REMEMBER the classic hotdog commercial featuring this young girl who was writing about her crush Carlo in her diary?

Well, you don’t have to picture it in your mind because you can now find them on YouTube. Fellow tech journalists Jing Garcia and Rory Visco (thanks guys) and I were talking over lunch today about the classic advertisements in Philippine television. And of course, this “Goodbye, Carlo!” ad (I forgot which agency made it) immediately came to mind.

The ad starts with our young lady writing about Carlo who sat beside her (I assumed in school), and telling her that she’s pretty but “fat.” So she vowed to stop eating chocolates, spaghetti, and hotdogs. Then, she looks over at her table where two juicy hotdogs are waiting to be eaten. For a few seconds, she thinks about her diary entry, and writes, “Goodbye, Carlo!”

Here’s the video clip.

Other classic Filipino television ads could be found on YouTube. You only need to do a search on “Pinoy” and “ads” and you’ll get a slew of them. I just found the “I Can Feel It” soap ad featuring Alice Dixon and Sheila Ysrael looking very, er, young back in the 80s.

“I can feel it!”

WHEW, never thought I’d see this TV commercial again. Yup, I remember using Proof toothpaste as a kid, hehe

Kudos to ADman1909.

BELIEVE it or not, back in the 60s, “The Flintstones” was sponsored by Winston cigarettes. In fact, as you’ll see in this video clip from jayro76, Fred even sings the famous “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” jingle.

Hmm, guess back then they saw nothing wrong with using cartoons to sell cigarettes — I wonder what the kids thought of this.

THIS will always be the real thing for me — the best Coca Cola commercial in my opinion.

The 1971 “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke” jingle was so popular that it spawned the hit pop song (which removed the Coke references) “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony).”

Here’s the clip of the “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke” or “Hilltop” ad from desireless.

And here’s a clip from videoholic2007 of the reunion ad featuring 15 of the original cast members and their children. The ad, which was unveiled during Super Bowl XXIV on January 28, 1990, launched Coke’s “Can’t Beat the Real Thing” campaign.

ANYONE else remember eating Royal Chocolate Flavored Margarine?

I do, but for the life of me, I don’t know why once upon a time, I actually liked this stuff heh

Here’s the TV commercial starring the late Rod Navarro.

Video courtesy of ADman1909