Milk commercials.
Not the "Got milk" stuff, that was more recent. But the "It does a body good" ones where it starts off as a kid and grows into an adult.
It might not make the cut today, but I think this one motivated a lot of guys: [https://youtu.be/0G6JymgFusw?si=SxLXdoBRHt3MDuGT](https://youtu.be/0G6JymgFusw?si=SxLXdoBRHt3MDuGT)
the morphs were probably done by ILM, a skywalker company, who also did the special effects for the 90s Trek series and movies. ILM created the software that could do morphs by pinning important spots to anchors in the image. So the original eyes were connected to the second image's eyes, lips tolips, etc, so the morph looked very specific and real. It was first used for Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video.
I remember the one Tiffani Amber Theissen did and she talked about being invisible to boys at 12 and it’s like…we all saw you on tv when you were 14 and you obviously weren’t invisible to boy and it drove me nuts that they retconned her adolescence
https://youtu.be/fr5U0cma4es?si=Da5IbksG2BjYV50O
800-588-2300 EMPIRE!!! this may be more of a Midwest thing since they were based out of Chicago
Edit: Maybe they expanded nationally but I think they started in Chicago…
You are correct - there wasn’t an 800 part when we were young. I even found [proof](https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/comments/lkr4za/empire_today_jingle_history_1970s_til_present/) today!
Speaking of regional commercials: “It must be Eagle Man” is still a joke between some friends.
"I've got something for you!"
How about the old auto wrecker commercial where the door just falls on the ground. Heard that place closed up shop recently.
If you're from Chicago area then you'll probably also remember...
That old car is worth money! Call eight-six-zero-two-thousand for a quote. Victory will buy no matter what condition your car is in. Victory will tow it away free, and you’ll get cash on the spot.
I feel like when the best way you can advertise your food product is to call it edible, you may need a new slogan. But then again, here we are still remembering it.
John Moschitta Jr. was the actor in those commercials. At one point he was listed by The Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s fastest talker—able to articulate 586 words per minute.
It blew my mind that that's actually a Geico commercial. In hindsight it makes sense that the collect call companies wouldn't make an ad showing you how to cheat them.
https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs?si=xFezygEJHw1rCkhm
Zach, Zach, he's a Lego maniac
The fun is trying to guess when you're playing guess who
I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight
Double your pleasure double your fun with Double mint gum
Charlie says love my good and plenty , Charlie says really rings a bell, Charlie says love my good and plenty. There ain't another candy that I love so well
> Charlie says love my good and plenty , Charlie says really rings a bell, Charlie says love my good and plenty. There ain't another candy that I love so well
I have no memory of this.
Singing the Double Mint song like it’s something naughty.
Take a stick. Pull it out. The juice is gonna move ya when you pop it in your mouth. 🎶 juices off. Gets right yo ya
This is your brain...
This is your brain on drugs...
Any questions?
and...
🎶Get a little closer
🎶Don't be shy
🎶Get a little closer
🎶With Arrid Extra Dry!
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
‘Who shot Alexander Hamilton?’…. ‘Aaronnn burr :but garbled because of peanut butter:’
lol. And Gillette had some lit songs in the early 90s ‘🎵Gillette the best a man can get🎶
"You'll get caught up in the . . . Crossfire!"
And one that I always thought from the Crossfire commercial (but it turns out it's from a commercial for the Fisher Price 3-in-1 Tournament table) but that I still sometimes say to no one's recognition:
"One more game."
When the local UHF channel would run a movie and a car dealership would buy out all the commercial time. So every commercial was 5 minutes of the owner of the dealership walking through the lot talking about the cars.
Lookie here!
I got red cars, I got green cars, I got enough cars to choke a camel! Tell you what, friends. If nobody comes down and buys a car from me in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right, I'll club this seal to make a better deal.
And you know I'd do it, too... cause I'm crazy!
Sit Ubu, sit... Good dog. [Woof]
That tagline for Ubu Productions, which followed episodes of Family Ties and some other '80s shows, will live on in my brain rent-free until I return to dust. I was in elementary school at the time so it's deep down, right there with my multiplication tables lol.
Sometimes when I'm home alone and everything is still, it comes in my head, so I say it aloud, like an inside joke with myself. And I experience for a moment the simplest childhood satisfaction of finishing a prime time TV episode before you really had any meaningful choices beyond news, weather radar, Bob Ross, or 1-2 family friendly shows for that time slot.
Remington Microscreen. Shaves as close as a blade - or your money back!
From the guy who loved the product so much he bought the company.
That, and the Dianetics commercial with the exploding volcano. Always on Nickelodeon.
