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Matthew Hunter

06-18-2001, 11:37 AM

I remember seeing some very interesting commercials for a candy bar that doesn't even exist today, called a "whatchamacallit". I never tried one, but the ads were interesting. Also, I remember liking the "Cookie Crisp" commercials with Cookie Cop and Cookie Crook, but for some reason they're gone and the cookie crisp ads just have a bunch of bratty little kids and their dog argiung with a forest ranger. There was also a classic ad for "meow mix" cat food, in which a live-action cat, frustrated at his owners for not understanding his demand for the cat food, sings the tune they still use today, "m eow meow meow meow"...etc. They still don't get it, so he puts on a hat and cane and does a tapdance!
-Matthew

Jack

06-18-2001, 11:55 AM

whatchamacallits weren't very good, most likely the reason you don't see them anymore.

I still love the old tootsie roll commercials, and who can forget the doublemint gum commercials? I remember when they redesigned the Cookie Crisp dog, got rid of the cop, and added children, my first thought was, "Wait a minute, the dog is a good guy now?"

Jack:D

barnyarddawg

06-18-2001, 12:16 PM

"Gummi Bears! Bouncing hear and there and everywhere, they have adventures that are beyond compare, they are the Gummi Bears! They are the Gummi Bears!" I can't help with the commercial, but I can sing the theme song:p Why I remember that, is totally unexplainable.

The Tootsie Roll commercial ("Ask Mr. Owl"), has been running for as long as I can remember. I often wonder if it's the longest running commercial ever.

Jack

06-18-2001, 12:33 PM

I meant the other Tootsie Roll commercial in which a bunch of kids start seeing Tootsie Rolls everywhere. They sing "Tootsie Roll, I think I'm love with you!"

Jack:D
Whatever it is I think I see becomes a Tootsie Roll to me!

barnyarddawg

06-18-2001, 12:48 PM

Does that one ( What ever it is I think I see) still come on? It's been two or three years since I saw it last.

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"Chewy, chocolatey, crunchy, munchy more than a mouthful, it's Whatcamacalit" Why do I remember stupid stuff like that. "We are the Littles" NOOO STTOOOPPP!!!!!!

Larry T

06-18-2001, 12:55 PM

I'll have to watch a bunch of my old tapes that I made in the mid-to-late 80s. I used to work during the day and I had to time-tape all my morning cartoons in order to watch them, but most of them are full of popular commericals from the era. There are those horrid "My Little Pony... dream waterfall, they're in love with you...." and "Polly Pocket in her little world", etc. etc. There are even a few of them on there from that now defunct "Circus Fun cereal" (elephants, zebras, hoops and balls, bears, and lions... ROOAAARR!!), and a few when the Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal used to have three chefs, including Wendel (now the other two are in the forgotten and out-of-work mascots bread line. :)

I thought that "Meow Mix" commercial was hilarious where the cat tap dances and uses the typewriter to spell out "Meow" a couple of hundred times. Believe it or not, I remember the original Meow Mix commercial from the early 70s... the cat used to sing the "Meow meow meow meow" song and there was a bouncing-ball sing-along at the bottom of the screen, bouncing amongst all the lyrics of the song (the word "Meow" repeated ad naseum). Personally, my favourite commercial nowadays for cat food is the Copacabana-inspired "Purina Cat Chow" ("Meow, Baby") .

I'm positive there are a few Gummy bears commercials on there somewhere, I KNOW there's Cookie Crisp commercials (whenever I used to watch my old AAP print of "House Hunting Mice", that was the last commercial I used to fast-forward through before the cartoon). This will be a switch- now I'll be scanning through the cartoons looking for the commercials :p

I'll look for them and repost later.

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Have you got Trouble, Wait- don't run,
This kind of trouble is lots of fun!!
Pop-a-matic, pops the dice
Pop a six and you move twice
Race your men around the track and try to send the others back!
Watch the dice in the plastic bubble
it pops you in and out of trouble.
Look out sister, here comes Jack
you've got trouble, you go back
The game is fun for dad and mother
and Sis can trouble her mean old brother!!
Trouble, trouble- *Pop-click*
That's Pop-a-matic Trouble!!
.....from Irwin
:rolleyes:

kiddiesunshine

06-18-2001, 02:37 PM

I haven't seen that other Tootsie Roll ad in years! (Whatever it is I think I see becomes a Tootsie Roll to me) I thought I was the only one who remembered the 3 chefs for Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I also remember the cop and the burglar for Cookie Crisp. Then the burglar got a dog sidekick who stole the show. Now Cookie Crisp ads suck. Does anyone remember Cap 'n Crunch and The Soggies? That was back in the day when the cereal claimed to stay crunchy even in milk. The soggies faded away. They still show the older Cheerios ads, such as the bee and Ebenezer Scrooge (i think i misspelled the first name). I loved the Whatchamacallit commercial! I can't recall the lyrics, but I know they're in my brain somewhere. Off the subject of ads, does anyone remember Timer from ABC. (It's time for Timer!) The fat yellow thing that talked about healthy snacks? (I hanker for a hunk of cheese!) Why was he so fat if he only ate healthy foods? Hmm... Oh! Does anyone remember the old Girl Scouts commercial!? (As Great as You Wanna Make it!) The board game Dream Phone? (Dan! Dan, my man!-you're right! I REALLY like you!) I love nostalgia.

DR. BELCH

06-18-2001, 03:51 PM

Originally posted by Larry T :
...and a few when the Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal [commercials] used to have three chefs, including Wendel (now the other two are in the forgotten and out-of-work mascots bread line.) :)
And I thought I was the only one who remembered the other two chefs! One was tall and skinny, and the other, I believe, medium build. Also, unless I'm mistaken, didn't the fat one's hair also suddenly go snow-white when his pals diappeared? And there's the afore-mentioned Cookie Crook and Chip--what'd the dog do, turn state's evidence, get a reduced sentence, and square up while his master did 20 to life?

On ABC ads--my all-time favorite was the Yukmouth. But I always thought that Chopper was a lame Fonzie ripoff. Henry Winkler should've kicked him in the cojones and rolled him for gas money. :p

I'm only 25--almost 26--but I do recall the Trouble ad. That and Mousetrap, which was a hoot to play, though sometimes you have to manually manipualte the pieces when they stick to keep the chain reaction going). And more on nostalgia: I just played Monopoly last weeek with a lovely young lady, and though she prided herself on being a kick-butt player and I hadn't rolled the dice in years...I soaked her! :D

Jack

06-18-2001, 06:27 PM

I remember Popamatic Trouble (though, I think they used different lyrics in the commercials I heard), Hungry Hungry Hippos, and Operation (I think they still play this one, they sing "Is it water on the knee? OPERATION! A Whole Bucket, see! OPERATION!)

Jack:D

kiddiesunshine

06-18-2001, 11:30 PM

Yes, the Operation commercial still airs. I saw it not too long ago. Or maybe it's jammed so much into my brain that I think it still airs. I'm sure I saw it sometime this year or last year. Who remembers GARBAGE PAIL KIDS? I used to be afraid of them. Those cards were scary!! The moon with the face for the Fretter Midnight Madness Sale scared the hell out of me. I couldn't look at a full moon for quite some time. Did I mention I was a weird kid growing up?

Bobby B

06-19-2001, 01:07 AM

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
" Also, I remember liking the "Cookie Crisp" commercials with Cookie Cop and Cookie Crook, but for some reason they're gone and the cookie crisp ads just have a bunch of bratty little kids and their dog argiung with a forest ranger.

Am I the only one who remembers the original Cookie Crisp mascot, Cookie Jarvis, the wizard?

Larry T

06-20-2001, 06:46 PM

That's right, Cookie Jarvis- he looked like a cliche wizard with a pointy cap and stars all over his cloak. Boy, that's going back.

I also Do remember that Yuckmouth insert. Every time he got to the part, "Hey, how about a little kiss", then his lips would get huge and kiss at the screen, my brother and I used to run to the TV and put our butts there! :p

But that Yuckmouth also reminds me of that big monster called "Koogle" that used to hawk his peanut butter. My little brother was scared to eat it because he thought every time you took out the jar to have some, that Koogle monster would show up trying to get it from you!!

"What is it?"
"It's STAY ALIVE, the survival game"
"Let's Play!"
"Last one with a marble on the board wins"
"Your turn, move a lever"
"watch out!"
"Ohh"
"Whoops"
"I WIN!!"
......."I'm the sole survivor......"

I can still remember that geeky kid's face when he said that at the end of the commercial!!

Bobby B

06-21-2001, 01:54 AM

Originally posted by Larry T

But that Yuckmouth also reminds me of that big monster called "Koogle" that used to hawk his peanut butter. My little brother was scared to eat it because he thought every time you took out the jar to have some, that Koogle monster would show up trying to get it from you!!

