Thread for random old TV voiceover/announcer phrases that pop into your head

A Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Production

[Game show host]'s wardrobe by Botany 500

OMG, excellent!

tonight we're using Lancelot and set of balls number three

And now for the exciting conclusion of... [movie title]

EVERY time I sit down to watch the last 15-20 minutes of a movie I hear that in my head

Head On, apply directly to the forehead, Head On, apply directly to the forehead

Funding for this program was brought to you by ... the ILX Corporation.

when you're on the road
hey it's good to know
we're prepared to help you, all of the way
any time of day

WHAT FUCKING COMMERCIAL WAS THAT

NFC

Funding for this thread was brought to you by...the NFC Corporation.

"And with refills, Bugs Bunny or Bozo The Clown"

Wait, what was that?

This old commercial

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObdEUA2rwGg

Nice! Gets a mention here: Favorite TV ad. jingle of all time

Also mentioned several time on this thread: In every 70s US home ever
I may even repost that video over there.

It's a cool commercial! I love the panned/zoomed opening montage of designs; plus the jingle could almost be The Archies

Bain de soleil, for the St. Tropez tan.

"why ask why?
Try Bud Dry"

Not an announcer but:
“My dogs can’t breathe with shoes on!”

Kasey Kasem: "That story . . . after this."

Today is the first day of the rest of your life– start it right with Total.

Ernie Anderson: "NEXT TIME ON STAAAAAAAAAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION!"

Is that Ghoulardi, PTA’s dad?

Who was one of nine, I just saw!

"L'Oreal...because you're worth it."

Ask any mermaid
You happen to see
What’s the best tuna?
Chicken of the Sea

I can’t seem to forget you
You’re Windsong stays on my mind.

Guess it’s two words, so:
Wind Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tzcyew12Pg
With some kind harmonica I don’t remember, want to believe it is Tools Thielemans but I doubt it.

See also:
Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

I work across the street from a small airport, and on breezy days the old Windsong perfume jingle plays in my head: "I can't seem to forget you / Your windsock stays on my mi-i-i-ind....."

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, December 13, 2014 3:55 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfM5jIi7ZM
“I’m Roger Grimsby, hear now the news.”

MTV Music Awards featured a scratchy, male Gen X voiceover during the late 80s / early 90s. Sounded very much like a voice Trey Parker parodies on South Park.

One year, a particular video landed in quite a few categories, and to this day, I still hear Darryl Hall.. Dreamtime - "You're living in Dreamtime!"... in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFnj-pr0sk
"If you want to capture someone's attention, whisper"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhlo-Q01Cqs

People also selling print ads for this on ebay and posting on Pinterest.x

“They got me back in the game baby!”

Golfer Lee Trevino in some ad for knee therapy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7tfIRjlR4

Basically every line in that commercial, which just madelined me down a memory hole

"Paul Harvey . . . good day."

Guest posters in this thread win a supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat

"Proof, if proof be need be"

“You’re not fully clean until you’re ZESTfully clean!”

10 Central and Mountain

I like the way that kid slams the tone arm down.

"Member FDIC"

588-2300 Empiiiiiire

"It's 10PM. Did you hug your child today?"

classifieds classifieds gua-ran-tee

Maybe the time was actually 7PM, it seems.

In NYC, it was "It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?"

Was there an epidemic of children running away from home in the '70s that I never noticed?

They had both those announcements iirc

The fact that they had to interrupt television programming at night to remind parents that they have children may explain something about our generation.

🤔

"Bain de Soleil for the St. Tropez tan"

Bain de soleil, for the St. Tropez tan.

― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:40 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Rice! A Roni.. the San Francisco Treat!"

"ooh! you! Subaru... got the brains, and the beauty too!"

Me and my RC! Me and my RC
What's good enough for everyone else
Ain't good enough for me

Accommodations provided by...

"Wind Song by Prince Matchabelli" (nb: always pronounced Match-a-belly)

"There's a fragrance that's here today and they call it...
Charlie!" (cue Shelley Hack)

Heh. I used to get confusion with the British rock band Charlie, who always used to have cover girls on their...album covers.

"L'Oreal...because you're worth it."

― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Monday, September 6, 2021 3:14 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

For me, it's "Stu-stu-stu-studio Line from L'Oreal"

"In NYC, it was "It's 10 PM. Do you know where your children are?"

Was there an epidemic of children running away from home in the '70s that I never noticed?

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 1:05 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink"

I remember seeing these as a kid and being like - I'm right here! Who the hell is a kid who isn't home by 10 but I had strict parents. My curfew through HS was 10:30.

Two commercial VOs that end with the same word, I'll let y'all guess the products:

"We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better!"

"Little! Yellow! Different! Better!"

Wonder if it should if count if the slogan was kind of from before my time but I still remember it, such as "Brylcreem — A Little Dab'll Do Ya!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6F4GtyRfto

"Wind Song by Prince Matchabelli" (nb: always pronounced Match-a-belly)

― more difficult than I look (Aimless)

"I can't seem to forget you, your wind song plays in my mind ..."