Classic TV Commercials ...

http://www.museum.tv/exhibitionssection.php?page=481
... a collection of the TRULY classics.

Some great ones!....but alas, not my all-time favorite....the Alka-Seltzer "No matter what shape your stomach's in!"

forgot the link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6PuGcB0lO4

Boy those were awesome!!
 
I had years in my eyes viewing some of them as i remember how much BETTER things were then!! (Quality,etc)

My favorites are...
 
"Does she hurt and have a temperature?"
 
"My baloney has a first name"
 
 

"That's why they call me Mister Dirt"

A little Dab 'll do ya !  (Brylcreem)
 
See the USA in your Chevrolet !
 
It's Delightful,  It's De*@*@*@, It's DeSoto !!  Sorry, The Word escapes me! But Desoto was a sponcer of Groucho Marx's "U Bet Your Life" comedy-quiz show. 
LSMFT  "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco"
 
HAMM'S   "From ther Land of Sky-Blue Water !"

I'm from Milwaukee, and I ought to know
 
I liked that tune when I was a kid.

I'm still searching the Websternet for the pitted prune commercial with Wally Cox. Hope it turns up one day...

It's delightful, It's delovely, It's DeSoto.

I dont think there will ever be as impressive a commercial as "Mother Please!I'd rather do it myself!"
Pretty impressive acting for a commercial.The woman does a meltdown,Gramma is hurt to the quick,but a few seconds after taking an Anacin,all is forgotten and everybody is happy.
They even used the tag-line as the basis for a country song.
 

One that was on here recently was for Yellawood, a wood treatment. It features a cowboy wearing a yellow hat and the story is like an old Saturday matinee serial. I will stop whatever I'm doing to watch it! 

My all-time favorite...the Real Men of Genius series
 

Alka Seltzer had a few good ones - "I can't believe I ate the whole thing"
                                                         "That's a spicy meatball"                                              

Lucky Strike Green Has Gone To War!
 

Vince - "today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles..." do you think it's Stan Freberg you're thinking of?
 

Vince Macek


I'm still searching the Websternet for the pitted prune commercial with Wally Cox. Hope it turns up one day...

That commercial was for Sunsweet and it featured an offscreen Stan Freberg interviewing Charles Laughton lookalike Ronald Long about the advantages of pitted prunes. It was Freberg who uttered the "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles..." line at the conclusion.  

Vince, I just found your prune commercial on YouTube.  Look under "Classic Sunsweet Pitted Prune Commercial 1967".

Carolina Bob


Vince, I just found your prune commercial on YouTube.  Look under "Classic Sunsweet Pitted Prune Commercial 1967".

Is this it ???
I've been wanting to try the YouTube doodad.
 

... not Wally though.

You've got it, Gregg!

wheregreggeats.com

Carolina Bob


Vince, I just found your prune commercial on YouTube.  Look under "Classic Sunsweet Pitted Prune Commercial 1967".

Is this it ???
I've been wanting to try the YouTube doodad.


... not Wally though.

While that's a good one, I'm definitely looking for the one with Wally Cox - he's being forcibly held down by a couple of bruisers (one of them the great Mike Mazurki)...he really, really doesn't like prunes.

I'm not familiar with the one with Wally Cox but I took another look at YouTube to see if it was there. I did find a Sunsweet commercial with Ray Bradbury (!!), but no Wally.

One of my favorite ads was for Cap'n Crunch cereal, parodying the Timex 'torture test' ads of the time. A John Cameron Swayze type shows us Lake Michigan, drained and refilled with milk, with the Cap'n's ship lowered in, the Cap'n tied to the rudder holding a box of his cereal. After the successful test, the Cap'n is okay, but says "I'm gonna have to get a milk-proof watch, though."
Jay Ward was brilliant. He had a clause in his commercial career where he could quit when it wasn't fun anymore.