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It's telling how I can recognize a lot of these merely by their thumbnail.
Here's my contribution. I can't believe I'm the first to post these. Not strictly commercials, but bumpers for ABC's Saturday Morning Cartoon lineup from the eighties.
Anyone my age who watched saturday morning cartoons should know exactly what I'm about to post:
I mean, if we're going to set a metric of 'great commercial' to be 'something that makes you really think about an idea and hold it in your brain for years and years' then this road safety commercial from the UK in the late 90s is the greatest commercial of all time. I've literally remembered every second of this from the first instant I saw it. For those who are squeemish, this commercial is utterly horrifying. It is a mind poison from which you will never escape. However, you will never consider getting in a car without wearing a seatbelt again.
That made me think of this car safety one from New Zealand. I think this the only commercial that's ever brought me close to tears. The tension, the unbearable inevitability. It's HARD to watch. Certainly has stayed with me. Incredibly well acted, haunting.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
About a week or so after September 11th happened, I was exposed to a hastily-made PSA-like thing that was attempting to connect drug sales with terrorism. It played out almost exactly like a MasterCard commercial. I never saw it again, for obvious reasons.
About a week or so after September 11th happened, I was exposed to a hastily-made PSA-like thing that was attempting to connect drug sales with terrorism. It played out almost exactly like a MasterCard commercial. I never saw it again, for obvious reasons.
Blowing up the World Trade Center: Priceless.
After 9/11, there was a short lived attempt to conflate the War on Drugs with the War on Terror, with a number of adds talking about how drug money fueled terrorism.
Why short lived? Because it didn't take long for the drug warriors to realize that they just handed proponents of legalization a powerful argument.
I the Six Flags guy still alive? Was it just a guy in makeup?
Googling around a bit, it sounds like he was just a guy in makeup. From this guy's IMDb page (and the trivia section), looks like he's not all that old:
It's apparent that Cook has had...misgivings about participating, as in addition to the drug policy PSA, she did a parody of her ad in the premiere episode of Robot Chicken:
The holy grail of lost commercials for me is this one advertising a PC game called Quest for Glory, which came with a guitar peripheral and purported to teach you how to play. It had a lot of licensed Aerosmith music and as I recall was really expensive.
The commercial itself was a back-and-forth between two teenage boys in different settings. One was playing the game and, like, totally shredding it, man. The other was dressed up like a stereotypical Buddhist monk and uttered a bunch of funny-sounding nonsense like "I get mad at myself and refuse to speak to me." Eventually the first kid shreds so hard the ceiling collapses and the monk-kid falls into his room? And they look at each other and one of them utters "Dude???" and the pronunciation of that so amused me and my friend Brendan that we would quote it to each other, affectation and all, for like a decade.
The holy grail of lost commercials for me is this one advertising a PC game called Quest for Glory, which came with a guitar peripheral and purported to teach you how to play. It had a lot of licensed Aerosmith music and as I recall was really expensive.
The commercial itself was a back-and-forth between two teenage boys in different settings. One was playing the game and, like, totally shredding it, man. The other was dressed up like a stereotypical Buddhist monk and uttered a bunch of funny-sounding nonsense like "I get mad at myself and refuse to speak to me." Eventually the first kid shreds so hard the ceiling collapses and the monk-kid falls into his room? And they look at each other and one of them utters "Dude???" and the pronunciation of that so amused me and my friend Brendan that we would quote it to each other, affectation and all, for like a decade.
I have never found it.
... Quest for Glory is an adventure / RPG hybrid series from Sierra, and has nothing to do with Aerosmith.
The holy grail of lost commercials for me is this one advertising a PC game called Quest for Glory, which came with a guitar peripheral and purported to teach you how to play. It had a lot of licensed Aerosmith music and as I recall was really expensive.
