Eight Minutes of 1979 Commercials

Talking dogs, dancing housewives, magical cleansers--plainly, we were all insane.

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Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 30, 2017
Category: Advertising | Products | 1970s

Comments

We've been visited by Aliens, you know. They monitored us in the late '60s to the early '80s. They originally thought there might be hope for us. Then they discovered television. Gave up and went home.

Posted by PupTentacle on 09/30/17 at 12:05 PM

Yeah, the aliens liked the I Love Lucy episodes. But when they saw the talking spaniel was in charge of the humans, they hit the warp drive button.

Posted by Virtual on 09/30/17 at 12:28 PM

One may forget that many movie and television performers get started making commercials - I believe that was Cheryl Ladd, Farrah Fawcett-Majors replacement in "Charlie's Angels", in the Old English advert.

Posted by KDP on 10/03/17 at 01:19 PM

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