Memorable TV commercials

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I liked one from the 70's for Volkswagon Beetle. They simply had a crane lower a pickup truck down onto the roof of the VW Beetle. The tag line was "Now that's a hardtop!" (I think it was a pickup).:rolleyes:
 
There was an ad for Harley Davidson in the early 1980's that rekindled my long surpressed thoughts about getting a motorcycle. It started with a barren, rural scene and an old man sitting on the porch alongside a dirt road. After several seconds of silence a motorcycyle roars by as we hear the thoughts of the old man thinking "I should of bought me a Harley Davidson". That ad literally made me decide not to wait any longer (I was right about 40 years old) and despite my wife's hysterical fear of motorcycles, I went out and bought my very first bike (a Honda, not a Harley though). No other commercial affected me as deeply as that one, reminding me that we can't wait forever to satisfy our dreams.
 
I liked one from the 70's for Volkswagon Beetle. They simply had a crane lower a pickup truck down onto the roof of the VW Beetle. The tag line was "Now that's a hardtop!" (I think it was a pickup).:rolleyes:
Volvo got in trouble for putting blocks under their stacked car ads (wasent it a boxvan?); you could tell because the suspension and sidewalls werent collapsed.
And the pickup ad with the competitor on its back, visibly running on a (hidden) smoother road than the edge-rocks implied it was.
Not a commercial, but consumer reports got in trouble for rigging the rollover test on the suzuki samaurai (standard procedure is recovery effort, but the driver said they ordered him to keep trying until it falls over).
and then there was the model rocket motor used to ignite the fuel in the chevy pickup side-impact tests; they also filled the tank totally up the neck, and put on a nonapproved cap. There is a built-in amount of stretch engineered into the seams, for instance, which with the standard level the nozzle stops the fuelflow, and the oem cap, provide an amazing amount of fuel containment in a crash.
 
Trunk monkeys are already so old these kids never saw them!
And the gorilla in bellboy hat throwing the American Tourister suitcases.
VW rabbit ad, two people in bunny suits driving around "take the next righthand turn/whats a 'hand' ?"
Kitten, making revving motor purrs, doing burnouts and zoomies and screeches.
Ronald mcdonald flying a biplane, goes between two trees, which bend out of his way, one to each side.
Doctors in operating room, nurse asks what insurance does he have? They say look, this mans wazoo is full of money! Nurse tosses insurance papers...
Have to love the trunk monkeys!
 
One I remember:

"Take a tip from Tom,
Go and tell your Mom,
Shredded Ralston can't be beat."

(From the Tom Mix radio show. Curly Bradley played Tom Mix.)

Bob Wright
 
And on my Dad aggravated my Mom with:

"Mary had a little lamb,
What'll your have?
Pabst Blue Ribbon,
Pabst Blue Ribbon,
Pabst Blue ribbon Beer!"

(The reply was sung as a jingle.)

Bob Wright
 
I always remember the Saturday game of the week's Buddy Blatner playing straight man to Dizzy Dean. Ol' Diz shilled Falstaff (finest product of the brewer's art), and obviously sampled that product frequently during broadcast games. [On the air, Diz once famously told Buddy THE joke: "Hey Buddy, see the newly married customers behind the third base dugout box seats?" "How can you tell they're newlyweds, Diz?" "Well, he's kissing her on the strikes and she's kissing him on the balls." Then the broadcast audio went silent for a moment.]
 

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