I don't miss the '80s at all.

[madbaker]

Pringles ran an ad campaign back in the '80s whose slogan was "I've got the fever for the flavor of a Pringles."

Let me get this straight... in order to project an aura of hipness for potato chips, they linked it to high school computer geeks wearing bow ties.

Likely outcome in the '80s for high school kids in computer class: getting stuffed into lockers.
Likely outcome in the '80s for high school kids in computer class wearing bow ties: getting stuffed into the toilet, then into lockers.

Yeah, that'll sell product.

Rejected Pringles slogans from the same timeframe:
"I've got pneumonia for a potato chip!"
"I've got a suppuration for a snack!"
"I've got consumption for a crisp!"

Comments

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

WTF do people post commercials on YouTube?

I can understand Music Videos, or snippets of favorite television shows... But are people *really* defining their "Experience of Youth" in terms of specific commercials?

That said, here's a commercial that puts the "High" in "Ohio" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2z1YroJTRE

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

I've got the clap for the crunch of a Cheetos!

[aimeric.livejournal.com]

Well, one can also go Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, so I suppose there's precedent. Then again, I suspect the Pringles commercial came first.

In the 80's, I routinely stuffed *myself* into lockers and enjoyed it immensely. The cool kids had no idea how to tease me after that...

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I was born too early to benefit from this legislation. I'm just glad my children will never have to suffer the way I did.

http://tinyurl.com/e34jn

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

And didja give yerself swirlies in the locker-room, too, didja? Huh?