Over the years, my friends have looked at me with puzzled expressions as I've tried to describe two of the oddest commercials I've ever seen. In one, a kid won't drink his orange juice until Robert Loggia tells him it's good, prompting Loggia to waltz through the door of the kid's suburban home and reassure him. In the other, one of the nastiest commercials I've ever seen, Pampers discusses how its new design helps stop "BM Leaks".
Neither of these commercials had long runs. I can only remember seeing either of them once. But they were so absurd, they stuck in my head. And for years, I thought they'd stuck in my head only. No one I ever mentioned them to could remember seeing them, and some thought I might have imagined them. It got to the point where I thought I might have imagined them myself.
But thanks to Google, I found reassurance that these memories weren't implanted by aliens, nor were they results of more "experimental" periods in college. I found LOTS of references to the Robert Loggia orange juice commercial and even found an Entertainment Weekly archived letter to the editor chiding them for leaving that nasty Pampers commercial out of their year-end "Best & Worst" list.
My luck wasn't good enough to find either commercial on YouTube, but just knowing that I didn't hallucinate them is reassuring, and when people question whether I really saw these absurdities on the air, I can say: "They're real. Go on Google and look it up."
Making it possible to find references to obscure absurd commercials... That is the magic of Google.
UPDATE
Proof! Proof! It's finally on YouTube!
Hahahahahahah!!!!
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