14 funniest American commercials of the 70s
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- Because laughs in advertising seem to be in short supply right now, here are some great funny ads from the USA in the 70s (or thereabouts). It was supposed to be a Top 10 but a few extras snuck in at the end...
1. Volkswagen 'Funeral' - DDB, 1969 (almost the 70s)
2. Alka-Seltzer 'Poached Oysters' - DDB, 1970
3. Wendy's 'Where's the Beef?' - Dancer Fitzgerald Sample
4. Continental Insurance 'Lucky Guy' - Sorry Don't Know
5. Independent Life 'Out of the Picture' - Sorry Don't KNow
6. Pepsi 'Archaeology' - BBDO (dates to 1985 but hey, who's counting?
7. Alka-Seltzer 'Spicy Meatballs' - could be Wells Rich Greene, 1969 (which is almost the 70s)
8. American Motors' Rebel 'Driving Instructor' - Wells Rich Greene, 1969
9. Southern Airlines 'Second Class' - McDonald & Little, 1978
10. Volkswagen 'The Kremplers' - DDB
11. Wendy's 'Drive Through' - Dancer Fitzgerald Sample
12. Fed-Ex 'Count on It' - Ally & Gargano
13. Volkswagen Karmann Ghia 'Barrier' - DDB, 1962
14. Xerox 'Monk' - Needham Harper Steers, 1977
My father owned a shoe store in Sunnyvale California. He sold Birkenstocks as well as children’s shoes . My father found out that brother Dominic from the Xerox commercial was making an appearance at one of the local computer stores. My father sent me to go see if brother Dominic would come to his store and make an appearance, and my dad offered him a free pair of Birkenstocks. Needless to say I was able to drive back to my father’s store with brother Dominic and as we entered My father’s store, I uttered those immortal words “it’s a miracle“! The whole store erupted in laughter!
There were computer stores then?
And Birkenstocks, was that a famous Pointe Shoe maker?
@@briseboy The Kenbak-1, released in early 1971, is considered by the Computer History Museum to be the world's first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and was first sold in early 1971. The most popular home computers in the USA up to 1985 were: the TRS-80 (1977), various models of the Apple II (first introduced in 1977), the Atari 400/800 (1979) and its follow-up models, the VIC-20 (1980), and the Commodore 64 (1982). As to the point of the Birkenstock sandals , The Arizona, a style that has become synonymous with the shoe brand, is introduced, exploding Birkenstock's popularity during the 1970's. 1985: By the beginning of the 1980's, Birkenstock is a household word throughout the country.
Wonderful story, I love it!
True game show story: (Birkenstocks clue) "Those sandals worn by lesbians." You can't make that up!
@@tomryan914 Lol, they couldn't say that now!
Anyone else miss not only the humor but all the catchy jingles?
tell me about it. I totally miss jingles and commercials that didn't just buy the rights to play the same Bob Seger song over and over again, essentially ruining the song.
I always remembered the funeral when the deceased uncle says, "to my sons Rodney and Victor who spent every last dime on fancy cars and fast women, I leave 5o dollars in dimes"
@@Kylefassbinderful OMG yes...the rude things I have used to replace "like a rock"...
Your not wrong, I look at adds down here, and can't wait for'm to be over, and the worst part is, they are squashin an extra one in the add brakes.
Oh wow! I forgot how funny the commercials were back then! So funny!
You'll never convince me those were "Pelicans" 'watering'" that lawn.
Pelicans?
True!
Right!😂😂
Strange looking pelicans. Look to me like
I've seen those before, but never as fountains!
And they were HAPPY pelicans. 😁
For about a year cries of "Where's the beef?!" rang from coast to coast. It was the national catch phrase.
Still used by a lot of people who don't know it came from an ad!
And it wasn't even funny tbh
Many years.
@@RuminatingWizard not that funny, but she had a certain charm
Clara Peller was fired from Wendy's because she did a commercial for Prego.
It’s 2024 and I can’t think of one funny ad on tv.
The Haribo candy commercials are funny. The conference room/business office meeting and the football players where the adults sound like kids. It's hysterical when the guy pretends to fly the little bear.🤣🤣🤣
Im soooooo sick of lumi commercials. Repeat a lie enough times, the lie, you need what soap can do
You might see a couple during the superbowl halftime break, but not often at other times.
