It was also funded by the plastics industry who was taking heat for their materials polluting the environment. It was their response, to put it on the users.
And the Indians (as those who are call it) wondered if you're such an advocate, why not advocate for one of us play ourselves? These are the roots of how woke is out of control today, because common sense wasnt used as much as possible back then.
52 years old and remembered A LOT of these! I still catch myself doing lots of these jingles. *BTW, it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop!*
This compilation was made for people who remember the commercials because in many they just showed the recognizable bit that people would remember from those days. Sir. Several of them I could tell you didn't understand because they didn't have the context of the commercial. A lot of commercials were little stories and you had to see the entire commercial to understand it.
I'm 62, and you had your three local VHF, but you also had your UHF Channel, and your PBS channels channel channels And you were having a good day, if you could get the channels of the nearest city to you Karma and you didn't mind the snow...Lol
Every single one of these I remember. It's amazing how many iconic ones there were. They were definitely about the jingle and making sure it stuck in your head. The LIFE cereal one with Mikey may have been the most iconic. Most of those commercials were from the 70s. (Mid to late). I know its hard to believe if you were not alive then, but life was indeed so much simple then. Technology is great most of the time, but a life before mobile phones, social media, netflix/hulu, and the internet was happier. You didn't know about any of that so you didn't miss it. Having one TV was not an issue, you would simply watch one of 3 stations with your family. Families would gather together and bond. Even when you were fighting with your sibling, you would somehow be civil when you were watching your favorite programs. If someone wanted to reach you they had to catch you by your landline when you were home, or if you were lucky you had answering machine. Now most kids spend hardly anytime outside, but back then, you couldn't wait to go play with your friends.
Thanks for the memories. As a child of the '60s and '70s, I was singing along with many of these commercials. (and although I'm glad they're not hyped anymore, I can probably rattle off at least a half a dozen cigarette jingles without a second thought.)
That was fun! Back then we knew all the words to the jingles, and still do! I was singing along to half of these...Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us...Have it your way, have it your way! Everyone loved the little boy singing, "My bologna has a first name..."; and "Hey Mikey!" "He likes it!". They were similar to videos or memes going viral, now days!
We had no choice but to watch these commercials. There were only three tv stations in the city. I grew up in rural Texas and we only had two Stations. One that was loved by everybody was the Life Cereal commercial… “some cereal. It’s supposed to be good for you. Did you try it? No! you try it. hey! Let’s get Mikey. Yeah! He won’t eat it. He hates everything… he likes it! Hey, Mikey!” Later on in the 80’s, it became a thing to see what Mikey grew up to look like. He was in People Magazine, everywhere you looked. And the little boy fishing was so cute singing about “My Bologna has a first name, it’s OSCAR… we all loved the “it’s not nice to fool…. Mother Nature! (Lightning strike.) Remember the “Butter/Parkay” commercial that you showed? When I worked at 7-11, I was in the cooler stocking the shelves and this drunk guy comes in and open the door that I’m behind. We had some on the shelf and I said, “butter”. He looked around, and went back to it and again I said “butter”. He jumped then lean his head in and said “butter?” I said “Parkay”! That man RAN out the store screaming. Now you can see how evil we were back then. That was considered to be a mean prank by my manager. If that’s the worst thing you could do back in the 70’s, I think we were ok. 🤣🤣🤣
Wow.. flash back to my childhood of the 60's and 70's. Thanks so much! Yes, the jingles are so memorable....I remembered all of them... and so many more. Glad to hear you liked the Frintos Bandito! I loved that as a kid.
I loved this video. My favorite was the Miller Lite commercial featuring Marvelous Marv Thornberry at the end leaning against the bar wondering why they wanted him in the commercial. You guys are too young to know him, but Marvelous Marv gained notoriety as the hapless 1st baseman of the 1962 NY Mets (the 62 Mets set s MLB modern day record for losses with a 40-120 record). In one game Marvelous Marv made 3 errors at 1st base. Casey Stengel yanked him and put in a replacement. The new guy quickly made an error prompting Marv to complain, "Hey, that guy's trying to steal my job." So many memories. Thanks, guys.
Commercials are a really good way to get a feel for previous decades. They’re like little time capsules. Everyone saw them because it was harder to avoid them back then. No cable, no ad free Hulu or TH-cam. Just four or five channels and tons of ads. They were so iconic back then because we were all watching the same things for the most part.
That Alkaseltzer one where he said "I can't believe I ate the whole thing". I've been saying that for years and never remembered why, until now. Amazing what my preschool brain absorbed that my adult brain spits out without remembering the source.
I always loved singing the Good and Plenty candy commercial. Choo choo Charlie was an engineer…… While singing the song you have the box of candy in your hand and shake so it sounds like a train.
The commercial jingles were incredibly catchy. And then, they made the School House Rock cartoons with catchy songs for Saturday mornings. All of those earworms dug in deep.
They need to bring back School House Rock. It was very educational. We could use. “I’m just a bill” since civics seem not to be taught any longer. “Conjunction Conjunction” lessons in grammar were brilliant.
Okay - so having been born in 1970, I knew most of these commercials. I was dying, singing along with them and wanting to tell you who each famous person was or what the cultural references were. Brought me right back to childhood.
Each commercial you played had a long run on TV and were most memorable. Of course there are more. When a TV show was on, the commercial breaks were very brief, usually about 60 seconds and 30 seconds, which meant if we had to go to the bathroom during a show, we would run to the bathroom to come back so we would not miss anything. We had no DVR''s or VCR's to control any breaks. A 30 minute sitcom would actually run about 25 or 26 minutes, not including commercials. Now sitcoms not including commercials are about 20 to 22 minutes. Thanks for showing those commercials. It's been so many years since I've seen them.
