Where's the Beef?

Anyone remember this? Its the 30th anniversary, I regret to say...

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/01/09/where-beef-ad-turning-30-this-week/?intcmp=features

Like it was yesterday, unfortunately.

WOW... really? I still miss the old "Joe Isuzu" commercials. Those were friggin hilarious.

In reply to Bobzilla:

Yeah, those were good!

Unfortunately i remember black and white tv.

The wrote: Unfortunately i remember black and white tv.

Mom and Dad bought me a TV when I was 9 or 10. It was a 13" B&W TV. I think that thing weighed more than my 60" LCD. It got 2 channels with it's built in antenna. Fuzzy and Fuzzier.

Bobzilla wrote: WOW... really? I still miss the old "Joe Isuzu" commercials. Those were friggin hilarious.

I remember that actor doing some sketch comedy in the same format, with him saying stuff, and the subtitles calling him out.
Joe Isuzu: "Don't worry, honey, I've had a vasectomy."
Subtitles: "He's as fertile as potting soil."

The wrote: Unfortunately i remember black and white tv.

I remember having a UHF knob. It's where you found wrestling (and Weird Al).

I do not remember where's the beef. But there was a period of my childhood that I was the remote, and a period where we played sega genesis on a black and white TV.

Does that count for anything?

Didn't James Garner do those "Beef" adds, or a least some of them. ?

In reply to iceracer:

He did beef ads, but not the "where's the beef" ad.

David S. Wallens wrote:

The wrote: Unfortunately i remember black and white tv.

I remember having a UHF knob. It's where you found wrestling (and Weird Al).

Ha! Yeah, I used to watch big time wrestling on UHF station 43, broadcasting from Akron, Ohio, when I was a youngster. It was live from the Akron Armory. Johnny Powers, Bobo Brazil, etc... I used to use my younger sister as a sparing partner.

Bobzilla wrote:

The wrote: Unfortunately i remember black and white tv.

Mom and Dad bought me a TV when I was 9 or 10. It was a 13" B&W TV. I think that thing weighed more than my 60" LCD. It got 2 channels with it's built in antenna. Fuzzy and Fuzzier.

I still have one of those, although I'm not sure why.

mtn wrote: I do not remember where's the beef. But there was a period of my childhood that I was the remote, and a period where we played sega genesis on a black and white TV. Does that count for anything?

Money for Sega Genesis, but no money for color TV?

z31maniac wrote:

mtn wrote: I do not remember where's the beef. But there was a period of my childhood that I was the remote, and a period where we played sega genesis on a black and white TV. Does that count for anything?

Money for Sega Genesis, but no money for color TV?

This was about 1996ish that we got the sega? I know it was after N64 came out. It was played in the basement, not mom and dads tv.

Dad was very anti-video games.

mtn wrote:

z31maniac wrote:

mtn wrote: I do not remember where's the beef. But there was a period of my childhood that I was the remote, and a period where we played sega genesis on a black and white TV. Does that count for anything?

Money for Sega Genesis, but no money for color TV?

This was about 1996ish that we got the sega? I know it was *after* N64 came out. It was played in the basement, not mom and dads tv. Dad was very anti-video games.

So is the father of my sons.

bravenrace wrote:

mtn wrote:

z31maniac wrote:

mtn wrote: I do not remember where's the beef. But there was a period of my childhood that I was the remote, and a period where we played sega genesis on a black and white TV. Does that count for anything?

Money for Sega Genesis, but no money for color TV?

This was about 1996ish that we got the sega? I know it was *after* N64 came out. It was played in the basement, not mom and dads tv. Dad was very anti-video games.

So is the father of my sons.

That jerk doesn't he know what life skills they are failing to develop.

Would people play games that accurately trained them for life skills? Like Flip the burger, Delete the Email, Drive the Desk? Oh wait isn't that most facebook games?

Ransom wrote:

Bobzilla wrote: WOW... really? I still miss the old "Joe Isuzu" commercials. Those were friggin hilarious.

I remember that actor doing some sketch comedy in the same format, with him saying stuff, and the subtitles calling him out. Joe Isuzu: "Don't worry, honey, I've had a vasectomy." Subtitles: "He's as fertile as potting soil."

Somebody told me about one like that. Went something like. "Top speed of 130mph!" *Downhill in a hurricane

Bobzilla wrote:

The wrote: Unfortunately i remember black and white tv.

Mom and Dad bought me a TV when I was 9 or 10. It was a 13" B&W TV. I think that thing weighed more than my 60" LCD. It got 2 channels with it's built in antenna. Fuzzy and Fuzzier.

When I was a kid, I had a Sears portable 5 inch black and white TV exactly like this one. I used to watch American Gladiators on that bitch as a kid.

bravenrace wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote:

The wrote: Unfortunately i remember black and white tv.

I remember having a UHF knob. It's where you found wrestling (and Weird Al).

Ha! Yeah, I used to watch big time wrestling on UHF station 43, broadcasting from Akron, Ohio, when I was a youngster. It was live from the Akron Armory. Johnny Powers, Bobo Brazil, etc... I used to use my younger sister as a sparing partner.

Ch. 53 in Pgh. on Saturdays, don't remember much but Bruno Samartino. There was also a crazy fan who caught a lotta TV time, a granny w/ a rubber chicken IIRC... Ringside Rosie.

Geezus, that makes me feel old.

My remote was connected to the tv with a wire. I learned that if you held two buttons down together you could appear to descramble the Playboy channel. I was a patient child.

In reply to ZOO:

You must be young. No remote, no color, no playboy channel. That was my childhood, along with walking a mile to school in knee deep snow (that's actually true, although it was just shy of a mile).

Pong.

Woody wrote: Pong.

No, breakout

bravenrace wrote: In reply to ZOO: You must be young. No remote, no color, no playboy channel. That was my childhood, along with walking a mile to school in knee deep snow (that's actually true, although it was just shy of a mile).

And uphill both ways.