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This is yet another piece that I feel is pretty self-explanatory, save for a few cultural references I have listed below.
I've mentioned a great many commercials that a lot of people should recognise, simply because many of them were so memorably cringey, that they wound up becoming cultural memes, such as the 1989 advertisement for the medical alarm and protection company "LifeCall", where an actress playing an elderly woman, who has taken a fall in her bathroom activates her LifeCall pendant, and tells the dispatcher (in an anguished, almost keening cry): "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" It was so over-the-top dramatic and unintentionally funny, that it became a huge, pre-internet meme that spent the next couple of years being quoted and parodied almost everywhere
There were also a number of radio advertisements for Gold Bond medicated cream and/or body powder, one of which features a creaky old lady calling in, and in a rather sniffly and warbling voice, she declares: "Well... It was kind of a- a heat rash... Y'know, like that?"
I have also quoted a Norwich Union insurance commercial from 1990, which was unintentionally comical due to the director's complete (and obvious) lack of timing. The advert features an elderly couple sitting and watching TV, when the phone rings. The husband picks it up, and says 'Hello', and then, without even so much as a full second of pause, he turns to his wife and declares: "Why, it's Patrick! He took out life insurance! Good for you, Son!"
I've mentioned a great many commercials that a lot of people should recognise, simply because many of them were so memorably cringey, that they wound up becoming cultural memes, such as the 1989 advertisement for the medical alarm and protection company "LifeCall", where an actress playing an elderly woman, who has taken a fall in her bathroom activates her LifeCall pendant, and tells the dispatcher (in an anguished, almost keening cry): "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" It was so over-the-top dramatic and unintentionally funny, that it became a huge, pre-internet meme that spent the next couple of years being quoted and parodied almost everywhere
There were also a number of radio advertisements for Gold Bond medicated cream and/or body powder, one of which features a creaky old lady calling in, and in a rather sniffly and warbling voice, she declares: "Well... It was kind of a- a heat rash... Y'know, like that?"
I have also quoted a Norwich Union insurance commercial from 1990, which was unintentionally comical due to the director's complete (and obvious) lack of timing. The advert features an elderly couple sitting and watching TV, when the phone rings. The husband picks it up, and says 'Hello', and then, without even so much as a full second of pause, he turns to his wife and declares: "Why, it's Patrick! He took out life insurance! Good for you, Son!"
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