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Chewing gum commercials. The double mint twins, big red, juicy fruit commercials used to be everywhere. I haven't seen one in, like, 20 years. Maybe they air at the same time and on the same channels as the toy commercials I never see any more.

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I haven't seen a commercial for a pen in decades. I remember seeing them a lot.

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Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ (Post 11345029)

5 Gum still advertises, but their commercials are so esoteric it's easy to forget that it's for gum:

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Originally Posted by Lastdaysofrain (Post 11345122)

I haven't seen a commercial for a pen in decades. I remember seeing them a lot.

"Is there a pilot here?"
"We don't have a pilot?!"

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I haven't seen an ad for Prodigy (Online) since they went defunct.

I see pen ads from time to time, Trojan advertises a lot more these days, but realistically it all depends on what time you watch TV. At 2:30 in the afternoon on a weekday during a Judge * show you'll see a completely different set of ads than you do during Prime Time on network or cable.

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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin (Post 11345159)

5 Gum still advertises, but their commercials are so esoteric it's easy to forget that it's for gum

Good call. I do remember seeing a few of those 5 Gum commercials. Now that I think about it, that cute English chick does those Orbit gum commercials too.

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Originally Posted by bluetoast (Post 11344578)

Oh and those CD/music collections on sale via 1-800 dial ins, where the titles are scrolled by in white and yellow font and the yellow font ones are the songs currently playing. Maybe they still show these during the day or something, I dunno.

Time Life runs these after midnight. They have one for each decade. Neil Sedaka does the 50s-early 60s one. America does the late 60s-70s one. Jack Wagner does the 80s one.

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Originally Posted by TheKing (Post 11343138)

Toy ads changed greatly, along with ads for kids cereals after the backlash against advertising directly to children. That's why shows like Transformers and G.I. Joe went away. All those great shows we grew up with were of course big advertisements for their toy lines, mixed with ads for other toys and sugary cereals.

They still have Transformers and (sometimes) GI Joe. In fact, Hasbro partnered with Discovery Channel to turn Discovery Kids into pretty much an Hasbro station (the Hub). They have Transformers, My Little Pony, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, etc.

I believe the regulation was that they couldn't advertise toys during the actual show that the toys were featured on. So you could advertise Transformers commercials during GI Joe, but not during Transformers the cartoon. You also couldn't simulate fantasy situations, if you wanted to show the ship flying, a kid had to pick it up and play with it.

I also seem to remember the government regulating that you each network had to have a certain amount of "educational" programming.

Found this on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E/I

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Advertising policies

All children's television programming is subject to limits on the amount of advertising. Stations can air no more than 12 minutes of ads each hour on weekdays and 10½ minutes an hour on weekends.

In addition, the FCC also has a very strict policy that an advertisement for a product tie-in for the program being aired is not allowed in any form, or else the entire program will be classified automatically as a violating half-hour program length commercial according to the FCC's definition, even if one second of a show's character is seen in an advertisement. The individual station has the responsibility to comply with the standards and regulations and report instances of it happening within their quarterly children's programming report, even if the programming is transmitted by a television network.

This has been demonstrated through several incidents where episodes of Pokémon airing on the former Kids' WB network featured a "fleeting reference" to products such as Eggo waffles, Fruit by the Foot, and the Nintendo Game Boy Nintendo e-Reader accessory mentioning their products having a tie-in to the Pokémon franchise on the air. The FCC has fined individual affiliates of Kids' WB for the violation of the guidelines and upheld the fines on appeal, even though it was the television network which transmitted the content.[5][6]

Meanwhile, promotion for related websites are allowed only under certain circumstances and must specify that the linked site is meant as an advertisement, and must be in compliance with the COPPA Act regarding personal information acquisition for advertisers online for children under thirteen years of age.

This does not apply to cable companies, which may be why there are no longer morning or afternoon or even Saturday morning cartoon blocks on every network.

