Wow, that "Prince" stereo ad really shows off why Prince was never going to let Weird Al do a parody song of 1999. He was essentially doing the man a favor, so he wouldn't be embarrassed writing lyrics for "$19.99", LOL.

@brianhebert6152

3 ай бұрын

Theory: Prince saw the Stereo Warehouse ad, and was so embarrassed by it he barred Weird Al from doing parodies of his songs

@anidnmeno

3 ай бұрын

Weird Al could've pulled it off tho

@eascec8374

3 ай бұрын

Even the drummer in the ad actually does look like Lynn Hauldren taking his Sunday off at Empire Carpet.

Ziggy Boutique definitely wormed its way into my brain.

23:05 - This was apparently a NYC massage parlor, pretending to be a jewelry store to get around zoning laws set up to keep massage parlors from operating. From a 1978 NY Times article - "Investigators attached to the Midtown Project said that the proprietors at the Lucky Lady, at 121 West 45th Street, used display cases and cubicles labeled “fitting and viewing rooms” to justify their assertion that they were in the jewelry business."

@brianhebert6152

3 ай бұрын

They couldn't be more subtle about it...

The Local TV commercials are some of my favorite episodes. Nice surprise to get a 4th video, thanks Ben!

DUDE! Schweig-Engel! That's St Louis stuff! I grew up with those commercials. Thanks for including them.

I won't lie...the "Lucky Lady" spot did fool me a little. Hearing the hours was a bit odd, and, of course, what came next was the slap to the face.

@RickinBaltimore

4 ай бұрын

Face or....?

@JordanBahrPian-UkePlayer

4 ай бұрын

@@RickinBaltimore Oh dear…

@jackatkinson3682

3 ай бұрын

You mean to tell me that there was a store selling cock rings 19 hours a day?

@georgeprice4212

3 ай бұрын

But, what were you slapped with? Open hand or….? 🤣 😂

@derekroberts6654

3 ай бұрын

An advert only appropriate for Oddity After Dark… 😅

7:39 hell yeah, Houston makes it's return to Oddity Archive!

@1903tx

3 ай бұрын

Do you know if anybody's uploaded the Soundwaves commercial with the girls who are "flat busted?"

5:11 They sell sofas, loveseats, chairs, and laughing gas. 6:08 Oh yes, Badcock has been around in Florida for decades. We never really thought about the name that much, but we're used to weirdness in this state. 17:14 This brings back memories of the bubblegum pop from my early childhood. If you've ever seen any season 1 episodes of Scooby Doo, you'll know what I mean. 19:50 and 23:16 Oddity Archive...After Dark is back :)

@Rossturnerphoto

3 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing about Badcock, and they’re still around. Also well known here in Florida, at least in the 80s and 90s, was the tire salesman for Allied at 19:33, who was known for saying, “Tires ain’t pretty!”

@mustacheboyo

3 ай бұрын

Badcock's also in Tennessee

Public Furniture definitely deserves a major recall over two adult jokes (one for the audio and the other for the video).

Lorenzo Music is Garfield as Prince in the Little Richard Story! In theaters everywhere, Summer 1986!

I was expecting “Prince” to make an appearance in the car dealerships block telling people where they can get a really great deal on a little red Chevette! Is this thing on? Is this thing on? I’ll just show myself to the door

19:32 "Allied Discount Tires". If you've not seen it before, there's a version of this called "Allied Discount Wine and Cheese". It's on youtube, filmed around the same time, possibly on cable access. Other than that, I have no idea where it came from or why. But it's earwormed me for the better part of two decades. Whenever someone mentions cheese, I automatically respond "Cheese ain't nothin' but dried-up old goat's milk".

I wouldn't get a Bob-it hot dog, I'll tell you that much

Here in St. Louis Schweig Engel was known for their weird commercials. The Slyman brothers were known in their commercials for sitting on top of the gateway arch.

@aaronmoore6275

3 ай бұрын

618 here, loved those commercials.

