Folk..





Notice how they pour that shit in a glass.



They had a bull long before Schlitz.

 

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The firm was best known for its colorful TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s based on the phrase, "When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen," which usually involved a young professional remarking at a dinner party that his broker was EF Hutton, which caused the moderately loud party to stop all conversation to listen to him.


During the 1970s and 1980s, television commercials featured visitors to a children's clubhouse called the Honeycomb Hideout. The visitor would arrive, initially hostile, and exclaim a need for a "big" taste. The kids would introduce the visitor to the cereal, winning over the visitor, examining the size of the cereal bits with a tape measure and singing the jingle:
Honeycomb's big...yeah yeah yeah!
It's not small...no no no!
Honeycomb's got...a big big bite!
Big big (taste/crunch) in a big big bite!

 

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Here's a commercial for beef flavor Snausages - sausage style snacks for dogs by Ken-L Ration.



"The Meow Mix Theme" was written by Shelley Palmer in 1970 and performed by a singing cat. The theme's lyrics is 'Meow meow meow meow' repeated multiple times, with various cats moving their mouths and captions on the bottom as if the cats were verbally speaking.

 

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The Budweiser Frogs are three lifelike puppetfrogs named "Bud", "Weis", and "Er", who began appearing in Americantelevisioncommercials for Budweiserbeer during Super Bowl XXIX in 1995.

Just a few of the names that appeared were people like George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin (who had a famously long history of, well, disagreeing), boxer Joe Frazier, baseballer Boog Powell, personalities from Bob Uecker to Rodney Dangerfield, former pro footballers Ray Nitschke, Ben Davidson, oh and the two football turned ‘tennis stars’ Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus.
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Through the 1980s and 1990s, the company ran a television and radio ad campaign featuring the slogan "Uh oh, better get Maaco".



This commercial for Wendy's shows that if you want special toppings with your order at other hamburger restaurants, you usually have to step aside and wait. But at Wendy's, you can order your hamburger any way you like it and you'll never be asked to "step aside."

 

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Alka-Seltzer TV ads from the 1960s and 1970s in the US were among the most popular of the 20th century.The famous "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz" commercial song was written by Tom Dawes.


The "classic" American version of the "Gimme a Break" Kit Kat jingle (in use in the US since 1986) was written by Ken Shuldman and Michael Rogers (copy) and Michael A. Levine (music) for the DDB Advertising Agency.

 

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UNDERWOOD DEVILED HAM - "BORGASMORD"
Getting children to eat a sandwich made from canned chicken, peanut butter and apple sauce sounds like a hard sell, but Reese won over both mothers and kids with his adorable mispronunciation of Smörgåsbord. "Borgasmord" became a national catchphrase. This spot earned him a Clio for acting in 1973.


Rodney Allen Rippy (born July 29, 1968) is an American former child actor. He appeared in TV commercials for the fast-food chain Jack in the Box in the early 1970s.In the Jack in the Box advertisements, Rippy was seen trying to wrap his mouth around the super-sized Jumbo Jackhamburger. The tag line "It's too big to eat!" (pronounced "It's too big-a-eat!") became a catch-phrase.

 

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Zamfir came to the public eye when he was approached by Swiss ethnomusicologistMarcel Cellier, who extensively researched Romanian folk music in the 1960s. The composer Vladimir Cosma brought Zamfir with his pan flute to Western European countries for the first time in 1972 as the soloist in Cosma's original music for the movie Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire. This was very successful,[citation needed] and since then, he has been used as soloist in movie soundtracks by composers Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone and many others. Largely through television commercialswhere he was billed as "Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute", he introduced the folk instrument to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity.


Slim Whitman would’ve been Central Casting’s first choice when an oily, slick used-car salesman was needed, not a country yodeler. But although Ottis Dewey Whitman—as he was born in Florida—may have been an unfamiliar face to his fellow Americans until his All My Best collection hit late-night television in the 1980s.

 

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Classic commercials from the 70's & 80's.


Life was popularized during the 1970s by an advertising campaign featuring "Mikey," a hard-to-please four-year-old-boy portrayed by John Gilchrist. His two older brothers were portrayed by his real-life brothers, Michael and Tommy.[2] The commercials featured the catchphrase "He likes it! Hey Mikey!" The ad campaign ran from 1972 to 1986,[3] becoming one of the longest-running television advertisements.


Oscar Mayer had several advertisements on TV involving young children. A 1974 TV commercial featured four-year-old Andy Lambros holding a fishing rod and sandwich while singing, "My bologna has a first name, it's 'O-S-C-A-R'...". It became one of the longest-running TV commercials in the country.

Any chance you have the old long distance phone commercial where the grandmother tells the son to "Kiss them for me" (referring to the grand kids)?

 

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[ThaBurgerPimp]

Music sound like something youd hear in one of those trailers for a 70's/80's horror movie about a possessed child or something..only thing missing is the creepy deep-voiced announcer going "Rated R." at the very end

 

[Bumpee]

Music sound like something youd hear in one of those trailers for a 70's/80's horror movie about a possessed child or something..only thing missing is the creepy deep-voiced announcer going "Rated R." at the very end

I still see them from time to time on ESPN

 

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Folgers was known for many years for television ads involving "Mrs. Olson," a Swedish neighbor who invariably recommended a cup of Folgers coffee for the characters in the commercial, who were almost always housewives with various problems making delicious-tasting coffee. From 1965 to 1986, actress Virginia Christinereminded viewers Folgers was "mountain grown, the richest kind of coffee."


In 1973, Marotta convinced former professional baseball player Joe DiMaggio[7]to become an advertising spokesman for the brand. This coffee maker revolutionized coffee and sold more than one million units by April 1974.

 

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Kellogg Company purchased Eggo.Their advertising slogan—"L'eggo my Eggo"—developed by Leo Burnett in 1972 is well known through their television commercials.


"Raise your hand if you're Sure" for Suredeodorant (197X)

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

I still see them from time to time on ESPN

Spike and VH1 be playing this ad like every other hour..
Back then when i first saw it sometimes the trailer for a horror film would be shown after..first clue was the film-scratch effect after the commercial ended

 

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The Paul Masson brand is best remembered for its 1978-1981 marketing association with actor-director Orson Welles, who promised for Masson: "We will sell no wine before its time."


Memorex entered the consumer media business in 1971 and started the ad campaign, first with its "shattering glass" advertisements and then with a series of famous television commercials featuring Ella Fitzgerald. In the commercials she would sing a note that shattered a glass while being recorded to a Memorex audio cassette. The tape was played back and the recording also broke the glass, asking "Is it live, or is it Memorex?"

 

[Bumpee]