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Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

1950s Good & Plenty Candy Commercial

I have never been a huge sweets fan having never really developed a sweet tooth.  As a result there are very few candies I actually like.  Good & Plenty is one of those candies I do like on the rare occasion I feel like a sweet treat.  The candy coated licorice just appeals to me.  Here's a very old television commercial of this sweet treat.  Enjoy!




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©2006-2010


Saturday, April 24, 2010

McDonald's Big Mac Commercial (circa 1970's)

Some commercials catch on so well they become classics.  So it was with this McDonald's Big Mac commercial (circa 1970's).  Enjoy a blast from the past :)




Garden Gnome
©2006-2010


Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Kingsford Spring Grilling Ad

You know spring is just around the corner when Kingford airs its spring grilling commercials. In case you haven't noticed our Great White North (thanks Bob & Doug McKenzie for coining this phrase) gets cold enough that hibernating during the winter is very tempting. This humorous commercial pokes a little fun at awaking from hibernation to the smell of spring grilling. Enjoy :)



Garden Gnome
©2006-2010


Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Where's the Beef?

When it comes to advertising some television commercials have become classics. Everyone has seen them and everyone remembers them. In addition to that quite often the commercial punch line is modified to be used in other applications. Wendy's® came out with their famous Where's the Beef commercial first airing on January 10, 1984. Clara Peller with her catch phrase Where's the Beef became an instant success! The commercial was clearly aimed at the Burger King® Whopper burger. Still who can forget Clara who claimed in a 1985 commercial for Prego® pasta sauce that she had really found the beef. Here's a video of her great Wendy's® commercial for you to enjoy.



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©2006-2009


Saturday, July 11, 2009

Evian Live Young - Roller Babies Advert

Oh this is so cute!



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©2006-2009


Monday, December 22, 2008

Mac vs PC





You have likely seen these humorous commercials involving the Mac verses PC debate. I think they are hilarious! As a bit of a background, I learned computing on Unix then had to learn Mac. Our second home computer was Windows 3.1 based and we worked our way up from there. There were a lot of things I liked about Windows but over the years there were a lot of thing I didn't like especially when I had to run several security software applications just to deal with security issues in Windows. A few years ago I made the switch to Mac and now have an iMac with Duo core that is partitioned for both Windows XP and Mac. The Windows partition is never allowed online and is essentially used for genealogy. I use Legacy Family Tree Deluxe which still is not available in Mac format and I have not found a program that I like better so need Windows. I use Mac for anything online and most daily computing activities. Ok, so back to the commercials.

I find these commercials humorous on a few levels. First PC which actually means personal computer is implied to mean Windows and for the most part that is what people mean. So by definition any home computer regardless of the operating system is a PC including a Mac. It's an exercise in semantics! Now if you look at the characters in the commercial there is the old, geeky, conservative Windows verses the new, preppy, progressive Mac and they make use of every stigma possible to get that across in the characters. The concept of complex and easily broke (Windows) plays nicely against simple and unbreakable (Mac). And just when I thought they couldn't get any funnier they come up with animated Christmas versions designed after the older children's Christmas classics. Too funny!

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