Anyone else remember this bizarre commercial promoting coffee back in the 80's?

[devilgrrl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rea-yBgOSo

I remember thinking that it was a joke - it couldn't be serious.

[lligrd]

1. The Coffee Achievers??

Never saw it before but it is quite laughable.

[devilgrrl]

2. Isn't it a trip?

There was another one featuring Jane Curtin doing her 'Weekend Update' character from Saturday Night Live.

[FloridaJudy]

3. ZOMG

If that isn't Kurt Vonnegut, it's his evil twin!

[Connonym]

10. and David Bowie and Heart?

too frakkin' funny!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

22. Not an evil twin...

One of the greatest authors of our generation appeared in a coffee commercial.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

4. LOL

dev....you ready for the NHL???

[devilgrrl]

5. When does hockey season start?

I can't believe I have to wait until October! :o

[PaddyBlueEyes]

6. preseason starts

in two weeks, its preseason, but its still hockey....

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. Oh hell yeah. My friends and I called ourselves

the Coffee Underachievers.

I remember reading in the papers at the time that the coffee industry was worried that the new generation wouldn't take up the habit. Then came Starbucks and the coffeehouse boom a couple years later, which neatly solved that problem.

[devilgrrl]

8. Hmmm, look at some stuff I found...

I swear to christ I remember Jane Curtin doing one of those commercials, so I googled with no avail and came upon this movie http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/ about the coffee industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeK2QqjSB1I

hmmmmm. Sounds interesting....

Then I started thinking about the other commercials I remember from the 1980's.

"Beef, It's What's for Dinner" and "Pork, the other white meat" from the factory farming business.


Makes you wonder doesn't it. :-(

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20. I remember Jane Curtin in one of the "Coffee Achiever" commercials.

[AlCzervik]

9. no but that also reminded me--does anyone remember the Sanka commercials

with Robert Young where he said "Why so tense Jim" and Jim replied "My doctor told me to switch to decaf" and poor Jim was jonesing something awful for a hit.

[devilgrrl]

12. We used to drink Taster's Choice when we were in college... and we liked it!

:puke:

Speaking of Taster's Choice, they had some pretty cheesy commercials back then too.

Say, remember this woman?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3vswxJKgI

[AlCzervik]

15. omg Mrs. Olsen and Stephen Collins!!!

"Dont you think she has enough trouble" wow the restraint that woman showed!

[KitchenWitch]

11. Yes I do!

I think about it occasionally. Funny thing was, I hated coffee back then, and now I can barely exist without it.

:rofl:

[devilgrrl]

13. After all these years, it is still one of the weirdest ad campaigns ever!

:crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

16. Yeah, I remember thinking back then, about how out of left field it was!

:silly:

[blondeatlast]

14. Oh, hell--yes I do. "The Coffee Acheivers!"

Not so very different from "Red Bull gives you WINGS!!!" though.

[devilgrrl]

17. Here's the great Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West) promoting Maxwell House!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzic86OWnS8

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21. Wow - thanks

[southpaw]

18. I remember the Coffee Acheivers ads...

It must have been the first ad they ran that stated (paraphrasing)

"Coffee gives you the serenity to dream it, and the vitality to do it."

It was pretty quickly changed to:

"Coffee gives you the serenity to dream it... then you can DO IT!"


Maybe someone thought they were promoting it as a way to get wired!

Bizarre commercials.

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19. Here are the Coffee Achievers today:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. I do remember the ads, and I recall reading that they were made because

coffee marketers were worried that young people were getting their caffeine fixes from soft drinks instead of from coffee. If trends at that time had continued, coffee would have been strictly a middle-aged drink by now.

The marketers needn't have worried.

[Fran Kubelik]

24. How about THIS one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syXvFSxV5Gk

"You be a good little Maxwell House wife and relax a little, and this marriage might even survive twins." :nuke: