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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2768464" data-attributes="member: 1057">Some favorites (some of these are really old; actually, most, if not all, are really old and will date me):Coca-Cola:  in the wake of a loss (or injury), an exhausted "Mean Joe" Green, on his way to the locker room, receives a Coke from a devoted and concerned young fan, and in return Green gives his jersey to the kid.  When I was a kid, I loved the idea of someone famous acknowledging a little act of kindness.  Coca-Cola, you got me with that one.Tidal Wave Bubblegum (remember this stuff?):  kid bites into Tidal Wave Bubblegum, giant wall of water washes through the set.  Weird, yet I bought the gum.Rondo Citrus Drink (remember this stuff?):  grass-skiing.  I like the weird ads, huh?Apple:  advertisement for the Macintosh (can't remember the year) with the woman athlete who throws the hammer through the Orwellian 1984-esque projection screen.Nissan:  animatronic G.I. Joe-type action figure rappels down from the toy chest to the model 300Z twin turbo, jumps in, and, with "You Really Got Me" as covered by Van Halen blasting on the stereo, drives to the Barbie-style doll house where he picks up the Barbie-style doll, leaving behind the Ken-style doll looking forlorn in his cardigan sweater tied around his shoulders.Pace Picante Sauce:  "NEW YORK CITY?" "Get a rope."  I was born and raised in Texas, so this ad resonated alot growing up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Bud Light:  Randy Quaid's Biggest Party in Texas, including the ad with The Who (they were on tour that year), when the manger opens the dressing room and says, "Lads, there's a Randy Quaid here to see you," and John (r.i.p.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ), Pete, and Roger look up and say, in unison, "Who?"Isuzu:  Joe Isuzu.  When I was young, this smiling liar was so ludicrously appealing as an ad campaign for some reason.Wendy's:  as Diaglo acknowledged, the "Where's the Beef?" ads were great.  Also great were the "Parts is parts" ads, though I don't remember if those were Wendy's or not.Paul Masson Cellars:  "We will sell no wine before it's time."  Orson Welles voice was soothing and reassuring.Boston Planetarium:  billboard showing a deep space photograph with the words, "Visit the Boston Plenetarium, you tiny, insignificant speck in the universe."  Awesome.Bud (?) or Bud Light (?):  can't remember the affiliate, but it was an advertisement during the World Cup a few years ago, with famous soccer (football) players competing in a kind of futuristic distopian soccer match in some sort of giant cage.  Very atmospheric and strange.Altoids:  the various "Curiously Strong" print ads.HP Printers (I think):  with the digital photos that become people, then are passed to someon else, who pulls the digital photo away from their face.  Hard to explain. Accompanied by a Kink's song.  Cool ad.Star Wars Special Edition Theater Release:  "A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away ..."  It was 1997, and the last time I'd seen the movie on the big screen was 20 years earlier.  Chills.Terry Tate, Office Linebacker:  "That's a long distance call, Doug!"  Hilarious!Capitol One:  the barbarians in the mall at Christmas time.  Who hasn't wanted to run amuck like that somewhere, destroying mannequins and commercial space with a flail? Or maybe that's just me.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> and my all-time favorite ad, from 1994-1995 in the U.K. (don't know if it played elsewhere):Levi's Jeans:  filmed entirely in grainy black-and-white, a young man, in a rural area circa the late 1920s/early 1930s, drives to a drugstore in his Model A.  He walks in and approaches the clerk, who is an older man.  The young man asks the clerk for a package of condoms.  The clerk retrieves them and gives them to the young man, but looks angry, suspicious, and disapproving, as though knowing what the young man has been up to, and thinking it decadent and wayward.  The young man pays, puts the condom package (a small tin, like Sucrets {remember those?} used to come in) in the change pocket of his Levi's, and walks out.  Later that night, the young man pulls up to a house, and a young woman looks out her window excitedly, clearly anticipating going on a date.  The young man approaches, and the door opens, answered by the young woman's father:  the old man who was the clerk at the drugstore.  Both the young man and old man are surprised, then the woman appears, kisses her daddy on the cheek, and rushes out with the young man to get in the Model A and go on the date.  Daddy tries to protest, but she's already gone, and as the young man strolls to his car with the young woman on his arm, he looks back over his shoulder at the dad and has a grin on his face somewhere beteween "funny how life is" and "<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-eating."  Ad ends.  Brilliant.If I think of any more, I'll post 'em.Warrior Poet</blockquote>

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