@@jgraef919 Well...there's one! (Thanks for sharing though. I liked it too!)
Commercials now are preachy, contrived SJW garbage or just plain insults to your intelligence. Like most things on TV, they lack creativity and originality.
Who else has grandparents who still say “ mama Mia, that’s a spicy meatball” and giggle?
That line popped into my head yesterday & I repeated it aloud & laughed. And I am a grandma!
I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
I'm a grandma and I exclaimed it just the other day! Also, another time when my family was wondering about something I piped up and said 'Let's ask Mikey!'.
Hey, I say that!
I'm and grandma, my husband who is grandpa says that from time to time.
10:06 I still have a tee shirt from high school that says “TARDIS Express: when it absolutely, positively has to be there before you sent it”, but now nobody gets it 😢
Nice one!
In Ontario there's a company called Fluke Transport. The slogan on their trucks is: If it's on time, it's a "Fluke".
@maargenbx1454: You are spending too much time with the wrong crowd!
do you remember the bayer asprine commericals. as a kid, they gave me headaches
I get it! You need better friends. 😂
I love this walk down memory lane. This was when companies had a sense of humor. 😂
And actually wanted your business.
@@soberpickle8195 So true.
Nowadays they just want to give you the business.@@soberpickle8195
And there was no "political correctness".
That is because the country wasnt so dreaded woke!
Back when commercials were 30-second little movies...
No AI, no CGI, just humans doing funny, silly, outlandish stuff. It's why I colllected books on advertising from back then...
These were awesome, thanks for the look back! 👍👍
Some of these commercials today last 3-5 minutes, ridiculous.
@ariel393939 I know, right?! I don't have a regular TV, so you may be referring to these insufferably long commercials like here on YT we're forced to sit through before we can watch the actual video
I have seen more poop, little boobs, get-rich-quick, eat this way not that way, invest like MEEEE commercials than I care too... 😝
@@hamsterdiving7593 always remember, they can make you watch, but they can't make you listen. Mute button, people!
@@hamsterdiving7593 I just pay the $10 month to avoid the commercials. Super cheap considering it preserves my sanity.
Best ad I ever saw was just writing on the screen, saying they took the money budgeted for an ad and donated it to charity.
When we watched the only 4 or 5 television channels and we all saw the same shows and commercials it felt like we were a closer connected nation. I don't use my TV anymore and we are now following separate ideologies and becoming a divided culture.
Growing up, we had 4 networks: NBC, ABC, CBS and PBS. Remember when all TV ended at midnight, after the national anthem played?
And now there are more commercials than ever and less program time. Even when they play old shows from the 50's, 60's, and 70's, they speed them up so they can squeeze in another couple of ads. I saw an episode of "Bonanza" yesterday. The theme song was so fast it sounded as though the orchestra was on meth. Its getting to the point where I may abandon my TV in the not too distant future between the many more channels filled with garbage and the number of ads, its not worth watching any longer.
you are so right! the resulting loneliness and alienation make our lives so much poorer.
When America was funny and could laugh at itself!!
No Woke.
Yes, but somewhere down the line, people's asses got tight.
DFS and Joe Sedelmaier was a master at the add campaigns of the 80s. Fedex, Wendy's, Jartran, etc. Best commercials on TV in the 80s.
And things were affordable and corporations didn't own literally everything yet.
Quit crying and live in the now. Or keep on crying. Doesn't really matter. 🤷♀️
"Let's get Mikey"
The new LIFE cereal put out small boxes of LIFE for a dime. My son Mike thout those were especially for him. 😃. Our family often says, "Mikey likes it!" appropriately.
"He won't eat it. He hates everything!"
He LIKES it! Hey Mikey!!
Too bad he grew up to be a "Cereal " killer.
I remember most of these when they were new. I guess that means that I am old.
You're better! And maybe old, too.
70. Who cares. Very funny.
me too but hey it was funny back in the day
For some reason young people look at me like I'm some kind of ancient relic when I say to them, "Hey you should watch this. It's cool. I remember seeing it when it originally came out half a century ago".
