Via Pop Watch comes Phat Phree's list of the top 50 greatest local commercials of all time, complete with YouTube clips. In this case, "greatest" doesn't really mean "greatest" in the usual sense, but instead refers to local commercials that are so amazingly bad you just can't forget them. The top five commercials are all for Norton Furniture in Cleavland, Ohio, and hokey smokes, are they weird. It's like Peter Lorre's and Salvador Dali's brains had sex and these commercials were the result.
I've watched a few of the commericials, and they all have their own kind of odd charm. I can't recall any local ads worth mentioning from my Iowa youth, though: they were mostly your typical spots featuring bad acting and lame gags. Still, when budgets are low and you can't hire real actors, you have to do the best you can.
If any of you have find memories of gloriously bad local ads, share them in the comments.
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3-11-2007 @ 12:30PM
mh said...
I have two words: Eagle Man. That commercial will be embedded in my brain until I die. "Aw... look at those low rates!" ugh!
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3-11-2007 @ 1:41PM
Robert said...
Eagle Man! "I've got something for yooooooooooooouuuu!"
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3-11-2007 @ 2:58PM
beanspants said...
there was a furniture store in lubbock, tx in the late '90s-2002, where the commercial itself was ok, but the spokesguy would spin his arm at the elbow in front of him like a helicopter while he talked. so bizarre.
it deserves to be in the high 90s on this list.
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3-11-2007 @ 8:47PM
Ian Levenstein said...
"Thank you Dr. Zizmor!"
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3-11-2007 @ 11:04PM
FlagPatrick said...
God I grew up with that Victory Auto commercial! I always laughed at the poor guy who lost his door. Oh and that eagle auto insurance is freaky! God Chicago has some of the weirdest commercials ever.
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