The commercial itself was a back-and-forth between two teenage boys in different settings. One was playing the game and, like, totally shredding it, man. The other was dressed up like a stereotypical Buddhist monk and uttered a bunch of funny-sounding nonsense like "I get mad at myself and refuse to speak to me." Eventually the first kid shreds so hard the ceiling collapses and the monk-kid falls into his room? And they look at each other and one of them utters "Dude???" and the pronunciation of that so amused me and my friend Brendan that we would quote it to each other, affectation and all, for like a decade.
I have never found it.
... Quest for Glory is an adventure / RPG hybrid series from Sierra, and has nothing to do with Aerosmith.
Probably why you can't find it?
I think I found the game (and it explains the confusion with Quest for Glory).
It's called Quest for Fame. I can't find the actual commercial for it...but I did find this video talking about it:
I tried and tried to find this old Jack in the Box commercial but only found one poor quality result. If anyone knows of a better quality version please let me know.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
If the best you can come up with against someone who's patently ignorant is to yell back at him, "Yeah? Well there's BOOKS, and they say you're WRONG!"
Then honestly you're not coming out of this looking great either.
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In today's edgy marketing climate, they would probably embrace it.
Welp, guess I'm going to be singing this one for the rest of the day...
That made me think of this car safety one from New Zealand. I think this the only commercial that's ever brought me close to tears. The tension, the unbearable inevitability. It's HARD to watch. Certainly has stayed with me. Incredibly well acted, haunting.
The cat-herding one reminded me of a Sprint ad:
I think I first started seeing a version of it in middle school and they used that song for years.
And it's been stuck in my head since then.
edit: my wife, who is also from south Florida, never heard this song growing up, and now it's stuck in her head too. Watch at your own risk.
My Backloggery
These commercials inspired unintentional-yet-popular catchphrases before the internet was a thing.
This isn't quite a parody but it is a meaningful PSA
After 9/11, there was a short lived attempt to conflate the War on Drugs with the War on Terror, with a number of adds talking about how drug money fueled terrorism.
Why short lived? Because it didn't take long for the drug warriors to realize that they just handed proponents of legalization a powerful argument.
Nintendo had to walk a fine line in the early days, as the 83-84 games crash had retailers spooked about selling video games.
Googling around a bit, it sounds like he was just a guy in makeup. From this guy's IMDb page (and the trivia section), looks like he's not all that old:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1503002/
The actress in the video, Rachael Leigh Cook, was the actress in the second "this is your brain on drugs" video, where she then destroys the kitchen.
It's apparent that Cook has had...misgivings about participating, as in addition to the drug policy PSA, she did a parody of her ad in the premiere episode of Robot Chicken:
"High Traffic Areas" at 1:30 is one of the few videos I ever actually downloaded back in the dialup modem days
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
The commercial itself was a back-and-forth between two teenage boys in different settings. One was playing the game and, like, totally shredding it, man. The other was dressed up like a stereotypical Buddhist monk and uttered a bunch of funny-sounding nonsense like "I get mad at myself and refuse to speak to me." Eventually the first kid shreds so hard the ceiling collapses and the monk-kid falls into his room? And they look at each other and one of them utters "Dude???" and the pronunciation of that so amused me and my friend Brendan that we would quote it to each other, affectation and all, for like a decade.
I have never found it.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
He’s in American Gods
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.
... Quest for Glory is an adventure / RPG hybrid series from Sierra, and has nothing to do with Aerosmith.
Probably why you can't find it?
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I think I found the game (and it explains the confusion with Quest for Glory).
It's called Quest for Fame. I can't find the actual commercial for it...but I did find this video talking about it:
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
The Transformers were essentially my religion growing up
That's veteran weather man Willard Scott who aside from being the first incarnation of Ronald, did the weather on the Today show for 35 years.
Now for something a bit more on-topic.
Plug it in, plug it in!
Warner Bros used that same song to advertise a cartoon.
There was a lot of drugs in the 70s.
Vengaboys. We like to party. Netherlands. Europop. The ninties.