S/O What commercials do you remember from growing up?

The Mervyn's commercial with the lady going "open, open, open" on the store's glass doors.

A pizza place (I think Round Table) mocking the places that didn't make things from scratch and a fake employee saying "oh boy I'm helping" as he opens a can of sauce.

Once upon a time there was an engineer. Choo Choo Charlie was his name, we hear. He had an engine and he sure had fun. He used GOOD & PLENTY candy to make his train run. Charlie says “Love my GOOD & PLENTY!” Charlie says “Really rings my bell!” Charlie says “Love my GOOD & PLENTY!” Don’t know any other candy that I love so well!”

cindy

Some Australian ones:
Aeroplane Jelly
Happy Little Vegemite
Kentucky Fried Chicken (the animated one) 70s KFC ad

US:
Kelloggs ad featuring Jimmy Durante
Hawaiin Punch

the plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is...Alka Seltzer

Hot Dogs, Armour Hot Dogs, what kind of kids love Armour Hot Dogs, Fat Kids, Skinny Kids, Kids who climb on rocks, tall kids, short kids, even kids with chicken pox! (I did just double check to make sure they actually said "Fat Kids" in a commercial!)

Ring Around the Collar!

Barbara are you up? Barbara? I'm up Now!


This one may have been local a great song though:
Comic books and rubber bands, climbing to the tree tops, falling down, and holding hands, tricycles and red pop, pony rides and Sunday nights, roller skates and yo yos, fairy tales and snowball fights, climbing through the window, remember when you were a kid, well part of you still is, and that's why we make Faygo. Faygo remembers....Faygo remembers.

So many good ones mentioned that'd I'd forgotten about!

One from the 60's: the smartly dressed housewife stirring something on the stove. Her Mom comes over and says Doesn't that need a little salt? She slams the lid down on the pot and says Mother, please! I'd rather do it myself! Anacin for tension headaches.....

She wears short shorts...for Nair.

You're not fully clean until your Zest-fully clean!

a lot of you have already mentioned ones I remember very well. But I also remember the My Buddy doll commercials.

My Buddy

OOPS guess since I am a Pepsi fan I changed it.  But yes I think you are right.  I think it also goes with the I would like to buy the world a Coke. 

Okay I thought of some, which apologies if they were already mentioned:

"You sank my battleship!"

"Sit and Spin, Sit and Spin, some kids love to Sit and Spin"

"Lite Brite, makin' things with light. Outta sight! Makin' things with Lite Bright"

"Follow your nose, it always knows, the flavor of fruit wherever it grows!" (The Toucan Sam commercial)

"Honeycomb's big - YEAH YEAH YEAH. It's not small - NO NO NO"

Yes, lots of jingles for toys and breakfast cereals are rattling around in my brain, taking up space that I could really use for passwords and pin numbers.

My little sister used to drive me NUTS with that one. Hard to explain, but she would sing it really slow and dramatically, like an opera song.  ACK.  Thanks for putting that one back in my head, LOL.

Doublemint Twins

I remember an ad for KFC, or Kentucky Fried Chicken as it was known back then (before "fried" became taboo). It was a cartoon ad with a really fat boy and girl in the back seat of a car, driving along to get some fried chicken. They'd never make an ad for fast food these days showing fat kids!



It had a catchy tune too. 

The other one I remember was the Grim Reaper ads back in the 80's, which were about raising awareness about AIDS. That was a scary one.


One more that I remember fondly was C'mon Aussie C'mon which was a jingle written in the late 70s for the cricket competition that year against the West Indies. They made a record of it and it became our cricket anthem.

I was going to mention that one too. I remember back in the late 70s or early 80s there was a promotion where you had to recite that verse to the servers at McDonalds and if you could do it you won a poster of the Australian cricket team. I was so excited because I managed to recite it perfectly!