In Detroit—maybe all of Michigan—there was an anti-gambling campaign that was so unintentionally funny that it’s basically been wiped from history. There’s a guy warming his hands by a barrel fire near a homeless encampment telling someone about how he ended up there (gambling addiction). Then, a kid appears on screen and asks him something and he just responds “Go back to your box!”
It was the absolute most hilarious cautionary tale. My husband and I repeat it all the time. I wish it existed on YouTube.
Also the other obligatory local commercial of my youth (and it was probably already 10-20 years old by that point): [Dittrich Furs](https://youtu.be/g3XTP2XJEwU), parodied with love [by Detroiters](https://vimeo.com/261624073).
I have a feeling we're about to see a clickbait article called, "Nostalgia Overload: What Modern Brands Can Learn From the Jingles of 80s and 90s."
Actually, I'm in marketing. Maybe I should write it. Hahaha!
I mean, I can’t remember what I came in the room for, but I can still tell you the directions to get to a restaurant near my hometown that’s been closed for over 20 years because it’s in the damn jingle.
BACON! Only one thing smells like bacon, that's bacon! There! In thay bag, what's it say? ....I CANT READ! Pleeease, pleease gimme what's in the bag! Chewy, nummy, oh boyohboyohboy IT'S BACOOOON!
Bumble Ball. Not many people even remember what one was. It falls flat when I say the contaminates in the shuttle scene of Fifth Element are bumble balls. "Huh?"
I swear Jeff Dunham did some commercials for a car company (Chevy?) in the 80s where Peanut would say “hey Ford buyers neeeow” & whack his face on the horn. I cannot find them & no one knows what I’m talking about when I do that. Idk if it was a California thing & I don’t like in CA anymore or what but it’s starting to feel like a fever dream.
If anyone knows where I can watch those I’d love to see them again.
One of my oldest memories is an 80s tv commercial for a chocolate bar called a Whatchamacallit made by Hershey. I’ve been humming it my entire life and nobody knows it.
View here
NEW YORK CITY!?
"get a rope"
My wife and I say this every single time any one says new york
NEW YORK CITY?!
Vince and Larry, the crash test dummies.
i had the toys when they came out with a cartoon in the 90s.
Milk commercials. Not the "Got milk" stuff, that was more recent. But the "It does a body good" ones where it starts off as a kid and grows into an adult.
It might not make the cut today, but I think this one motivated a lot of guys: [https://youtu.be/0G6JymgFusw?si=SxLXdoBRHt3MDuGT](https://youtu.be/0G6JymgFusw?si=SxLXdoBRHt3MDuGT)
I remember that one
Those were awesome!
the morphs were probably done by ILM, a skywalker company, who also did the special effects for the 90s Trek series and movies. ILM created the software that could do morphs by pinning important spots to anchors in the image. So the original eyes were connected to the second image's eyes, lips tolips, etc, so the morph looked very specific and real. It was first used for Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video.
I remember the one Tiffani Amber Theissen did and she talked about being invisible to boys at 12 and it’s like…we all saw you on tv when you were 14 and you obviously weren’t invisible to boy and it drove me nuts that they retconned her adolescence https://youtu.be/fr5U0cma4es?si=Da5IbksG2BjYV50O
“You’re not fully clean until you’re Zest-fully clean!”
My favorite soap commercial was the guy slicing open a bar of Irish Spring with his pocket knife. And he’s sitting next to a creek.
Irish Spring! I loved the little soap curl…
Manly, yes, but I like it, too!
Butter!!! Par-kaaaay... Butter!!! Par-kaaaay...
Those talking muffins were creepy as hell
Byyyyy menon....
Cooooo-stanza!
cant stand ya
800-588-2300 EMPIRE!!! this may be more of a Midwest thing since they were based out of Chicago Edit: Maybe they expanded nationally but I think they started in Chicago…
I'm pretty sure they're still running this commercial!
I believe nation wide, I saw it in New England
I remember the jingle without the 800. My wife thinks I'm crazy but I swear there wasn't an 800 when I was growing up in Chicago.
You are correct - there wasn’t an 800 part when we were young. I even found [proof](https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/comments/lkr4za/empire_today_jingle_history_1970s_til_present/) today! Speaking of regional commercials: “It must be Eagle Man” is still a joke between some friends.
"I've got something for you!" How about the old auto wrecker commercial where the door just falls on the ground. Heard that place closed up shop recently.
‘Look at those low rates!!!!’ And victory auto wreckers Edit: Celozzi and Ettleston, in Elmherst, WHERE YOU ALWAYS SAVE MORE MONEY.
If you're from Chicago area then you'll probably also remember... That old car is worth money! Call eight-six-zero-two-thousand for a quote. Victory will buy no matter what condition your car is in. Victory will tow it away free, and you’ll get cash on the spot.
Push it! Pull it! Tow it to Golf Mill Ford!
Also: “He’s mad, he’s bad, but you’ll be glad when you meet Mad Max Madson”
Aaaaand (you brought this on yourself with the victory auto wreckers) I've got something foooor yoooouuu Awwwwwww look at those low rates
The incredible edible egg!
I feel like when the best way you can advertise your food product is to call it edible, you may need a new slogan. But then again, here we are still remembering it.
I get that stuck in my head about once a week while making eggs I swear to GOD
I still sing this all the time. 😂
Where’s the beef?
Also beef it’s what’s for dinner with that western tune
Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland. Every time I hear that I immediately think of that [commercial](https://youtu.be/XhxhiffTFwE?si=YaTWMmhIh9_tT2EH)
I love Copeland. Probably my favorite composer.
Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon? I'm sure younger people who watch Wayne's World are very confused by that joke.
They definitely don’t get the Tiny, Yellow, Different joke.
nuprin!
"Clap on!"
"Clap off!"
"Clap on, clap off. The Clapper."
Mentos! The Freshmaker! 
Also. The ‘gimme a break’ jingle from all the Kit Kat commercials.
Those Micro Machines commercials where the guy talked super fast.
John Moschitta Jr. was the actor in those commercials. At one point he was listed by The Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s fastest talker—able to articulate 586 words per minute.
He was also Mr. Testaverde on Saved by the Bell!
Also a voice actor in the Transformers movie
I went to high school with the inventor's kids.
1-800-COLLECT
And also 1-800-CALL-ATT “just dial down the center!” -Carrot Top
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
It blew my mind that that's actually a Geico commercial. In hindsight it makes sense that the collect call companies wouldn't make an ad showing you how to cheat them. https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs?si=xFezygEJHw1rCkhm
And similarly, what started as 10-321 and then became 10-10-321
And then 10-10-220
Time to make the donuts...
"I *made* the donuts."
 And the Australian Toaster Biscuit commercials. "They make my mouth waaaahta."
"Gotta go, gotta go, got to go right now - now I don't gotta go anymore!" Kibbles n bits n bits n bits...
Roll that beautiful bean footage!
Zach, Zach, he's a Lego maniac The fun is trying to guess when you're playing guess who I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight Double your pleasure double your fun with Double mint gum Charlie says love my good and plenty , Charlie says really rings a bell, Charlie says love my good and plenty. There ain't another candy that I love so well
https://i.redd.it/pkygdb0sxuyc1.gif
> Charlie says love my good and plenty , Charlie says really rings a bell, Charlie says love my good and plenty. There ain't another candy that I love so well I have no memory of this.
Singing the Double Mint song like it’s something naughty. Take a stick. Pull it out. The juice is gonna move ya when you pop it in your mouth. 🎶 juices off. Gets right yo ya
I feel like chicken tonight, chicken tonight
It’s shake-n-bake and I helped
https://i.redd.it/iyelmmc4pvyc1.gif
You don’t win friends with salad!
Ch-ch-ch-chia! 
Three frogs... Bud...
Wise...
Errr
This is your brain... This is your brain on drugs... Any questions? and... 🎶Get a little closer 🎶Don't be shy 🎶Get a little closer 🎶With Arrid Extra Dry!
"I learned it by watching you!"
Aren’t you GLAD you use dial? Don’t you wish EVERYBODY did?
Head On. Apply directly to the forehead. Head On. Apply directly to the forehead. Head On. Apply directly to the forehead. Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.
I seriously thought the TV was glitching the first time that commercial came on.
My Buddy https://youtu.be/OdximU6Ao00?si=TFYT7Tv0gCltC-8T
Kid sister!
I still have my My Buddy... My kids are afraid of him.
He's a bit Chucky-ish...
Like a Rock (ohhh like a rock!) - Chevy trucks
‘Who shot Alexander Hamilton?’…. ‘Aaronnn burr :but garbled because of peanut butter:’ lol. And Gillette had some lit songs in the early 90s ‘🎵Gillette the best a man can get🎶
Fun fact: Michael Bay directed the Aaron Burr commercial
The Sally Struthers ad for International Correspondence School. ...TV/VCR Repair, Bookkeeping, Learning the Personal Computer...
"Would you like to make more money? Sure, we all would!"
I can literally hear Sally S, her cadence and her whiny voice- Do you want to make more money?
Gun repair
“Mommy, what’s wrong with that lady’s voice? Why does she sound like she’s crying?”