Apparently once one starts measuring time in proportions of centuries one is old.
😂😂 I'm in the same boat!! I remember these when they were new!! The Wendy's commercial is one of the most memorable!! Everybody was going around saying "Were's the Beef" 👍 Great walk down memory lane!! ❤
To my recollection, humorous ads began with Volkswagen, then Alka Seltzer chimed it. I was waiting for them to show" I can't believe I ate the whole thing". 😂
That would have also gone well with the giant dumpling one!
Try it! You'll like it!! @@snicky58
Oh gosh, me too-- how could I forget; I also am a 'Ralph'!
I was waiting for:🎶Two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!🎶 😀😀😀
That's hard to say. 😃@@davidadausuel4537
As a testament to the genius of the Advertising industry, I can STILL remember some of these 50+ year old commercials like it was yesterday. Well done!
That's well done YOU!
It’s also a testament to our ABILITY to remember them…😂😂
@@randomsk8r91 Very well said!
@@randomsk8r91
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I remembered all of them except the Carmen Ghia add.
In our day, 70's, 80's...commercials told stories, so you became vested in them.
these are from the sixties
@@kenwittlief255 No, the "Where's the beef?" one came out in the early 80's. I remember when it came out because I had just gotten married.
@@tessmoore3762 For Pete's sake, I hope you didn't ask that same question to your new husband.! LOL.!
@@tessmoore3762 And the FedEx one (with the frazzled businessman) features a 1980s Ford Escort Wagon.
Remember the Tasters Choice commercials that kept the "will they or won't they?" storyline going between the gorgeous and flirty neighbors? I don't recall how many there were but they were entertaining!
Did Mr. Whipple squeeze the Charmin when his piano went through the wall? Thank God he had Continental Insurance.
I knew a girl named Charmin.
I thought that I recognised him! I kept thinking that he was a movie or TV actor
THAT's who that guy was! 🤩
YES I had to show my husband. It was the Don't squeeze the Charmin Guy.
I was thinking the same thing. Great minds my friend, great minds. Lol....... 🤣👍
No Calgon commercial, where Mr. Lee's "ancient Chinese secret" was exposed by his wife, in front of the customer! Loved that commercial
"Calgon take me away!" Still a useful line.
Loved it! My husband and I can still sing the Oscar Mayer baloney song. That kid made a fortune!
Thanks for bringing to mind. Wasn't that boy just the cutest?
“My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R.
@@Msfeathers7 My bologna has a second name it's M-a-y-e-r
See! Once it's in your head you sing it all day long! :) Oscar Mayer doesn't even have to pay for this anymore! It's out there!
@@wyominghome4857 😂how true, but I've had much worse songs or jingles stuck in my head before. Oh, I love to eat it every day, & if you ask me why, I'll saaaay, cuz Oscar Meyer has a way with b o l o n g a. (how's that?)
This was back in the day when you actually knew what product the commercial was advertising. Many of today's commercials leave me wondering what product they are trying to sell.
Sex
Exactly! People ask me Hey did you see the commercial where such and such happens? I say Yes I did! What was that commercial for?
I dunno. Cars?
I think the FARMERS insurance "CHAOS" commercials are hilarious.
@@cynnail395Those were great at first but recently they lack creativity. Different writers? Not sure.
@@cynnail395 *Mayhem.
Here are others, Chiffon "It's not nice to fool with with Mother Nature", Tootsie Pop owl bites it after three licks. The Frito bandito commercials were pretty funny.
Thanks for the suggestion
The owl tootsie pop ad has been remastered and upgraded to original glory, I saw it the other day.
And, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing! You ate it Harold!"
@@tessmoore3762 Not to mention "Poached Oysters".... yes, another compilation beckons!
Time to make the donuts!
I am old enough to remember most of these commercials airing on television while watching Gunsmoke, Little House on the Prairie, and Happy Days.
Me too!
I remember most of these and how people would talk about them. Those "where's the beef?" commercials were a big hit and that slogan became a mantra for many, applying it to anything they could. That's why they made a series of them.
And then Wendy's fired dear old Clara for making a KFC commercial.
