Who wants to play the "What's in a name?", advertising icons game?
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June 2nd, 2016
Yesterday, I came across something with the word “Madge” written on it.
Madge! I hadn’t thought of her for years! I know she was an icon of advertising in the 1970’s, but I only have a vague notion of what she peddled.
Okay, the rules are that you want to give or try to elicit a person’s name that is forever linked in the (American, okay, sorry) public’s mind with a product.
Ideally, the hint would be so ingrained that we wouldn’t need a hint, but hints are allowed.
Example:
Mr. Whipple
Alt: Mr. Whipple 1970’s
Alt: Mr. Whipple old softie!
Alt: Mr. Whipple Ex _squeeze me!_
Answer: “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin!”
Example:
“Cross my heart”
Alt: Cross my heart, Playful Actress
Alt: Cross my heart 1970’s
Answer: Jane Russell, Playtex Cross Your Heart Bra
The point of the game is to have fun, not necessarily to try and stump people.
A successful stump means the game dead-ends?
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“You’re soaking in it.” “In dishwashing liquid?” “Relax, it’s Palmolive!”
Maize
Mazola!
“Where’s the beef?!”
(2 choices)
Wendy’s
”...You’re bound to crack a smile!”
—OK, either nobody remembers “Crack a pack of ‘CrackerJack’,” or I got it wrong.
Let’s try this one:
Good to the last drop!
Maxwell House
♫ “Extra value is what you get
when you buy Coronet!” ♫
Rosemary Clooney! Paper towels or toilet paper.
When you eat too well, demand -
Di-gel for that gassy acid-indigestion.
Comet’s lady plumber.
Josephine!
“Ya gotta di-lute it!”
Clorox?
Nancy Walker had a windfall playing this character for a popular paper towel.
No, it’s from the 60’s, Spic and Span. Other (liquid) cleaners needed to be ”di-luted”. But not Spic and Span (powder)! It was made to be mixed with water.
Nancy Walker played “Rosie”, the waitress for Bounty…“The quicka picker-uppa!”
“Use ____, (boom, boom), the foaming cleanser! (ba-ba ba-ba bum, bum)”
Mrs. Olson (no relationship to the twins!)
Double your pleasure, double your fun…
Doublemint twins!
Stereotypical not to say racist Pancake making mammy.
Aunt Jemima.
His rice is converted!
Uncle Ben
From the land of sky blue waters
Hamm’s, the beer refreshing!
“Little girls have pretty curls, but I like ______.”
Oreos!
You might not know Geoffrey Holder, but you surely remember his uncola nuts ad for this.
7-Up! The UN cola
It’s two, (click) two, (click) two mints in one!
Certs, of course.
Chiffon taught us it’s not nice to fool her.
Mother Nature
(Rhyme, recited in a hectic rhythm)
It’s a hustle-bustle world that we live in today,
We rush and push to get things done, there’s tension all the way.
Airplanes flying, babies crying, noise, commotion everywhere,
No wonder that you sometimes feel like jumping through the air!
(Sung smoothly…)
Relax…just relax!
Chew ________ _________ ___!
Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum?
If that’s right, it’s a subliminal memory
Avery Schreiber rolled the “R” in the name of this popular corn chip.
@ibstubro You’re correct! Ding-ding-ding!
Fritos!
Roll the “R” also on this popular potato chip with r-r-r-ridges.
Rrrrrruffles!
I’m slim chippy, the guy you see, on the _________ ______ _____
bright red pack.
Slim Chiply on Paramount Potato Chips.
Cause I had to look it up! lol
This little boy hated everything but Life.
“Mikey likes it!”
“It cleans your breath (what a toothpaste!) while it cleans your teeth.”
Colgate!
The loneliest repairman worked for this company.
Maytag
This product “Gets the red out.”
Visine!
In the 1970’s, actress Marge Redmond played Mrs. Sarah Tucker, the owner of a quaint rural inn who always served her guests this topping for her otherwise homemade desserts.
Cool Whip!
“My name’s ______ _____! I live in a shoe!”
“And here’s my dog Tige! He lives in here too!”
(I’m really reaching wa-a-ay back here!)
Buster Brown(e?)
Fresh, Pure, Delicious
Velvet Peanut Butter
Never heard of it!
Two old geezer actors played this duo peddling wine coolers from their front porch in the 90’s.
Battles & Jaymes
“My way is ______ Her Way!”
Spokesman for this South American ‘Coffee Cartel’ for some 40+ years.
Juan Valdez
The Great American Chocolate Bar.
Hershey
Who’s that behind those ______ ?
Foster Grants!
“American by birth. Rebel by choice.”
Harley Davidson
Baby so named after the little jars of food where her face appeared.
“Oh, I’m glad I’m not an ____ _____ ______…”
(Alternate version)
Oscar Mayer Weiner.
Does she or doesn’t she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure.
Clairol.
A silly millimeter longer.
I must be remembering wa-a-ay back too far! That’s from Chesterfield 101’s in 1967. The “silly millimeter” referred to the fact that most “king size filter” cigs at that time measured 100 mm from end to end including the filter.
“For those who think young.”
Pepsi
New Jersey native Wendy Kaufman took it upon herself to answer letters arriving at this company’s head office and went on to star in TV commercials for them.
Snapple lady!
”... like having a borgaschmorg.”
The jingle goes like this:
Here he comes, here he comes, greatest toy you’ve ever seen.
_And his name is—___________
Mr Machine
In 1982, FedEx ran “Fast Paced World” spots featuring the fast-talking (450+ words-per-minute) John Moschitta, Jr.. He played __. ________, an executive speed-talking through his day at work.
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