One of the Christians stations in town (using programming from a religious organization based out of Chicago), uses a reference to 'Fibber McGee's closet' in one of their spots for an enuity fund with this organization. They talk about how important it is to have a great partner and names "some of the great partners in history, such Bell & Howell, Procter and Gamble, Fibber McGee & Molly, who can forget Fibber McGee's closet". The first time I heard the plug, I thought how many listeners hearing this spot even have any clue who any of these people are, especially those that the spot is supposed to be targeting?onairb said:
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Comedy/sitcom jokes that people won't "get" anymore
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Last week, This TV (or as it Antenna?) ran a 1965 movie called "Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title" (that's the name of it, all right) starring Rose Marie & Morey Amsterdam, while they were still on the Dick Van Dyke show.
Richard Deacon played their boss (at a restaurant). Early on in the movie, the show was loaded with cameo appearances----Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, maybe others. They portrayed typical customers, so I would not expect any young viewer to spot them out and go "Wow that's Steve Allen!"
Hey it just hit me when I typed this.....
Does anyone recall a commercial for----I wanna say The Money Store, where Phil Rizzuto used to do spots constantly.... One spot had a family watching TV, in which the ad came on, and a youngster spoke out "Hey it's Phil Rizzuto!" I thought that line was hilarious!! How would HE know???
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Richard Deacon played their boss (at a restaurant). Early on in the movie, the show was loaded with cameo appearances----Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, maybe others. They portrayed typical customers, so I would not expect any young viewer to spot them out and go "Wow that's Steve Allen!"
Hey it just hit me when I typed this.....
Does anyone recall a commercial for----I wanna say The Money Store, where Phil Rizzuto used to do spots constantly.... One spot had a family watching TV, in which the ad came on, and a youngster spoke out "Hey it's Phil Rizzuto!" I thought that line was hilarious!! How would HE know???
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cd637299 said:Does anyone recall a commercial for----I wanna say The Money Store, where Phil Rizzuto used to do spots constantly.... One spot had a family watching TV, in which the ad came on, and a youngster spoke out "Hey it's Phil Rizzuto!" I thought that line was hilarious!! How would HE know???
Pretty much everybody on the east coast - even non-baseball fans - knew who Phil Rizzuto was, having been with the Yankees as a player and broadcaster for over 50 years, as well as doing The Money Store ads.
I remember that commercial. I saw an interview with Joe Dimaggio a few years before he died and he was talking about a small boy once coming up to him and asking for an autograph and the reason he turned him down was because it was obvious that the little boy had no idea who Joe Dimaggio was and that someone else had put the boy up to asking him for his autograph so that they could sell his autograph to a memrobilla shop for a few hundred dollars or so.cd637299 said:Hey it just hit me when I typed this.....
Does anyone recall a commercial for----I wanna say The Money Store, where Phil Rizzuto used to do spots constantly.... One spot had a family watching TV, in which the ad came on, and a youngster spoke out "Hey it's Phil Rizzuto!" I thought that line was hilarious!! How would HE know???
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Maybe he should have asked to have his coffee maker autographed! ;Djwk1979 said:I remember that commercial. I saw an interview with Joe Dimaggio a few years before he died and he was talking about a small boy once coming up to him and asking for an autograph and the reason he turned him down was because it was obvious that the little boy had no idea who Joe Dimaggio was and that someone else had put the boy up to asking him for his autograph so that they could sell his autograph to a memrobilla shop for a few hundred dollars or so.cd637299 said:Hey it just hit me when I typed this.....
Does anyone recall a commercial for----I wanna say The Money Store, where Phil Rizzuto used to do spots constantly.... One spot had a family watching TV, in which the ad came on, and a youngster spoke out "Hey it's Phil Rizzuto!" I thought that line was hilarious!! How would HE know???
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An episode of Green Acres where Lisa is trying to help Ralph Monroe land a husband, and
tells her to change her name because "no man is going to marry a Ralph because marriage
is between a man and a woman".
An episode of Married With Children where Steve Rhoades explains to the clerk in a lingerie store
that "We're married. But....not to each other!". Causing Al Bundy to reply "and if I was gay I'd
like to think I could do better than him!"
Given trends in the past couple of years, gotta question whether future generations will
get those punchlines.
tells her to change her name because "no man is going to marry a Ralph because marriage
is between a man and a woman".
