Your favourite commercials

[MisterCairo]

Captain Obvious needs a hotel room.

Or, maybe not...

 

[Stearmen]

He may be small, but he has great taste in cars!

 

[Benzadmiral]

I don't know how to do the link thing, but back in the '60s Barbara Feldon (Agent 99 from "Get Smart") did a commercial for Top Brass, writhing around on a tiger skin, that was so sexy I'm amazed that it got past the network censors of those days.

In an interview for TVGuide during the Get Smart days, Barbara said her "bedroom eyes" look was because she was nearsighted and that was how she focused on things. It paid off.

 

[Fading Fast]

In an interview for TVGuide during the Get Smart days, Barbara said her "bedroom eyes" look was because she was nearsighted and that was how she focused on things. It paid off.

Her eyes almost were enough for me not to notice the one-foot-high ball of hair she had on her head. Also, while she did a great job, the dialogue - especially where she references that it says "medicated" on the tube and points to it (like that makes it official) - is painful.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[Trenchfriend]

1:20!!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Cream of Wheat had a series of commercials in the sixties that haunt me to this day -- they'd show kids having a bowl of the stuff for breakfast and then when they got up to go to school, a ghostly bowl would rise up from the table and follow them thru their day, always hanging in the air just above them giving off phosphorescent steam. I was scared of Cream of Wheat for quite a while because of these commercials, and would have nightmares about that bowl floating outside my window at night.

No example of these commercials seems to exist online anywhere, which is just as well. I have trouble enough getting to sleep.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Haha, the extremely smart talker and the girl.

 

[BobHufford]

Cream of Wheat had a series of commercials in the sixties that haunt me to this day -- they'd show kids having a bowl of the stuff for breakfast and then when they got up to go to school, a ghostly bowl would rise up from the table and follow them thru their day, always hanging in the air just above them giving off phosphorescent steam.

I remember this! Haven't thought about it for years.

 

[2jakes]

Mama mia...that’s my grandma’s stove!

 

[Stearmen]

 

[Stearmen]

 

[Trenchfriend]

Haha, broken nerd-glasses.

 

[MisterCairo]

I recall this Volkswagen Golf commercial vividly. Oddly, wikipedia won't let me reference it, even in passing, in the entry for the band "Trio's" entry for their song Da Da Da.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Haha! And the Golf III wasn't that great. I never comprehended, why it was that liked in Germany, those days.

 

[MisterCairo]

This is sad for me, I'll miss TMIMITW:

 

[Benzadmiral]

A good example of the anti-male bias in movies and TV today. Tarzan should boot her off the branch and go find another female.

 

[Bushman]

Couples arguing over directions have been a point of comedy since the '50s. How is this bickering any different than, say, "The Honeymooners"? It's certainly not indicative of any sort of social change.

 

[Stearmen]

Couples arguing over directions have been a point of comedy since the '50s. How is this bickering any different than, say, "The Honeymooners"? It's certainly not indicative of any sort of social change.

People in the 50s weren't so thin skinned!