This a thread about commercials that you loved or made you laugh or made you cry, but the advertiser had them air only a few times!
1. The longer version of the Pepsi commercial with Michael J. Fox and his attempts to get a Pepsi.
2. An Odyssey van commercial in the late 80s? early 90s? with Frankie Avalon's son and a bunch of surfers. I've always had a "thing" for surfers. At the end Frankie Jr. looks at the camera and says, "Not bad!" I remember sighing and saying out loud in response, "Not bad at all!" But I never saw the commercial again!
3. A promo on WTBS in the 1980s which had the theme from The Monkees playing in the background, but I didn't recognize anyone in the commercial. When the song got to the refrain, "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees, and people say we monkey around," the commercial showed a scene from the original Planet of the Apes, which was scheduled to air in the future. The commercial made me laugh out loud, but I think it was pulled because of music copyright violations.
4. Same thing with a promo for the US Postal Service, which featured Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle." I thought the ad was beautiful and well-made, but again, I only saw it once. I think it was also pulled for copyright issues.
5. A Walmart ad (Ye gods, Walmart impressed me with something!) in which you see a smart phone, duct tape and a Barbie house being purchased. A little while later, Dad is looking for his smart phone. He finds it taped to the living room wall of Barbie's house, as Barbie is watching a movie on the smart phone. As a Barbie collector, I nearly hyperventilated with laughter with this ad. Why did Walmart air this only once, while its annoying price drop ads ran constantly?
1. The longer version of the Pepsi commercial with Michael J. Fox and his attempts to get a Pepsi.
2. An Odyssey van commercial in the late 80s? early 90s? with Frankie Avalon's son and a bunch of surfers. I've always had a "thing" for surfers. At the end Frankie Jr. looks at the camera and says, "Not bad!" I remember sighing and saying out loud in response, "Not bad at all!" But I never saw the commercial again!
3. A promo on WTBS in the 1980s which had the theme from The Monkees playing in the background, but I didn't recognize anyone in the commercial. When the song got to the refrain, "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees, and people say we monkey around," the commercial showed a scene from the original Planet of the Apes, which was scheduled to air in the future. The commercial made me laugh out loud, but I think it was pulled because of music copyright violations.
4. Same thing with a promo for the US Postal Service, which featured Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle." I thought the ad was beautiful and well-made, but again, I only saw it once. I think it was also pulled for copyright issues.
5. A Walmart ad (Ye gods, Walmart impressed me with something!) in which you see a smart phone, duct tape and a Barbie house being purchased. A little while later, Dad is looking for his smart phone. He finds it taped to the living room wall of Barbie's house, as Barbie is watching a movie on the smart phone. As a Barbie collector, I nearly hyperventilated with laughter with this ad. Why did Walmart air this only once, while its annoying price drop ads ran constantly?