One-minute long commercials were somtimes aired, which allowed for true storytelling. Such as in this VW commerical. "The Funeral:" th-cam.com/video/_J7Duq0EfmY/w-d-xo.html
Tang was invented to take on the Apollo Moon Landing Missions. That's why the cartoon in the commercial has 'Little Green Alien Space-Men" drinking Tang, and when they're out of it, they have to come to Earth to get some more.
So memorable that I sang every single one of these while watching. It's incredible how these things could get stuck in your head. Those Mad Men really knew what they were doing!
So many of the jingles were VERY CATCHY back then, and were fun to sing. The McDonald's commercial was a "challenge" to repeat as fast as you can. It was fun to ask the girl at the counter at Burger King to sing the jingle - "Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce...." Commercial breaks were SO MUCH SHORTER back then, we actually complained you didn't have enough time to go to the bathroom because commercial breaks were short, and you didn't want to miss any of your show. Commercial breaks seem to go on forever now. Yes, many of the jingles back then were appreciated and we sang them for the enjoyment of how fun it was, or when it applied to what we were doing. A lot of the clips in that video were not the whole commercial and some important context was missing to be able to enjoy the commercial. Yes, the Frito Bandito was incredibly popular and adored.....but a while ago the character was deemed "racist" and was removed from all advertising. It's a shame. People appreciated the character.
Commercials back then were just as entertaining as the programs they sponsored. I enjoyed watching them. These days I mute the current ads that are aired.
Good to see you guys back. :) I had such a crush on the Dr. Pepper guy lol...... so many great memories here. My best friend and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how many licks it took to get to the center of a lollipop, but we could never figure it out lol.... suggestion: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK!!! If you haven't already seen these, they are seriously must see tv.... you will LOVE them.
You just watched my childhood. Thanks for reacting. I forgot 95% of these commercials til now. But when I started seeing each, they each flooded into my mind in half a second.
The ready-made gravy (forget the name) the guy says in front of his wife, tastes like homemade, without the lumps. Instantly regrets it. That was so funny 😂
I'll always know how to spell Oscar Mayer thanks to 60s - 70s commercials. They did in Mean Joe Green's commercial though, it was one of the best ones ever. They cut it in half. The Native American commercial jump started the things like Earth Day and the EPA. There was a massive clean up in the early 70s. I remember walking beaches in Maryland cleaning stuff up for the first Earth Day.
This was fun. I also didn’t realize some of these marketing campaigns went back as far as they did. I always remember the anti pollution ad. That played consistently into the 90s. I hope you do 80s and 90s ads too.
Love this.. Tang was a drink they took to the moon with them so it became very popular back then.. I still like it. they used to take things in tubes lke peanut butter so on. Great job. This was a time of great commericlas that will always stay with us. Commercials today are horrible lol
Hi, 'dudes.' I remember seeing all these commercials but two maybe. Wish the video showed longer cuts of the commercials. I have a "Stay Alive" game in my basement right now. I wanted a "Rock'm Sock'm Robots" but never got one. I can guess how long I'd be interested in it--maybe a little longer than the commercial, ha. I had the "Deuces Wild" SSP (shown in the commercial). And my brother and I got a used SSP "Smash up Derby" set. Played with them quite a bit. I didn't mind the commercials back then, probably because they didn't run so many like these days. The shows were longer with maybe 2 or 3 commercials at the breaks. Now look at how many commercials there are for each hour show. Having fun checking out a lot of your reactions. Carry on!
_"I like leather... can you say that, "S&M"? Sure ya can!"_ That line, spoken in a Mr. Rogers tone, was used in a radio commercial for a store that sold leather seat covers for cars, here in Montreal. Gotta love 1976! ;-]
I was a child in the 60s and teenager in the 70s. The memorable commercials we all knew & sang them. If someone started, "My bologna had a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R".....& so on. Coke always had good commercials. "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony. I'd like to share the world a coke and keep you company " Everyone knew that song. Everyone also knew, "eye yi yi yi, I am the frito bandito! I love frito corn chips, I love them I do!" High Karate was just funny. I think they sold a lot of that stuff back then. Thanks for the memories. A recommendation for a reaction that would be fun.... Game shows were kind of risque back in the day. A lot of naughty innuendos. The dating game. The newlywed game. The match game. Hollywood squares. Take a peek. They're funny looking back. LoL
I came across a cute dog food commercial from the 60s awhile back. It was in black and white and the announcer was speaking to the mother dog about feeding Friskies Puppy chow to her 2 puppies while the camera man zoomed in on her face. LOL. Too cute
These brought back so many memories. A couple of local commercials from the NY area in the 70s & 80s to check out are Crazy Eddie commercials & Carvel Cookie Puss (Beastie Boys song too) - classic city commercials.
Great reaction. I was just telling someone how today's commercials uses popular and some not so popular songs instead of the jingles we grew up with in the 70s. No originality. 2 commercials missing were the 'I am stuck on Band Aid' featuring a young John Travolta and the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.
I'm 64 and I remember everyone of these. My 4 favorite from 60's,70's and 80's are Santa sledding down the hill on an electric razor; McDonald's- quack, quack, wattle,wattle; coke cola's- I like to teach the world to sing, and pepsi's little boy and puppies. The Mean Joe Green coke and Iron Eyes Cody tearing were also two I liked.
Here in Southern California, there used to be a car dealership owned by a man named Cal Worthington. His TV commercials always had the same corny jingle with him doing some kind of stunt (“Go see Cal, go see Cal!”). There are many of his ads here on TH-cam. Check them out! Unfortunately, Cal died in 2013. His sons took over the business. However, I read in the news several years ago that his sons decided to close the remaining car dealership businesses here in Southern California.
@@nowthatsjustducky That name Bob Dale sounds vaguely familiar to me for some reason. I moved out here to Southern California in 1991, so that might’ve been just a little bit before my time here.
I’m 62 years young. This CRACKED me up. Actually those were state of the art toys of the time. I’ll have these fucking songs back in my mind again. Thanks. Fun.
This is when they were very creative. Way back in the 1970's radio stations would have contests about the big mac, one how fast can you say the ingredients correctly. Another one, touch-tone phones had different tones for each number, you had to play the song using the the different tones. Dr, Pepper commercial David Naughton was main actor in the movie "American Werewolf in London"
I'm 55 I remember these. Fun fact; the Native American on the pollution commercial, he's actually an Italian actor! It was such an iconic commercial back in the day.
I was a kid and teen in the 60's and 70's. I knew all of these. Especially the McDonalds one. Part of the promotion was that you got a free Big Mac if you could repeat it perfectly when you ordered at the counter. My local McDonalds finally limited me to 1 a month because I was getting a free Big Mac every time I went in. 😂
It was an amazingly effect bit of advertising because when the Big Mac came out there was nothing on the market like it. How to get people to order something they had never seen or heard of? The jingle did the trick.
Great reaction! I was a kid in the ‘60s and remember all of these commercials with one or two exceptions. I suggest running more commercials from this period, if available. Until next time.
The Tang moon men family commercials were around at the latter part of the Apollo Program, and the moon landings gave them quite a boost. The Tang makers claimed that their product went up with the astronauts, but the only thing that the program said was that it was an orange drink. The astronauts weren't enthusiastic about what they were drinking. The best thing about this commercial to me today is that they were gathering moon rocks to trade with Earthlings for Tang! With all the stuff that we've learned from the moon rocks, I'll bet anyone in any space agency like NASA or ESA, would give their ears for a bag full of moon rocks! Especially since there's more of some materials in the rocks than on Earth!
:D Back in the day you bought the type of television set you could afford (screen size, cabinet design, etc) and then you plugged it into an electrical socket in your home and watched t.v. shows to your hearts' content. Turn it on, turn it off - turn it up, turn it down, maybe attach an antenna for UHF stations. Simple. *No* other costs, no "apps", nobody trying to connect with you or tell you what to watch. No danger of being "hacked". All you had to do is pay your electric bill and you were all set. :) The first t.v. mom and dad bought in the 50's had an 8 inch diagonal black & white screen.
😂😅 I remember every one of these!😂 Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun! My bologna has a first name, it's O-s-c-a-r. My bologna has a second name, it's M-a-y-e-r. Oh I love to eat it everyday and if you ask me why, I'll saaay...'cause Oscar Mayer has a way with b-o-l-o-g-n-a! 🎶🎶I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony, I'd like to buy the world a coke and keep it company.🎶🎶 😂😂So many things you don't forget.❤ You should find the old Wendy's commercial, "Where's the beef"?😂😂😂
I really enjoy watching. You guys make me feel like I'm relaxing with friends and DT has the greatest smile! I just noticed your Patreon so I'm signing up. I can easily recite the Big Mac jingle still. I have hundreds of old jingles in my brain -- it's scary. When the pollution Native American (Indian then) commercial aired, it was the height of the Keep America Beautiful campaign. It was common in those days for anyone to throw their fast food garbage out the window while driving, so the commercial is accurate. Keep it coming!
You know I'm happy to say that America is much more litter free than most countries and maybe a good bit traces back to those ads and that campaign. I know it may not seem that way but having traveled widely and watched a lot of foreign youtubers who react to visiting America it's really true. We pick up the trash and we don't tolerate people who litter.
I agree, and having lived through that campaign, it was intense. PSA's on TV, new trash cans everywhere with the national slogan "Keep America Beautiful" and the little man on them (those are still everywhere making it easy to throw trash way), roadside cleanups, and much more. People who littered were shamed into compliance and it all happened at the same time as the push to clean up our air and water ways, which was also enormously successful. The country was in a very sad environmental state when the 70s came around. Now mindless politicians want to dismantle these basic rules to let industry police themselves. We have been there before and it does not work.@@philipem1000
My friends father was seated next to the "Native American" from the anti pollution commercial on a flight. He said they shared casual conversation for about 2 hrs and said he was a good guy.
The one with "Mother Nature" was another margarine add (Fake VS natural) You really need to see the entirety of these commercials to get the full context. I remember every single one!
I miss coast soap 🧼 And I forgot about Stay Alive. I loved that game! The Mean Joe Green commercial is still my all time favorite!! Followed by the Coke commercial.
The Alka-Seltzer one with the meat balls and all the re takes when he finally got it right, then the director said.. Ok that is a rap lets break for lunch. One of my favorite one. I remember all them.
This made me laugh I'm 54, and remember them all. I had a big collection of K-Tel records, and almost all of the toys. I loved Oscar Mayer bologna. I'd fold them and bite smiley faces into them. Can't stand that stuff anymore. Thanks for the walk through my childhood.
8:11 "Love all th choking hazards they have.. " there really wasnt that many more choking hazards than there are today. You still can get gumballs and jawbreakers in various sizes. And for some reason, despite having so many toys and such, kids didn't really seem to want to 'eat' or 'taste' things, especially beyond the toddler ages! I remember most of these.