An episode of Married With Children where Steve Rhoades explains to the clerk in a lingerie store
that "We're married. But....not to each other!". Causing Al Bundy to reply "and if I was gay I'd
like to think I could do better than him!"
Given trends in the past couple of years, gotta question whether future generations will
get those punchlines.
Wasn't Rizzuto also the announcer on "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meat Loaf?KeithE4 said:Pretty much everybody on the east coast - even non-baseball fans - knew who Phil Rizzuto was, having been with the Yankees as a player and broadcaster for over 50 years, as well as doing The Money Store ads.cd637299 said:Does anyone recall a commercial for----I wanna say The Money Store, where Phil Rizzuto used to do spots constantly.... One spot had a family watching TV, in which the ad came on, and a youngster spoke out "Hey it's Phil Rizzuto!" I thought that line was hilarious!! How would HE know???
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Well I am sure that Rizzuto is pretty much a household name in the east, but I guess it was just me....the words coming out a the mouth of a little kid (especially recognizing the face of Rizzuto)....it was like the last thing you'd expect to hear. I am sure that the line had people pay attention!
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KeithE4 said:cd637299 said:Does anyone recall a commercial for----I wanna say The Money Store, where Phil Rizzuto used to do spots constantly.... One spot had a family watching TV, in which the ad came on, and a youngster spoke out "Hey it's Phil Rizzuto!" I thought that line was hilarious!! How would HE know???
Pretty much everybody on the east coast - even non-baseball fans - knew who Phil Rizzuto was, having been with the Yankees as a player and broadcaster for over 50 years, as well as doing The Money Store ads.
I lived in Noo Yawk for only four years but knew who The Scooter was. And yes, remember his Money Store commercials too.
Another example that (kinda) came full circle: "Hey, Nineteen" by Steely Dan. He feels "old" because his 19-year-old girlfriend doesn't know who Aretha Franklin is. "She don't remember the queen of soul." Wasn't but just a few short years later that Aretha made her comeback with "Freeway of Love" and "Who's Zoomin' Who." By then, that girlfriend (who by then would have been about 24 or 25) would have been telling HIM about Aretha!
That reminds me that Baby Boomers would complain in the 1980s that kids of that decade would only know Paul McCartney as "that singer from Wings," not the Beatles. Now that those 80s "kids" are in their 40s, I think it's safe to say that most young people who know McCartney from his recent appearances (SNL, etc.), would be more familiar with the Beatles, than with the dozen or so fluffy hits that Wings released.
As for Aretha - we'll be listening to her songs for decades to come - long after she has passed on, which hopefully is a long way off.
As for Aretha - we'll be listening to her songs for decades to come - long after she has passed on, which hopefully is a long way off.
and how about jokes about about the Atlanta Braves, New Orleans Saints, and other teams that was the doormats of their sports and today are often in the top 2-3 teams in their sports. there was a line on Star Trek:TNG where some guy asked to see if the Braves are still losing. And a Early Episode of the Simpsons had a reference to the New York Yankees as being so bad, the Devil stated to Bart that he would return when the Yankees win another Pennant (in those years, the Yankees was finishing between 4-7th place).
Just like a joke about the Green Bay Packers on an episode of the "Beverly Hillbillies" when the Clampetts, Mr. Drysdale and Miss Jane are in Hooterville visiting for Thanksgiving. One of the residents 0f Hooterville was named Howard Hewes in this episode and Mr. Drysdale thinks it is the Billionnaire Howard Hughes. When his wife shows up and starts chasing Howard Hewes, Mr. Drysdale ask Steve Elliott to stop her, he makes the remark "The Green Bay Packers couldn't stop her." This episode was made right at the end of the Packers Dynasty of the 1960s, so people watching this episode from the early to mid 70s until the mid 90s, during which the Packers were one of the worst teams in the NFL, didn't get the joke about how tough this woman was because the Packers couldn't stop anyone on defense from 1970 til 1984 or so.KeithE4 said:
You may be over-thinking that joke. I would think any pro-fottball team would be able to tackle a woman in her 50s regardless of that team's standing in the NFL.jwk1979 said:
Regarding the Packers, for a long time they were kind of the go-to team when a show wanted to make a football reference that non-football fans would get, even when they were in a down period like they were in the 70s and 80s.
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