@@infonut I didn't know that! In my high school everyone said "Where's the beef?" Like What's up?
It was a great commercial - but it definitely wasn't in the 1970's. I think the first one was in 1984, actually.
And… bursts anew each Election year.
@@infonut and prego.
In 50 years, you'll be able to watch old prescription drug ads. Bet you can't wait!
LOL
Can't wait to see the rerun of the diet pill with the side affect of "flatulance with a greasy discharge."
People sittin’ on the toilet, wiping themselves, deodorizing “down there”.
Drug commercials are about all you see.
Told my doctor that I wanted all of them.
50years is on average two generations.
We will be seeing the real side effects then.
There is no legitimate testing on these drugs, they are fast-tracked to the consumer.
And this generation is only concerned with consuming.
Everyone in the Big Pharma commercials of today are just so self-actualized.🤔
We still say. Where's the Beef?!
My brother in law owned a little grocery store and had caps made for all the employees that said "where's the beef" and the name and address of his store.
I drove my 52 year old VW to the gas station and asked for 50c worth of gas, I told the attended I was reminiscing, the good old days!
my first car was a 68 Rambler American (so 10 years younger than I). Portland, OR had a small chain of gas stations called the Awful Brothers. they had two grades of gas, Awful Good and Awful Cheap. I could fill up my tank for about $10. on at least one glorious occasion I went a bit over 300 miles before the tank went dry.
I figured it up and my Dads Volkswagen beetle got us from KCMO To Denver in 1963 for $5.00 worth of gas! Two fill ups of 10 gallons each times 25 cents a gallon and 30 miles a gallon got us about 600 miles. But no air conditioning. Hard to imagine nowadays.
I can remember when gas was $0.27 a gallon and my mother was not happy when it went up to 29 cents 😊
I used to trade in pop bottles I found. they gave me a nickel each, which meant I could afford a comic book, which sold for 10 cents. it really peeved me when comics went up to 12 cents.
There was a VW ad specifically showing a guy buying a very tiny amount of gasoline. At the time the gas stations were full service, which included having the attendant checker oil and air pressure and clean your windshield for you. Because he was driving a bug, customer was kind of a hippy. The gas pedal on the VW has been replaced with one that was shaped to accommodate a bare foot. Kind of a counterculture reference
Clara Peller - I hadn't thought of her in decades. Nice to hear her again.
That amazing voice.
@@AdfanaticoShe should have recorded covers of popular songs. It would have been a comedy album!
My mother kept a lace (add-on) collar because it reminded her of ms Peller. What does it say anout me that I still have it 29 years after Mum left?
"The most economical sports car you can buy. Just not the most powerful."
The Wendy's commercial is from the early 1980s.
I owned a Carmin Gia. Very fun car to drive.
My dad had a Carmen Gotcha. I loved borrowing that car.
I accidentally put the first dent in it, on the nose of the car. I was not allowed to drive it after that incident.
I laughed out loud at most of these. 1000% better than in 2024.
In great surprise, they look at each other and proclaim “He LIKES it!”
I'd like to buy the world a Coke...I loved that commercial and song! 😎❤
Who here remembers Clara Peller??
She was in the 1984 "where's the beef?" Campaign
The first drag queen in a TV commercial.
Wheeeere's the beef ? is this her?
Worked with her grand-nephew. Looked just like her. Did not, however, have the foghorn voice. GREAT guy!
He said she was a character in real life, too …
Where's the BEEF? UNFORGETABLE COMMERCIAL
Technically, many of these are from the 60s & 80s but who cares, these are brilliant.
Where's the accuracy? 🤔😁
Sister ofthat< picture. These are great!!! I just turned 69, and it's something that there was a time commercials were ENJOYED BECAUSE THEY WERE.....FUNNY!!!! Now I just change stations or mute till they're over 🙄. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES❤
I cuss at the TV for all the idiotic drug and attorney commercials. Television has gone to crap.
MEMORIES! Loved Clara and "where's the beef"! Who else was waiting for Speedy to appear singing the "plop, plop ,fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is" Alka Seltzer jingle!🤣🤣😂
I wondered if anyone else thought of Speedy Alkaseltzer
Since I was in the advertising business at this time these are some of my favorites. Esp. where's the beef? Priceless.
