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!”
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.
WHEN I was a kid, Christmas wasn’t complete without watching the Rankin/Bass “Animagic” TV special, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” How many of you remember this classic?
Here’s a trailer of this Christmas classic on YouTube.
Nostalgic Trip, the nostalgia blog of INQUIRER.net. Manila-based INQUIRER.net is the online home of the Philippine Daily Inquirer Group of Publications.