Ad from the National Coffee Association 1984
July 11th, 2010 |
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Join the Coffee Achievers!!! You are the New Coffee Generation! 1984 ad includes David Bowie, rock stars, sport, stage, Cicely Tyson, Ann & Nancy Wilson, Heart, Kurt Vonnegut
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July 11th, 2010 at 12:58
Aaaah, those were the days! Thanks for bringing back the memories!
July 11th, 2010 at 13:28
Wally from “Dilbert” is a coffee achiever!
July 11th, 2010 at 14:25
I’m a coffee achiever! Well, except for the achiever part…
July 11th, 2010 at 15:03
This was way better when SNL parodied it as “The Crack Achievers.”
July 11th, 2010 at 15:20
Thank you, National Coffee Association. I did not know …
July 11th, 2010 at 15:21
since when is Bowie american?
July 11th, 2010 at 15:41
Hey, there’s a secret aerosol spraying program going on worldwide. Search “chemtrails”, “Dont talk about the weather” and “Endgame HQ”. Check my chan – I watched it happen. Wake up, wake others, we need ya.
July 11th, 2010 at 15:44
When we have a National Coffee Association, we have too many fucking associations.
July 11th, 2010 at 16:28
0:18 the director falls to the left, then immediately comes back into frame from the right.
July 11th, 2010 at 16:57
I love these! No one else I have mentioned them to remembers them…struck me as so weird, even back then. Please post the others if you have a chance. Btw, that’s not Pat Benetar, it’s Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart!
July 11th, 2010 at 17:21
Hilarious!
July 11th, 2010 at 17:36
Definitely upload the other two! These ads were so bizarre. There was one with Ken Anderson that also inexplicably included Joe Jackson (the British pop singer) and Jane Curtin doing a “Weekend Update” from SNL. I remember just not…believing them. They seemed to have nothing to do with any of the people shown, and seemed to be way overblowing the capabilities of coffee. “Because coffee CALMS YOU DOWN…and picks you up!” Yeah, right…and this has to do with David Bowie and ELO how??
July 11th, 2010 at 18:07
Beer makes you lean, muscular & sexually-alluring.
July 11th, 2010 at 18:20
“You’re looking hale and hardy little buddy”
“I’m a coffee achiever Sam”
finally I get it!
July 11th, 2010 at 19:08
Speaking of 2 AM, I remember these commercials during Night Tracks on SuperStation WTBS. I should upload the other two with Ken Anderson and Heart.
July 11th, 2010 at 19:33
0:25 – Looks like Cicely’s on something a little more potent than caffeine.
July 11th, 2010 at 20:21
Lol I love how David Bowie when they say American Society. Considering he is British and cocaine is what got him up in the morning
July 11th, 2010 at 21:07
Isn’t it ironic Vonnegut is in this ad? This ad seems like everything he mocks about America in his books.
July 11th, 2010 at 21:57
Yes, we are addicted to a drug in a liquid form. I guess thats what makes America work. That and weed.
July 11th, 2010 at 22:01
ELO did this song! Great tune!
July 11th, 2010 at 22:17
when this series first came out, they would air this at like 2 AM. I mentioned to my friends that it was like a surreal nightmare and reminded me of the image of someone “the movers and the shakers” slumped in the corner shaking with soiled pants…. Oh the memories!! thanks!
July 11th, 2010 at 22:29
I didn’t remember Kurt Vonnegut being in that commercial! Cool!
July 11th, 2010 at 22:39
Do you have the one with “Coffee beans and human beings were meant to be the best of friends”?
July 11th, 2010 at 23:30
hey thanks for uploading this. I remember the one with David Bowie singing Modern Love. And the one with NY city marathon winner Allison Roe from 1981. Very weird marketing idea for coffee, pre-starbucks era.
July 11th, 2010 at 23:32
Caffeine . . . the 80s version of meth. Oops . . . I forgot, it was cocaine, not caffeine. There’s a reference to this song in Weird Al’s “Dare to be Stupid”.
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