Commercials That Still Haunt My Dreams 

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Wendy’s making fun of people who are “behind the times” in an ad where they unironically use top and bottom Impact text memes is peak irony

eddy you're looking more and more like a history professor who has recently gone through a terrible divorce and is on the brink of being fired every day

So, as it turns out, the Mighty Putty DID actually work as advertised. That shit could pull tens of thousands of pounds of weight when left to dry for 24 hours, honestly miracle work

fun fact! I knew the guy who did the Doritos time machine ad, and that wound up being his "big break" into the film industry! he has since passed, unfortunately, but its nice to see people still remember his Doritos ad.

Eddie: Is hurt by people thinking he’s 35. Also Eddie: Has an 35 year old dad mustache.

the shamwow guy is a legend in spanish speaking countries because the shamwow and slap chop commercials were also made in spanish but they didnt like get a spanish actor, it was the god damn dude just trying to speak the most broken spanish you can imagine and even spanish speakers could barely understand it, it is funny as hell

You aren't alone in how comfortable that Chef Boyardee commercial is. It's such a wholesome commercial!

I've never recovered from the BABY BOTTLE POPS commercial it still plays in my head sometimes 😢

I wish he hadn’t cut the footage, I’d have loved an hour of Eddy drunkenly ranting about commercials from my childhood

Chef boyordees motto shouldve been “boyaredeez good”

Look, I know this is years later but I finally got that JG Wentworth song out of my head and NOW IT'S BACK! EDDY YOU'RE A MONSTER! WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME!?

The Free Credit Report songs were so catchy. I remember being in middle school at their height and on a field trip for some reason the whole bus started singing one of the songs, like absolutely belting a commercial song meant for a demographic we didn’t belong to. Iconic lmao

When Eddie and Gus morph together they become Ron Swanson

Eddy you’re gonna talk about Billy Mays and NOT mention OxiClean?!

When Eddy went to take a drink after the sham-wow commercial, my instinct was to yell “Eddy no that’s the carpet cola!”

I studied opera, and my friends and I absolutely love the JG Wentworth ads. We always sing along lol

what annoys me about the wendy’s ad is that they have “the meme-er” or whatever who is supposed to be current with internet humor but is wayy stale and then they have “the behind -the-timer” who is saying supposedly old jokes/phrases but they basically are the same person. it just lacks self-awareness

idk why but eddy is such a comforting sight right now

"Its so great that it's February 1st of 2020 because nothing will ever go wrong" - Eddy Burback

The education connection commercials were insanely catchy

it took me a while to realize the thumbnail is an old spice ad of a guy's abs and not a talking piece of melted chocolate

I never liked Shamwow guy because his voice had the cadence of a street magician

I loved JG Wentworth commercials. They were catchy, memorable, and funny. Commercials were a giant part of millennial and Gen X life. They were just as important as the shows and movies that came out back then. 🥰 I think you're considered an older Gen Z, just based on your age. You're seriously only 23? You are so young, lol.

My childhood nostalgic commercial is the Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup commercial when the snowman walks inside the house, a mom hands him a bowl of chicken noodle soup, and as he eats it all the snow melts and it’s now just a little boy. I was born in 1990 and it was very big when I was a kid 😂

I begged my mom for a shamwow for Christmas when I was a kid and the second I opened it on christmas day, I ran to the kitchen so I could dump out an entire liter of soda onto the floor to test it. Sadly, the shamwow did not work and I just had a bunch of soda on the floor on Christmas day

i’m starting to think that this wasn’t filmed in february

You know you really need to go to bed already when it's 3:25 AM and the nostalgia from a canned ravioli commercial makes you tear up because it reminds you of life when you were happy still

I'm shocked that you talked about Billy Mays without bringing up Oxiclean! I knew him as the oxiclean guy growing up

I’ve never had a straighter face than when I was watching that Wendy’s ad. So aggressively unfunny.

My parents bought a Shamwow, and I can confirm that it is just as incredible as advertised. They soak up so much water that they become a couple pounds heavier when at full capacity. We now own like ten of them, and we use them for everything.

Those JG Wentworth ads were so needlessly catchy that I definitely had it stuck in my head... like yeah if I ever need that I'll call em cuz damn... The O'Reilly Auto Parts ad lives rent-free in my head, too. I remember going to school and you'd occasionally have a group break out singing the jingle. Like if you can get a group of middle schoolers to unite under this one advertisement then you've made a great ad

Bro i feel your pain. Everyone says i look like im 40 and they are always shocked when i tell them im 24. Like bro that was flattering when i was 13, it just hurts now

I was so worried that Microsoft killed Eddie.

