More 70's Commercials
Tony & Robin
It always cracked me up how two grown men on a boat start discussing
hemorroids and one of them just happens to have a tube of preperation
H.
I also remember someone opening the medicine cabinet and there
neighbor is on the other side.
I am having trouble remembering more (loss of too many brain cells I
suppose ;) ) My friends and I used to love and act out the lame
commercials.
Robin
http://www.bright.net/~phantoms/
"Sometimes people are criticized for being honest and
forthright because some people have not come to terms with
that part of themselves and have a hard time accepting it in
others." - Alanis
Garrison Hack
Tony & Robin <phan...@bright.net> wrote:
: It always cracked me up how two grown men on a boat start discussing
: hemorroids and one of them just happens to have a tube of preperation
: H.
Head and Shoulders had some really silly ads too. A man goes into a cab
and the driver says, "Where to, Buddy?" The guy answers, "Duluth."
"Duluth, Minnesota?" the driver asks, "I can't take you there. I've got a
doctor's appointment on Tuesday." The guy then tells him that he has
dandruff.
And who could forget the Green Phantom... SCOPE. They play spin the
bottle with the SCOPE in order to see who's going to tell the boss he has
bad breath.
Remember the WISK commercials? You can scrub it out. You can brush it
out. But you still get RING AROUND THE COLLAR (screeched at the housewife
by an Amazon parrot).
mben...@aol.com
What about:
"I' M THE SPOTMAKER! "(and he yelled this, too . What an annoying
commercial this was...) I forget what he said next but it was some BAD
animation of said Spotmaker prancing through the glass rack of the
dishwasher spotting up helpless crystal. Then he screams: "OH NO!
CALGONITE!!!" and this smooth woman comes on and says "That's right,
Spotmaker..blah blah..Calgonite,ends the Spotmaker!"
Or* was* it Calgonite?mmm...
Anyway, other 70's commercials include:
Seven up, Seven Up, Seven up the Uncola! Also those cool ones with
Geoffrey whatever his name was sitting in the big peacock chair.
The one where the guy sat in one chair and his stomach in another
and they fought (I loved this)
"MOMMIES' GOT WRINKLY PANTYHOSE!"
Drink Dr Pepper! The joy of every boy and girl. It's the most
original soft drink ever in the whole, wii-ide world! Dr. Pepper!"
(pre-dates the infamous David Naughton I'm a Pepper spots)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------
"Lonely and dreaming of the West coast.." Everclear
Risser
_________________________________________________
Laura
Remember:
"More Parks Sausages, Mom! Please?" and then a halo appears on the
kid's head when he says please.
or:
"When that someone comes to call, remember underneath it all, Gentlemen
prefer Hanes!
"Hanes will make you smooth and silky, shapely, sexy...."
"Melts in your mouth, not in your hands." M&Ms.
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got
nuts, mounds don't. Because, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you
don't!"
"Charly says, Love that Good & Plenty. Charly says: really rings the
bell. Charly says, love that good & plenty don't know any other candy
that I love so well.'
--laura
Dan Gove
Laura <lau...@mail.csrlink.net> wrote:
>Remember:
>--laura
Laura,
How about "Nothing tastes as ________ as a Bit-o-Honey bar"? Whats the
missing word? I remember the jingle and that it was a pretty freaky
commercial.
Lori Suiter
Does anyone that lived in the northeast remember a store called "Ideal"?
I can remember sitting in the livingroom at my grandmas hearing the
commercial:
"If you have a passion for fashion
and you have a craving for saving
then take the wheel of your automobile
and swing on down to.....Ideal"
Whatever happened to Ideal?
Garrison Hack
>"When that someone comes to call, remember underneath it all, Gentlemen
>prefer Hanes!
>"Hanes will make you smooth and silky, shapely, sexy...."
Sad thing about that commercial is that the guy actually looked better
than the girl. I know many people who remember what he looked like as he
walked away and don't even remember that he was walking with a woman.
"Bounty! The quicker picker upper. Strong too!"
How about Madge, the manicurist who soaks hands in Palmolive.
"Dishwashing liquid!!?" "Relax... it's Palmolive."
There was a Lifebuoy commercial where the father comes home from work and
he sings as he walks down the street, "I smell clean. I smell clean.
With Lifebuoy I smell clean." He picks up his little girl and tells her
how wonderful the clean feeling is and she asks him what present has he
brought her today.
Remember Chinette plates. A woman takes a paper plate puts on a glass
fills it with ice and pours iced tea into it. The glass falls off and
breaks and she laughs. Then she does the same on Chinette and it holds
FOUR glasses of iced tea!
