5 Commercials From My Childhood That Have Stuck With Me!

Here are 5 commercials I saw in my childhood that have stuck with me.


1. Hershey's One of the All-Time Greats

This commercial is random. It's part of the reason I started liking random things so much, I think. This and the cartoon short "Now Hear This!"



2. Milk It Does a Body

Another wonderfully random commercial! I dig the spoken-song thing.





3. Who Put the Straw in My Hi-C Fruit Drink?

This is one of the first times I heard a song in a commercial and realized it was a reworded version of a song I knew.

This kinda set me on the path to writing "Santa Buddy".

4. That's a Blow Pop!

I don't know why this one has stuck in my memory.

I do like the "What?! What?! Cut cut..." part.

5. McDonald's Doodles

This commercial helped me make it through 16+ years of sitting through classes. I don't know that I would've graduated at all if I didn't have doodling in my boredom toolkit. My doodles have never come to life, though.

Disappointment...

Anybody want to hire me to write some odd commercials to inspire the next generation?

For you AVGN/Cinemassacre fans, this is my Giant Claw

You know what I'd like to get my grubby, grabby, midwestern hands on?

That!

I want that puppet from the CoCo Wheats commercial!

Don't remember it? Let's see if I can find it again on youtube...

Found it! But it won't let me embed. Click Here to see the commercial!

I loved/hated this commercial growing up! I was enthralled by, but kind of afraid of the "ugly" CoCo Wheats puppet. I watched the commercial with fear and fascination just waiting for and dreading the moment that the horrible bowl of dark, putrid evil leaped to center screen!

And I wanted it. I wanted to own that horribly ugly puppet. I hoped that it was available as a "special offer", back of the box premium, but no such luck.

I never ate oatmeal or cream of wheat for breakfast, I was more of an open-faced pb and honey sandwitch sort of guy, but I would have gladly choked down several week's worth of slimey, grainy chocolate if it meant that I could send in a few boxtops and a check for shipping and handling to get a bowl of evil puppet! And I would've played with it every day and kept it in a place of honor next to my My Pet Monster. Sigh...

Just look at that thing

(I don't remember where I found this picture. It's been in my photos folder of awesome things for over a year. I got it off of google)


Look at it! It's like a Boglin

(image from wikipedia, through a google search)

I somehow wasn't aware of these growing up, but they go together like a ramma lamma lamma...

I would've been scared of Boglins, too. In fact, I might have been aware of them and so scared that I blocked out the memory.

I still want this silly thing. If anybody knows where it is, please let me know. I would love to own it, or at least see it in person some day.

It's not ugly. It's beautiful!

80s commercials