old commercials were really really bad
 

are you a pecker? oh..pepper?


recognize this guy?

They ought to have a sequel where pigtail girl comes back and takes her revenge.

I showed this one to my daughter once. She said it creeped her out just a little. I couldn't disagree.

the Tab cola "Be a Mind Sticker" commerical was UNREAL. "When you can't be with him, be in his mind...have a nice shape...he WANTS you to have a nice shape...having a nice shape has it's rewards..."

OMHFG! It's like John Lennon said: Woman is the nigger of the world.

The "I'm a Pepper" jingle was written by Randy Newman ("Short People", "I Love LA", etc) and Jake Holmes ("Dazed and Confused" yes THAT Dazed and Confused). Holmes went on to also write "Be all that you can be" for the US Army, "The best a man can get" for Gilllette, and "Come see the softer side of Sears". The star of the "I'm a Pepper" commercial was David Naughton, who went on to star in "American Werewolf in London" as well as starring in the TV Series "Makin' It" and singing on the hit single "Makin' It" which was the show's theme.

I always had a crush on that Pepper guy. Him and David Cassidy.

Let me guess... slash fiction?

Who would play the male? Ha ha.

Srsly, I had no idea what slash fiction was till just now when I Wiki'd it. I get the concept---esp. Kirk/Spock. Those two were in love and it was wrong for women to come between them, but Kirk just couldn't help himself.

I think I posted that McDLT video in one of Jim's threads and he voted it down. That dumb bastard.

I remember that. I remembered it as me posting it, but in retrospect you did!

I can't believe I can't find the Shake and Bake commercial. "It's Shake and Bake, daddddy, and Ah Halped."

(How does one do a southern accent in print?)

i only posted the mcdlt video because the dr pepper reminded me of it...the whole dancing down the sidewalk thing..... soooo ghey.

That just doesn't make sense!
The concept of McDLT I mean.
How could they keep it on the hotplate for a start?
And what does the D stand for? In BLT it's bacon. In DLT... donkey?

I wish I could find the Kellogg's Pop Tarts commercial we were subjected to in the 80's, but looking at the American ones on YouTube I have a feeling you've been punished enough. I assume it was made for a European market as one of the lines was "Four great flavours and they're waiting for you..." inappropriate for the home market at the time? It was just such a random tune though. It was the sort of jingle people make up in teamwork seminars and cringe about afterwards.

Not all of ours were rubbish. And certain catchphrases provide instant bonding moments for people of a certain age. Ask any Brit over about 30 to say Accrington Stanley to you. I bet they say it with a Scouse accent. And if they don't, they're thinking it.

And this is what I grew up with. Which is why my bro and I made a pact never to buy products with bad or badly dubbed adverts, it only encourages them.

Some are quintessentially British. But Pepsi is obviously dubbed (WHY? lazy, lazy advertisers) and the Coke and Cornflakes ones are American too.

McD onalds, or "Mickey D's"

But, but - wouldn't that apply to everything they sell...?








Yeah okay... I admit I missed it...

It's okay SG...I missed it when I was a kid and was extremely disappointed when I found that my sandwich had no bacon and was just a crappy burger like all the rest...so why all the fooforah? I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the commercials.

That Bianco commercial cracked me up, btw. And my husband got a lot of mileage out of that "Charge Dodger" commercial at work, today.

I remember some with great fondness...

I loved that commercial. :thumb:

I can remember good old commercials, but very few of the bad old ones. My standard for bad commercials tend to be the ones that pretend to give you accurate information leading to the conclusion that the advertised product is more stupendous than Brand X.

Oh, that and four out of five dentists surveyed thing ... those have always annoyed me, even before they started the series of ads making fun of the fifth dentist.

:rolleyes:

I didn't realize bri had referred to that commercial when I watched it this morning in the other thread you put it in. I never saw it on tv either. but Mind Sticker...makes me think of someone sticking a round red sticker with a goofy face on it.... right on someone's glistening wet cerebellum. (the front of their skull is just not there when this occurs.... you can see a cross section of the skull and scalp and hair)

and yeah.... why did women put up with shit like that? didn't the men that made those commercials have wives? was Anchorman accurate? what the hell?

Wow, honestly I didn't know she had referred to it either, until I saw your post jim! I was just looking for an aisle without garbanzo beans. Funny she remembered it...I came across it while looking at the 'retro thing' website when I posted the Merlin link.

I can almost see the ad agency pitching this idea on Mad Men!