Classic commercials--the better to quote from, my dear!

[hyphenate]

What commercials from your youth and childhood do you still recall vividly? What lines do you quote that originally came from commercials? Do any of the quotes have a special meaning for you or for a particular situation?

A couple of my favorites include "I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" and "Time to make the donuts!"

I can still see Dick Wilson in my mind telling all the ladies, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!"

Another couple of commercials which are still in my head include Edie Adams doing (what I believe) was the Lucky Strike commercial, where she is a cigarette girl, and the one with Barbara Feldon rolling her "Rs" for a men's cologne commercial (though I forget which one!).

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. It was before my time, but I always liked:

"That's a spicy meatball!" :rofl:

[hyphenate]

3. Alka Seltzer

Has had several memorable commercials through advertising history! I am pretty sure they have won Clios (commercial awards) for a few of them.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. It was for Alka Seltzer?

It aired before I was born, but I thought it was about spaghetti sauce or something. :)

[hyphenate]

6. Yep!

It was for Alka Seltzer, as was the "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." Which, BTW, has been remade with Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts from "Everybody Loves Raymond."

Here's a little extra info on it:

http://www.allesoverballen.com/engels/SPICY.html

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. "Down down down the stomach through

Round round round the system too
With Alka-Seltzer you'll surely say..
Relief is just (glug) a swallow away!"

I can't believe I remember that!

[fudge stripe cookays]

26. And the new one...

is freaking annoying. If I hear it again, I'll want to stab something.

[Cathyclysmic]

2. "How do you get your shirts so clean, Mr. Lee?"

"Shhh...Ancient Chinese secret!"

[Moosepoop]

5. "Good stuff, Maynard!"

The dad telling his son's imaginary friend that Malt-O-Meal was something to try. I still use that phrase, only to have people look at me funny. Not too many people remember it, I guess.

[hyphenate]

7. I don't recall that one

But you did remind me of another one I still quote from: "Let's give it to Mikey--he'll eat anything!"

That was for Life Cereal.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

8. around the kitchen

I'm known as Mikey.



Sean M.

[terrya]

9. Alka-Seltzer is redoing the "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing" ads...

with Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts.

[Moosepoop]

10. Didn't Alka-Seltzer have the "Try it, you'll like it" ads too?

A guy telling how somebody kept saying to him "Try it, you'll like it..." over some dish, then he says "So I tried it..." and he needs Alka-Seltzer (I think). Anyone remember it? The phrase wound up being used on everything from posters to throw pillows.

[CBHagman]

14. "So I tried it...thought I was gonna die."

Yeah, I can still recite that commercial, and I have one of those mugs with the slogan on it.

[Catfight]

11. "Madge, you're soaking in it." Polmolive. nt

[El Fuego]

12. The Big ..... Fig ..... NEW-TON!!!

Hit the tricky part!

[fudge stripe cookays]

27. He he...

My old college roommate used to do a pretty good fig newton dance. It was quite humorous.

[CBHagman]

13. "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"

That was for Chiffon margarine.

Another margarine commercial -- I think for Parkay, but I'm not certain -- had a cartoon mother feeding her spoiled, ravenous child, Harold, exhorting, "Eat, Harold, eat!" For years afterwards, my family would declaim, "Eat, Harold, eat!" at the dinner table.

The Alka Seltzer commercials were invariably outstanding, especially the animated one featuring a counseling session between the man and his stomach ("You should see the way he stuffs himself as his mother's!") and the live-action ad with Alice Playten as a newlywed creating stomach-turning menus for her husband.

And I still have a mug with "Try it, you'll like it" on it.

[Kire]

15. Where's the beef?

Wendy's, right?

[Bzzzz]

16. The Snowman...

riding the Norelco shaver down the hill.

[CBHagman]

25. Wasn't that Santa Claus?

I'll look for a visual on the 'net.



On edit: I guess there was Santa and then also a Mr. and Mrs. Snowman. :shrug:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. "LSMFT - Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco" or this one...

"Take a puff - it's Springtime", a commercial for Salem menthol cigarettes.

I don't smoke and so I don't use these lines but I remember them well and find them funny, now that cigarettes have become the great Satan.

[Arugula Latte]

18. "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"

"Almond Joy's got nuts -- Mounds don't"

One of the best jingles ever, IMO.

[Deja Q]

19. Alka Seltzer: Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is...

:crazy:

[Benfea]

20. "Classic RPG... but without the spells and faeries and crap."

That's gotta be one of the best lines ever. It's from advertisements for the game Fallout, which was a computer roleplaying game, only instead of being set in a world of swords and sorcery, the setting was in post-holocaust (e.g. Mad Max) Northern California.

[Arugula Latte]

21. "Hey -- You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!"

"Well, you got your peanut butter in my chocolate!"

Reese's peanut butter cups. Yum. :P

[GalleryGod]

22. Best Alka Seltzer Ad : 1966, "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach Is In"

Just a montage of lousy bellies...but the soft-rock group,
"The T-Bones" memorable instrumental behind the Ad.

Sold over a million copies in the UK alone.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. If you wanna hear some old radio ads

go here: http://www.reelradio.com/je/index.html#spots5070

Caution: There's almost an hour of 'em and you can't. stop. listening.

If you're an old radio junkie in general, the main site will keep you enthralled for days: http://www.reelradio.com/ I don't know any other place where you can hear again all those old DJs like Dr. Don Rose, The Real Don Steele, etc. etc. etc.

There's also a tape from KLIF, Dallas, on Nov. 22, 1963, from the first report that JFK had been shot to the announcement of his death. Riveting.

[liberaltrucker]

28. "You'll wonder where the yellow went.......

...when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"

NOT:rofl:

[Dukkha]

29. I'd like to teach the world to sing

in perfect harmony
I'd like to buy the world a Coke
and keep it company