Figurines Commercial (1976)

If you don't watch your figure, nobody else will.

I took a 3 day trip on a bus and I ate my entire box of figurines in the first two hours.

That jingle forever ruined the gorgeous dreamy song it was based on.

R3- First of all I had no idea it was taken from a song from 1942.

Second of all- I hate to say it but I prefer the 1976 Figurines version better.

I'd never heard of Bob Eberly before, but he looks like Richard Beymer.

Salsoul Orchestra's disco version of "Tangerine" is where it was really at in '76.

The lyrics (by Johnny Mercer) of the original song are witty and sophisticated very much of the era:

(Male singer)

Tangerine,

She is all they claim

With her eyes of night and lips as bright as flame

Tangerine,

When she dances by

Senoritas stare and caballeros sigh

And I've seen

Toasts to Tangerine

Raised in every bar across the Argentine

Yes, she has them all on the run

But her heart belongs to just one

Her heart belongs to Tangerine

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(Female singer)

Tangerine,

She is all they say

With mascara'd eye and chapeaux by Dache.

Tangerine,

With her lips of flame

If the color keeps, Louis Philippe's to blame.

And I've seen

Clothes on Tangerine

Where the label says "From Macy's Mezzanine".

Yes, she's got the guys in a whirl

But she's only fooling one girl

She's only fooling Tangerine!

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"chapeaux by Dache" refers to the hat designer Lilly Daché and "Louis Philippe" was a brand of lipstick.

Lilly Daché

R8- Helen Mirren

They were just wafer cookies?

Yep. They tasted like chocolate covered sawdust.

I remember this commercial and really wanted to try them but I can imagine now that they probably weren't too tasty.

And I remember that disco version of Tangerine R5 posted very well too.

R6 I mean!

I thought these were so delicious.

It was a good song, but terrible for the purposes of turning into a jingle

That’s Reena! From my story! She’s married to Adam Drake, don’t you know?

By any chance, r13 r14, were you an habitué of the Barefoot Boy?

Dorothy Kilgallen at R18

I recognize the woman in the commercial. She was on the soap operas "Another World" and "Texas" in the very early 80s and played a character named Rena. I vaguely recall that Iris didn't like her.

OMG, 'Texas.' What a train wreck of a show. I did love it when it went supernatural but it was corn.

Carla Borelli

My shape belongs to Ayds*

Why sizzle fat, when you can sizzle lean?

They weren’t good. But modern protein bars aren’t good either.

I’m pretty sure she also owes her figure to a tightly cinched girdle in that commercial too.

My dad was in the wholesale grocery business and brought a case of Figurines home when I was a kid. I ate them for snacks even though I didn’t need to lose weight.

IIRC, what made Figuirines really appealing was that malt was a big ingredient and gave the bars a denser, richer flavor that other snacks lacked. I was one of those who struggled to keep myself from eating half a box. Maybe I'm thinking of another breakfast bar? Or I'm confused

It wasn't until Carnation Breakfast bars took over their place and we knowcl what happened then...

[quote]r22 Carla Borelli

A short two years after hawking Figurines so glamorously, how the mighty had fallen:

Carla Borelli played 25 year old VIRGIN Mary Anderson on Days of Our Lives in the 70's, and I remember asking Dr. Tom Horton if it was normal for a 25 year old to be a virgin. Shortly thereafter, they replaced with her with a more homely actress.

She reminds me of Juliann Moore somewhat.

More!

and MORE!

Betty White fired Carla after the pilot ep of her show in 1977, replacing her with Caren Kaye.

R23 you are going to hell!

R31 She always reminded me of a poor man's Paula Prentiss (if there really ever could be a poor version of her; Prentiss was never a big star).

I don't remember that commercial at all.