Commercials In Our DNA

archangel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:04:24 +0000

Kids these days are missing a big part of shared experience: commercials. When we were growing up, there was no DVR. We had VCRs, sure, and fast forwarded through commercials if we taped something, but we rarely taped anything. We watched everything when it aired, and we only missed commercials to get food or take a leak. So there are commercials that are simply part of the DNA of the people who watched them over and over and over. Here are a few that come to mind.

Note: you’ll notice that some (most?) are regional. I’m sure they ran on local affiliate and independent stations at cut rates, during reruns of whatever syndicated show my brothers and I were watching for the millionth time.¹

Please post your own choices in the comments (you may need to log in to embed).

I heard it was neither beautiful nor airy. It may have been mount, though.

Promotional consideration provided by…

It may have been the freshest, but I preferred Baskin Robbins. Although the ice cream cakes were the best.²

His tax evasion was INSANE! And geek alert: check out the Apple IIe at 1:20.

And to think, I just bought Junior Mints.

This song will be stuck in my head forever. Still, it’s better than I Just Called To Say I Love You.

The greatest PSA of all time:

My all time favorite PSA. “Why yes, you are prejudiced, ya little bastard.”

That’s a topic for another post: what shows did we watch in syndication that kids still watch today or – amazingly – don’t?
News flash: you don’t put cake in an ice cream cake! You put chocolate crunchies.

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