I'm a sucker for TV commercials. I even think they should be put on TV DVDs, though I bet some people would hate that idea.
But it got me thinking about all of the great TV commercials we've had for food over the years. After the jump, eight classics. I'm not saying that these eight are the "best" (though some could be), but they're eight that I really enjoy.
Here's the most classic cereal commercial of all-time, the Life cereal ad with Mikey:And since you just saw a snippet of the Oscar Mayer bologna ad, here is the full version:
And let's forget Clara Peller and her pleading for someone to tell her where the damn beef is:
As for McDonald's, they've had so many commercials it's hard to choose which one to put here. Let's go with the very first one. That's Willard Scott from The Today Show:
This guy lies to his wife about cooking dinner (he's really cooking Swanson's TV Dinners!), but he's about to be caught in the end:
Check out how cool and swingin' Snap, Crackle, and Pop are in this ad:
I never liked Good & Plenty, but they really ring a bell:
And since we're eating all this food, we need an Alka Selzer ad. "Meesy-micey, ballsy, ballsy!" (And is that the biggest jar of pasta sauce you've ever seen?):
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