Commercial nostalgia

For no apparent reason other than the unknown subliminal forces acting on me by being alive and present in this world I found my thoughts drifting to commercials from the past.

There is something about a well written jingle that just imprints like tree sap or garlic into your mind that is hard to shake and when its tune comes rambling back down the line it's kind of like settling into an old worn chair, a little scary, but still comfortable.

With that in mind I've made a list below of some of my favorites. What are yours?

1. This Folgers coffee commercial is fucking awesome! So awesome in fact that amazingly originally named acapella band Rockapella did their own cover right here.

2. Gatorade's "Be Like Mike" ad really captured some wild 90's energy. On the topic of Gatorade, they have one of the best recent ads with their "evolve" ad which I think I've linked on this blog before.

3. Fry's electronics- something about the "your best buys are always at Fry's" cracks me up, especially on some of the ads (unfortunately couldn't find any online) where the announcer puts progressively more emphasis into each word.

4. The Men's Warehouse- For a place selling classy clothing, the cheap production values and overly friendly Jewish fellow saying "I guarantee it" has always cracked me up.

5. This Irish Spring Sport soap ad is amazing.

6. Sunny Delight or "sunny d" or as my parents used to call it, sunny pee! All of their commercials are amazing because there is the same 5 note piano loop whenever the sunny d is shown!

I'm going to throw in the Ducktales theme, because WHY NOT, we are having fun here people!

7. Wendy's commercials with Dave Thomas- This poor guy may have founded Wendy's and probably got filthy rich, but did he ever imagine he'd eat thousands of burgers on screen to sell his product?

8. Chevy's "Like a Rock" car commercials. Sadly, this is how most people first come upon Bob Seger's music, instead of finding him playing it himself drunk in a Detroit dive bar, but oh well. Years later they tried again, and succeeded to some degree with John Mellencamp's "This is Our Country" ad series. Oh Chevy.

9 Budweiser frogs- Nothing goes as well with driving good ol' American cars as drinking tons of American beer! In that spirit we'll close with the classic Budweiser frogs commercial. Budweiser has also had some good Clydesdale horse commercials but nothing got a bunch of middle schoolers as excited about trying out copious amounts of beer as this old Bud ad.

What are your faves?