Topic: Vintage
This old-school Pabst Blue Ribbon ad has one of the most schizophrenic voiceovers I've ever heard. The poor announcer keeps asking himself, "What'll ya have?" And responding in the same…
You'd think advertising would be the last thing to come to mind after putting on a Frank Zappa album, but this old Luden's Cough Drop ad from the 1960s proves…
With so much talk of sexism this year, it can be heartening to look back and see how far we've progressed as a nation. I'd recommend starting with Travel +…
Given the recent surges in obesity, ads like this KFC classic from 1980 are strangely quaint. Which makes sense, as those were more innocent times. Pac-Man and CNN were…
Another sexy winner from the 1970s: this ad for the Love Rug, which was some sort of fake-animal-skin bed. "As you stroke, it strokes," reads the copy. "It's almost like…
This great public-service announcement from a few years back, which aired on British television, features Denis Leary singing a modified version of his popular old song "I'm an Asshole." In…
In the retrospectives of Muhammad Ali's illustrious career, his enthusiastic promotion of D-Con roach killer is rarely mentioned, even though his face appeared on the box. Not only that,…
