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Commercials that have been airiing for years

anotherguy said:
If it's the one I think it is, if you listen closely you can tell that the voiceover for the price will change and varies depending on the time and station.
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I have never heard an actual price - only a "buy it now" for a discount (which has always been the same).
 
Although no longer appearing at anything close to the frequency of its heyday in the late 80s/mid-90s, the 'Energizer Bunny' still shows up once in a while, including a recent '30 years' ad. However, since they stopped the 'spoof' commercials that the Bunny used to interrupt, the campaign has been rather forgettable.

Edd Hall (announcer for the Jay Leno-era 'Tonight Show') was the Bud VO after they finally dropped McMahon(who had otherwise been replaced by Danny Dark of 'Superfriends' and NBC promo fame, back in the '80s).

I'm not sure if Nationwide insurance ever completely dropped its 'Nationwide is on your side' slogan, even if it did retire the jingle for several years.
The trend in the last couple of decades to do 'low-budget' instrumental or 'whistled' renditions of 'evergreen' jingles(also see State Farm's 'Like a good neighbor...') has grown as stale as the older versions of those jingles had before they were replaced.
One recent 'comeback' I like is the Miller beer campaign which includes a few seconds of their old 'If you've got the time, we've got the beer' jingle, which preceded the iconic 'Welcome to Miller time'.
 
onairb2014 said:
I'm not sure if Nationwide insurance ever completely dropped its 'Nationwide is on your side' slogan, even if it did retire the jingle for several years.
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Peyton Manning still does it (sung to the Nationwide jingle tune). :D
 
seatownmedia said:
Just for fun, here is Cal in Federal Way, WA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sNlDwgc6k
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Since this is radiodiscussions.com, I thought I'd remind people that after flying for the Air Force in WW2, Cal was a disc-jockey in the 1950s at Los Angeles radio station KXLA 1110 AM. One of his fellow DJs was Tennessee Ernie Ford. He also had a country-music TV show - Cal's Corral - which ran for years on LA's then low-budget independent station, KCOP Channel 13 - the station Johnny Carson used to make fun of. "Over on Channel 13, you can watch paint dry"....or whatever.

The show was 3 hours long - on Saturday night, IIRC - so kind of an English language Sabado Gigante. I only remember catching the show for a few minutes in the early 60s when I was a kid..I had no interest in country music, but I assume it was live, and that he advertised his cars during the commercial breaks. Sadly, I don't believe any video recordings of the show survive, even if they were originally filmed or taped, which is probably doubtful.
 
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RadioPatrol said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0b-EonAiu8

More on Cal Worthington.

Anybody remember Paul from Diamond Center in San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBxSc3JNGLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZv3ZaRsVk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNdn05UdJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqFpmdNacw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0B2GZsNbwE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKYy10n6Ln4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O84dpaJu3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If_d3TWIclU

They were then the longest running commercials in the San Francisco area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If_d3TWIclU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXQ8bu7Hfo
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I remember them well...never liked that clown! He only ever turned up on the UHF channels(KOFY, KICU, then-independent KTVU).
Still inthe Bay Area, but I don't keep track of local stations/ads that much, since they're easily avoided.I'm not sure what the current 'longest running ad' would be.
 
Flo, Jamie, the Box, they can all crawl into a hole and never come out. For god's sake! Flo has long past her sell-by date, Jamie and the box are just annoying and idiotic.
A couple of months ago, landtuna mentioned a 'porch awning.' That's the SunSetter awning...the guy looks like former NC senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards. They have dubbed higher prices over his original voice for several years now. Originally you could get the Sunsetter for 'as little as $399 when you call now...', then they cheaply dubbed '$499' and I think it's now '$599' over the man's voice. Wouldn't want to buy one of those cheap things anyways, and I still see those commercials to this day.
 
Also EVERY Geico commercial. Annoying, makes no sense, and worst of all....overplayed every commercial break!

Basically, ever car, car insurance, cell phone, and cable/satellite tv commercial are the worst.
 
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