We had a car dealer in San Diego, back in the late 70's or early 80's named Cal Worthington. The main thing in the ad was "come on down and visit Cal Worthington and his dog Spot". The only thing was he had every kind of animal you could think of, in the ad. It was hysterical. The other ad that was too funny, was the "where's the beef" lady. I forget what the burger restaurant it was for, but it had me cracking up like crazy as a kid 😂
I couldn't hear the comments, next time maybe turn the volume down on the commercials a little. I grew up with all these commercials and some are honestly cringe while others are strikingly effective. "That's a spicy meat ball!" was a total meme before they invented meme's. Same for "I can't believe I ate the whole thing...." and "Hey Mikey!" and "Sorry, Charlie!" I think the Mikey kid made a career from takeoffs on the commercial. A few points that might not be obvious -- the Big Mac was a new product in the late 60's and it was way different from any burger on the market thus the jingle to tell people what's in it was amazingly effective at stimulating sales. "Have it your way" rings today for BK. And I realize none of the panel could possibly understand the Tang commercial since there's no Tang anymore...short story, the astronauts couldn't take orange juice into space so Tang was invented. Think powdered orange juice. Think about how awful that sounds. Double it. Kids would ask for it because the astronauts drank it. The astronauts brought back rocks from the moon, thank god they left the tang there.
One tv, 3 remotes - me, my brother and my sister. Using aluminum foil to help the antenna lol - great memories. Ya'll missed it. I'd give that childhood to everyone who didnt get it.
Y'all just took me through my entire childhood. I was speaking most of the scripts from memory, and I sang along, knowing almost every word to every jingle just like it was yesterday. I can't believe I ate the who-o-o-o-le thing! 😂 Just thought I'd mention that the voice of the Frito Bandito was Mel Blanc, and the voice in one other commercial was Jim Bachus... Good chance none of you are familiar with either of them lol. 😀
I’m 64 years old. I literally remember every single one of those commercials.
Me too. Verbatim.
Me too
Me too ❤
How strange
Im 63 and yes I remember of all these.
The 'Native American' was actually Italian. He went by the name Iron Eyes Cody and he was an advocate for the Native Americans
It was also funded by the plastics industry who was taking heat for their materials polluting the environment. It was their response, to put it on the users.
And the Indians (as those who are call it) wondered if you're such an advocate, why not advocate for one of us play ourselves? These are the roots of how woke is out of control today, because common sense wasnt used as much as possible back then.
I learned this on SOPRANOS..
Advocate is one way to put it. Imposter is more accurate.
I couldn't agree more.@@C.Church
I'm 71 years old and recall utilizing the commercial breaks to run to the kitchen and make a bologna sandwich!😅😊😂
Yes, and to use the bathroom. People yelling to each other, “It’s back on!!!” Good times! No pause buttons. It was rough..🤣🤣🤣
52 years old and remembered A LOT of these! I still catch myself doing lots of these jingles. *BTW, it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop!*
Hello my fellow Gen X, I remember some of these as well.
It's actually 433 licks. My son has a certificate from Tootsie Roll Industries to prove it. LOL
Never made it that long, but appreciate the scientific discovery. 😅
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This compilation was made for people who remember the commercials because in many they just showed the recognizable bit that people would remember from those days. Sir. Several of them I could tell you didn't understand because they didn't have the context of the commercial. A lot of commercials were little stories and you had to see the entire commercial to understand it.
I agree. They didn't always show the whole commercial.
There was a coffee commercial series that launched an actor wasn't there?
Holy flashback! My '70s childhood in 23 short minutes. Thanks for the trip back to yesteryear, guys.
Can't help but notice how much MORE diversity there was then
Like most woke, they thought Hispanic people would be offended by the Frito bandio being portrayed as a criminal. Funny, none of us actually did
I’m 70, and we only had a black and white T.V. Three channels.. Now I’m up all night catching up with the shows ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love Grandma Debbie
I'm 62, and you had your three local VHF, but you also had your UHF Channel, and your PBS channels
channel channels
And you were having a good day, if you could get the channels of the nearest city to you Karma and you didn't mind the snow...Lol
Hi fellow Deb! I’m 68 in 3 weeks! We had the same -3 channels. Then we got UHF! It was amazing to watch Lost in Space and Gilligans Island reruns!
Every single one of these I remember. It's amazing how many iconic ones there were. They were definitely about the jingle and making sure it stuck in your head. The LIFE cereal one with Mikey may have been the most iconic. Most of those commercials were from the 70s. (Mid to late). I know its hard to believe if you were not alive then, but life was indeed so much simple then. Technology is great most of the time, but a life before mobile phones, social media, netflix/hulu, and the internet was happier. You didn't know about any of that so you didn't miss it. Having one TV was not an issue, you would simply watch one of 3 stations with your family. Families would gather together and bond. Even when you were fighting with your sibling, you would somehow be civil when you were watching your favorite programs. If someone wanted to reach you they had to catch you by your landline when you were home, or if you were lucky you had answering machine. Now most kids spend hardly anytime outside, but back then, you couldn't wait to go play with your friends.
The kids would go outside if it were safe to do so!! Not in the world we live in today 😢
I'm 58 and singing right along with each one 😂. Almost teared up with nostalgia. ❤
"It's not nice to fool with mother nature" - Chiffon Margerine commercial.
One of my favorites !
Thanks for the memories. As a child of the '60s and '70s, I was singing along with many of these commercials. (and although I'm glad they're not hyped anymore, I can probably rattle off at least a half a dozen cigarette jingles without a second thought.)
"You can take Salem out of the country but, you can't take the country out of Salem." omg
I think they should bring back the Dr Pepper jingle....
