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Title: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Flick James on July 26, 2011, 10:06:35 AM I've always appreciated localized commercials for their cheese factor and, let's face it, they're not unlike b-movies in many ways. Sometimes they're clever but low-budget, sometimes they're just outright bad and we can't help but laugh at them. I was thinking of some of the local commercials I watched growing up, and how, unless you lived at this particular region at that particular time, there's little chance you would ever see some of these cheesy gems. I'm sure this topic or similar has been brought up before, but so what?
Fred Rated: This one comes from my adolescence. Fred Rated was a hugely popular commercial persona in the Western U.S. in the early to mid 80's. He was the official commercial character for The Federated Group, a regional stereo and electronics chain that went belly up, I think somewhere in the early 90's, but was hugely successful in the early 80's, thanks in part to this man. He went on to host American Top 40 for several years under the moniker Shadoe Stevens, but it was his Fred Rated commercials that made him. Here is a collection of his old Fred Rated commercials from the 80's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM7yGRMjbrI Lowell "The Hammer" Stanley: This is one of those that just makes you laugh because it's so bad. When I was living in Virginia while in the Navy, this commercial was on alot. Here is a lawyer that wants to convey an image of toughness. He's wants to come across as the Dirty Harry of the legal world, but he looks like your dad's boss. Hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62xreSr25uI Feel free to post or talk about your favorite local commercials. Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Rev. Powell on July 26, 2011, 02:39:02 PM Here's a funny link. http://www.asylum.com/2010/05/04/worst-local-commercials-marc-norton-eagleman-credit-macdaddy-valley-ball-strip-club/
This one stars Circus' American cousin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8BbNysDo8k&feature=player_embedded Marc Noton's pretty proud of these f-ed up commercials, he's put almost 80 of them up on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2z1YroJTRE This was selected as the worst: it's pretty much a train wreck starting about the 30 second mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI7jC57GuZM&feature=player_embedded Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Flick James on July 26, 2011, 02:58:56 PM Thanks for those laughs, Rev. The guy with the rockin' hairpiece is all kinds of amazing.
Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: AndyC on July 26, 2011, 04:31:08 PM I remember quite a few local commercials, but I can't find too many clips. Used to be a number of electronics and furniture stores, as well as a couple of car dealerships putting crazy stuff on the air.
One place close to my hometown that's still at it is a regional fabric, yarn and assorted crap warehouse chain. Watch this at your own risk. It's painful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkgNFXhTkbc The Toronto stations always had some good ones. Crazy Joe used to crack me up in the 80s, partly because of the sheer lameness of everything from the wooden delivery to the slogan, "If you don't shop at Crazy Joe's, you pay too much." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYBjLl8MUfM And I know I've posted this guy before. Russell Oliver, who will take all your old, dusty, broken gold and give you crisp new cash. It's interesting to see the progression from his early commercials, where he tried to appear somewhat classy, to the utterly shameless ones he continues to make. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RhXdIh6i-I&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQVVHyvOZU&NR=1 And for those who have hocked all their jewellery, he started handing out loans... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nBIpwnMW9s&NR=1 That's right, if your credit stinks and you need a thousand bucks for the casino, Russell will process your loan in minutes. What a nice guy. :teddyr: Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Mr. DS on July 26, 2011, 09:47:32 PM Bedding Barn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1GMzw-KnQ&feature=related I don't ever recall these guys being normal by the way. Bob's Discount Furniture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_HhQX-lwfE Bob kind of creeps me out. I can do a pretty good imitation of him though. Cardis Furniture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYGRk80ZgIc They totally ripped this off from M&Ms. I do buy a lot of my furniture from them though. Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Flick James on July 27, 2011, 08:11:50 AM Wow. Fred Rated is high-quality genius in comparison to some of these. These are priceless.
Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Hammock Rider on July 27, 2011, 09:43:17 AM The Eagle Man commercial was local to Chicago. I think it ran in the mid to late 80's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-e4nlfdRI Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Mr. DS on July 27, 2011, 11:17:49 AM More Bedding Barn madness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrB4ti3ORT4 Love how the person throwing the stuff off camera arms can be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMe6B5QMwkE&NR=1 Jordan's Furniture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvYrTOyPwWgThis dude had a deal that all furniture sold during a time period would be free IF the Red Sox won the world series. One year they did. So now he has a sign at Fenway park that if someone hits with a homerun means the same...or was it a discount on future purchases. Eh, dunno really. Never really shopped there. Tarbox Toyota Of RI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68qOGf4IBik This guy's thick RI accent kills me. Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Flick James on July 27, 2011, 11:29:34 AM What is it about furniture stores? Is there some unspoken rule that if you own a furniture store you are required to make bad local commercials?
Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Rev. Powell on July 27, 2011, 12:04:38 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjz04nzKvig&feature=related
Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Rev. Powell on July 27, 2011, 12:15:45 PM Hmm... a couple of comedians have embraced the "local commercial" culture and landed a TV show based on the concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ILf_9RpHg Here's one of their actual "real" commercials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b5CKSqlz60&feature=relmfu Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: InformationGeek on July 27, 2011, 12:52:27 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcONhxo3K2k
Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: El Misfit on July 27, 2011, 01:27:39 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm6f2CKQv1g
Some of these Ain't Dere No More. :bluesad: Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Mr. DS on July 27, 2011, 09:08:31 PM New England Pest Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Z4TTr9Dig That blue bug has been in many movies. Plus it is parodied on Family Guy. Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: AndyC on July 27, 2011, 11:37:34 PM What is it about furniture stores? Is there some unspoken rule that if you own a furniture store you are required to make bad local commercials? Pretty much. Here's one from Toronto that's a little more polished. This store has its own digitally animated mascots that don't make a whole lot of sense, and look like somebody with a copy of Blender worked all of an hour on them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrRdDtHqTU4&feature=related The old guy, Mel Lastman, was mayor of Toronto for a couple of terms, after about 25 years as mayor of one of the adjoining cities that merged with Toronto in the 90s. As a publicity stunt for his store chain, he once went to the Arctic to sell refrigerators to Eskimos. As mayor of Toronto, he was known for sticking his foot in his mouth, like the time he was interviewed prior to a visit to Kenya, and made a joke about sitting in a pot of water with natives dancing around him. Oh, and he fathered a couple of illegitimate children with a former store employee. Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Pilgermann on July 28, 2011, 06:21:05 PM These look fake but apparently it's a real company!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XtXm_FT1vY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMvjy8egRg Some from my neck of the woods: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxE-U1558_A These Little John ones don't even make me laugh but they are pretty rediculous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4eJNtFG10U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsitaH54XuU&feature=related Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Criswell on July 28, 2011, 10:35:30 PM I should start ripping off local companies and making commercials for them. How hard could it be going by this topic?
Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: Hammock Rider on August 02, 2011, 01:42:41 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz8fTbLjo9c&playnext=1&list=PLD56CD1E37E2ED9D8
Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: JJ80 on August 02, 2011, 04:08:45 PM This is an old 1980's advert for my home town:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytjg627OGrU Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: alandhopewell on August 23, 2011, 02:28:11 PM I've always appreciated localized commercials for their cheese factor and, let's face it, they're not unlike b-movies in many ways. Sometimes they're clever but low-budget, sometimes they're just outright bad and we can't help but laugh at them. I was thinking of some of the local commercials I watched growing up, and how, unless you lived at this particular region at that particular time, there's little chance you would ever see some of these cheesy gems. I'm sure this topic or similar has been brought up before, but so what? Fred Rated: This one comes from my adolescence. Fred Rated was a hugely popular commercial persona in the Western U.S. in the early to mid 80's. He was the official commercial character for The Federated Group, a regional stereo and electronics chain that went belly up, I think somewhere in the early 90's, but was hugely successful in the early 80's, thanks in part to this man. He went on to host American Top 40 for several years under the moniker Shadoe Stevens, but it was his Fred Rated commercials that made him. Here is a collection of his old Fred Rated commercials from the 80's [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM7yGRMjbrI[/url] Lowell "The Hammer" Stanley: This is one of those that just makes you laugh because it's so bad. When I was living in Virginia while in the Navy, this commercial was on alot. Here is a lawyer that wants to convey an image of toughness. He's wants to come across as the Dirty Harry of the legal world, but he looks like your dad's boss. Hilarious. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62xreSr25uI[/url] Feel free to post or talk about your favorite local commercials. Down here, we've got our own version....they run him WAY too early in the morning! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3IhBf1rWx8 Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: FatFreddysCat on August 23, 2011, 03:56:09 PM Anybody from the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area will surely remember Crazy Eddie. His prices were (all together now) INNNNNN-SAAAAAAAAAANE!!!
They made literally dozens of commercials over the years, starring former radio DJ Jerry Carroll as "Eddie." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-Mhynh_pg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwiBr4q2vdE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yYGoO5imyY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jy8rPQ-qqk This one brings back fond memories because I used to buy a lot of my records and tapes from "Crazy Eddie's Record and Tape Asylum!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuhRA0W8Vec Interestingly, the real "Eddie" behind Crazy Eddie (Edward Antar) ended up going to jail for a few years in the late 80s for income tax evasion. When sales at his stores started slipping, he apparently cooked the books to make it look like they were doing great, then tried to split to Israel with a whole bunch of company cash. It was quite the news story in its day. "Duuuuuude! Crazy Eddie's goin' to jail!" Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: AndyC on August 23, 2011, 05:37:07 PM Anybody from the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area will surely remember Crazy Eddie. His prices were (all together now) INNNNNN-SAAAAAAAAAANE!!! They made literally dozens of commercials over the years, starring former radio DJ Jerry Carroll as "Eddie." [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-Mhynh_pg[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwiBr4q2vdE[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yYGoO5imyY[/url] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jy8rPQ-qqk[/url] This one brings back fond memories because I used to buy a lot of my records and tapes from "Crazy Eddie's Record and Tape Asylum!" [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuhRA0W8Vec[/url] Interestingly, the real "Eddie" behind Crazy Eddie (Edward Antar) ended up going to jail for a few years in the late 80s for income tax evasion. When sales at his stores started slipping, he apparently cooked the books to make it look like they were doing great, then tried to split to Israel with a whole bunch of company cash. It was quite the news story in its day. "Duuuuuude! Crazy Eddie's goin' to jail!" Yeah, I saw a TV documentary show about him. The financial troubles were due to Eddie and his family skimming millions off the top and covering it up. And the fraud kicked into high gear when the company went public. They pulled some interesting tricks to inflate the inventory for auditors - stacking empty boxes behind the full ones, moving stuff so it got counted more than once, etc. They inflated revenues by shuffling money between foreign banks and paying it back to their own stores. Impressive, in a sleazy, crooked sort of way. Title: Re: Local/Regional Commercials Post by: alandhopewell on August 25, 2011, 10:43:20 AM In the Cleveland market, back in the 60's-70's, we had a bunch of local ads that were a trip, but C. MILLER CHEVROLET took the cake....
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