I still say this line. It reminds me of watching TV as a kid with my beloved grandmother. She liked to laugh, too. ❤
I remember seeing men’s bathing trunks with that slogan plastered across the front.
Yes, kids, we had nice things. Even the adverts were better.
It wasn’t a ‘70’s commercial but in my opinion one of the most brilliant TV commercials of all time is the Energizer Bunny. The way an apparently non-descript commercial droned on and then across the bottom, the bunny marched and the over voice, “Still going! Energizer!”
My kids loved that ad. They started calling me "Energizer Mama" because I had so much trouble sitting still & was always jumping up to do something, take them somewhere, or run an errand. Even today, some of my son's friends (who grew up in my living room & at my kitchen table) still call me that. One of them use to threaten me with duct tape when I couldn't sit still after I broke my back. 😂😂😂
It was the cleverest, the bunny marching into other commercials was genius.
Let's bring back the 'Southern Jet' customer service work ethic ❤❤❤❤
Like that's gonna happen! Anything extra for the customer cuts into their profit margin.
Adverts use to be better than some of the programmes
That $3,000 skit is wild. 3K in 1970 is about $24,000 in 2024 dollars, which is about what a new VW Beetle costs.
I was born in 1947, so back then even a hundred dollars was a lot of money. When we lost God we also lost our sense of right and wrong and our sense of humor.
I was born in 1962, and still remember Volkswagen bug commercials that ended with the tag line “still under $2000.” They sold a bunch of ‘em.
Takes ya back! I remember a friend of mine bought a brand new mach 1 Mustang when they first came out ! She paid $3000 cash and her boyfriend totaled it the following week!! Easy come, easy go!! And he walked away from it!
@@marymorningstar4508 "We" didn't lose him The majority of Americans ran him off.
The Bug held its value. $2,000 new and $400 for a decent used one.
Clara Peller as the Wendy's "Where's the beef?" lady. She lost the lucrative gig when she did a Hunt's spaghetti sauce commercial, in which she said, "I found it!".
I thought she lost the gig because she died.
@@kaysmith5495 No matter. Either way she found it.
Never saw how that commercial was very funny.
She was deaf as a post. Someone would crouch off camera & give her arm a small pinch when it was her line, Where's the beef?!
The sauce was Prego Plus, not Hunt’s.
Alka-Seltzer's commercial: "No matter what shape your stomach's in..." . 😂
That one was so clever! *poke* 😂
Pouched oysters.... 🤣🤣🤣
o what a relief it is!!!
3:45 The fountains - oh God, the fountains! They're all I can see!
These were fun. I remember almost all of them.
You remember ALL the fountains?
Someone brilliantly slipped those fountains into the commercial. It may have been the original cause of the rise of theocracy about that time, though India had its Shivalingams for at least 3000 years, worshiped by all and not just porn moviegoers.
How did they get away with those 3 fountains????? Lololol for the whole thing :)
Hilarious.
I really had to rewatch that 😮😂
I think they were supposed to be pelicans, but they sure looked like something else.
"Where's the Beef" first aired in 1984..... So, yeah.
I was going to say, Clara Peller's line was mid-80's.
Yes!! I just got married in December of 1983, it came out right after that in early 1984.
Thats exactly what I thought!! 😊
Geeez.
We need more of these. So funny and uplifting.
I know. Everything today is ‘image’ and ‘name brand.’ It means nothing.
Alka-Seltzer "Poached Oysters" (official title: "Newlyweds") - Alice Playten is the wife. The husband is Terry Kiser (Bernie in "Weekend at Bernie's").
"Weekend at Bernie's" was a great movie.
@@aspenrebelit’s actually Rachel’s favourite, but she’ll SAY It’s DANGEROUS LIAISONS”
Right! I noticed several celebrities in these ads.
Is that how he became Bernie?
I was looking for Continental airlines… “We really move our tail for you!“
It was a sort-of copycat campaign after "Fly [insert woman's name here]. Fly National." If National could use subtly implied sex in _their_ commercials, Continental decided they would go them one better. Even as a little kid, I could see that mindset in that slogan.
