"Nothing takes it off like Noxzema"....
Commercial from 1967: Noxzema Shaving Cream Commercial (1967)
Commercial from 1967: Noxzema Shaving Cream Commercial (1967)
I don't recall the exact wording, but about that same time McDonalds used a tag line something like "A complete meal . . . and change back from a buck!". (I think the product was a hamburger, fries, and shake for $0.89.)
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About the same time, print ads showed a scantily-clad young woman sporting a come-hither look and the tag line, "All my men wear English Leather, or they wear nothing at all."
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one TV version even finished off with ".. every one of them" even a teenager had no trouble parsing the sub-text there - imagine their disappointment when real world women didn't quite live the same ethos
was that Jacqueline Smith at her most "innocently" nubile?
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I think that was actually, Anacin? , which IIRC was in its original formulation just Aspirin and caffeine - amazing how many of the pain relievers contained that stimulant
Can't remember any cultural touchstones by Excedrin
Quasar- works in a drawer! (Motorola TV)
From the land of sky blue waters (sung to a Native American tomtom drumbeat - Hamm's beer)
A hundred years from now, only little girls will ride horses. Men will walk on the moon. And Henry Weinhard's beer will be sold in Abilene, Texas. (HWB)
Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch. (Tareyton cigarettes)
The most expensive television in America, and darn well worth it! (Curtes Mathes TV)
The quality goes in before the name goes on (Zenith TV)
From the land of sky blue waters (sung to a Native American tomtom drumbeat - Hamm's beer)
A hundred years from now, only little girls will ride horses. Men will walk on the moon. And Henry Weinhard's beer will be sold in Abilene, Texas. (HWB)
Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch. (Tareyton cigarettes)
The most expensive television in America, and darn well worth it! (Curtes Mathes TV)
The quality goes in before the name goes on (Zenith TV)
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yes, lots of coffee drinkers forget they are addicted to the drug.
they use different drug combinations for the PM versions.
Nothing runs like a John Deere
Don't squeeze the Charmin
Gimmi a break. (Kit Kat bar)
Nothing sucks like an Electrolux
This is your brain on drugs
Betcha can't eat just one (chips)
Melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M)
The quicker picker upper (Bounty)
You're in good hands with Allstate
See the USA in your Chevrolet
Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick
If it works, it's a Fluke (Fluke Instruments)
Don't squeeze the Charmin
Gimmi a break. (Kit Kat bar)
Nothing sucks like an Electrolux
This is your brain on drugs
Betcha can't eat just one (chips)
Melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M)
The quicker picker upper (Bounty)
You're in good hands with Allstate
See the USA in your Chevrolet
Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick
If it works, it's a Fluke (Fluke Instruments)
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The fellow who wrote that ad was a friend of mine, John Chervokas (RIP). I believe the firm he worked for was Suddler & Hennesy. One of the wittiest fellows I've ever met.
Mercedes Benz: "Engineered like no other car in the world".
Check these two ads which were famous in South Africa. Background is that comparative advertising is not legal in our country, so advertisers had to be creative.
1. Chapman’s Peak, de Sonnenberg Murphy Leo Burnett Johannesburg para Mercedes Benz, 1991
2. BMW's resonse
Check these two ads which were famous in South Africa. Background is that comparative advertising is not legal in our country, so advertisers had to be creative.
1. Chapman’s Peak, de Sonnenberg Murphy Leo Burnett Johannesburg para Mercedes Benz, 1991
2. BMW's resonse