How can the Gap ever be cool again if they aren’t producing commercials like this anymore? What kids today need to see is Madonna and Missy Elliot bumping butts in order for them to think your clothing chain is ‘the bee’s knees’.

This spot is from earlier this decade, but looks like it was made in the 1980′s.

This ad for video game design training at Collins College used to make its rounds on the G4 network. The differences portrayed in the ad versus the realities of game design are so sharply different it should warrant a ‘complete dramatization’ title.

First of all, you program video games with a video game controller? No, that would be stupid. Only a big dummy would thing that’s how it happens.

This awful commercial comes to us today via the Consumerist.

These three commercials are from 1986, and have all the production values of an Electric Company skit. Watch for Linda staring towards the camera / director for her cue to sit back up in bed.

I still say they should have gotten real medical help for this poor woman.

EIC: is steven richards a wrestler man or something

toby8000: yes

EIC: i need to write some crap for this commercial
is he totally washed up or what
do you love him

toby8000: he’s so-so
kind of an eternal midcard guy

EIC: so like you dont really jerk to him
that’s what you do when you watch wrestling right
i do understand correctly

(Oh there is more…)

This blank template ad for local Stamford-area Toyota dealerships parodies the Godfather, staring ‘Don CarLoanie’ as the car salesman.