@KabelDairo

3 ай бұрын

Just needs Becky the Queen of Carpets for the trifecta!

@aaronmoore6275

3 ай бұрын

@@KabelDairo Get Ted Drewes on the phone!

@brianhebert6152

3 ай бұрын

@@KabelDairo She even had a popular local radio duo in some of her adverts

4:31 Never knew Fat Tony was in the window business 5:06 Fun fact, the electronics chain Silo once ran a newspaper ad offering a stereo system for "299 bananas", "bananas" in this case being obscure slang for money. Allegedly, some people actually showed up to stores with bananas, and they were forced to trade merchandise for bananas, resulting in them losing $10,465 (though the news media probably exaggerated what happened to sell more papers). 7:39 Daily reminder that Stan Freberg got caught up in a lawsuit Prince filed against the makers of Prince spaghetti (a local brand from my home state!) over an ad 9:46 Nice to see Pee-wee Herman's forgotten brother Schwee-wee. The one even Jambi doesn't want to talk about. 14:41 Bob's, where LARPers, silent movie comedy actors, cosplayers, mimes and Cirque de Soleil performers eat free! 20:07 Man, the Beastie Boys were really lame in their early days. And did Ben just reference Gwar? 22:51 "Ziggy's low-priced clothing is mine!"

2:37 Oh, my piles!

@TheKnobCalledTone.

3 ай бұрын

catch the wave!

@eascec8374

3 ай бұрын

He never learned how to be the real mastermind under Chicago's mysterious man.

You gotta give credit to the Cheech Marin impersonator in that one commercial. At least he sounds and kinda sorta if you squint hard looks like him. Unlike that dreadful Pee Wee impersonation or the charisma free Linda Carter wannabe. And they're still better than Max Headroom. Even the signal intrusion guy was closer to matt Frewer in that.

@OddityArchive

3 ай бұрын

The guy doing the Cheech impression I guess is pretty well-known in Canada (and does a ton of impressions). I thought he did a good job with the voice and mannerisms-I think he was in a sticky spot as whether or not to try and look more like Cheech. Either way, I thought he was far and away the best of the impersonators.

@mightyfilm

3 ай бұрын

@@OddityArchiveCanada seems to use a lot of their known comedians and personalities for local ads. I've seen a few with the late Harvey Atkin. Among other things, he was a staple of Canadian voice acting and also appeared in the show Cagney and Lacy. he's the goofy looking cop with a big mustache.

Great! Now I want a 1970 Ford even though I can't drive wortha a hoot! The power of catchy jingles i can't get outta my head!

Manitoba and Saskatchewan are very much like north and south dakota and the upper midwest. they have alot of similarities

@MrBillmcminn

3 ай бұрын

Regina is like a Canadian version of Sioux Falls, roughly quarter million in population with a local economy dominated by agriculture

@richardgadberry8398

3 ай бұрын

@@MrBillmcminn How is the old Pile of Bones these days? Haven't been there in about 20 years.

@MrBillmcminn

3 ай бұрын

@@richardgadberry8398 Growing on the South East, South West and North West even with a bunch of useless tools running things at city hall

Florida: I remember Tire Kingdom's adaptation of "Achy Breaky Heart," but the version on KZread doesn't match my memory. Oregon: I remember eating hamburgers from Bob's but didn't have a TV so didn't see that fine commercial.

@CommodoreFan64

3 ай бұрын

There's a former Tire Kingdom here in SC, that use to have some cheesy radio spots in the 00's, and but since they rebranded many of the locations as NTB(National Tire & Battery) I don't see, or hear any commercials for them.

Every one of these would not get a 'skip ad' by my hand if produced today. This is successful advertising!

