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From back in the Golden Age of TV. Even the commercials were good ... classic.
Hard to believe it was 45-50 years ago.Commercial video at the source.
1 posted on 12/02/2016 9:35:02 AM PST by oh8eleven
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My favorite was “That’s a spicy meatball!”.


2 posted on 12/02/2016 9:38:24 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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All the commercials were good until they started hiring, young “cutting edge” No talent advertising agencies whose ads make no sense at all. Sometimes I watch and can’t even figure what they are advertising.


3 posted on 12/02/2016 9:39:21 AM PST by Bitsy
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When they bury him, will they say: Plop! Plop! Fizz! Fizz!Oh, What a relief it is!?.........


5 posted on 12/02/2016 9:40:48 AM PST by Red Badger
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Yep back before commercials pushed political statements.

Such as recent beer commercials in which Amy Schumer talks about how women don’t get equal pay, but still have to pay the same price for a beer.

Or the recent commercial with homosexual actor Neal Patrick Harris, where he talks about flipping a mans meat. In homosexual parlance, the meat is the penis. They are going to try to say they had no clue how people could interpret such an ad????


6 posted on 12/02/2016 9:40:59 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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I remember the Alka Seltzer commercials well. Very funny.


7 posted on 12/02/2016 9:41:14 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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“You ate it, Ralph.” Brilliant ads.


9 posted on 12/02/2016 9:44:47 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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YouTube is loaded with old, and not so old, commercials.

James Mason hawking Thunderbird Wine was a bit of a shock to my perception of his image, imho.

10 posted on 12/02/2016 9:46:03 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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He’s number three. The others were the inventor of the Big Mac and the inventor of General Tso’s chicken.


13 posted on 12/02/2016 9:48:46 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Isn’t that Juliana Margeles’ (from ER and Good Wife) Grandfather? I heard something about him being involved in that commercial.


14 posted on 12/02/2016 9:48:58 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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93 years old?

He evidently was not the man he portrayed in those ads. That guy had eating disorders.


17 posted on 12/02/2016 9:51:52 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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Oh...Those good 'ol days....
I remember so well......


22 posted on 12/02/2016 9:56:13 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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1. Big Mac inventor
2. Gen. Tso’s chicken inventor
3. This makes #3


24 posted on 12/02/2016 9:57:30 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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Only white people were in commercials back then. Now its swinging the other way. Only time whites are in commercials are if they need an uninformed dufus.


30 posted on 12/02/2016 10:03:00 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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The BEST 1950s commercial was the bebop animated commercial for E-Z Pop popcorn when that product first came out.

E-Z Pop Commercial (1950s)

Love the slogan: "E-Z Pop, man. That's real BOP corn."

34 posted on 12/02/2016 10:06:35 AM PST by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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Direct link to commercial for those who want to avoid giving the NYT hits.

AlkaSeltzer "I Can't Believe I Ate The Whole Thing" TV Spot


42 posted on 12/02/2016 10:15:56 AM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Hard to believe it was 45-50 years ago.

I was a kid, and thought he was at least 90 years old then!

48 posted on 12/02/2016 10:27:53 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Hilarious commercial!

And Gene Wilder, who died earlier this year, was the narrator of the Alka-Seltzer commercial about "the blahs."

60 posted on 12/02/2016 10:55:02 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Viyricho sogeret umesuggeret mipnei Benei Yisra'el; 'ein yotze' ve'ein ba'.)
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“I can’t believe I ate that whole thing”

Okay, just assume I said the suggestive, sexist thing and save me the trouble.


69 posted on 12/02/2016 11:48:33 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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RIP.


74 posted on 12/02/2016 1:11:54 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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