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" Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro country".
omg that's crazy, lol @@pamelab9888
"Taste me, taste me..." the dancing Doral cigarette packs. 😂😂😂
This is a great idea !😄~ is there a way for you to find the full commercials? You're missing a lot by only seeing clips.
Agreed! A lot of them had a stronger impact in full.
My thoughts as well.
Yep, lost some context.
Look up each one. Most of them are on TH-cam.
Man we loved these commercials and sang these jingles all the time LOL
That was fun! Back then we knew all the words to the jingles, and still do! I was singing along to half of these...Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us...Have it your way, have it your way! Everyone loved the little boy singing, "My bologna has a first name..."; and "Hey Mikey!" "He likes it!". They were similar to videos or memes going viral, now days!
I remember all of these also remember when all the channels went off the air at midnight and most programs were in black and white.
We had no choice but to watch these commercials. There were only three tv stations in the city. I grew up in rural Texas and we only had two Stations. One that was loved by everybody was the Life Cereal commercial… “some cereal. It’s supposed to be good for you. Did you try it? No! you try it. hey! Let’s get Mikey. Yeah! He won’t eat it. He hates everything… he likes it! Hey, Mikey!” Later on in the 80’s, it became a thing to see what Mikey grew up to look like. He was in People Magazine, everywhere you looked.
And the little boy fishing was so cute singing about “My Bologna has a first name, it’s OSCAR… we all loved the “it’s not nice to fool…. Mother Nature! (Lightning strike.) Remember the “Butter/Parkay” commercial that you showed? When I worked at 7-11, I was in the cooler stocking the shelves and this drunk guy comes in and open the door that I’m behind. We had some on the shelf and I said, “butter”. He looked around, and went back to it and again I said “butter”. He jumped then lean his head in and said “butter?” I said “Parkay”! That man RAN out the store screaming. Now you can see how evil we were back then. That was considered to be a mean prank by my manager. If that’s the worst thing you could do back in the 70’s, I think we were ok. 🤣🤣🤣
My favorite, too!
Some famous song writers wrote some of the most famous commercial jingles. Barry Manillow did the McDonald's jingle and others ✌️❤️
I love Charlie the tuna. Everyone still says sorry Charlie. Lol
Wow.. flash back to my childhood of the 60's and 70's. Thanks so much! Yes, the jingles are so memorable....I remembered all of them... and so many more. Glad to hear you liked the Frintos Bandito! I loved that as a kid.
I’m 60 and I remember all of those commercials. The jingle’s really stick in your head. I think they are smart to use them.
I loved this video. My favorite was the Miller Lite commercial featuring Marvelous Marv Thornberry at the end leaning against the bar wondering why they wanted him in the commercial. You guys are too young to know him, but Marvelous Marv gained notoriety as the hapless 1st baseman of the 1962 NY Mets (the 62 Mets set s MLB modern day record for losses with a 40-120 record). In one game Marvelous Marv made 3 errors at 1st base. Casey Stengel yanked him and put in a replacement. The new guy quickly made an error prompting Marv to complain, "Hey, that guy's trying to steal my job." So many memories. Thanks, guys.
The guy in the center was Mickey Spillane a writer most notably "Mike Hammer" Detective novels. Behind him is Billy Martin former NY Yankees Manager.
Commercials are a really good way to get a feel for previous decades. They’re like little time capsules. Everyone saw them because it was harder to avoid them back then. No cable, no ad free Hulu or TH-cam. Just four or five channels and tons of ads. They were so iconic back then because we were all watching the same things for the most part.
I definitely enjoyed this temporary step back into time from this troubled world nowadays. I was actually able to smile for once. Thanks, guys! 😊
That Alkaseltzer one where he said "I can't believe I ate the whole thing". I've been saying that for years and never remembered why, until now. Amazing what my preschool brain absorbed that my adult brain spits out without remembering the source.
"Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz.. Oh what a relief it is!"..
My favorite, too!
I always loved singing the Good and Plenty candy commercial. Choo choo Charlie was an engineer……
While singing the song you have the box of candy in your hand and shake so it sounds like a train.
The commercial jingles were incredibly catchy. And then, they made the School House Rock cartoons with catchy songs for Saturday mornings. All of those earworms dug in deep.
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Conjunction junction....what's your function?😂🤣😂❤❤
They need to bring back School House Rock. It was very educational. We could use. “I’m just a bill” since civics seem not to be taught any longer. “Conjunction Conjunction” lessons in grammar were brilliant.
My husband is a school teacher and still uses them. That’s how I learned the Preamble!
Okay - so having been born in 1970, I knew most of these commercials. I was dying, singing along with them and wanting to tell you who each famous person was or what the cultural references were. Brought me right back to childhood.
I'm a 58 year old woman from Chattanooga Tennessee. I've seen everyone of these. Brought back some amazing memories. Thanks for that.
Each commercial you played had a long run on TV and were most memorable. Of course there are more. When a TV show was on, the commercial breaks were very brief, usually about 60 seconds and 30 seconds, which meant if we had to go to the bathroom during a show, we would run to the bathroom to come back so we would not miss anything. We had no DVR''s or VCR's to control any breaks. A 30 minute sitcom would actually run about 25 or 26 minutes, not including commercials. Now sitcoms not including commercials are about 20 to 22 minutes. Thanks for showing those commercials. It's been so many years since I've seen them.
