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What are your all-time favorite TV commercials?
one man's opinion...

Posted on 07/21/2015 8:42:39 AM PDT by ken5050

This is just to take a little breather from all things Trump, Obama's cave to Iran, and the sadness over 5 brave Americans getting massacred by a home-grown Islamic terrorist.

So then, what are YOUR favorite TV commercials? And enjoy!!!


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Simple question, really..do you have a few faves that were either very funny, or really got their message across, or just made you feel good? There have been many great ones over the decades

Hopefully, you'll post the links to them from YouTube..

NOTE: The FIRST person who pompously replies that "I don't watch TV" can go pound sand AND suck an egg.

And if you're so inclined, and have a nominee, tell us your pick for the WORST commercial. There are so many of those too, but they are so very forgettable..

Here's my top picks:

Noxema "take it off, take it all off" Gawd damn, but Gunilla was drop-dead GORGEOUS

Coke: "I'd like to teach the world to sing.." Man, back then EVERYONE was humming that tune

ANY Oscar Meyer commercial the bologna song or "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener"

American Tourister gorilla ad Brilliant!

FedEx fast talking guy They were all a hoot

Any of the "lying Joe Isuzu ads They were hilarious

You'll notice most of these are, well, old....but the best of the current crop is without a doubt, the GEICO "hump day" with the camel had people talking for months. And I was already sick of the gecko

There was one more on my list...with the Hoffman Soda jingle..."The prettiest girl, I ever saw, was sipping Hoffman, right through a straw"..but I can't find it.

As far as my picks for the worst commercials...well.. Any PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE one..I absolutely can't stand that girl..

1 posted on 07/21/2015 8:42:39 AM PDT by ken5050
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Coke: "I'd like to teach the world to sing.." Man, back then EVERYONE was humming that tune

And to think that Don Draper came up with it.

2 posted on 07/21/2015 8:43:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ken5050

Any Marine Corps commercial


3 posted on 07/21/2015 8:45:10 AM PDT by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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Wendy’s Soviet fashion Show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti6UAOHfwPQ


4 posted on 07/21/2015 8:45:17 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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The Nissan commercial with the Van Halen version of “you really got me” starring GI Joe and Barbie. LOL


5 posted on 07/21/2015 8:45:21 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (I'm on CRUZ control into 2016!!)
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The Budweiser Clydesdales paying respect at the WTC after 9/11


6 posted on 07/21/2015 8:45:58 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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Herding cats.
7 posted on 07/21/2015 8:45:59 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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I was working for EDS when that ad came out.


8 posted on 07/21/2015 8:47:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Mobil Oil "Drive Your Engine Clean" ad.

Park your car? Sir?

9 posted on 07/21/2015 8:47:33 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: LRoggy

True True

Also add wasssup as well as the old alka seltzer commercials I cant believe I at the whole thing....

Honorable mention: Those who grew up in the NY metro area in thelate 70’s: Whats the story Jerry?


10 posted on 07/21/2015 8:48:29 AM PDT by slapshot ("Tan, drunk and stupid is no way to govern Mr. Boehner".)
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To: ken5050

Plop plop fizz fizz


11 posted on 07/21/2015 8:48:57 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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I always liked the Jack-in-the Box commercial where
he has a chart of various cuts of beef and is asking
the room if anyone can point to the “Angus”.


12 posted on 07/21/2015 8:49:26 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Talking about drop-dead gorgeous, a local Washington, DC commercial back in the 70’s - Ouirsman Chevrolet - drop-dead gorgeous blonde saying you get your way at Ouirsman Chevrolet.


13 posted on 07/21/2015 8:49:39 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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Pretty hard to beat the original “tastes great - less filling” series IMO.


14 posted on 07/21/2015 8:50:16 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (Life's a bitch. Don't elect one.)
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Lawyer roping. “here comes Billy Bob out to lasso the fat divorce lawyer that took away his bass boat”!


15 posted on 07/21/2015 8:50:57 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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Best: Apple's "1984" ad introducing the Macintosh" - Directed by Ridley Scott (_Alien_, _Blade Runner_, _Gladiator_, etc), aired twice (once during Super Bowl, once late-night because some award required at least two showings), broadly deemed the best ad of all time.

Worst: E*trade's "we just wasted 2 million bucks" ad - Nothing discourages potential customers more than saying you're incompetent with money and proving it.

16 posted on 07/21/2015 8:51:00 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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Wassup (Superfriends)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLOwCWDlVTg


17 posted on 07/21/2015 8:51:02 AM PDT by dfwgator
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That was a great ad and it must have cost a fortune.


18 posted on 07/21/2015 8:51:11 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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I loved the recent ad for an I-phone---

The dad leaves for work and gives the little girl his I-phone---she's got a lemonade stand in the driveway.

When dad comes home, she has a thriving lemonade business, greeted by her 10-year old secretary wanting to know if she was expecting him

......everything she needed to know to incorporate and pyramid sales was on the I-phone.

19 posted on 07/21/2015 8:51:53 AM PDT by Liz
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That Wendys commercial was great!

Those really old Desoto commercials with Groucho were cool...mainly because it was Groucho.

Desoto commercials with Groucho

20 posted on 07/21/2015 8:52:59 AM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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