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Commercials that stuck in your head from when you were a kid

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  1. Jugdish

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    There's a grass roots effort to bring this back.



     
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    This came out in 1998. You're 27 at the very minimum? That means you joined CF when you were 8.
     
  5. The Captain

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    Is this a for-real country band? Country music fans tolerate this ****? You'd get your ass kicked for wearing a getup like that where I grew up in BFE.
     
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    This is AI, right?
     
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    There's a lot of lore behind that.

     
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    I wonder how many office managers named Gary bought this for all of their appreciative staff.
     
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    Wow Worthington Chevrolet was open until midnight. He must had security or maybe 59 and Hillcroft wasn’t a ghetto in the 80s.
     
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    $13-16 for a phone relief solution in the 80s is worth around $50-60 today. What's a $500-1k expense for an office of 10-20 people not calling off from neck pain?
     
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    ya ya mr. norman
     
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    spongemonkeyz get it right

    they loved the subs, bc they’re gud to them
     
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    OMG, that was an awesome commercial..................the memories give me the feels :D
     
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    My buddy's parents had a waterbed back in the early 80's, we used to get in trouble for jumping and playing on it.

    Looking back I started joking with him "you know your parents were freaks, right?"
     
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    You know, I remember this commercial. I was a kid when it debuted. Now that I'm older, I look at it and ask, "How does a dog eat that much and not get the b.g.'s?" (bubble guts)
     
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    53?! Jeez. I'm 56 now and he looks older than my dad.
    (Of course, whatever my flaws, I have managed a
    In the narration, when it mentioned, "At such-and-so time he turned to acting..."

    Uh, when? Acting? He was the worst. Anyone watch "The Winds of War"? The entire cast was older than their characters anyway and all god-awful, but watching JMV and Ali Macgraw take a s*** in each and every scene made me wince.

    Oh, by the way:

     
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