I genuinely believe that Billy Mays and Phil Swift were separated at birth.

"New Old Spice bar soap: Never leave your house again." The self-awareness is pretty on-point with that one.

putting the JG Wentworth song back in my head was cruel, but reawakening my memory of that chef boyardee commercial completely makes up for it, just a lovely wave of nostalgia

When I was little I had a crippling fear of Billy Mays and had almost nightly nightmares about him where he came and yelled at me.

Drunk Eddy has homoerotic thoughts about the late Billy Mays, pass it on

I like about 4 hours away from my family because of college and every few months my brother will text me a line from JGWentworth and we’ll just text the lines back and forth to check up on me. This commercial is literally the glue holding my family together hours apart😭

The Chef Boyardee commercial took me back to when I was a kid. I got such warm fuzzies in my stomach! Thanks Eddy for unlocking my old memories.

I’m not of age but I wanted to feel included so I put apple juice in a glass cup

Ed ‘Hot Man’ Burback is my hero.

space bags do work really well actually and it’s the only way i transport clothes while moving now! the brand doesn’t matter that much though, they’re just vacuum seal bags so you can get them pretty much anywhere!

That mighty putty commercial set me back about 15 years 🤣🤣

I think the reason why phill swift got so popular was because he filled the hole that Billy Mays left

No one gonna talk about how he didn’t even mention what billy mayz is most known for? Oxy Clean

Mighty putty is so strong it kept my parents together for another 3 years

He rings out the shamwow so aggressively it’s kinda threatening

quote from my younger brother in 2009: “all the good people are dying.... our uncle Charlie, Michael jackson, and now billy mays.”

*When I was little, I stole a ravioli can from Publix, and when I got home and my mom asked about it, I told her that it rolled off the shelf and followed us home...*

oh my god. that chef boyardee ad ... i legit cried when it came on- it's been so long since i've seen it, and i think the nostalgia was just so nice and comforting 😭

The shamwow towel was actually sick. I still use similar products for window washing and car detailing

Fun fact: my track team in high school had a frankly alarming obsession with Chef Boyardee to the point that we would call each other “Chef (name)” and gave the seniors cans of Chef Boyardee with little pictures of their faces on them as graduation gifts.

That little girl saying: 'But I love chef'. was just so adorable and heart breaking the way she said it.

14:25 I literally got the chills right tthen wtf i am actually freaked out man

I'm so glad that its February 1st 2020 and nothing will ever go wrong

if Randall from monster’s inc was a person, he would be the shamwow guy

does anyone remember when we all went on youtube to look like “top 10 banned commercials” and it was like that sexual skittle one

I love the Credit Report commercial jams. They simply rock.

I bought the previous iteration of the ShamWOW called a Magi-Cloth from a Meijer grocery. A lady was selling it the same exact way Vince did, but in a more traditional infomercial style. It does work really well and I still have two of them to this day. Don't ever put it in the dryer though as it'll get deformed.

I think the thing with Billy Mays was that he sounded so genuinely enthusiastic. Like we have a way of parsing out who is obviously faking it, but he was just excited about everything so it was more like “yeah this guy is great, this must be great”.

“Why don’t you have a drink with me?” Welp, guess it’s time for a beer at 6 AM.

17:31 if it were me when i was a kid i would have gotten beat with a belt bc my dad would have thought that i stole it.

Old Spice really is the last time I can remember a "major brand" really convincing me with just an ad. It was the one with Bruce Campbell JUST before these where he just walked around a rotating room in a smoking jacket talking about "If you have it, you know it. You don't have it, you want it" and it went for 30 seconds and it was perfect. I love that they just leaned into "cool, weird ads" and it worked for them, I know I shouldn't love a brand, but in this ONE CASE I do.

I cannot believe you talked about billy Mays and didn’t even mention kaboom or oxy clean

Gettin drunk in a Bears sweatshirt while talkin' about commercials is some real midwest energy.

I love infomercials, and one thing i can say is this, none of the products that billy mays has advertised work, and thats what made hime just a legend in advertising, because anyone can sell something that works, but it takes a master to sell something that doesnt work

I'm shocked that the chef boyardee can still looks so good after how far it rolled.

