Classic Television Commercials

By Steve Spalding March 29th, 2008
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In a world inundated with eXtreme Advertising, it’s nice to take some time to look back at the kinder, gentler days of propaganda.

If classic television commercials can teach us anything, it’s that a few simple tenets of advertising are universal: Show the brand doing it’s job well, repeat the message that you wish to want and, um, the softer the paper the better it feels on your skin . . .

Charmin Feels Good On Your Skin

FedEx Will Get It To You Fast, Really Fast

Fruit Of The Loom - Vaguely Creepy

Old Spice - Now With Menthol

Captain Crunch Versus . . . The French

McDonalds

Every Hot Wheel Ever Made . . . Up Until 1990

Coors - General John Wayne

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kayjo

tenet, not tenant

sbspalding

Fixed, thanks.

Webdesign

Hehe i like classics :P

thanks for post, keep up the good work !

Chill Pill

commercials from the 80's were definatley the best. i miss those old school wendy's commercials. thanks for sharing

Jon Muranko

Guys who make advertisements are very talented .They do lot of ground work and research before making an advertisement.So we can learn lots of things from these commercials.

Slim Alicia

Great selection!

Jonathan Pugh

and i thought Ronald McDonald was creepy today...

I love how simple old TV is.

Door

Fantastic!

I've never seen half of those Commercials.

Those videos are on Fire

ski chalets

missing the smash advert - truly a classic!

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