Western Airlines with the owl laying back drinking a glass of Champagne saying "Western, the only way to fly."
1984 - The Wendy's Co. is paying homage to its seminal “Where's the Beef” television advertising, which debuted 40 years ago with a 1984 Super Bowl commercial
Yeah, I'm not sure how not just one but two of those ads ended up in a collection of 70's ads.
Alka-Seltzer had great commercials in the seventies. 😂
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing???
Back when ads were clever and didn’t insult your intelligence.
Do you remember the Coca Cola Computer App for a Coke Drink Holder?
You pressed it and your CD Rom Tray would open!
And they weren’t woke either!
And you didn't hit the mute button
I was a teenager in the 70s, I miss that America so much. This one is doomed to destruction. By it's own "citizens"
No it's not. Only downer Republicans think so. So cynical and whiny.
Thanks for this wonderful and FUNNY trip down memory lane! 😂😂😂. I have always loved ads with a sense of humor. They’re the only ones that really get my attention!
Thank you! I'll put another reel of great American ads together in the next few weeks.
Bus? What Bus? Ageless.
No cell phones, no laptops, no cable TV, no Internet.
Calculators, phone books, carbon paper, typewriters, 8 track tapes. Aww, the good life.♥️
Well. But then again if the doctor diagnosed you with cancer, you were as good as dead. And when the theatrical run of a movie was finished, there was no way to see it again until it was re-released in a cut down format on network television. It would be years before you would see it. The world television premiere of a movie was a big deal because if you miss that, you may never see it again.
@@DanYHKim2 No we didn't have everything at our finger tips back in the 70s. But we had things to look forward to and a sense of appreciation. Our world did not revolve cell phones and movies. There was A LOT less obesity and food was not full of hormones and chemicals so people were healthier. There was none of this tabloid bias news ME dia inflicting hostility, division and anxiety. We could live our lives without worrying about the state of our nation's security, and being humiliated by the actions and lack of dignity by our leaders.
And you talk about having to wait to see movies. 🤦 Holy crap
I was born in "55" and I don't remember most of these commercials. Of course "Where's the beef" and that squeaky voice saying "what truck, what bus" were hysterical and to this day you can hear some of us seniors saying that.
I had to come back and ask how could they not include Morris the Cat and the Dunkin Donuts commercial with that poor man getting up in the dark mumbling "time to make the donuts.
Back in the sixties Xerox was one of the five best companies to work for
in the WORLD!
This was when we could still laugh at ourselves.
Did you ever see commercials by Stan Freburg? I've loved this one since I first saw it...th-cam.com/video/8Ef-eMquH3I/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant, and the driving school, onwards were spectacular, made me laugh so much
Alka-Seltzer "Spicy Meatball" was created by the great Joe Sedelmaier, and featured Jack Somack.
Joe Sedelmaier is one of my heroes.
That one's my all-time favorite.
Sedelmaier absolutely killed with the FedEx and Alaska Airlines commercials! 😂
Joe's FedEx spot with world champion fast talker John Moschitta "Pittsburgh perfect Peter, may I call you Pete?" Also, was that Ronny Graham with the clapboard counting the takes in the "Mama mia, that's a spicy meatball" ad? 11:03
Lol.. oh the good old days. 2024.. everyone is not just asking where's the beef.. they are asking what happened to real food!!
"You vill eat ze bugs."
Clara Peller! "Where's the beef?" still lives in our lexicon.
Look at how much space people had flying in the back of the plane in second class back in the 70’s
Look how that airline doesn't exist anymore, lol.
@@heru-deshet359 yay deregulation! Instead of 14 major airlines like we had in the 70’s we currently have 4 here in the USA
@@markp864 And much lower airfares...
@@markp864 Was that Reagan or someone else?
@@heru-deshet359 Its South West
This video takes me back to happier times.
Enjoyed it. Brought back many memories. Better than many movies made today.
Ah! Those were the days!
My wife and I still laugh about that meatball commercial. Innocent fun that stayed in the mind. Nowadays one has to carefully study an ad to figure out what they're trying to sell.