There is an impressive mustache filling the void of the quarantine

The Free Credit Report Online guys actually got the gig by winning a contest the company held and they thought it would be their springboard into superstardom.

You buy a product that tells you it’s a sham in its name, then discover "Wow! This IS a sham…" that’s on you.

11:14 “Made in Germany. Y’know the Germans always make good stuff” Hindenburg: Hold my beer 🍺

As soon as you said “Billy Mays” I vividly remembered the power of OxiClean

there’s a campbell’s commercial where this snowman comes into this ladies house and she sets a bowl of soup in front of him and he defrosts into her son and i can’t get it out of my brain

Fun fact I used to be deathly afraid of Oxi Clean as a kid because Billie mays would scare me in the commercials. And I was DEATHLY afraid like I wouldn’t go down the cleaning aisle as a 3 year old because I knew oxi clean would be there

I heard JG Wentworth as a kid long before I could tell you what a structured settlement was and that song is stuck in my head forever. If I ever get some kind of annuity in the future, I'll always know about that service. Scary effective advertising, they didn't need to write another song.

Who else thinks it’s crazy that Eddy predicted the quarantine from way back in February?

“If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the JG Wen-“ *_NO PLEASE, NO. NO. NOOOOOOOO_*

I can confirm that my settlement is in-fact structured due to JG Wentworth living rent free in my head for over a decade. and that Chef Boyardee commercial is literally one of if not the greatest commercial ever made, just sits so warm in those childhood feels

🤣 that I have *hate* in my heart for is the J.G. Wentworth commercial. I love that this was led by the Free Credit Report guy because both of those are commercials that were essential to both basic, and regular cable.

Fun fact: Shamwow guy, Vince, actually has a criminal record. Look him up.

The reasont the shamwow guy is so sketch is cuz he talks like a tweaker trying to sell u the tires they took off ur neighbour's car

Billy Mays had the enthusiastic energy of a Daytime TV Host, and always looked so excited and happy. That’s why he seemed so trustworthy. Vince (The Shamwow guy,) always seemed like a tweaking shady guy on the streets of NYC trying to sell me stolen watches. He always looked like he was keeping an eye out for the cops about to arrest him. It was like he drank as much water as he could before filming and REALLY had to pee. One was outgoing and excited, and that would make YOU feel excited. The other came across as rushed and awkward, and that made YOU feel awkward and desperate to get away from him.

the jg wentworth commercial is a memetic cognito-hazard dude, its been years and its still in my head way more than it should be

The flex seal ads were iconic. Satisfying and the guy was so enthusiastic. I wanted to buy flex seal so bad

I think the thing about meme culture is that memes don't die, they just require more layers of irony to be funny

Omg, that last commerical brought back so many memories!💚

I remember in high school we were on a chorus trip at Cedar Point in Ohio, and while we were in lines a decent sized group of us started singing the JG Wentworth ad. Some people started laughing like crazy and others apparently haven’t seen it and were utterly confused. It really makes me wonder where this ad was shown.

You playing the Wendy’s ad in its entirety was uncalled for

Eddy: Gen Z has such amazing humor in memes Gen Z: burgghur

My older brother bought shamwows when I was a kid. They worked actually really well, but overtime like any rag they wore out and weren't really effective anymore

The mom grounds the little girl for shoplifting the chef boyardee, she's not gonna believe it walked itself out of the store.

ok listen here Mr. “Hot Man” Burback: i did NOT appreciate the way you posted up at the end of the video. you struck fear into my soul with that power stance. i will never be the same again.

“why don’t you drink with me, and let’s talk about some dumb advertisements!” *me about to die from alcohol poisoning: YEAH OKAY!*

We gotten a few Shamwows before. It was... Eh, paper towels worked better, but at least the shamwow was reusable. 13:30 I feel like that's Weird Al singing, which explains the quality.

all of these commercials were so nostalgic for me BUT THE LAST ONE IS A CORE MEMORY. i love chef too

"And you need cash now!" no i don't, I'm 12 watching Zoey 101 please stop yelling, owie my little ears.

Ok but the JG Wentworth ads with people just yelling out their windows "it's my money and i need it now" were actually pretty good

billy mays WAS a national treasure, nay, a national hero. God rest his soul. He's up there selling stuff to god now