"Peanutty Koogle, with the Koo-Koo-Koogly Eyes!" Banana-flavored peanut butter; what were they thinking? What were the other flavors besides banana and chocolate?

hippety hopper

06-21-2001, 06:32 AM

Sorry but I was born in '85 so I didn't really know how to work a video at the age of 0(lol).

BUT I did love the gummi bears when I was a kid,

Hope you find it!

Larry T

06-21-2001, 07:49 AM

"Banana, chocolate, cinnamon, and vanilla....."

(Kids: "What do you doo-gle with peanutty Koogle"
Koogle: "spread it on a sandwich or a cracker or a bun"
Kids: "First you Koogle it, then you chew-gle it"
Koogle: "and then you Koogle it one more time, YEAH!"
Kids: "We love Koogle with the Koo-koo-koogly eyes"
Koogle: "You'll find Koogle at your store-gle"
Kids: "Peanutty Koogle with the Koo-koo-koogly eyes"
Koogle: "Maganoogolicious"
Kids (Shrieking at the top of their lungs): "KOOGLE!!!" (then running away with their Koogle as the monster chases them for it)

....Scary, ain't it?

Jack

06-21-2001, 09:57 AM

So, lemme get this straight. Koogle acts friendly to the kids, then he screams some wierd chant and scares the kids away?

Larry T

06-21-2001, 12:10 PM

Koogle was this 7 or 8 foot tall brownish monster shaped like a stout jar with skinny hands and legs protruding out, a big fluffy patch of hair on top, and eyes which circled around his head. He kind of crept up to where the kids were eating the stuff like as if he stalked them for it. They were all dancing and having fun stuffing their faces and when the Koogle exposed himself with his bizarre adjectival battle cry, and they all saw him, they screeched (kind of smiling, incidently) and scurried around with the jars of stuff and the Koogle dopily attempted to grab either them or the product itself. Very silly, overall, but enough to make my little brother not want to eat the stuff anyway. It almost reminded me of the kids game, "What time is it Mr. Wolf" in a way.

Patrick McCart

06-21-2001, 12:43 PM

What really happened to the other 2 Cinnamon Toast Crunch chefs:

Wendell buried them under a big "W"!

DR. BELCH

06-21-2001, 01:13 PM

The way I heard it, they went out into the woods to relieve themselves and Sugar Bear ate them. http://www.3dpcgames.com/cwm/s/otn/animals/baer.gif

Matthew Hunter

06-21-2001, 05:05 PM

Anyone remember those bad "The Real American Hero" commercials, in which the G.I. Joe characters came off the toy boxes and made public service pitches?(such as "be safe around water")? Superman and Wonder Woman did one, too, only I think they tried to rescue some kid from drugs.
There were lots of those public service ads. Remember the little cardinal bird who advertised Arbor Day? Also, I admit, I had a favorite public service character. LOUIE THE LIGHTNINGBUG! "Play it safe around electricity". In fact, Louie used to have a happy meal toy based on him, if I'm not mistaken.

I remember Captain Crunch, (he's still around) but he used to have a crunch-berry bush aboard his ship, and he had a submarine, too...once I remember he surfaced in a live-action kiddie pool!

But one of my all-time favorite ads ever was for when 'indiglo" watches came out for the first time. I saw it on Nick, and if memory serves correctly the first time I saw it it ran after "Joe Glow the Firefly" on LT! It had a firefly, to the tune of "strangers in the night", falling in love with a camper's indiglo watch, driven away when the guy covered it up/turned it off. The firely got so annoying that , I think, the guy swatted it!
There were also "Tyson Looney Tunes meals", advertised occasionally. I tried them, actually. I remember "Daffy Duck's Spaghetti and Meatballs" tasting like crap and 'Wile E. Coyote's Pizza" being quite good.
-Matthew

Jack

06-21-2001, 05:21 PM

There were lots of those public service ads. Remember the little cardinal bird who advertised Arbor Day?

They still run those arround Arbor Day, the bird sings "Trees, Trees, for the Arbor Day Foundation!" and had children singing that hurting trees should be a crime while we pass a treehouse in the background (don't you have to hurt trees to build tree houses?). I used him once for a history project, only, he was the bad guy who owned the corporation that was planning on chopping down a small forest, the heros defeat him and walk off into the sunset singing the Yogi Bear theme song...