I have loved this channel for a great while now, and I am more and more impressed that you keep finding strange, niche oddities to display and dissect. This series reminds me a lot of the classic era of Mystery Science Theater 3k, specifically with Joel, because it exudes that homegrown charm and comedy, examining and joking over old random out-of-production products and media. This series (like MST3K) is really timeless to me. Every time I tune into an episode I get increasingly astonished that it isn't more popular. Obviously its not being done for popularity, but great content should be rewarded with it. I can't describe how much admiration I have for you and your work. Thank you for for years and years of entertainment.

[Sees thumbnail] Wow! Max Headroom let himself go. Tire Kingdom rap > mumble rap

@oldradios09

3 ай бұрын

Tire Kingdom spittin them barz fr 🔥🔥🔥

@brianhebert6152

3 ай бұрын

​@@oldradios09 It should be the next big TikTok meme rap song (a song that's a legitimate joke for once)

23:05 Of all the editions of Oddity Archive After Dark, I was expecting this one the least. Maybe I should've been paying better attention.

1969/70 was the golden age of a skinny attractive girl in a mini and hippy attire to be dancing the frug to sell any old product, with a Partridge family/Cowsills style song in the background whilst the word "groovy" and "happening" were thrown around liberally.

I was stunned that a couple of those local ads were broadcast in stereo!

I used to live in Eugene, OR and couldn't find the old Kendall Ford or Bob's ad anywhere for my own local ad episode as part of a multi episode moving special when I moved back to Arkansas.

Cool to see local Badcock commercial from my childhood. Mel was a local legend more than his country singer fame being from Plant City (near Tampa)

I had a fender bender this week whereby I smashed my forehead through my glasses and into the steering wheel, so it's awesome to have something mainly lo-res like a new archive episode, to watch while I wait for the new set of windows to come in!

Like the other commenters from Florida have said, Badcock is a real furniture store, and they’re still in business as “Badcock and More”.

That Kendall Ford ad was indeed catchy.

What a surprise, Never thought commercials from my hometown of St Joe, MO would make an appearance here. Thumbs up for that and for a good episode!

13:05 - Duckpins? And this WASN'T in Baltimore?

@eascec8374

3 ай бұрын

Nope, it's the Canadian five-pin bowling. And just like what he said, it's from Winnipeg.

Also amusing that Kendall Ford is still in Eugene and Springfield.

Now it's Badcock & More!

@CommodoreFan64

3 ай бұрын

Badcock Home Furniture & More to be exact, and the ones in my area when I pass them seem to not be very busy, and have early closing hours like 6pm, or 7pm, with one having a Big Lots right next too it that stays open till 9pm, so I guess their business ain't as good as it use to be.

Those certainly were some silly local ads. The one with Wonder Woman, however...😛

Yes, it’s really called Badcock 😂. Actually it’s called “Badcock and more” now. We’ve got one in my local area. Don’t see any commercials for them anymore and it never looks like anyone is at the store, customers that is.

Yeah 4:31 is makin' 'em an offer that they can't refuse.

@brianhebert6152

2 ай бұрын

And Super Mario helps get the windows installed!

The music in the Bob-It commercial is from the soundtrack of the original Pink Panther movie by Henry Mancini and it's titled "Shades of Sennett". I get the feeling they didn't pay for the licensing...

This video is great! Thanks for releasing it on my birthday! I know it’s a coincidence but I love it! I love your local tv stuff!

Still waiting for some of the gems from Lansing, Detroit & Grand Rapids to make an appearance one day hopefully. Really wish that I would have recorded & saved more local stuff from the ‘80’s & ‘90’s when I was growing up in that area.

There's a few Badcock stores in Tennessee

@CommodoreFan64

3 ай бұрын

There are a still a few left Badcock Home Furniture & More stores here on the SC/GA border as well, but everytime I pass one they don't seem very busy with one right next to a Big Lots selling a of the same crappy overpriced low quality furniture. 😅

@eascec8374

3 ай бұрын

Badcock is truly a major southeast furniture chain for the longest time. Most locations are from Florida and Georgia, a good load in Alabama and South Carolina, and a few in Tennessee and North Carolina. They used to have locations in Kentucky and Mississippi as well.