One-minute long commercials were somtimes aired, which allowed for true storytelling. Such as in this VW commerical. "The Funeral:" th-cam.com/video/_J7Duq0EfmY/w-d-xo.html
yeah I"m old - I was singing along with all those jingles....LOL thanx for the trip down memory lane! ♥
Tang was invented to take on the Apollo Moon Landing Missions. That's why the cartoon in the commercial has 'Little Green Alien Space-Men" drinking Tang, and when they're out of it, they have to come to Earth to get some more.
So memorable that I sang every single one of these while watching. It's incredible how these things could get stuck in your head. Those Mad Men really knew what they were doing!
I’m 53 and remember almost every single one of those commercials. I could sing along or recite each one of them. 😊😅
So many of the jingles were VERY CATCHY back then, and were fun to sing. The McDonald's commercial was a "challenge" to repeat as fast as you can. It was fun to ask the girl at the counter at Burger King to sing the jingle - "Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce...." Commercial breaks were SO MUCH SHORTER back then, we actually complained you didn't have enough time to go to the bathroom because commercial breaks were short, and you didn't want to miss any of your show. Commercial breaks seem to go on forever now. Yes, many of the jingles back then were appreciated and we sang them for the enjoyment of how fun it was, or when it applied to what we were doing. A lot of the clips in that video were not the whole commercial and some important context was missing to be able to enjoy the commercial. Yes, the Frito Bandito was incredibly popular and adored.....but a while ago the character was deemed "racist" and was removed from all advertising. It's a shame. People appreciated the character.
I LOVE the old commercials and jingles. When TV was fun!!!
Billy Martin: "I never get angry." Lol. The Bud Lite commercials were the best.
“you’ll always wonder where the yellow went.. when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent…!”
Love Grandma Debbie
Commercials back then were just as entertaining as the programs they sponsored. I enjoyed watching them. These days I mute the current ads that are aired.
Good to see you guys back. :) I had such a crush on the Dr. Pepper guy lol...... so many great memories here. My best friend and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how many licks it took to get to the center of a lollipop, but we could never figure it out lol.... suggestion: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK!!! If you haven't already seen these, they are seriously must see tv.... you will LOVE them.
You just watched my childhood. Thanks for reacting. I forgot 95% of these commercials til now. But when I started seeing each, they each flooded into my mind in half a second.
I am 76 and I remember ALL these too, there were a LOT more, I wish this had been longer.
The ready-made gravy (forget the name) the guy says in front of his wife, tastes like homemade, without the lumps. Instantly regrets it. That was so funny 😂
I'll always know how to spell Oscar Mayer thanks to 60s - 70s commercials. They did in Mean Joe Green's commercial though, it was one of the best ones ever. They cut it in half. The Native American commercial jump started the things like Earth Day and the EPA. There was a massive clean up in the early 70s. I remember walking beaches in Maryland cleaning stuff up for the first Earth Day.
This was fun. I also didn’t realize some of these marketing campaigns went back as far as they did. I always remember the anti pollution ad. That played consistently into the 90s. I hope you do 80s and 90s ads too.
Love this.. Tang was a drink they took to the moon with them so it became very popular back then.. I still like it. they used to take things in tubes lke peanut butter so on. Great job. This was a time of great commericlas that will always stay with us. Commercials today are horrible lol
I remember getting one of those SST racer toys for Christmas when they first came out. I couldn’t even remember the name until this video.
Making the grey hairs multiply. lol Thanks for the flashback, guys and young lady.
I was a kid in the 70s and boy did this time warp me back there. Have you all watched any Schoolhouse Rock? It was part of every Saturday morning.
"Conjunction junction what's your function?" YES! Please do the Schoolhouse Rock series!
Hi, 'dudes.' I remember seeing all these commercials but two maybe. Wish the video showed longer cuts of the commercials.
I have a "Stay Alive" game in my basement right now. I wanted a "Rock'm Sock'm Robots" but never got one. I can guess how long I'd be interested in it--maybe a little longer than the commercial, ha. I had the "Deuces Wild" SSP (shown in the commercial). And my brother and I got a used SSP "Smash up Derby" set. Played with them quite a bit.
I didn't mind the commercials back then, probably because they didn't run so many like these days. The shows were longer with maybe 2 or 3 commercials at the breaks. Now look at how many commercials there are for each hour show.
Having fun checking out a lot of your reactions. Carry on!
_"I like leather... can you say that, "S&M"? Sure ya can!"_
That line, spoken in a Mr. Rogers tone, was used in a radio commercial for a store that sold leather seat covers for cars, here in Montreal. Gotta love 1976! ;-]
Oh wow! I remember most of those commercials myself. Cool trip down Memory Lane.:)
I was a child in the 60s and teenager in the 70s.
The memorable commercials we all knew & sang them. If someone started, "My bologna had a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R".....& so on.
Coke always had good commercials. "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony. I'd like to share the world a coke and keep you company " Everyone knew that song.
Everyone also knew, "eye yi yi yi, I am the frito bandito! I love frito corn chips, I love them I do!"
High Karate was just funny. I think they sold a lot of that stuff back then.
Thanks for the memories.
A recommendation for a reaction that would be fun....
Game shows were kind of risque back in the day. A lot of naughty innuendos. The dating game. The newlywed game. The match game. Hollywood squares. Take a peek. They're funny looking back. LoL
I came across a cute dog food commercial from the 60s awhile back. It was in black and white and the announcer was speaking to the mother dog about feeding Friskies Puppy chow to her 2 puppies while the camera man zoomed in on her face. LOL. Too cute
These brought back so many memories. A couple of local commercials from the NY area in the 70s & 80s to check out are Crazy Eddie commercials & Carvel Cookie Puss (Beastie Boys song too) - classic city commercials.
