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Bimmi
Nov 8, 2009


someday
but not today
This is a TV spot written by my dad in 1976, which kicked off a long-running series of ads with this concept and actor (Patrick Campbell, who shows up in Blazing Saddles among many other things) and I’ve always appreciated its goofy deadpan cheapness. The chicken wasn’t in the script, but just happened to be there while they were filming, and would appear in every subsequent entry in the series, regardless of setting and whether or not it made any sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsyUdKF1BFM

I also love this thing, one of the last vestiges of advertising’s Golden Age before everything devolved into noise and buffoonery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrJEpUqSuw

… and an honorable mention to this one, (Super Bowl, sorry) which is pretty good overall but achieves true greatness at 0:33:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ8Iw0dTMm0

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