Thank you for the memories. Little did I know then that it was the beginning of the end. That was an America I loved. Somehow it was stolen!
Wakodahatchee Chris
I remember the volkwagon commercial when I was a kid.
They were the best! So much better than nowadays for sure🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
"Where is the beef", best commercial I ever seen.
Yes, 1984
I was in high school in the late 70s and worked at a Wendy’s. Yup - “where’s the beef?” was everywhere. They also had a long marketing marketing campaign as their burgers being “Hot and Juicy”. I had a bright yellow Hot and Juicy t-shirt that I rocked for years 😂
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! A great laugh. Thanks so much.
"Where's the beef" wow, different times for sure. That just sent me back.
I’m old. I remember when they came out.
This is the best commercial video I have ever seen! I actually remember most all of them. My hubby and I married in 1967, and our 1st car was a Rambler Rebel. lol! We put a new transmission 3 times before we got rid of it. We always said VW commercials were the best, and sold a lot of cars because of it. Some of these commercials would never ever be accepted today because of women getting offended. I sure do miss those days. Life was much happier then. Thank you so much for sharing!!
I had a 60s Rambler.and it was a lemon!
Yeah.....life sure was happier. For SOME people.....
"WHERE'S THE BEEF?!?"... 1st Wendy's commercial I ever saw; 45+ yrs later I still remember it vividly! 😊
Brilliant compiliation. Thanks so much for sharing.
This was such fun!
I still have a "where's the beef" hot pad with the young lady on it. I found it in a drawer after many years, and she popped up today. Life is good!
I laughed myself to tears. Thank you.
Thank you for your thank you.
“Where’s the beef?!” It’s amazing how iconic a commercial and an actor can become from one line.
I miss the 70s
i only remember the Wendy's ad...
But that ad for the VW Carmenghia (?) was hysterical!
Most economical, just not the most powerful! 😂😂😂😂
I was a teenager when these commercials came out - what a hoot!
I remember ALL of them! They were GREAT!
You mean, like, Tony the Tiger "GRRRREAT"? 😂
“Where’s the beef?” Classic
Some of these made me laugh out loud. I miss being a kid in the 70s.
My favorites were Volkswagen commercials!
"Volkswagens will definitely float, but they won't float indefinitely....
"Ever wonder how the snow plow driver gets to work?"
Google'm!
Absolutely the best VW ad ever!
Yep! And one VW ad for the Super Beetle featured Jimmy Durante: "More breathing room for da ol' schnozzola!"
VW had the best ads, there were some good vodka ads but not good enough to remember the brand! Long live VW 😊❤
Mad Magazine ran a mock VW ad once that showed a VW Bug floating and the caption was, "If Ted Kennedy had driven a Volkswagen, he'd be President today." They were sued by the family... and won.
@@blackandgold676 re: "They were sued by the family... and won."
Not quite clear...who won, Mad or Kennedy gang?
I remember all of these! I wish ads were more like these!
Calgon, take me awayyyy!!!
The poached oysters must be what killed Bernie!
Thanks for that. I was wondering how I knew that actor: Terry Keiser from 'Weekend At Bernie's." 👍
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I love the spicy meatball. Still say it with anything that is spicy 😅
I've never lived in the USA, but it's hilarious! Very, very funny! 😂😂🤣🤣😍😍
Boy, do I miss those VW beetles! Honestly the best car I ever owned!
My Dad had one when we were nippers. My sister and I fought to occupy that luggage space behind the back seats.
the only time in my life ive purposefully watched commercials and enjoyed them! where have they gone today.
Love the driving test ad... 😂
These are great vintage commercials. Thanks.
I was re-watching, remembered back further, Jim Backus voiced the champagne sipping toucan "It's the Only Way to Fly" . It's Slinky, it's Slinky, a really wonderful Toy! Not nationwide but Alaska Airlines ads, "Still, too spicy?" Using Hyper-normal looking folks as comfort level guinea pigs, slung in centerfuges, etc...or newer, Sea Galley's,"We've Got Crab Legs!"with kickline. Hilarious! However, Rainier Beer, though, topped all. Compile those, please!!
Great suggestions, I'm on it!
LOL Great reminder of the past… some I have never seen before !!