Great reaction. I was just telling someone how today's commercials uses popular and some not so popular songs instead of the jingles we grew up with in the 70s. No originality. 2 commercials missing were the 'I am stuck on Band Aid' featuring a young John Travolta and the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.
"You got your peanut butter in my Chocolate!"..
@@4tuneagent 'You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!'
I'm 50 and saw quite a few of these commercials in the 70's growing up. 😊❤
Fun fact, back in the day, they were called TV Sets or Televisions Sets… they always said the word “set”
That's true, I noticed that when Bing Crosby said it during White Christmas.
When it was considered part of the furniture.
@@tomloft2000 When it cost more than any furniture in the house...
Dude, that was hilarious!! I'm 60 and I remember those commercials and watching you guys react to them was priceless. ❤
The Dr. Pepper guy, David Naughton, also played the werewolf in the 1981 classic movie 'An American Werewolf in London' 🩸
When I was a kid, I found myself singing commercials as often as normal Top-40 songs. They're still in my head, just like it all was yesterday.
I'm 64 and I remember everyone of these. My 4 favorite from 60's,70's and 80's are Santa sledding down the hill on an electric razor; McDonald's- quack, quack, wattle,wattle; coke cola's- I like to teach the world to sing, and pepsi's little boy and puppies. The Mean Joe Green coke and Iron Eyes Cody tearing were also two I liked.
Here in Southern California, there used to be a car dealership owned by a man named Cal Worthington. His TV commercials always had the same corny jingle with him doing some kind of stunt (“Go see Cal, go see Cal!”). There are many of his ads here on TH-cam. Check them out! Unfortunately, Cal died in 2013. His sons took over the business. However, I read in the news several years ago that his sons decided to close the remaining car dealership businesses here in Southern California.
Cal was an early memory for me, like 1971 or so (3 years old at the time). Anyone remember the Bob Dale Show?
@@nowthatsjustducky That name Bob Dale sounds vaguely familiar to me for some reason. I moved out here to Southern California in 1991, so that might’ve been just a little bit before my time here.
Thank you for the recommendation, we will check that out! I’m originally from Southern California so I’m curious if I’ll recognize the commercials…
I’m 62 years young. This CRACKED me up. Actually those were state of the art toys of the time. I’ll have these fucking songs back in my mind again. Thanks. Fun.
Straight up haven't seen those ads in 55 years, and remember nearly every word. Pretty good ads.
This is when they were very creative. Way back in the 1970's radio stations would have contests about the big mac, one how fast can you say the ingredients correctly. Another one, touch-tone phones had different tones for each number, you had to play the song using the the different tones.
Dr, Pepper commercial David Naughton was main actor in the movie "American Werewolf in London"
I'm 55 I remember these. Fun fact; the Native American on the pollution commercial, he's actually an Italian actor! It was such an iconic commercial back in the day.
Being 50, it was a lot of fun watching these young folks enjoy the commercials of my childhood.
I'm 60 years old and I really do remember every one of them.
I was a kid and teen in the 60's and 70's. I knew all of these. Especially the McDonalds one.
Part of the promotion was that you got a free Big Mac if you could repeat it perfectly when you ordered at the counter. My local McDonalds finally limited me to 1 a month because I was getting a free Big Mac every time I went in. 😂
I think there was a time limit @ 10 seconds? That promo didn't last forever anyway.
@@tomloft2000 nope but I sure ate a lot of Big Macs while it lasted. 🤣🤣
It was an amazingly effect bit of advertising because when the Big Mac came out there was nothing on the market like it. How to get people to order something they had never seen or heard of? The jingle did the trick.
Great reaction! I was a kid in the ‘60s and remember all of these commercials with one or two exceptions. I suggest running more commercials from this period, if available. Until next time.
I grew up with all these commercials. Love this !!
The Tang moon men family commercials were around at the latter part of the Apollo Program, and the moon landings gave them quite a boost. The Tang makers claimed that their product went up with the astronauts, but the only thing that the program said was that it was an orange drink.
The astronauts weren't enthusiastic about what they were drinking.
The best thing about this commercial to me today is that they were gathering moon rocks to trade with Earthlings for Tang! With all the stuff that we've learned from the moon rocks, I'll bet anyone in any space agency like NASA or ESA, would give their ears for a bag full of moon rocks! Especially since there's more of some materials in the rocks than on Earth!
Man, this took me back. I was born in 1961 so this really brought my childhood back!
I'm a 1961 baby, too.
@@sisterhoney61 November 19 here. You?
:D Back in the day you bought the type of television set you could afford (screen size, cabinet design, etc) and then you plugged it into an electrical socket in your home and watched t.v. shows to your hearts' content. Turn it on, turn it off - turn it up, turn it down, maybe attach an antenna for UHF stations. Simple. *No* other costs, no "apps", nobody trying to connect with you or tell you what to watch. No danger of being "hacked". All you had to do is pay your electric bill and you were all set. :) The first t.v. mom and dad bought in the 50's had an 8 inch diagonal black & white screen.
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I remember every one of these!😂
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!
My bologna has a first name, it's O-s-c-a-r. My bologna has a second name, it's M-a-y-e-r. Oh I love to eat it everyday and if you ask me why, I'll saaay...'cause Oscar Mayer has a way with b-o-l-o-g-n-a!
