Dusty Ayres
Commodore
It can be seen here: Spock-like alien in 1960's Cheer detergent commercial
Spock-like alien in 1960's Cheer detergent commercial
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Can it be verified that the commercial actually aired with that soundtrack? The audio was strange; all the lines seemed to be dubbed over. And I have a hard time believing that music would be chosen to accompany images of a product being pitched. I wouldn't put it past someone who found this commercial to redub it with Trek music and sound effects as a gag.
From the day Sterling Cooper discovered LSD, no doubt.
This link seems to point to the original version of the commercial, the audio is just a little off..
here's a youtube link to that original
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as for this one...
well, you know.
but I think that may have been the point
The absolute dead giveaway is the transporter sound from the 1980's movies.
here's a youtube link to that original
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as for this one...
but I think that may have been the point
The absolute dead giveaway is the transporter sound from the 1980's movies.
Wow. Just, wow! Just showed it to my kid brother, and he was falling down laughing! - RR
I thought this one was pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EBHIhx8ik&feature=related
Now, that's more like it. I knew there was something fishy about that first version. The actual spot was clearly influenced by ST, but no way would a commercial from 1969 have actually used ST's music and sound FX. And you're right, I thought there was something off about that transporter sound, but somehow I didn't quite recognize it as the blatant anachronism it was. I guess I was just put off by how weird the whole thing was.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
The first version I posted has the right sound, not the second one that was posted. BTW, you can download the first one for yourself and keep it too. Be warned-it's in Real Player format.
I thought the transporter sound effect was wrong.
Sterling Cooper? Are you kidding me? That spot has got McMahon and Tate written all over it!
Sterling Cooper? Are you kidding me? That spot has got McMahon and Tate written all over it!
Gold shirts and "Beam me up Scotty", two myths that refuse to die.
Well, in the third season, they stopped using the velour uniforms, and the avocado green tunics that looked gold on camera were replaced with tunics of a different fabric that matched the apparent gold color of the velour ones. So the gold shirts are not a myth, not entirely.
And Kirk does say "Beam us up, Scotty" in TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan" -- and "Scotty, beam us up" in "The Savage Curtain." So, almost.
I do not recall that ad. The effects and sounds were not close enough to the TOS ones to perhaps have me remember it?
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