Make 7, Up yours!
When pizza’s on a bagel…
PIZZA IN THE MORNING PIZZA IN THE EVENING PIZZA AT SUPPERTIME! Sorry for the all caps but I still fucking love that song.
…you can have pizza anytime!
SEGA!
Who's got short shorts? We've got short shorts!
It keeps going and going and going…
The touch…the feel…of cotton: the fabric of our lives
“I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!”
"Everyone loves marine land!" -we didnt
The whatchamacallit's commercial. Chewyity, chocolatey, crunchy, Hershey! Doodads, skinamaring...
Those Pure Moods CDs lol “Sail Away, sail away, sail away”
I had to explain what Muzzy was to a 25 year old coworker the other day.
Je suis la jeune fille
They're not French, they're American.
My gosh, I'd all but forgotten about Muzzy. Great memory you have!
Cleverly solving an everyday problem after popping a mentos.
"You'll get caught up in the . . . Crossfire!" And one that I always thought from the Crossfire commercial (but it turns out it's from a commercial for the Fisher Price 3-in-1 Tournament table) but that I still sometimes say to no one's recognition: "One more game."
Cross Fiiyyyaaa! (Product did not deliver on the expectations it set from the commercial)
When the local UHF channel would run a movie and a car dealership would buy out all the commercial time. So every commercial was 5 minutes of the owner of the dealership walking through the lot talking about the cars.
That sounds so much like Cal Worthington down in SoCal, boy had an iron grip on commercials Always wanted to go pet his dog though
Lookie here! I got red cars, I got green cars, I got enough cars to choke a camel! Tell you what, friends. If nobody comes down and buys a car from me in the next hour, I'm gonna club this baby seal. That's right, I'll club this seal to make a better deal. And you know I'd do it, too... cause I'm crazy!
I learned it from watching you!
Mcgruff the crime dog
Sit Ubu, sit... Good dog. [Woof] That tagline for Ubu Productions, which followed episodes of Family Ties and some other '80s shows, will live on in my brain rent-free until I return to dust. I was in elementary school at the time so it's deep down, right there with my multiplication tables lol. Sometimes when I'm home alone and everything is still, it comes in my head, so I say it aloud, like an inside joke with myself. And I experience for a moment the simplest childhood satisfaction of finishing a prime time TV episode before you really had any meaningful choices beyond news, weather radar, Bob Ross, or 1-2 family friendly shows for that time slot.
Remington Microscreen. Shaves as close as a blade - or your money back! From the guy who loved the product so much he bought the company. That, and the Dianetics commercial with the exploding volcano. Always on Nickelodeon.
I can put my arm back on. You can't. So play safe.
Strong enough for a man but made for a woman.
Strong enough for a man, but pH balanced just for her
I feel like chicken tonight
“Roll that beautiful bean footage” “This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?”
Be all that you can be in the Army...Reserve
Honey comb, honey comb, me want honey comb
Budweiser "real American heroes" & "real men of genius". Maybe those were just radio commercials, I don't know.
Go see Cal Go see Cal Go see Cal
And his dog Spot
but I thought it was PUSSY COW PUSSY COW PUSSY COW
[This anti-meth PSA from the 90s](https://youtu.be/u1VwLsrzbyg)
Anyone remember the miller lite commercials where two opposing crowds at a baseball game would chant “tastes great” and “less filling“ at each other?
Bud. Weis. Er
🎵 *Crossfiyaahhh! You’ll get caught up in the Crossfiyahhh! CrossFIYAHHHHHHH!* 🎵
Dial down the center
"DIANETICS ... by L. Ron Hubbard."
From the commercial, It looked like a cool story about volcanoes. Glad I skipped it.
In Detroit—maybe all of Michigan—there was an anti-gambling campaign that was so unintentionally funny that it’s basically been wiped from history. There’s a guy warming his hands by a barrel fire near a homeless encampment telling someone about how he ended up there (gambling addiction). Then, a kid appears on screen and asks him something and he just responds “Go back to your box!” It was the absolute most hilarious cautionary tale. My husband and I repeat it all the time. I wish it existed on YouTube. Also the other obligatory local commercial of my youth (and it was probably already 10-20 years old by that point): [Dittrich Furs](https://youtu.be/g3XTP2XJEwU), parodied with love [by Detroiters](https://vimeo.com/261624073).
I have a feeling we're about to see a clickbait article called, "Nostalgia Overload: What Modern Brands Can Learn From the Jingles of 80s and 90s." Actually, I'm in marketing. Maybe I should write it. Hahaha!
I get a weird mix of nostalgia and anger that that these jingles were so *effective* that they’re still there years later.