I loved the Indiglo ads too, by the way...

Also, I had a love/hate relationship with the Trix commercials. The poor rabbit just wanted some cerieal, and the dumb box had his picture on it! I was so happy when he won that racecar thing (it was a race, right?)and FINALLY got to eat some Trix! I still hate those kids, and now they keep him from having his beloved yogurt too!

Jack:D

daftchris

06-22-2001, 11:05 PM

It's funny that this comes up, because just last night I found an old tape of mine recorded around early 1986 with a Winnie the Pooh cartoon, some Chip and Dale stuff, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The First Easter Rabbit, and some generic Easter cartoon. Anyway, the tape has some great old commercials in it, and there was an ad for the gummi bears toys. I didn't find it particularly memorable, but it was there.

Also: Billy Crystal for Diet Pepsi; Care Bears; Keds Lights (glow in the dark sneakers!); Teddy Ruxpin with Grubby and some bird, "Hello Color" with Hello Kitty, Rainbow Bear, Tuxedo Sam, & My Melody that change color in water; Cabbage Patch Kids "World Travelers"; "Fruit Pie the Magician" for hostess fruit pies; Heather Locklear for some gym; and my favorite- Aqua Fresh for kids with a cartoon Pump Man, "I'm easy to pump and have a neat top!"

My favorite childhood commercials, though, are probably for Micro Machines with the guy who spoke really fast.

kiddiesunshine

06-22-2001, 11:38 PM

Yes! Those were some of my favorite commercials ever! I liked hearing the fast talking guy talk on the MM commercials. I don't remember too much that happened in the 80's. I only lived in the decade for 7 years. I should remember most of it though. I SHOULD. But I don't, because my memory's crap. I do remember Pow Pow Powerwheels, Pow Pow Powerwheels, POWERWHEELS!

Matthew Hunter

06-23-2001, 12:05 AM

I actually had a few micro machines. The line went on to produce a bunch of car-related stuff that wasn't "micro", really, but the ones I had were tiny monster trucks that you could crash with your other toy cars (I had several Matchbox and Hotwheels kinds of things, I even had a track at one point.) One of the only toys, I think, that I ever actually wanted after seeing a commercial. I was pretty sensible, I guess.
Another memorable ad, I don't know why I remember it, had an old man advertising Corn Flakes with a scene of an idealized farmhouse, and the slogan "taste them again... for the first time."
I, too, always wondered how the rabbit could be on the BOX and still not get his cereal. I mean, he's got that big bowl in front of him on the box, why doesn't he just did in? Or maybe just forget about it and go out for a carrot?
Perhaps my favorite junk-food cereal, of all time, is "Froot Loops". I'm sorry, it's better than Trix or Cocoa Puffs or Pebbles or Smacks or Lucky Charms. And oddly enough, I don't remember too many commercials for it distinctly, even though I remember Uncle Sam the Toucan.
I also liked "Count Chocula", and he had some pretty cool halloweeny ads. The character was interesting, the cereal was even better...unfortunately it was a love-hate relationship...I loved the cereal but it didn't love me. Oh, the indigestion! And I loved the old Flintstones Pebbles commercials, but I never liked either of the cereals, they were too sweet for me. I don't know if they've improved them much at all, but they were sure disgusting then.
-Matthew

happyheathen

06-23-2001, 01:18 AM

When did the first 'Doublemint Twins' ad appear?

Jack

06-23-2001, 01:44 AM

Quoted from wrigley.com:

Going back three generations, consumers have associated this brand with the famous DOUBLEMINT twins. Created in the 1930's, the DOUBLEMINT twins have been used in one of the most successful and long lasting advertising campaigns ever developed in America. Complementing the DOUBLEMINT twins motif is the equally famous "DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE, DOUBLE YOUR FUN" slogan which the Wrigley Company has used for decades in connection with its DOUBLEMINT brand chewing gum.

Just out of curiosity, what constitutes a "generation" exactly?

Jack:D

happyheathen

06-23-2001, 12:41 PM

Originally posted by Jack
Quoted from wrigley.com:

Just out of curiosity, what constitutes a "generation" exactly?

Jack:D

but WHEN (1938)

a generation (I'm assuming we all know how babies are made), but for rough calcualtions, 1 generation = 30 years, No I don't know who/how that definition was derived

now for an easy one - when did the Trix rabbit 1st appear?

