OJ Simpson TV Commercials on YouTube

thomaslfowler — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:50:26 +0000

I was speaking to a colleague today, and the subject of OJ Simpson’s conviction in Nevada came up. I know little of the details, and because of the impending global depression and the depressing presidential election, maybe not many others do either. I told my pal that OJ was once a highly sought after pitchman for rental cars and other things.

Thanks to YouTube, you can relive his commercials:

A flying OJ

Counter girls

Fast return

with Arnold Palmer – $89 / week in Florida! (1984)

with Jamie Lee Curtis

Chevy Nova (the car that famously “didn’t go” in Latin America)

American TV commercials from 60s, 70s: Part I

thomaslfowler — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:38:17 +0000

I have friend who is applying for US citizenship and is gung ho American all the way. He may have to learn things like who his US Senators are and the like for the citizenship quiz (if they even ask those things anymore, most Americans dont know who their Senators are). What he really needs to know are the cultural artifacts he missed by not growing up here, the Missing Years I would call them. One cultural topic would TV commercials from the days corresponding to his childhood, late 60s – 70s, maybe early 80s. YouTube is addictive for looking up videos, so I have made a list of YouTube links (part one) of must see TV for the culturally unaware.

If you’re good you should be able to guess what the commercials are about by just looking at the brand names.