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* "Where's the beef?" Such a simple ad would never fly at the [[Super Bowl Special|Super Bowl nowadays]], but back when the "Fluffy Bun" ad aired, it was a breakaway success, the little old lady who delivered the line became a minor celebrity, and the line became symbolic of something that had no "meat" to it, whether figuratively or literally; it even got mentioned in the 1984 US Presidential campaign. Now, which restaurant chain was it an ad for? (Wendy's)
** The fact that the slogan got so broken away from the company is a major reason why Wendy's decided to bring it back in new ads for 2011.
* "The greatest thing since sliced bread" was a tagline from a Wonder Bread commercial.
* The line "So round! So firm! So fully packed!" was a slogan from radio ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes back in the '40's, but it then got picked up by radio personalities and [[Looney Tunes]] characters like Pepé Le Pew for describing members of the fairer sex. Most Looney Tunes fans today can tell it's a '40's cultural reference, but few would know what it's from.
* "You've come a long way, baby!" Originally a cigarette advert (as cigarettes displaced cigars in an attempt to market the product to women). Now merely a shorthand for sexism... ''No. I haven't come a long way, and [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!|don't call me 'baby'.]]''
* "They check in, but they don't check out" in reference to an [[Inn of No Return]] or a filthy [[Hell Hotel|cockroach motel]]. The original product was Black Flag's Roach Motel<sup>®</sup> bug traps as "Roaches check in, but they don't check out."
* Coca-Cola's "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing," which was for four weeks in 1971 ''the #1 single in the U.K.''.
** Although this one is arguably a bit easier to identify for anyone who remembers anything beyond the first line of lyrics, since
*** The jingle was re-released as a pop song with the sodapop advertising excised; in that version, the line (which is the ''fourth'' line) is changed to "I'd like to hold it in my arms"
*** The song has probably been redeemed with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDXHEBvhU8Y this] recent commercial that airs during NASCAR events.
* The "Da Da Da" song by Trio may not have originated in a 1990's Volkswagen ad, but that's certainly what popularized it in the U.S.
** That song actually belongs to [[The Eighties]].
* The ad campaign / With these short poems / Was used at first / For shaving fo-am / [[Burma-Shave]]
* "You got your X in my Y!" "You got your Y in my X!" for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (originally, it was chocolate and peanut butter).
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