From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hp-pcd!everett
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Re: Re: Old Timex TV blooper - (nf)
Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.434
Posted: Fri Nov  5 12:01:39 1982
Received: Tue Nov  9 06:26:00 1982

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hp-pcd!everett    Nov  5 07:51:00 1982

re: Old Timex TV blooper.

If you are hooked up to cable and get Showtime (maybe others are showing
it also, I don't know), there is a one hour show called "We'll Be Right
Back". It is a compilation of old, new, funny, superb, sexy, foreign,
amazing, etc., etc., etc. commercials. Included is the Timex commercial
where the watch comes loose from the propeller and is in the bottom of
the tank. It does seem like he said something along the lines of what
you quote, but the camera also comes in for a close-up at the end and
shows the watch lying (laying?) (being screwed?) on the bottom of the
tank, still ticking away......
   I caught the show towards the end of October, so I don't know if it's
still on this month or not.
   For those interested, just last night (Nov 4) I saw an ad on commercial
(pardon the non-pun) TV for another special about commercials that's to
be shown next week sometime, which includes at least several of the ads
that I saw on the Showtime show. (Whether it will have the Timex commercial
or not, I don't know; but, it does have the Japanese ad with all the little
boys in the bath, with little bubbles coming up behind one little boy.)

                                  Everett Kaser
                                  Corvallis, Or