Please consider this thread a depot for all bizarre tv ads we discover.
Exhibit A: Afri-cola - a German soft drink ad from 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMdcu1hHSHc&feature=player_embedded
― Darin, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:41 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzLl-q4LjsE&feature=player_embedded
― Darin, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
The below ad has genuinely haunted me for decades. It was always run during the USA Up All Night horror movie marathons I would watch in junior high school. The possibilities of what might have happened if one were to call the number mystified me then and continue to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdQiSGb4Luw
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)
x-post Lol that's so amazingly German.
― ENBB, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)
ok the other one too - wtf? I watched up all night in JHS too but def don't remember that. lol.
― ENBB, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:47 (fourteen years ago)
Directed by Serge Gainsbourg in 1976.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJQa-asNPds&feature=player_embedded
― Darin, Monday, 11 April 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)
I thought 1-900-490-FREAK might have been some kind of fever dream, but I found it on an old VHS tape I had made of "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama" (with inserts featuring Rhonda Shear) from an Up All Night broadcast in '89/'90!
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 11 April 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)
i have never bookmarked a thread so fast
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 11 April 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)
I remember Jane Birkin's documentary, where they played her first TV appearance in an advert for Milk, featuring a milkman and herself as a schoolgirl. (It was OK to fancy her then, she was been older than me)
― Mark G, Monday, 11 April 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1MnR8fp8-c
i just BARELY remember the existence of this benny mardones ad for a local arcade
― Suicide Demo for Kemba Walker (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 11 April 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2U-lP-SOSQ&feature=player_embedded
― Darin, Monday, 11 April 2011 16:16 (fourteen years ago)
if he could fly, he'd pick you up and lift you into the arcade.
― Zero pumps, massive boner (thebingo), Monday, 11 April 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)
The below ad has genuinely haunted me for decades. It was always run during the USA Up All Night horror movie marathons I would watch in junior high school.
The one I always remember was for..."BIZARRE ENCOUNTERS"
"Are they from next door...or are they FROM--"
*crash of thunder, bad 1990-era video lightning"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 April 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_OS54FFFE
― dell (del), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:01 (fourteen years ago)
ok that was disturbing
― Darin, Monday, 11 April 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)
That Freddy Freaker ad is awesome!
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:19 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1hGAixvn9A
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:23 (fourteen years ago)
Furry pr0n 1980 stylehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ5Yw72xtA
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:24 (fourteen years ago)
strange political ad from 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av_nDxp4iXE
"this hand voted for Kennedy"
― electrophonic gin & tonic (m coleman), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)
Tango kind of have a lock on this sort of thing...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPqKOfCzN20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPCDMIcjuA&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV8zGNe7Ebg
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:36 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UglWJGkfvwU
― Darin, Monday, 11 April 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)
That's a big slug of whisky. SDJ must have been taking lessons from Dean Martin.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x82gWQFEpQA
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK4Bh_arF-E&NR=1
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:46 (fourteen years ago)
That Japanese whisky is strong stuff...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GveTzOQNCrM&feature=related
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 17:50 (fourteen years ago)
must have been some sweet $ in those 70's and 80's Japanese liquor adshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL08GgWjJv4
― Darin, Monday, 11 April 2011 17:59 (fourteen years ago)
"Come to Japan and get paid for filming a commercial that no-one in the US/Europe will ever see! Unless someone invents YouTube..."
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZIkF47r880&feature=related
― herbal bert (herb albert), Monday, 11 April 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoyBCz30cQM
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Monday, 11 April 2011 18:33 (fourteen years ago)
The Estonian director Harry Egipt made some pretty weird ads in the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6LAVk1sHW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v14nNlhOO8
― Tuomas, Monday, 11 April 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)
i remember Orson Welles doing lots of cheesy ads but this one is strange - a high tech board game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrY7MWEkwE
― electrophonic gin & tonic (m coleman), Monday, 11 April 2011 19:28 (fourteen years ago)
Suntory really bought the heavy hitters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=159Fsb79-wk
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 01:13 (fourteen years ago)
Godard...Berto...Lefty Politics...After-Shave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1P8CWmL-A
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 01:40 (fourteen years ago)
does this count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaM&feature=channel_video_title
― original bgm, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 01:52 (fourteen years ago)
Whoa, 1-900-490-FREAK! I forgot that existed until I watched it and then I knew the words. Hear what's jammin' from New York to LA! Call now!
My contribution to this thread would be a Katz Brothers (east coast, prob Philadelphia, men's clothing retailer) commercial from the late '80s but I can't find them.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:18 (fourteen years ago)
We just got stuff like this, in the 80s. Love that furniture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTpLVOUx0D8&playnext=1&list=PL90EE63F39CCEFBF8
― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 06:26 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ky7g1lgTwc
― Melissa W, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 07:20 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LBJJVnyB4
― conrad, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:03 (fourteen years ago)