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Corny Commercials

by John Cole|  December 28, 20099:05 pm| 31 Comments

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I remember this one:

I also vividly remember one where he is wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

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  1. 1.

    Mike E

    December 28, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Doritos as a weapon — somebody contact DHS!

  2. 2.

    Dr. Squid

    December 28, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    Avery Schreiber died too young.

  3. 3.

    Mike E

    December 28, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    @Dr. Squid:
    Ahh, Burns and Schreiber. Remember the atomic handgrenade?

  4. 4.

    Incertus

    December 28, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    Friend of mine (and fellow beer snob) showed me this one the other night, and my immediate reaction was “So Miller is saying that its beer is indistinguishable from piss?”

  5. 5.

    beltane

    December 28, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    What year was that? I have absolutely no memory whatsoever of this commercial and I was a tween/teenager during the 80’s.

  6. 6.

    RedKitten

    December 28, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Nope — don’t remember that one, but it might not have aired here.

    But now I wish that Sour Cream and Onion Doritos still existed.

    I love ’80’s ads. I’ve been looking for one for months now. It’s from an Atlantic Canadian convenience store chain called “Green Gables”, and I can hear the jingle in my head and picture the ad just as plain as day. But of course, search for videos relating to “Green Gables” and you just get pages and pages of Megan Follows.

  7. 7.

    kid bitzer

    December 28, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    yup, i remember that one, john.

    jeebus–the internet is like the land of lost memories.

    some of which were better unfound.

  8. 8.

    wasabi gasp

    December 28, 2009 at 9:28 pm

    Ya doesn’t hasta call me Johnson.

  9. 9.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    December 28, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    @Incertus:

    “So Miller is saying that its beer is indistinguishable from piss?”

    Ye gods… apparently so.

    No doubt this ad campaign was dreamt up by the same folk who came up w/ the old ‘Country Crock/Shed Spread’ one.

  10. 10.

    conumbdrum

    December 28, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    I remember Avery Schreiber farting flames in his portrayal of a bad-guy neanderthal in the Ringo Starr comedy vehicle Caveman (a surprisingly fun little flick, by the way).

  11. 11.

    JD Rhoades

    December 28, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    @Incertus:

    Truth in advertising. That stuff is vile.

  12. 12.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 28, 2009 at 10:42 pm

    After a hard day of saving the world with blogging.

    A little Charlie pic pick me up

  13. 13.

    RedKitten

    December 28, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck: That dog looks like he knows all of the secrets of the universe.

    Oh, and for you SamKitten aficionados, we now have video! (No, he’s not doing a ton of stuff in the video — he’s only 4 months old, so there’s only so much he CAN do. You do get to see a few cute smiles, though.)

  14. 14.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 28, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    @RedKitten:

    That dog looks like he knows all of the secrets of the universe.

    Don’t know about that, but he has figured out where I hide the bacon flavored Beggin’s./ The little scamp. :)

  15. 15.

    D-Chance.

    December 28, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    Jessi is no Kari.

    And that’s confirmed.

  16. 16.

    RedKitten

    December 28, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Go easy on those Beggin’ Strips — they’re packed with sodium. Our old Lhasa had failed kidneys, and the vet was pretty emphatic in blaming the dog’s previous owner’s habit of giving him Beggin’ Strips on a regular basis.

  17. 17.

    General Winfield Stuck

    December 28, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    @RedKitten:

    Jeebus, I never thought of that, but it makes sense with bacon. Thanks for the tip, And Sam is a happy healthy little fella. You doin’ it right.

  18. 18.

    hamletta

    December 29, 2009 at 12:08 am

    Speaking of sour cream ‘n’ onion dip, I made this last week for my office potluck, and it was Sofa King good. I licked the bowl afterwards.

  19. 19.

    Linkmeister

    December 29, 2009 at 12:46 am

    Speaking of Doritos, those turkeys have stopped selling the plain ordinary toasted corn chips out here. I’ve been to three different grocery chains, the Navy commissary, several general drug stores and other food emporia and the plain ones are not to be found. I can’t stand the flavored ones when I make a taco salad, so Frito-Lay has lost me as a corn chip customer. I’m sure that breaks their hearts, but still…

  20. 20.

    Mike E

    December 29, 2009 at 12:54 am

    @Linkmeister:
    Try Abuelita brand, sold at Costco, manu’ed in VA, 2 lb bag is good buy. If you are in or near VA they have two other lables: from Nana’s Cocina, and Casa de Carmen

  21. 21.

    PurpleGirl

    December 29, 2009 at 12:56 am

    SamKitten video: Awwwwwwwwwwwww. Cute and with sticky hands.

  22. 22.

    Andy K

    December 29, 2009 at 1:06 am

    @Linkmeister:

    Uhhhhmmmm….Tostitos?

    They’re both made by Frito-Lay. IIRC, when introduced, Tostitos came in both plain and nacho cheese. At some point, Frito-Lay just dumped flavored Tostitos and non-flavored Doritos.

  23. 23.

    Political Pragmatist

    December 29, 2009 at 1:06 am

    Mike E, Jack Burns was the original partner of one George Carlin, too.

  24. 24.

    Incertus

    December 29, 2009 at 1:10 am

    @D-Chance.: Yeah, I have to agree. She’s fine, and from what I hear, she’ll pop up on the show again from time to time next season, but I really like Kari better.

  25. 25.

    Linkmeister

    December 29, 2009 at 1:13 am

    @Andy K: Yeah, that’s what I’ve bought recently, because Tostitos suddenly brought out a yellow corn chip. Previously they’d only been selling white corn chips. I don’t like the flavor of those with my taco meat; somehow it doesn’t seem “authentic” to me not to use corn tortillas or a variation thereof.

  26. 26.

    Lisa K.

    December 29, 2009 at 6:02 am

    This is the Year of the Tiger! Anyone else old enough here to remember this one…?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXjc7J4W8J0&feature=player_embedded

  27. 27.

    Toast

    December 29, 2009 at 6:46 am

    The greatest Doritos flavor ever. I’d pay double per bag if they’d bring those back.

  28. 28.

    Mustang Bobby

    December 29, 2009 at 10:52 am

    I had the privilege of knowing Avery when I taught at his son’s school in California in the early 1980’s. He was a warm and loving man who knew more about theatre history than a lot of theatre scholars. His wife and family took me in as a member of the family during a personal crisis and I miss him a lot. Thanks, John, for the reminder of what a funny man he was.

  29. 29.

    BongCrosby

    December 29, 2009 at 11:42 am

    I used to love Burns & Schreiber’s “Cab/Taxi” sketches, although 40-ish years later I’d be hard pressed to remember a single one.

    One of my favorite shows as a kid as “My Mother The Car,” a show TV Guide called “the second worst ever.” Avery Schreiber played the villain in that series. What’s really funny is that the guys who created and wrote “Mother” later created and wrote for shows such as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Lou Grant, Room 222, Taxi and Barney Miller.

  30. 30.

    Mustang Bobby

    December 29, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Oh, thanks, Bong; now I can’t get the theme song to “My Mother the Car” out of my head:

    “Ev’rbody knows in the second life we all come back sooner or later… as anything from a pussy-cat to a man-eatin’ alligator…”

    Make it stop….

  31. 31.

    I Was There, Man

    December 29, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    @beltane: You don’t remember it because this isn’t from the ’80s. It’s from the late ’60s, early ’70s at the latest.

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