In the 70s there seemed to have been a lot more ads for appliances.
Maybe I just don't watch a lot of television (or I live in L.A. where the
only ads are for new cars and accident attorneys) but the 70s used to have
ads for Singer sewing machines, refrigerators and of course the Maytag
repairman.
buck
Or how bout this one too...."Calgon, take me awayyyyy"! For Calgon bath
bubbles.
buck
Oh, yeahhhh Lori, I remember!! No matter how hard I tried to take that
jingle out of my head, I couldn't and still can't after you stirring up my
noggins. Wonder what happened to it too. Amy
buck
Talking about food commercials..do you all remember this one? "Libbys',
Libbys, Libby's on the label, label, label, you will like it, like it, like
it on the table, table, table"
And, all remember this too? A Mom has on a spotless chiffon dress with
white apron on standing in her kitchen and says to her husband, "I made
Shake and Bake chicken" and the little girl who's also in the kitchen says,
" And I helped" with of course slight southern accent. Amy
Garrison Hack
: And, all remember this too? A Mom has on a spotless chiffon dress with
: white apron on standing in her kitchen and says to her husband, "I made
: Shake and Bake chicken" and the little girl who's also in the kitchen says,
: " And I helped" with of course slight southern accent. Amy
Slight?? I think the Glorious South has never lived down that commercial
to this day. "And we haaaayylpt!"
Comparison testing was also big in the 70s. Remember Josephine the
Plumber and her Comet. Scrubbing spots side by side in a sink. I always
marveled at how a sink could be antiseptically clean except for two
identical spots that are side by side!
Then there was the commercial for Blue Bonnet. "Everything's better with
Blue Bonnet on it." In that one they had French chefs preparing souffles
with butter and with Blue Bonnet and of course the French chefs could not
tell the difference.
Does anyone remember Mapo? I never had it has a child, but I recall
commercials for that hot cereal. "I want my Mapo. Like a bowl full of
maple candy." Hmmmm. Maybe that's why Mom never bought it.
Food commercials seem to stick more in one's mind than the others. I
remember commercials for Manwich. Swanson's frozen dinners (the man
actually eats little postage stamp bites of turkey) used to do lots of
advertising too... Remember this is before the days of microwaving.
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pigman __ __ ____ ___ ___ ____
pig...@primenet.com /__)/__) / / / / /_ /\ / /_ /
/ / \ / / / / /__ / \/ /___ /
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doran
pigman wrote:
> Food commercials seem to stick more in one's mind than the others. I
> remember commercials for Manwich. Swanson's frozen dinners (the man
> actually eats little postage stamp bites of turkey) used to do lots of
> advertising too... Remember this is before the days of microwaving.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Green Giant.
Hobbs
Garrison Hack wrote:
> Does anyone remember Mapo? I never had it has a child, but I recall
> commercials for that hot cereal. "I want my Mapo. Like a bowl full of
> maple candy." Hmmmm. Maybe that's why Mom never bought it.
>
I used to eat it when I was a kid. No great shakes, just oatmeal with
maple syrup on it.
> Food commercials seem to stick more in one's mind than the others. I
> remember commercials for Manwich. Swanson's frozen dinners (the man
> actually eats little postage stamp bites of turkey) used to do lots of
> advertising too... Remember this is before the days of microwaving.
Also, "Chunky . .. the soup that eats like a meal". Ok, doesn't sound
too grammatical, but . . .
gord klassen
Hi,
how about the one where the woman
frosts a cake with a paper knife.
seeya
Gordo
mben...@aol.com
Since the Holiday season is apon us, I recall CBS used to have these
little "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holiday" animated staion
indentification, instead of just saying "This is CBS". One was a tiny
little Santa climbing an oil lamp, which he lit, and the other was a
reindeer who walked on, lay down, and his antlers grew and grew and grew.
I think the antlers sprouted poinsettias as well. It's been SO many years
since I saw these. Also, in the "real" commercial department, I remember
the Norleco shaver commercial where the little Santa rode the shaver
through the snow. The revived this a few years back but only a little
flash of Santa and then he was gone. Then there was the "UnReindeer" for
Seven-Up, and who could forget the Budweiser commercial with the team of
Clydesdales and the Bud song all Christmased up: "Doo doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo doo doo doo! (doot toot toot doot toot toot!)" It aint the
holidays without that one.
Anyone remember these? I can still remember the music playing in the
background of the CBS spots. Any more?
Perry and Lauri
phan...@bright.net (Tony & Robin) wrote:
>I also remember someone opening the medicine cabinet and there
>neighbor is on the other side.
Yes! I forget what the product was, but there was a woman named Mona
in the commercial. Those were funny.
Lauri
Kent Wayson
On Fri, 08 Nov 1996 20:26:59 GMT, DG...@ix.netcom.com (Dan Gove)
wrote:
>Laura <lau...@mail.csrlink.net> wrote:
>
>>or:
>>"When that someone comes to call, remember underneath it all, Gentlemen
>>prefer Hanes!
>>"Hanes will make you smooth and silky, shapely, sexy...."
>
"Our legs fit your legs / they hug you / they hold you / they never
let you go!"
Was that part of the Hanes jingle, or some other pantyhose product?
Kent
Kent Wayson
On 8 Nov 1996 12:11:11 GMT, mben...@aol.com wrote:
>What about:
> "I' M THE SPOTMAKER! "(and he yelled this, too . What an annoying
>commercial this was...) I forget what he said next but it was some BAD
>animation of said Spotmaker prancing through the glass rack of the
>dishwasher spotting up helpless crystal. Then he screams: "OH NO!
>CALGONITE!!!" and this smooth woman comes on and says "That's right,
>Spotmaker..blah blah..Calgonite,ends the Spotmaker!"
> Or* was* it Calgonite?mmm...
I thought it was Cascade, but I'm getting old now.... Thanks for the
memory - really started laughing when I remember THE SPOTMAKER! Like
spots on glasses are the end of the world...
> "MOMMIES' GOT WRINKLY PANTYHOSE!" -
"Just like the elephant" (if it was the zoo commerical). They did
another one at a tea party or something, but I don't think they worked
in the elephant line! :-)
Kent
Donnah Dunthorn
BB (b...@bigblack.com) wrote:
: Garrison Hack <pig...@primenet.com> wrote:
: >Food commercials seem to stick more in one's mind than the others. I
: >remember commercials for Manwich.
: "A sandwich is a sandwich. But a Manwich is a meal!"
"How do you handle a hungry man? The Manhandlers!"
"Ask any mermaid you happen to see..."
d.
BB
Garrison Hack <pig...@primenet.com> wrote:
>Food commercials seem to stick more in one's mind than the others. I
>remember commercials for Manwich.
"A sandwich is a sandwich. But a Manwich is a meal!"
Or how about,
"Well, my broker's E.F. Hutton, and he says..." (*everybody* shuts up)
Or, for New Yorkers
Oh-oh-oh
When you think you're ready
come down to Crazy Eddie's
the man who's got most everything in stereo sound.
His audio selection
meets with your perfection (?)
he's the man with all the lowest prices in town.
So come on down, and put him to the test
see who's prices really are the best.
He'll fix you up with a style to fit your pace
and guaranteed, a smile upon your face. (So-oh-oh)
When you think think you're ready
come down to Crazy Eddie's
the man who's got most everything in stereo sound.
And so the stories told
across the whole wide woirld (Brooklyn accent)
Crazy Eddie will not ever be undersold
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
BB
BB
ways...@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us (Kent Wayson) wrote:
>"Our legs fit your legs / they hug you / they hold you / they never
>let you go!"
>Was that part of the Hanes jingle, or some other pantyhose product?
I believe that was for L'eggs, the pantyhose that came in egg-shaped
containers. I used to love to play with those "eggs" when my mother
bought that brand.
BB
Donnah Dunthorn
Kent Parks
: And, all remember this too? A Mom has on a spotless chiffon dress with
: white apron on standing in her kitchen and says to her husband, "I made
: Shake and Bake chicken" and the little girl who's also in the kitchen says,
: " And I helped" with of course slight southern accent. Amy
I hope you are joking...that fake accent was WAY beyond any 'real'
Southern accent, and that commercial is very offensive to most
Southerners.
Kent in the south
Marlene Blanshay
> >>"When that someone comes to call, remember underneath it all,
Gentlemen
> >>prefer Hanes!
> >>"Hanes will make you smooth and silky, shapely, sexy...."
> >
>
> let you go!"
>
> Was that part of the Hanes jingle, or some other pantyhose product?
>
I believe those were "l'eggs".
As for haines, when they'd say, "Gentlemen pefere haines," I'd think,
yeah they never have to WEAR pantyhose. What about what WE prefer!
Jeremiah Wilton
buck wrote:
>
> And, all remember this too? A Mom has on a spotless chiffon dress with
> white apron on standing in her kitchen and says to her husband, "I made
> Shake and Bake chicken" and the little girl who's also in the kitchen says,
> " And I helped" with of course slight southern accent.
