watch it: 1970s McDonald’s ad
Did it used to be that adults, not sullen teenagers, worked in fast-food joints? How quaint…
advertising
watch it: 1940s Lifebuoy ad
From Australia!
watch it: 1980s ‘Return of the Jedi’ Burger King glasses commercial
I had these glasses:
watch it: 1980s Commodore Vic-20 ad (with William Shatner)
It was the wonder computer of the 1980s!
watch it: 1980s FedEx commercial
Iconically 80s: The fast-talking guy is John Moschitta, and he would go on to lots of other TV and film work after this.
Polanski speaks (but doesn’t apologize); sexist iPad ads?; Mr. Rogers is evil, says Fox News; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
watch it: 1980s Prime Computer ads (with Tom Baker and Lalla Ward)
Oh, wow. Where to begin even calculating the awful? I’d probably start with the typo — “ITS’” — in the first ad (if the computer’s grammar is that bad, I’m not gonna trust it to do anything), and then move on to the painful sexual innuendo in the last two ads. Prior to this, I … more…
watch it: “MasterCard Advert with Bonnie Tyler | ‘Thank You’”
Bonnie Tyler is officially kitsch:
watch it: AT&T 1993 “You Will” Ads
The 1993 date on these ads is a tad outside what I’d been thinking of as “retro” for Thursday’s retro TV ad web video of the day: I’d previously not featured anything newer than the 1980s. And that will continue to be the case here (for a while, at least). I’m making an exception for … more…
watch it: 1980s Apple ad (with Kevin Costner!)
Wow. I don’t remember this at all:
