John Moschitta is the fast talking guy most people don't know the name of. This FedEx commercial is what made him famous.
This is one of the many good ads to come from Sedelmaier, who also produced the Where's the Beef ads.
Wrestling legend Andre the Giant takes on Chuck Wepner in 1976. This is the opening bout on a card that ended with one of Muhammad Ali's sillier moments. See that here: http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=29qI1GyhD eg
This clip came from Son of Not So Great Moments in Sports from HBO in the 1980s.
The Cold War made for some pretty entertaining pop culture. Like this Wendy's Commercials from sometime in the 1980s.
It's another one from Sedelmaier, who brought us "Where's the Beef?"
These clips of Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell come from a bloopers show called "World's Funniest Commercial Goofs." It ran sometime in the 1980s, and was hosted by Robert Guillaume and Emmanuel Lewis.
Strangely, only a few of these seem to be actual bloopers.
This clip of Ozzy Osbourne comes from a bloopers show called "World's Funniest Commercial Goofs." It ran sometime in the 1980s, and was hosted by Robert Guillaume and Emmanuel Lewis. I assume the younger baby is Kelly Osborne, but I'm not sure.
This is another ad from Sedelmaier (the folks who brought us "Where's the Beef?").
It's not a particularly good ad, but it's for a wacky old computer and that's good enough. I don't remember the Kaypro brand, but I'm sure other folks on the Internet do.
And Cary Elwes. And some other people I recognize. A Showtime EXCLUSIVE in 1986.
Less obscure than I might've thought, since its IMDB profile actually has comments.
These clips of Jonathan Winters come from a bloopers show called "World's Funniest Commercial Goofs." It ran sometime in the 1980s, and was hosted by Robert Guillaume and Emmanuel Lewis.
The gloppy guy is called "The Greedy." I used to watch this movie all the time when I was a kid, and it has many other disturbing things like this.
I taped it off of "Special Delivery" on Nickelodeon in 1986 or so.
It's an A&W ad from some time in the past before now long ago in history back. Looks early 1990s. Certainly Mr. T had already reached the point in his career when he had to have a sense of humor about himself if he wanted to work.
These Weird Al clips come from a bloopers show called "World's Funniest Commercial Goofs." It ran sometime in the 1980s, and was hosted by Robert Guillaume and Emmanuel Lewis.
Also, I didn't know that the EPA did ads for themselves.
I miss the days when we'd make people suffer for their celebrity. I guess "Dancing with the Stars" is close, but it's not nearly as bad as a celebrity rodeo.
Unfortunately, I had taped over most of her performance, so all I have left is an intro from James Coburn, one stunt, and her acting ditzy with her '80s hair.
The show was called "The Wild West Show of the Stars."
Russian Circles played a good, but short, set. In that time, they managed to play most of the tracks I really wanted to hear, so that was good.
Plus the show was free. At least for me. People were wearing wristbands, but when I arrived, there was nobody at the door. Hooray.
This is Circus Della Morte's Abra Cadavra doing the portion of her act that has absolutely no elements of suggestiveness or innuendo.
Shot at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton, Texas, on the night of June 23, 2007, at a show put on by Farrago's Wainscot.
This is the opening theme to Legend of Galactic Heroes: Valley of White Silver. Hooray.
Sorry about the junk at the beginning, but I'm too lazy to fix it.
Rainbow Brite wasn't just annoying on screen. As this commercial proves, she was annoying in other media as well.
And she stole music from the Wizard of Oz.
To consume Sears security guards. At least, that's what the McDonaldland hordes are doing in this vintage commercial from 1986 or so.
Mayor McCheese makes an appearance, and some scary pirate, too.