Thread for random old TV voiceover/announcer phrases that pop into your head

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My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:54 (five years ago)

A Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Production

My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:57 (five years ago)

[Game show host]'s wardrobe by Botany 500

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 21:52 (five years ago)

OMG, excellent!

My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 21:56 (five years ago)

tonight we're using Lancelot and set of balls number three

soref, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 21:57 (five years ago)

And now for the exciting conclusion of... [movie title]

EVERY time I sit down to watch the last 15-20 minutes of a movie I hear that in my head

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:41 (five years ago)

Head On, apply directly to the forehead, Head On, apply directly to the forehead

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:47 (five years ago)

four months pass...

Funding for this program was brought to you by ... the ILX Corporation.

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 04:30 (four years ago)

when you're on the road
hey it's good to know
we're prepared to help you, all of the way
any time of day

WHAT FUCKING COMMERCIAL WAS THAT

frogbs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 04:30 (four years ago)

NFC

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 04:37 (four years ago)

Funding for this thread was brought to you by...the NFC Corporation.

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 04:38 (four years ago)

"And with refills, Bugs Bunny or Bozo The Clown"

Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 26 September 2020 05:09 (four years ago)

Wait, what was that?

ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 05:23 (four years ago)

This old commercial

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdEUA2rwGg

Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:38 (four years ago)

Nice! Gets a mention here: Favorite TV ad. jingle of all time

Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:48 (four years ago)

Also mentioned several time on this thread: In every 70s US home ever
I may even repost that video over there.

Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:50 (four years ago)

It's a cool commercial! I love the panned/zoomed opening montage of designs; plus the jingle could almost be The Archies

Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:14 (four years ago)

Bain de soleil, for the St. Tropez tan.

Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:40 (four years ago)

"why ask why?
Try Bud Dry"

LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 01:11 (four years ago)

ten months pass...

Not an announcer but:
“My dogs can’t breathe with shoes on!”

Roffle Tolhurst (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 August 2021 03:33 (three years ago)

Kasey Kasem: "That story . . . after this."

nickn, Thursday, 19 August 2021 04:54 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Today is the first day of the rest of your life– start it right with Total.

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 17:48 (three years ago)

Ernie Anderson: "NEXT TIME ON STAAAAAAAAAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION!"

"Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Monday, 6 September 2021 18:54 (three years ago)

Is that Ghoulardi, PTA’s dad?

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 19:10 (three years ago)

Who was one of nine, I just saw!

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 19:11 (three years ago)

"L'Oreal...because you're worth it."

Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, 6 September 2021 19:14 (three years ago)

Ask any mermaid
You happen to see
What’s the best tuna?
Chicken of the Sea

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 19:42 (three years ago)

I can’t seem to forget you
You’re Windsong stays on my mind.

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 19:50 (three years ago)

Guess it’s two words, so:
Wind Song

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 19:51 (three years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tzcyew12Pg
With some kind harmonica I don’t remember, want to believe it is Tools Thielemans but I doubt it.

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 19:55 (three years ago)

See also:
Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

I work across the street from a small airport, and on breezy days the old Windsong perfume jingle plays in my head: "I can't seem to forget you / Your windsock stays on my mi-i-i-ind....."

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, December 13, 2014 3:55 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 20:06 (three years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfM5jIi7ZM
“I’m Roger Grimsby, hear now the news.”

Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:12 (two years ago)

MTV Music Awards featured a scratchy, male Gen X voiceover during the late 80s / early 90s. Sounded very much like a voice Trey Parker parodies on South Park.

One year, a particular video landed in quite a few categories, and to this day, I still hear Darryl Hall.. Dreamtime - "You're living in Dreamtime!"... in my head.

pplains, Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:30 (two years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFnj-pr0sk
"If you want to capture someone's attention, whisper"

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:20 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhlo-Q01Cqs

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:22 (one year ago)

People also selling print ads for this on ebay and posting on Pinterest.x

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:24 (one year ago)

“They got me back in the game baby!”

