My brother and I still quote this commercial. I know it verbatim.

I don't know how it became the commercial equivalent of an earworm for us.

I can remember all of these vividly, but can't remember what I had for breakfast.

I use "great googily moogily" probably once a week, interchanged with "sweet merciful crap" (Homer).

I can't find the local Subway Sam Cassell commercials. "Subway's the place, where fresh is the tace."

Not too old but it re-launched BW...

For fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Still gets my vote as best all time.

Still gets my vote as best all time.

That one is interesting. I think it's importance as a memorable ad is generally overstated since it only aired once and all the rest of these aired enough to be burned into our brains.
I think it was very important for ad agency/copywriter types from that era, though, and represented almost a holy grail.

This commercial always caught my attention when I was little:

By the way, one note on the crying Indian. That as came out around the time the EPA was formed, the endangered species act came out etc...it was actually financed by a group of beverage and other companies who were afraid of pollution legislation on their products (like plastic), and so they ran that ad hoping that if consumer behavior changed, they would be spared. Good read on some other reasons the ad was not what it seemed to be.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-indian-crying-environment-ads-pollution-1123-20171113-story.html

Ol Jock 99 said:

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Still gets my vote as best all time.

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the only thing they did right in the 90s and 2000s. They had a chance to be the first cloud provider but were too short sighted to do anything that innovative....

Skoal, brother.

Oh man, I forgot about the tobacco ads. Walt Garrison did some, too.

Recognize the guy in the red ball cap?

The entire "This is Sportscenter" campaign was basically fodder for half my HS senior year dialogue with friends.

One of my faves

I want to put a tie around my head during every fire drill because of this commercial.

Well, that's too long.

It's a Texas thing...

These two aren't as old as most posted on here, but they both cracked me up. The berries & cream one in particular has always made me laugh.

Only aired once during superbowl (encouraged speeding, and snowflakes complained):




Ernest & Julio Gallo paid Vangelis to remix one of his songs to this. But they own the rights to it, so it was only ever played on these commercials: