Richards Favorite Videos

This is the extra long music video length version of the song that they showed on TRL.

Britney Spears travels through various decades singing and dancing for Pepsi under the current hip trends of the times. I watched the Superbowl with my Britney-obsessed girlfriend at the time ONLY for this commercial, downloaded it afterward, and basically saw and watched it about 300 times.

Allegedly Britney’s three favorite eras — “Doo Wop,” “Surf’s Up” and “New Millennium” competed among fans for airtime later in the show and on tv as the segments were aired as separate commercials.

An online sweepstakes and charity auction offering props and costumes from these commercials and Spears’ first Pepsi ad is being held in tandem with the new campaign. “Now and Then” memorabilia will hit the auction block at halftime with proceeds benefiting the Britney Spears Foundation. (source: MTV.com)

Commercial veteran Joe Pytka, who directed the “Now and Then” campaign, helmed music videos for the Beatles’ “Free as a Bird,” John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “(Just Like) Starting Over” and Seal’s “Fly Like an Eagle” from the movie “Space Jam,” which he also directed.

From 1993: the first glimpse the world got of the famous series

The Nanner man is, of course, not from 1991 or Nick Jr, lest you be fooled…

This is a segment of the episode titled, “Lucy Does a TV Commercial.” Lucy is hired to act as the “Vitameatavegamin girl” in a TV commercial, to promote a health tonic that contains healthy amounts of vitamins, meat, vegetables, minerals — and a less-than-healthy dose of 23% alcohol. After four rehearsals of saying “It’s so tasty too, just like candy!” and then drinking the foul-tasting tonic while trying unsuccessfully not to grimace, Lucy becomes progressively more drunk, but gamely keeps on pitching the product. Eventually, the alliterative, tongue-twisting product name and pitch become too hard for her to keep straight. “Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular? Well, the answer to all your troubles is in this bittle lottle!” The three variations of “Vitameatavegamin” were “Mitameatamigimin,” “Mitavatameatymat,” and “Vitaveatyvigyvat”. In November of 2001, fans voted this episode as their favorite, during a 50th anniversary I Love Lucy television special.

Those stylish new Pepsi cans. Beautiful.