Golfer Lee Trevino in some ad for knee therapy.

The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Saturday, 27 April 2024 20:38 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7tfIRjlR4

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:21 (one year ago)

Basically every line in that commercial, which just madelined me down a memory hole

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:24 (one year ago)

"Paul Harvey . . . good day."

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:27 (one year ago)

Guest posters in this thread win a supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 28 April 2024 01:15 (one year ago)

"Proof, if proof be need be"

koogs, Sunday, 28 April 2024 01:22 (one year ago)

“You’re not fully clean until you’re ZESTfully clean!”

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 28 April 2024 01:23 (one year ago)

10 Central and Mountain

Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Sunday, 28 April 2024 10:33 (one year ago)

I like the way that kid slams the tone arm down.

nickn, Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:04 (one year ago)

"Member FDIC"

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 28 April 2024 22:09 (one year ago)

588-2300 Empiiiiiire

bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 23:32 (one year ago)

"It's 10PM. Did you hug your child today?"

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 02:02 (one year ago)

classifieds classifieds gua-ran-tee

brimstead, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 03:14 (one year ago)

Maybe the time was actually 7PM, it seems.

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 12:04 (one year ago)

In NYC, it was "It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?"

Was there an epidemic of children running away from home in the '70s that I never noticed?

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 05:05 (one year ago)

They had both those announcements iirc

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:35 (one year ago)

The fact that they had to interrupt television programming at night to remind parents that they have children may explain something about our generation.

pplains, Thursday, 2 May 2024 18:12 (one year ago)

🤔

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2024 00:16 (one year ago)

"Bain de Soleil for the St. Tropez tan"

Josefa, Friday, 3 May 2024 00:20 (one year ago)

Bain de soleil, for the St. Tropez tan.

― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:40 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 00:24 (one year ago)

"Rice! A Roni.. the San Francisco Treat!"

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 00:25 (one year ago)

"ooh! you! Subaru... got the brains, and the beauty too!"

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 00:34 (one year ago)

Me and my RC! Me and my RC
What's good enough for everyone else
Ain't good enough for me

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 00:35 (one year ago)

Accommodations provided by...

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 00:40 (one year ago)

"Wind Song by Prince Matchabelli" (nb: always pronounced Match-a-belly)

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 3 May 2024 00:50 (one year ago)

"There's a fragrance that's here today and they call it...
Charlie!" (cue Shelley Hack)

Josefa, Friday, 3 May 2024 01:00 (one year ago)

Heh. I used to get confusion with the British rock band Charlie, who always used to have cover girls on their...album covers.

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2024 02:30 (one year ago)

"L'Oreal...because you're worth it."

― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, September 6, 2021 3:14 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

For me, it's "Stu-stu-stu-studio Line from L'Oreal"

peace, man, Friday, 3 May 2024 12:24 (one year ago)

"In NYC, it was "It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?"

Was there an epidemic of children running away from home in the '70s that I never noticed?

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 1:05 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink"

I remember seeing these as a kid and being like - I'm right here! Who the hell is a kid who isn't home by 10 but I had strict parents. My curfew through HS was 10:30.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 3 May 2024 12:49 (one year ago)

Two commercial VOs that end with the same word, I'll let y'all guess the products:

"We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better!"

"Little! Yellow! Different! Better!"

Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Friday, 3 May 2024 22:06 (one year ago)

Wonder if it should if count if the slogan was kind of from before my time but I still remember it, such as "Brylcreem — A Little Dab'll Do Ya!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6F4GtyRfto

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2024 22:21 (one year ago)

"Wind Song by Prince Matchabelli" (nb: always pronounced Match-a-belly)

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

"I can't seem to forget you, your wind song plays in my mind ..."

nickn, Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:51 (one year ago)

Really loving the love for Prince Matchabelli’s Wind Song on this thread.

Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 May 2024 11:26 (one year ago)


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