TVSquad

Television ads aren't fun anymore. There's a sameness to them: the fast edits, the young bodies, the deep-voiced announcers who all sound alike. And, with the advent of TiVo and the DVR, most of them are just a blur to us as we fast-forward from the end of one scene to the beginning of another. You would have to go all the way back to the days just around the advent of the personal VCR to find entertaining commercials that featured characters and slogans that would stick in your brain.

Rebbecca Brown just went back to the '70s. By culling the parents' garage known as the Internet, Brown was able to put together 10 memorable ads from the decade of Watergate, leisure suits and the 8-track cassette. If you were around during that decade you will remember most, if not all, of the ads that Brown picked.

I little piece of your childhood just passed away.

Dick Wilson has died at the age of 91. He played Mr. Whipple on the long-running series of commercials for Charmin bathroom tissue. He would lurk around corners in the grocery store waiting for some hapless housewife to pick up a package of and squeeze it, then he'd come up to them and say "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!" Then he'd squeeze the tissue himself. It seemed like Whipple didn't do anything else for that grocery change except watch out for people who might come down that aisle and squeeze the Charmin, but it's one of the more memorable ad campaigns in TV history. He made over 500 commercials from 1964 to 1985! He also appeared in many TV shows, including Bewtiched, Maude, The Bob Newhart Show, Quincy, M.E., Adam-12, Hogan's Heroes, The Partridge Family, and I Dream of Jeannie.

Godspeed Mr. Whipple. Two classic ads after the jump!