Are the Ben Stein/Clear Eyes currently the longest running ads?

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Ben Stein using a beach ball to demonstrate Clear Eyes - I think they've been using the same ads for about 6 or 7 years.

What other commercials have that kind of life span?

― andy, Monday, 11 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember that the 1980s Cracklin' Oat Bran commercial was taken out of the moth balls a year or so back. Also, in Mpls.-St. Paul, the KQRS spot featuring a chubby dude in shorts and a dirty T doing the cabbage patch came back in a like fashion.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That Wrigleys advert with "Alright Now" by Free in the background seemed to run for my entire childhood.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Are those "Hey Culligan Man!" ads with the cartoon woman with frizzy hair still on?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've seen the Culligan Lady recently.... those are OLD.

― andy, Monday, 11 October 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

STEPHAN JACK STEPHAN

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

energizer bunny!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

here's hoping those gratuitous health club milf ads run from here til doomsday

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

how many licks does it take to reach the tootsie center of a tootsie pop?

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.detnews.com/pix/2000/01/09/d1mikeyold.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i miss ben stein. his gameshow was the bizness

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a Mounds/Almond Joy commercial that ran off-and-on for at least ten years. I remember that Tootsie Pop ad running that long, too.

― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

stupid fuckin' MasterCard

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

STOOD THERE BOLDLY
SWEATIN' IN THE SUN
FELT LIKE A MILLION
FELT LIKE NUMBER ONE

OOH, LIKE A ROCK

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

tootsie pop otm

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Victory Auto Wreckers! 710 E. Green in Bensenville, near O'Hare. 860-2000."

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i miss ben stein. his gameshow was the bizness

they're rerunning it... somewhere. check yr local listings.

― Cynthia Nixon Now More Than Ever (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, in Mpls.-St. Paul, the KQRS spot featuring a chubby dude in shorts and a dirty T doing the cabbage patch came back in a like fashion.
-- Eric H. (ephende...), October 11th, 2004.

I remember another KQRS television ad while i lived in the twin cities like 5 or 6 years ago where the voice-over person was going on about how rockin' they are and all that and meanwhile the visual is some 70's era dude in jean cut-offs, a tight fleetwood mac shirt (or zepplin maybe), white hi-top sneakers, and sportin' a mullet pulling records (real vinyl!) i guess to bring them to the DJ or something. this commercial was bewildering because, obviously, it is wincingly anachronistic, but then when you consider KQ is a classic rock station it kinda works too. Another nomination for longest running ad campaign: that goofy art school ad where the guy asks: "do you like to draw? then you might already qualify..." for the [blah blah] art institute or something. the test pictures are a cartoon turtle and a pirate, if i'm remembering correctly. i think they sent out fliers when i was a kid too.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Cal Worthington in Los Angeles so totally owns this thread.

― Racing Snails, Thursday, 14 October 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear! OTM!!!!!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 October 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

("Is that old car worth money?")

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 October 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

588-2300, emPIIIIRE

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 October 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

*cue frustrated stoner dude teetering next to wrecked car with no door*

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 15 October 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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