Of course they spliced that little girl saying her famous line into a
family dinner scene in a recent Shake and Bake commercial. I suppose it
seemed quaint on color TVs but on a B&w set I just didn't get it at
first. I couldn't tell it was an old clip, and the girl seemed very
very strange blurting out "And aaah haylped!" It almost seemed like
something was wrong with her.
--
Jeremiah Wilton Web page: http://feng.spry.com/jw/index
---------------------------------------------------------------
China: The future is now.
Tim Irvin
> As for haines, when they'd say, "Gentlemen pefere haines," I'd think,
> yeah they never have to WEAR pantyhose. What about what WE prefer!
Uh, these were less enlightened times. It didn't *matter* what you
preferred. :)
--
Tim Irvin, zig...@netgate.net
http://www.netgate.net/~ziggy29/
PauSto
It was "Right Guard".
--
The most adamantly enforced rules
are the rules that cover the butts of
and benefit the promotion of
"The people who enforce the rules"! -PS-
Mike Shapiro
don...@hyper.shadow.net (Donnah Dunthorn) wrote:
>Perry and Lauri (per...@tcd.net) wrote:
>: phan...@bright.net (Tony & Robin) wrote:
>: >I also remember someone opening the medicine cabinet and there
>: >neighbor is on the other side.
>: Yes! I forget what the product was, but there was a woman named Mona
>: in the commercial. Those were funny.
>: Lauri
> Lavoris? Scope?
> d.
The tag line was "Hi Guy" and the actor on the "other side" was Chuck
McCann.
==============================================================
-mike shapiro "This is the land of Peace,
e-mail: bigm...@ix.netcom.com Love, Justice, and No Mercy-
Thunder Road"
WILLKAP
Mike Shapiro wrote:
>
> don...@hyper.shadow.net (Donnah Dunthorn) wrote:
>
> >Perry and Lauri (per...@tcd.net) wrote:
> >: phan...@bright.net (Tony & Robin) wrote:
>
> >: >I also remember someone opening the medicine cabinet and there
> >: >neighbor is on the other side.
>
> >: Yes! I forget what the product was, but there was a woman named Mona
> >: in the commercial. Those were funny.
> >: Lauri
>
> > Lavoris? Scope?
>
> > d.
> The tag line was "Hi Guy" and the actor on the "other side" was Chuck
> McCann.
>
(Mona) offscreen because he was weirded out.
PauSto
There was a series if these commercials and she did show up in a
couple.
diva...@aol.com
Remember Doan's Pills... "For backache pain"? And they always showed the
woman having major lower back pain trying to fold sheets after she'd
ironed them? I always wondered why the hell she was ironing the sheets in
the first place when she was just gonna fold them anyway.
I also remember the Revlon ads that were shown during the Sonny and Cher
show. The word "Revlon" was done in silver and lucite and they clicked
against each other and when they parted, the spokesmodel did her thing.
By the way, the Nick at Nite site on AOL has downloadable commercial clips
from the 70s, including the Ginsu knife, Jordache, Sasson jeans,
Spaghetti-Os, etc.
Doran
diva...@aol.com wrote:
> Remember Doan's Pills... "For backache pain"? And they always showed the
> woman having major lower back pain trying to fold sheets after she'd
> ironed them? I always wondered why the hell she was ironing the sheets in
> the first place when she was just gonna fold them anyway.
> I also remember the Revlon ads that were shown during the Sonny and Cher
> show. The word "Revlon" was done in silver and lucite and they clicked
> against each other and when they parted, the spokesmodel did her thing.
Didn't Lynda Carter do a commercial for Moisture Whip lipstick?
John E. Marker
Anyone remember the name of the "Beer Shampoo"?I can just sort of
remember the commercial where a woman is saying something like 'It's got
REAL BEER!'If I remember correctly it came in sort of a triangular shaped
bottle.
John
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ak...@infinet.com
Doran
John E. Marker wrote:
> Anyone remember the name of the "Beer Shampoo"?I can just sort of
> remember the commercial where a woman is saying something like 'It's got
> REAL BEER!'If I remember correctly it came in sort of a triangular shaped
> bottle.
Beer on Tap. "It's made with real beer. But don't drink it!"
Mary Ann
Actually "Body on Tap" I believe.
--
Mary Ann
Margot Ferguson
Doran <d...@netcom.com> wrote in article <32A617...@netcom.com>...