Lots of old St. Louis commercials I remember well.

I gotta admit, "someone took his nuts and went brrr." He got a belly laugh outa me.

18:12 Okay, that one got me pretty good.

Were I am we had the Real Wayne at Waynes Auto sales in the 80's, he wore a chicken suit screaming "I Got It" repeatedly . He was popular and has a few videos on here, guy was funny.

"Schweig, Engel!",sagt der Teufel 😂

A bunch Florida commercials Badcock is still around here in Orlando. Sound Advice is only in Miami area now. The Allied Tire guy was also known for Sobiks Sub commercials.

Bonus points for Nipkow disc mention!🎉🎉🎉😂

I see you're interested in local ads from my area lol I grew up with the bizarre local ads aired in Houston, and boy are they still bizarre if I ever find a weird local ad I should share it. Cause I grew accustomed to the weird local ads for those local businesses here in Southeast Texas.

Never knew Howard Stern used to dress as Prince to sell stuff. 😂

All these local ads with impersonators, it's like watching a bad comic sketch! So weird!😆

Schweig Engel had a Christmas commercial that still lives rent free in my head 30+ years later.

Yup, I can tell you that Public Furniture (5:06) is no longer around.

boy you got a bit sassy this episode lol I love it

Never thought I'd see the day my hometown of Winnipeg would make it onto the Archive. That put a smile on my face.

18:24 WOWZERS !!

IT's funny watching those old commercials and seeing new versions of stuff you'll find in junk/vintage shops

Worth the wait❤❤❤

The Super Sash guy probably just dressed and spoke that way, it's early 80s Chicago.

Yeah, i remember when Bob-it’s were selling hotdogs, im not too sure what happened but the health department quickly shut it down…

"Pure logic dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the many." ---Albert Einstein

that public furniture ad is hauntingly bizarre, is it online anywhere sans commentary?

@OddityArchive

3 ай бұрын

Everything is cited in the end credits (both channel names and addresses).

*chef's kiss* Love the riffing Ben! 14:40-15:45 Laugh-In must've got the inspiration before the show began.

If bob belcher saw the bobs 19 cent burgers local ad He'll definitely have a field day

Did anyone else notice that the couple in the dance lesson spot and the dating spot are the same actors?

@19:05; I did that once when my dad was working on my mom's car. Honked the horn, startled him, and he threateningly told me never to do that again. (I didn't.)

Uh Benny Boy Duluth ain't small; It's 80K Sq Ft. and has a population of 86K+. Small would be a town like Dorset; Which is only 1.5K Sq Ft. and has 22 residents.

@OddityArchive

3 ай бұрын

86K is a drop in the bucket next to Minneapolis. Sioux Falls, SD has around 300K!

@larrylaffer3246

3 ай бұрын

@@OddityArchive Compared to them maybe. M

9:47… a real St. Louis staple! Love these guys and their commercials from Schweig Engel!

Love whenever KZread blesses me by reminding me this channel exists

I heard mascot and thought Bargin Bernie!

Archive After Dark

3:46 Oh hai, Judd Nelson.

5:07 Okay, if I was in the other room while this was on the TV, I'd probably be grabbing the shotgun. 8:38 And I thought MY Japanese pronunciation was bad... (I *think* he's saying "What's this? Sound Advice.") 12:57 "Who's the goddess? ... You are." 19:53 Yeah, this one was too easy for me too. 21:20 I half expected a callback to the creepy Pandora lady selling pens and pencils. 23:14 Rarely do I do a spit take. This is one of those times.

So happy to get another dose of local commercials! Yet another batch of low-budget weirdness!

In Pittsburgh,PA we had a local chain of electronic/appliance stores called "Wander Sales". Of Course it had "Wander Woman"!

@eascec8374

3 ай бұрын

Now that's going right into the books of the next Local Commercials episode.

