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Friday, July 15, 2011
What better spokesmen for women's hairspray than the Three Stooges? The woman at the end with the stooges is Charlene Holt, a former Miss Maryland who would go on to costar with John Wayne in El Dorado.
Quite a step up, no?
This is the last consecutive day I am going to post an old commercial. They will pop up every now and then on appropriate occasions or when I find an interesting one. I wanted you guys to see what I am aiming for with it. Nostalgia and/or goofiness, basically.
Labels: Old Commercials
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
You could not watch the NFL in the early '80's without seeing this commercial a dozen times a day. Advertisers still make parodies of it 32 years later. The original is still the best.
Labels: Old Commercials, Sports
Bugs Bunny advises the bored Monkees to make friends by making a pitcher of Kool Aid. Peter Tork had already left the group by this point to resume his career in folk music, so no word on how his "pass the joint" theory of friend making works in comparison.
Note Buga disappears after the first few seconds himself. The Monkees do not make carrot flavored Kool Aid. Losing new friends already. Not cool.
Labels: Old Commercials
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Now we know how they all got fat.
Labels: Old Commercials, Star Trek
Monday, July 11, 2011
Welcome to the first in an irregular feature of favorite commercials from the past.
This nestle commercial used to run frequently in the mid-late ‘80’s during television show that appealed to a younger crowd. The song attached is a quintessential love ballad of the era. Such songs have been rarely duplicated in the quarter century since this commercial debuted. Consider it odd the commercial uses two pretty people to sell a product that will make young people fat and pimple-faced.
Nestle still manufactures its candy in the United States. In recent years, Hershey candy has moved its manufacturing to Mexico.
Labels: Old Commercials