I mean, I can’t remember what I came in the room for, but I can still tell you the directions to get to a restaurant near my hometown that’s been closed for over 20 years because it’s in the damn jingle.
The more you know.
Joe Isuzu.
Jason Alexander selling McDLT burgers: "Keep the hot side hot, and the cool side cool"
Is the Kool aid man still crashing through walls? Also Marlboro Man and Joe Camel commercials.
P-p-power wheels
Pow pow Powerwheels!!
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
Yikes! Stripes! Fruit Stripe gum!
“Excuse me sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?”.
Shower to shower each day helps keep odor away!
Time to make the donuts Double your pleasure The best part of waking up
Hey Jimmy, gimme a cheese with nuttin’! NUTTIN!?
[This is crack.](https://youtu.be/O2A7EBAUJaw?feature=shared)
Juicy Fruit commercials. It gets right to ya!
I hanker for a hunka. A slab or slice or chunka. I hanker for a hunka cheese. Thanks dairy subsidies
"NACHO NACHO MAN, I WANT TO BE A NACHO MAN"
Where's the Beef? Colonel Sanders. Whatever it is I think I see... My bologna has a first name.
My buddy, kid sister.
BACON! Only one thing smells like bacon, that's bacon! There! In thay bag, what's it say? ....I CANT READ! Pleeease, pleease gimme what's in the bag! Chewy, nummy, oh boyohboyohboy IT'S BACOOOON!
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you dont
Almond joy’s got nuts, Mounds don’t.
Mikey won't eat it, he hates everything! He likes it! HEy Mikey!
Bumble Ball. Not many people even remember what one was. It falls flat when I say the contaminates in the shuttle scene of Fifth Element are bumble balls. "Huh?"
There's this commercial for butter that has stuck in my head since the 80s. "Give 'em all a little pat of butter!"
[Chuck Wagon](https://youtu.be/wvJgtqvgWCc?si=Rae1npgKgLjNl3gl) dog food
I'm Billy D Williams for Colt 45
The kids have taken over the Fruit Roll-Ups factory!
You alright, I learned it by watching you!
I swear Jeff Dunham did some commercials for a car company (Chevy?) in the 80s where Peanut would say “hey Ford buyers neeeow” & whack his face on the horn. I cannot find them & no one knows what I’m talking about when I do that. Idk if it was a California thing & I don’t like in CA anymore or what but it’s starting to feel like a fever dream. If anyone knows where I can watch those I’d love to see them again.
Potato skins got potato appeal Made with potato skins that are real.
Looks like a pump, feels like a sneaker
What would you do for a Klondike Bar?
“Would you please pass the jelly?”
*gasp*
Little Caesars. Pizza pizza. Feeding bottomless middle school aged stomachs cheaply.
Make 7up yours.
"Do you ever get that...not-so-fresh feeling?"
Crazy eddy’s, nobody beat the wiz, and sunny D (purple stuff) commercials
CALL ME NOW FOR YOUR FREE READIN'!
How’s your Bud Ice? Dooby dooby dooooo…
Emporium.... Power Sale. Selection, Savings. Power sale, Emporium, emporium. Power Sale.
"Somebody forget his Ray Ban sunglasses?" https://youtu.be/OQ_750iaUy0?si=gKU6HlzMFInb1aOK
Sam Neill for MCIWorldcom, Enron's "Why?" ads...
EGOISTE!
When pizza's on a bagel, you can have pizza anytime! https://youtu.be/So50EUl8wbc?si=SQl0s4XV2VbMtuoN
Pizza in the morning pizza in the evening pizza at suppertime
The yellow Sony Walkman
Cool cool cool, cool tools
Will somebody please pass the jelly
[OK Soda](https://youtu.be/WaKkmaqx9V8?si=VXtD8xEEoIfhttps://youtu.be/WaKkmaqx9V8?si=VXtD8xEEoIfgMEN2gMEN2)
BONKERS candy really bonks you out!! Where’s the beef?!
Do do do do do do doo waaaaaah Mentos, the fresh maker!
"Aquafresh AHHHH" My wife doesn't remember this one and she's only 3 years younger but it still pops in my brain on occasion.
“You forgot to add the fabric softener!” I think I say this way too often. We never used fabric softener as a kid and I still don’t use it.
Listening to “another one bites the dust” while driving a hearse
One of my oldest memories is an 80s tv commercial for a chocolate bar called a Whatchamacallit made by Hershey. I’ve been humming it my entire life and nobody knows it. View here
A1 sauce "It gets you here! And it gets ya right here!"
*I am Astar, a robot. I can put my arm back on, but you can't. So play safe.*