Ha! I was trying to describe this commercial to a younger friend on Monday. I'm not entirely sure why I too recall this ad as frequently as I do - something is afoot....
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
How can something so wrong be so right? Maybe we should play it backwards.
mirth
· 1 year ago
*shakes fist*
Damn you, John Aravosis!
Michael7820
· 1 year ago
I keep wishing calgon could take me away!!
AngelaChanning
· 1 year ago
The fact that you love this commercial makes me adore you all the more. LOL. Now here are some of my favorites, although a little before my time. Ha! Safe for work.
Oh my god, Fred and Barney doing cigarette commercials. Geez.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
LOL! I remember that commercial!! Funny that is is still around.
Thanks for the way back machine.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
True story.
I remember kids in our grade school lunch room imitating this commercial and being pulled one by one by the lunch ladies to stand in line to go to the principal's office.
OMG I loved this commercial. And I find myself saying, "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?" all the time, in the same intonation as the actress in the commercial.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
I do too, and people don't get it. But I can't stop :) I can't believe that woman's intonation has stuck with us for 30 years.
DAB
· 1 year ago
According to Wikipedia, the woman playing the wife was Anne Miyamoto, who was actually Japanese-American, not Chinese. This makes it even funnier to me, I think.
SociologistTina
· 1 year ago
I remember that one well, but I wasn't so impressed with it as you apparently were.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Cheap yet mystical.
Forty2
· 1 year ago
OMFG. now I know where "My husband, some hotshot!" came from, but I'm 46 and don't remember ever seeing this ad. eh, memory is the first thing to go.
delatopia
· 1 year ago
Here's why I'll never forget this commercial: I'm an Asian male, and for about the first 15 years of my life, this was the only Asian guy I ever saw on television. EVER. Since then there have been occasional appearances through the years like the sidekick Sam on "Quincy, M.E.," but otherwise, a big zip. Part of the sad legacy of racism and (continued) exclusion in the mass media in this country, though roles on "Heroes" and "Lost" have made things marginally better these days.
You guys have no idea what it is like to grow up without seeing any decent, unstereotyped representations of yourself in the media. It's like having no heroes.
A_N
· 1 year ago
How could you not have seen Mr. Sulu on Star Trek (the original series)?
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Damn you, John Aravosis!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jodwjYdhhHQ
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsQpTbQ9Uo
Fred and Barney lighting up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDamNtQpu2w
Thanks for the way back machine.
I remember kids in our grade school lunch room imitating this commercial and being pulled one by one by the lunch ladies to stand in line to go to the principal's office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRh2IDFmbgU
Calgon take me away!!!
it goes through your head because you're gay...
for example... If I type something... what goes through your head?
ready??
First I was afraid, I was petrified...
??
the one i always have playing in my head is the salad dressing commercial..."it's not NICE to fool Mother Nature!!!! ka-booooom!"
was that Seven Seas?
update: wait wait wait. it was Chiffon Margarine!
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4 minutes and 33 seconds in. (see also--the shortest MST3K host segment, and Joel blows it)
You guys have no idea what it is like to grow up without seeing any decent, unstereotyped representations of yourself in the media. It's like having no heroes.