🎶🎶I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony, I'd like to buy the world a coke and keep it company.🎶🎶
😂😂So many things you don't forget.❤
You should find the old Wendy's commercial,
"Where's the beef"?😂😂😂
I really enjoy watching. You guys make me feel like I'm relaxing with friends and DT has the greatest smile! I just noticed your Patreon so I'm signing up. I can easily recite the Big Mac jingle still. I have hundreds of old jingles in my brain -- it's scary. When the pollution Native American (Indian then) commercial aired, it was the height of the Keep America Beautiful campaign. It was common in those days for anyone to throw their fast food garbage out the window while driving, so the commercial is accurate. Keep it coming!
I'm glad I didn't grow up where you did.
You know I'm happy to say that America is much more litter free than most countries and maybe a good bit traces back to those ads and that campaign. I know it may not seem that way but having traveled widely and watched a lot of foreign youtubers who react to visiting America it's really true. We pick up the trash and we don't tolerate people who litter.
I agree, and having lived through that campaign, it was intense. PSA's on TV, new trash cans everywhere with the national slogan "Keep America Beautiful" and the little man on them (those are still everywhere making it easy to throw trash way), roadside cleanups, and much more. People who littered were shamed into compliance and it all happened at the same time as the push to clean up our air and water ways, which was also enormously successful. The country was in a very sad environmental state when the 70s came around. Now mindless politicians want to dismantle these basic rules to let industry police themselves. We have been there before and it does not work.@@philipem1000
Thanks, David!! DT is our resident model for sure ;) We are glad to have you here!
My friends father was seated next to the "Native American" from the anti pollution commercial on a flight. He said they shared casual conversation for about 2 hrs and said he was a good guy.
Yes, that's my understanding. I've never heard anything bad about him.
The nostalgia is overwhelming. I remember every one of those.
The one with "Mother Nature" was another margarine add (Fake VS natural)
You really need to see the entirety of these commercials to get the full context.
I remember every single one!
I haven't seen that Stay Alive game in decades. I think the daycare I went to in the 80's had that one. Cool game.
Missed you guys. Welcome back! Love these classic commercials from my youth.
I miss coast soap 🧼 And I forgot about Stay Alive. I loved that game! The Mean Joe Green commercial is still my all time favorite!! Followed by the Coke commercial.
The Alka-Seltzer one with the meat balls and all the re takes when he finally got it right, then the director said.. Ok that is a rap lets break for lunch. One of my favorite one. I remember all them.
I'm a 70 year old grandma and still sing the Frito Bandito song today.
Actually bsck in the 70’s most Black guys were sharply dressed, no sports wear or saggy pants
This made me laugh I'm 54, and remember them all. I had a big collection of K-Tel records, and almost all of the toys. I loved Oscar Mayer bologna. I'd fold them and bite smiley faces into them. Can't stand that stuff anymore. Thanks for the walk through my childhood.
I loved all the Lite beer commercials. Beer commercials were some of the best
I was born in 71 sonits awesome seeing sooo many of these commercials again 😊
I remember every single one of them. That was fun!
8:11 "Love all th choking hazards they have.. " there really wasnt that many more choking hazards than there are today. You still can get gumballs and jawbreakers in various sizes. And for some reason, despite having so many toys and such, kids didn't really seem to want to 'eat' or 'taste' things, especially beyond the toddler ages!
I remember most of these.
We had a car dealer in San Diego, back in the late 70's or early 80's named Cal Worthington. The main thing in the ad was "come on down and visit Cal Worthington and his dog Spot". The only thing was he had every kind of animal you could think of, in the ad. It was hysterical. The other ad that was too funny, was the "where's the beef" lady. I forget what the burger restaurant it was for, but it had me cracking up like crazy as a kid 😂
Wendy's.
@@scourge34 Where's the beef?
80s commercials-Wendy’s “Where’s The Beef”. And Hellman’s croissant that shivels up with any other mayonnaise.
During those times, the commercials were so short, I used to get a snack from the kitchen and never missed a single word from the commercials.
Commercial jingles was brilliant marketing. Every kid could rattle off a dozen jingles.
And every time a new one came out it was a race to learn it.
I couldn't hear the comments, next time maybe turn the volume down on the commercials a little. I grew up with all these commercials and some are honestly cringe while others are strikingly effective. "That's a spicy meat ball!" was a total meme before they invented meme's. Same for "I can't believe I ate the whole thing...." and "Hey Mikey!" and "Sorry, Charlie!" I think the Mikey kid made a career from takeoffs on the commercial. A few points that might not be obvious -- the Big Mac was a new product in the late 60's and it was way different from any burger on the market thus the jingle to tell people what's in it was amazingly effective at stimulating sales. "Have it your way" rings today for BK. And I realize none of the panel could possibly understand the Tang commercial since there's no Tang anymore...short story, the astronauts couldn't take orange juice into space so Tang was invented. Think powdered orange juice. Think about how awful that sounds. Double it. Kids would ask for it because the astronauts drank it. The astronauts brought back rocks from the moon, thank god they left the tang there.
One tv, 3 remotes - me, my brother and my sister. Using aluminum foil to help the antenna lol - great memories. Ya'll missed it. I'd give that childhood to everyone who didnt get it.
Y'all should go binge Mad Men now. It's a drama about all the ad writers in the 60s and 70s. Quite entertaining!
Mad Men is one of my favorite shows! ❤
That was a fun look at old commercials. I totally remember all of them.
Great to see you guys back in action!!
Great choice tonight!!
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Y'all just took me through my entire childhood.
I was speaking most of the scripts from memory, and I sang along, knowing almost every word to every jingle just like it was yesterday.
I can't believe I ate the who-o-o-o-le thing! 😂
Just thought I'd mention that the voice of the Frito Bandito was Mel Blanc, and the voice in one other commercial was Jim Bachus... Good chance none of you are familiar with either of them lol. 😀