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How about that Hertz commercial with OJ running through the airport? Love that one. Can't rememebr the last time I saw it.

Speaking of rental car commercials, perhaps the best ever:

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It's not often a company has the balls to kill a customer in a commercial.

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Originally Posted by Bill Needle (Post 11345653)

How about that Hertz commercial with OJ running through the airport? Love that one. Can't rememebr the last time I saw it.

If I were the Starburst and Hertz people, I would have totally bought the ad space on CNN for right after the OJ verdict to run the Juice is Loose ad and the Hertz OJ jumping ad in case of an acquittal.

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Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ (Post 11345594)

Now that I think about it, that cute English chick does those Orbit gum commercials too.

Actually, it's a "new cute English chick". I vastly prefer Vanessa Branch, the "original cute English chick".

For those saying they don't see commercials for chat\sex lines any more... you sure you don't remember this one? It came out a few months before a highly-popular ABC series started, and was run into the ground once that series took off:

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Commercials you never see anymore=Punking blind people

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What about that commercial that repeated their tag line 3 times quickly? I think it was a medical cream that solved headaches and all other stuff miraculously. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

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Originally Posted by sinned (Post 11345959)

What about that commercial that repeated their tag line 3 times quickly? I think it was a medical cream that solved headaches and all other stuff miraculously. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.

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Originally Posted by RobLutter (Post 11345966)

Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.

The "sequel" commercial was even better when they had someone make fun of the original commercial. That was good marketing.

I still see that one on The Weather Channel.

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No more Sham-wow after that guy went crazy? Or maybe I'm just watching the wrong shows.

Also, there are still CD compilation commercials, though I've only seen ones for kids. But I don't remember seeing Time Life commercials for a long time...

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They definitely still show those Time Life commercials. They run them as long infomercials during the day on weekends. My aunt actually called me last weekend asking if it was safe to call to order the country music set. But it is true that you no longer see the Time Life commercials for various book series. I definitely remember one on the unexplained, or something along those lines.

Many people here would probably be shocked if they recorded a couple of things completely outside their demographic and watched the commercials. We just don't see many of the ads because we aren't the target audience.

Here are a couple I thought of:

I will never forget the "inquiring minds want to know ... I want to know" line:

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As a kid, I always wanted to order these but never did:

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I had those Wildlife Treasury cards. They were pretty cool. Of course now you can find similar shit in the dollar bin at Target.

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I suppose Calgon's "Ancient chinese secret, huh?" is out due to stereotypes, and I'm not sure it's a detergent any longer.

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Originally Posted by fujishig (Post 11346406)

No more Sham-wow after that guy went crazy? Or maybe I'm just watching the wrong shows.

I've seen him selling something else recently; though I can't remember what it was.

They probably stop selling sham-wows and choppers on television because there's a limited window where they can do that.

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Originally Posted by clckworang (Post 11346650)

I will never forget the "inquiring minds want to know ... I want to know" line:

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Was that Beverly Crusher in there? :lol:

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Originally Posted by fujishig (Post 11346406)

No more Sham-wow after that guy went crazy? Or maybe I'm just watching the wrong shows

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 11347060)

He's pushing a lint roller called "The Schticky" now. In fact, the first commercial he did for it made reference to his arrest for battering the prostitute in Florida.

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Originally Posted by joliom (Post 11347523)

He's pushing a lint roller called "The Schticky" now. In fact, the first commercial he did for it made reference to his arrest for battering the prostitute in Florida.

I don't know if that's a joke, but it made me laugh just the same.

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Nope. I'm dead serious. See for yourself:

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Originally Posted by Spottedfeather (Post 11343243)

My favourite commercials you never see any more are the Christmas Folgers commercial where the kid named Peter comes home and wakes everyone up making coffee. Another is the ad where Santa is riding the norelco razor through the snow.
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I stgill see this Folger's one at Christmas time. They also have an "updated" version of it that airs at Christmas time as well.