@jamesslick4790

3 ай бұрын

I sure hops so!@@eascec8374

As a Central Floridian, I never realized how odd Badcock sounded until now. Not the weirdest thing that I’ve taken for granted around here…

9:00 Send For Cheech

Nice to see an old add for Super Sash window company. I guess they never made it in the US. They did a really nice job replacing a friend of mines windows on his home in Birmingham, England in the UK. Car City is still in business sorry, Ben. Their located in Wyoming, MI. They have the best collection of classic cars for sale. Hope you father is doing well Ben. My father is he has his good days and bad days.

After 3 years Benny boy got more local ads! Yes the store is called Badcock but now it's "Badcock & More". Hopefully not what they were selling in the last ad. I'm also glad Allied Discount Tires finally showed up! The pitchman was one Sam Behr who also owned his own shoe store in the Tampa Bay area. He made national attention for a short time in the late 80s when one of his ads was parodying televangelists of the time period. He died in 2013. Plus you gotta love that Canadian Cheech/Ernest knockoff! Hopefully we'll get Vol. 5 before OA does retire!

04:35 Morrie's wigs don't come off!

Would you trust a slimeman to sell you good appliances?

I'm throwing a flag on "Lucky Lady." No way did that go out over the air - not even in 1978 Manhattan. Maybe... MAYBE... on one of those cable channels from the days before corporations stepped in to bring order to the chaos. On an unrelated note, did anyone else think the guy asking the boss where he got his suit was weirdly short and slim? Like a young teenager made up to look like a young adult, maybe? I'm a pretty small guy myself (only 5'4" and 130 lbs), but that still jumped out at me. Maybe the point was that his suit didn't fit him right... Ziggy Boutique is an absolute banger, too. Definitely captures the manic mood of the early 1990s in all of its XTREME SURGE glory.

@OddityArchive

3 ай бұрын

Lucky Lady (and many similar ads) did air over Manhattan Cable's Channel J between 1976 and 1991. I've covered Channel J on Archive twice to date (Public Access Vol. 2 & Disco Beaver From Outer Space).

You need to get some Mattress Mack and Billy Fucillo commercials on the next installment. Just remember that "Gallery Furniture.. will.. save.. you... MONEY!!!"

@JL-sm6cg

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like Belvedere Construction in Detroit. "We. Do. Good. Work."

New OA Local TV commercials!!!!

Hey Ben my last name is Bobbitt 😂😂😂😂😂😂. No relations with Lorena Bobbitt 😅😂

Is it me? I really likes the ad for Bob's Hamburgers!

@lensmann4002

3 ай бұрын

Consider this commercial the first/lost episode of Bob's Burgers.

Have you heard of black and white auto out of Colorado springs?

Was that guy in the Personal Encounters commercial bowling candlepin?

@ronaldwayne7092

3 ай бұрын

Five-pin; it's a Canadian thing.

Ford should bring back the "Going Ford is the going thing" slogan.

i miss cheesy local tv so much

Was there some kind of obscure law where local commercials could just steal music? Like the Cheech commercial with "Lowrider" or the dance studio one with multiple songs in it. Did they just get away with it because the people who would care enough to sue just never saw them? I would think even local, small-scale video makers would know that was a potential legal hassle. The same goes for just flat-out stealing the Samurai SNL thing. I guess, it's kind of a parody...sort of...not really...

17:37 What is the Emerald Empire? Is it the area around Eugene, Oregon?

Looks like Wonder Woman has took over the show.

"Learn the dance that is the toast of New York the Passionate Tango." No I rather feel the burn learning the Masochism Tango.

Anywhere I could see the bobs hamburgers ad without commentary? Is it on KZread?

nice GWAR reference

That's not Sleazy, that's sluggo martini, before he was mutilated by GWAR. (Though Sluggo is no longer canon in GWAR mythos)

@OddityArchive

3 ай бұрын

What can I say? My GWAR lore needs work.

This is better than chicken!

Tom Raper RV: No one can ever have a worse name than me. Badcock: Hold my beer.