The purpose of commercials is to get us to buy the product advertised, or at the very least get us interesting in it. I’ve seen thousands of commercials in my lifetime and most of the time my eyes glaze over when they come on. Now I have a DVR so I hardly ever see commercials anymore. But sometimes I’ll see a commercial that causes me to hate the very characters I’m supposed to like, makes me not want to buy the product, or sends the opposite message intended. There are quite a few that fall into those categories, but here are a few of my favorites. Continue reading ‘Commercials that didn’t quite get the message across’
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80s commercial nostalgia
I’m big on nostalgia. Probably more than anyone else I know, especially my wife. I think it’s because she didn’t have cable television growing up. I’ll talk about all the cool shows I used to watch on Nickelodeon and she won’t have a clue as to what I’m talking about. So while I was watching shows like Danger Mouse, Mr. Wizard’s World, Today’s Special, and The Mysterious Cities of Gold, she was watching shows like. . .well I don’t really know what kinds of shows she was watching. There actually were a few good shows on the networks, but without Nickelodeon she was missing out on much of the experience.
While watching those totally awesome shows, we all inevitably sit through the commercials. There are a few commercials I remember vividly, but most are locked away in some deep crevice of my brain, only to come back again when I review a familiar 30 second clip. For those of us who grew up in that era, I’m sure you remember the Dig ‘Em Frog, the Kool-Aid Man, and the tons of gimmicky cereal ads.
I had commercial nostalgia years before the internet came on the scene. In my family we had a lot of movies on VHS that we had recorded over the years. I used to play them on the VCR and and fast-forward through the movies so I could watch any commercials I might have remembered. But today, thanks to YouTube, old commercials are at our fingertips. Below are several commercials that I remember fondly.