> John E. Marker wrote:
>
> > Anyone remember the name of the "Beer Shampoo"?I can just sort
of
> > remember the commercial where a woman is saying something like 'It's
got
> > REAL BEER!'If I remember correctly it came in sort of a triangular
shaped
> > bottle.
>
> Beer on Tap. "It's made with real beer. But don't drink it!"
>
I think it was actually called "Body on Tap". It had a very strong smell
(not like beer, though).
--Margot F.
Hobbs
Mary Ann wrote:
> > Beer on Tap. "It's made with real beer. But don't drink it!"
>
Yeah, like someone was actually going to drink *shampoo*
On the other hand, I remember reading about an incident, where a
soap company mailed out free samples of "Sunlight Dishwashing Detergent!
Made with Real Lemon Juice for extra grease cutting power", and a few
people mistook the package for a bottle of *real* lemon juice . .. .
helen
What about "Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" with everyone smelling her
hair or Clairol's "herbal Essence" with the cartoon woman entering the
pond by the watefall.
Dennis McGee
I saw what had to be some of the very last remaining bottles of Clairol
Herbal Essence Shampoo at one of those mall stores that sells close-out
stuff for a dollar about three or four years ago. Wish I'd bought one now
and kept it as a period curio; that was my shampoo of choice back in the
'70s. Just a whiff of it could probably transport me back 20 years.
--
_--_ Dennis McGee <den...@InfoAve.Net>
/ `--''> ,,,
| / I I |||||||||[:::] Super Seventies RockSite!
\ oo ,-._> ''' http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8678/
`--' "Guaranteed to blow your mind"
Kelly Shimanek
never forgot everyone staring at him....you wont know if you dont
ask....
Carl Ratner
In article <denmac-ya0233800...@NNTP.InfoAve.Net>
den...@InfoAve.Net (Dennis McGee) writes:
>From: den...@InfoAve.Net (Dennis McGee)
>Subject: Re: More 70's Commercials
>Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 17:56:56 -0600
>In article <32AAA3...@whidbey.net>, helen <kil...@whidbey.net> wrote:
>>What about "Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" with everyone smelling her
>>hair or Clairol's "herbal Essence" with the cartoon woman entering the
>>pond by the watefall.
>I saw what had to be some of the very last remaining bottles of Clairol
>Herbal Essence Shampoo at one of those mall stores that sells close-out
>stuff for a dollar about three or four years ago. Wish I'd bought one now
>and kept it as a period curio; that was my shampoo of choice back in the
>'70s. Just a whiff of it could probably transport me back 20 years.
I'm quite sure that I saw Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo at a large chain drug
store a few weeks ago. Same bottle that I remember from the 70s, with the same
dark green liquid inside.
-- Carl
A false address is shown above to help stop automated junk e-mail. The correct
address is art...@bway.net.
John Yanagi
Carl Ratner wrote:
> >In article <32AAA3...@whidbey.net>, helen <kil...@whidbey.net> wrote:
> >I saw what had to be some of the very last remaining bottles of Clairol
> >Herbal Essence Shampoo at one of those mall stores that sells close-out
> >stuff for a dollar about three or four years ago. Wish I'd bought one now
> >and kept it as a period curio; that was my shampoo of choice back in the
> >'70s. Just a whiff of it could probably transport me back 20 years.
>
> I'm quite sure that I saw Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo at a large chain drug
> store a few weeks ago. Same bottle that I remember from the 70s, with the same
> dark green liquid inside.
Carl is quite right. I was quite floored to see a bottle of Clairol
Herbal Essence shampoo in my inlaws' shower on Thanksgiving. It indeed
IS back (at least in Massachusetts).
John
Rara Avis
On 3 Dec 1996 03:46:20 GMT, diva...@aol.com wrote:
>Remember Doan's Pills... "For backache pain"? And they always showed the
>woman having major lower back pain trying to fold sheets after she'd
>ironed them? I always wondered why the hell she was ironing the sheets in
>the first place when she was just gonna fold them anyway.
>
>I also remember the Revlon ads that were shown during the Sonny and Cher
>show. The word "Revlon" was done in silver and lucite and they clicked
>against each other and when they parted, the spokesmodel did her thing.
>
>By the way, the Nick at Nite site on AOL has downloadable commercial clips
>from the 70s, including the Ginsu knife, Jordache, Sasson jeans,
>Spaghetti-Os, etc.
Rara Avis replied:
My all time favorite was the Alka Seltzer commercials where the old
guy was sitting in bed complaining of his over indulgence. I can't
believe I ate the whole thing, you ate it frank. So forth and so on. I
tee heed over that for a long time. I miss the imaginative commercials
more so than today's special effects.