My favorite thing about this commercial is not the fact that is advertising Christmas wet dream of every child in 1980, but that it’s being advertised pretty much the exact same way you’d pitch a used car: first, highlight the value of its practical features like a couple mounted lasers on a flexible cockpit and…
Hey, what do Texas Instruments and Bill Cosby have in common? Nothing, really, except this commercial endorsement and the reality of a sad future: one as the brand of dreaded calculator you had to buy for Advanced Algebra and Physics class, the other for…. well, just poke your head out and read the news carved…
Taco Bell, much like the night of binge drinking the night before, exists for one distinct purpose: being totally awesome when drunk in every way imaginable, but leaving you to wake up the next morning, running to the bathroom, leaving behind the only evidence of the night before in the form of wrappers and odors….
Television has been so common for so long its hard to imagine a time when it didn’t exist. This commercial (for a television) is from the Golden Days when people thought smoking was healthy and people believed that radiation made a great skin cream. This Motorola TV wasn’t just sold for its gadget appeal with…
“A creepy clown who loves watching children eat hamburgers.”
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love clowns, and those who think clowns are creepy. There’s no “in between” or compromise to this, and you’ll even find adults who enjoy dressing up like sex clowns, but from my experience, most people tend to think that clowns are downright evil. Maybe…
One of McDonald’s most creative and successful jingle campaigns was in the 1970’s for the Big Mac hamburger. The jingle is catchy, it takes a minute to consciously try to memorize, and after “challenging” the public to say this one eventually everyone knew exactly what ingredients went onto each Big Mac. Now sing it with…
This commercial is from 1995, when Pepsi first started putting freshness stamps on the bottom of the cans. As requested tonight by a fan: Sadly, I don’t have an upload – but a request. My brother and I have been going nuts trying to find a link to an old 1990s commercial. It was around…
