Have TV commercials gotten more dumb?

[Connonym]

I hear my kids singing along with some really stupid jingles but them I remember that we used to have the Tidy Bowl man...and Charlie the tuna. What silly commercials do you remember from your youth?

[alphafemale]

1. "Plop. Plop. Fizz. Fizz"

"Oh what a relief it is"

[Wetzelbill]

2. Sucrets: "Barbara, you up?"

My throat is sore, I got a headache.

I always hated that guy for waking his wife up. I mean seriously, get up and go get some medicine yourself. What a wimp. She just looks miserable when he wakes her too. Then the next scene she is wide awake while he is sleeping like a baby.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. Sounds like my fiancee and I.

Except she's the wimp. :-(

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. My mother LOATHED that commercial

Every time it came on, she'd start grumbling at the TV. LOL

[Qanisqineq]

3. Where's the beef?

Mikey likes it!

I can picture other ones in my head but can't think of any lines from them. All the commercials that ran during Saturday morning cartoons -- back when Saturday morning cartoons still existed.

[meegbear]

4. Ancient Chinese Secret, huh?

Calgon, take me away!

[terrya]

5. Well, this one was pretty silly:

"Oh, I love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener
That is what I'd Truly like to be
'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Ev'ryone would be in love with me!"

[grace0418]

6. Local probably, but ubiquitous in Chicago: 588-2-Three-Hundred...Empire!

Actually I think commercials are diverging right now. There are really smart, really clever, really hilarious commercials that sometimes I find myself watching because they are so well done. Then there are the rest, which by and large are so stupid they make my brain hurt.

[AngryAmish]

9. HUdsen 3-2700

[hippywife]

7. The one for some deodorant

Ban, maybe? Where the guy open his medicine chest at the same time the neighbor does and they see each other and he yells for his wife, "MONA!"

[Aristus]

18. How many houses, or even apartments, have adjoining medicine cabinets????

Even as a kid I wondered about that.

[hippywife]

20. None. That was the joke.

It always freaked him out and his wife never saw it.

[Dukkha]

21. It was for Right Guard "HI GUY!"

once his son was with him "oh no, there's two of you!"

[hippywife]

25. Yep.

I just couldn't remember the name of the deodorant, but I think you nailed it. Thanx!

[Left Is Write]

8. That's a spicy meatball!

[Jimbo S]

11. "Hey! Your chocolate is in my peanut butter!"

you all know the rest.

[Sequoia]

12. The Right Guard commercial where two bathrooms share the same medicine cabinet.

That one was pretty funny. Early 1970s I think.

[Frank Cannon]

15. I'll never forget that one

Did neighbors ever REALLY share medicine cabinets? That must have been a lot of fun.

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. you'll wonder where the yellow went

when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent

all of those floor wax commercials where "mom" is wearing high heels while waxing her floor

[skygazer]

14. Yeah, they were always pretty dumb

The one that sticks out as the absolute dumbest to me was the "Ring around the collar!"

"Those dirty rings! You try scrubbing them out, soaking them out, still... ring around the collar!"

And naturally, I remember the whole thing. :banghead:

[tk2kewl]

16. Is Foamy rich and thick enough?

You can call me Ray...

[RedStateShame]

17. Close....TV itself is dumber.

More cable channels = a tighter race to the lowest common denominator.

[skygazer]

19. Yeah, there are no more intellectual shows on

Like "My Mother the Car" or "Gilligan's Island." ~sigh~

[slj0101]

22. Patton Oswalt has a hilarious stand-up bit about the old Stella D'Oro

Breakfast Treat commercials.

"Snack time, any time." :D

[mduffy31]

24. Have you taken the Pepsi Challenge?