Jack

06-23-2001, 01:11 PM

Okay, so I was too lazy that once to do an extensive seach about Doublemint twins and stuck with the fist thing I found:D

But when they count three generations, does that mean only people born AFTER the twins were created are counted? That excludes all of my grandparents and great granparents, even though they would have spent most of their lives in the "post Doublemint twins period" (that statement sounds so wierd). I could think of ways that 4 or even 5 generations of people would know the twins.

Then there are baby boomers and generation xers (what is generation x, anyway? What generation is it now?)

I can't answer the Rabbit question, but here's a peachy article about how the commercials are teaching kids that racism is okay: Are Trix evil????? (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/9689/trix.html) :rolleyes:

Jack:D

happyheathen

06-23-2001, 01:36 PM

Originally posted by Jack
Okay, so I was too lazy that once to do an extensive seach about Doublemint twins and stuck with the fist thing I found:D

But when they count three generations, does that mean only people born AFTER the twins were created are counted? That excludes all of my grandparents and great granparents, even though they would have spent most of their lives in the "post Doublemint twins period" (that statement sounds so wierd). I could think of ways that 4 or even 5 generations of people would know the twins.

Then there are baby boomers and generation xers (what is generation x, anyway? What generation is it now?)

I can't answer the Rabbit question, but here's a peachy article about how the commercials are teaching kids that racism is okay: Are Trix evil????? (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/9689/trix.html) :rolleyes:

Jack:D

one thing at a time:

people alive in 1938 were the 1st 'generation' (it is a slippery term, isn't it). My parents counted (gen = 1) Then there is me (gen=2). I am old enough to be the father of most of you kids on this board (gen=3). Or, mathematically, gen1 = 1938-1967, gen2 = 1968-1997, gen3 = 1998-2027

Gen X and Gen Next - the boomers did not reproduce en-masse when they were supposed to (when 20-something) a few did - these kids were called 'X' for lack of a better term. The rest of the boomers waited another 10 years to reproduce (thereby making a real mess of the educational, and advertising businesses). You folks born in the 80's of boomer parents are gen 'Next' *feel free to change it*. I have one nephew who is 30, and a niece who is 14 - gen X vs gen Next.

about the trix-rabbit as a suppressed minority: as Sigmund Freud said: 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'

the bunny first appeared in 1960.

Jack

06-23-2001, 02:15 PM

You folks born in the 80's of boomer parents are gen 'Next' *feel free to change it*.
Aww, you mean that commercial with skateboearders and a chorus singing "Generation Next, GENERATION NEXT" was right? I thought that was made up, like the whole "Generation D" thing... What would you call the generation before baby boom? (to beat a question completely dead) I don't think my dad is one, if the baby boom thing "officially" started in 1946...

Jack:D

happyheathen

06-23-2001, 02:35 PM

Originally posted by Jack

Aww, you mean that commercial with skateboearders and a chorus singing "Generation Next, GENERATION NEXT" was right? I thought that was made up, like the whole "Generation D" thing... What would you call the generation before baby boom? (to beat a question completely dead) I don't think my dad is one, if the baby boom thing "officially" started in 1946...

Jack:D

the 'Boom' yrs are generally considered 1946-1957 (some stretch to 1960, but...)

I don't know if my parents (b. 1915) had a name for their generation - doubt it.
If your father was born 1935-1945, he is a rarity - most folks decided to wait out the depression and war before reproducing, thus the 'boom' (all the babies who would have been born in the 30's and early 40's (along with the ones normally scheduled for '46-'57) all came out together.

Jack - your avater and signature are out of sync...

Jack

06-23-2001, 02:45 PM

I was tought that it was 1946-1964, but I guess that means my dad isn't one (neither are the 5 or so that came before him), but my mom is...

Jack:D
So I guess any kids that i may have someday will be "Generation after."

happyheathen

06-23-2001, 03:20 PM

Originally posted by Jack

So I guess any kids that i may have someday will be "Generation after."

I would suggest 'Gen Hopeless', but I'm a cynic...

TServo2049

06-23-2001, 04:16 PM

Let's get back on the subject of commercials. I know everyone else remembers these, but I loved the classic ads for Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles. Some of the classic 80s ones are the one where Barney dresses up as the Masta Rappa, and the one where Barney teaches Fred "Rockdancing." In both of them (like always), he ends up making off with the cereal. Does anyone have any 70s/80s Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles ads on tape? If so, I absolutely want them.