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You can be sure...if it's "Westing-Gouse!" If it's the show I've seen, Desi has trouble pronouncing "Westinghouse", and mangles it as "Westing-Gouse." At the very end, when she's got all the latest appliances in her Desilu dressing room, Desi finds Lucy hiding in the washer section of a pair of...

95 out of 100, but... cool site, bro'! some of them were really tough!

Another Tide commercial comes to mind Another Tide ad I recall dates back to about 1960; in fact it may have replaced "The Cleanest Clean under the Sun." It was a comparison test with glass washer tubs, one of which was washing with Tide, the other with Brand X. The Tide tub had lovely high...

Lemon Tide The Lemon Tide powder reminds me of the Lemon Fresh Dash P & G sold briefly in the late 1980s, when they tried to revive the Dash brand as a "value" detergent. In some ways, it's like P & G Canada was trying to compete against the original Lemon Freshened Borax Fab of the 1970s...

Downy makeover mess I noticed a newly-shaped Downy bottle on the website (in one of the side boxes) and the "Downy" name on the label is in a new typefont...P & G routinely "improves" its formulas on all its products, whether the improvement really is an improvent or not. I always liked the...

more from the 'bro on Suavitel... Hey, Jetcone, Suavitel is a condensed version of "suavizador de telas"; literally, "softener of fabrics" or "fabric softener." The fragrance of Suavitel is the only thing that's powerful about it...to me it smells like cheap perfume...my wife has told me never...

Pedal Power Washers Maybe they'll develop a model that has twin drums (sort of like a Dexter twin-tub wringer)...you'd need a tandem bike to power that one (LOL). By the way, the earliest ad campaigns for Tide, Fab, and Surf claimed you could get the "cleanest clothes in town" whether you...

Lucy's appliances You're right! I remember the washer and dryer, but the fridge caught my attention since Norge did a marketing push in '66-'67 ("Knock on any Norge") and it was one of the few times I saw a Norge appliance showcased for anything...

fabric softeners vs. fabric conditioners Good explanation, oxydolfan1...but the TC formula of Downy is now called Ultra Downy or in the case of Snuggle, 3x concentrate...the so-called regular softeners found in the dollar stores often use the phrase "non-ultra" (I notice Dawn and Joy...

more mangled lyrics translated rinso, I think we may be the same age... The "Bus Stop" lines you're looking for are something like "Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say, 'Please share my umbrella,' Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows, under my umbrella, All that summer, we enjoyed it...

White Zote soap Hey, sudsmaster and maytag mom...I have seen both white and the pink Zote bar soap in a small section of our local supermarket that stocks products popular to Latino customers...funny that the labels on both say "NOW MORE WHITENESS!" (How do you get whiteness out of pink soap?)...

You Get a Lot of Clean with Tide Was that the one with the jingle that went something like "You get a lot of dirt with children, how they grind it deep inside, you get a lot of dirt with children, you get a lot of clean with TIDE?" I remember that commercial; have you checked eBay or one of...

softener vs. conditioner It might be a matter of language..."fabric softener" translates as "suavizador de telas" in Spanish, which Colgate cleverly downsized into the "Suavitel" brand name...fabric conditioner," if I am correct, is "acondicianador de telas"... But "conditioner" sounds richer...

Am I the only one who finds what Colgate-Palmolive is doing these days is a bit confusing? About a year ago, Colgate sold all of its North American laundry detergent brands to Phoenix Brands (including the rights to the Ajax brand name for laundry detergent), citing problems staying competitive...

Lavender Sachet Fabric Softener It was marketed as recently as last November by Reckett Benckiser as a sub-brand of the YES line of laundry products (which includes the detergent, Cling Free Fabric Softener sheets, Vivid liquid bleach, Snowy liquid bleach and Easy-On Speed Starch), but it may...

Montgomery Wards I can vouch for Wards not having retail stores in St. Louis...we got the Wards catalog regularly when I was growing up, and there was one (or possibly two) Wards catalog stores in St. Louis. You could order the items you wanted over the phone, but the only Wards appliance I...

Meanwhile, back on "The Lucy Show"... While Westinghouse appliances appeared on the Connecticut-based episodes of "I Love Lucy" in 1957--and when "Westin-Gouse", as Desi Arnaz mangled it, sponsored "Desilu Playhouse" and "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" from 1957 through 1960--I recently saw an...

Lonelier than a Maytag repairman... I bought a TL Maytag Peforma in 2002 because I was tired of messin' with a ten-year-old Whirlpool that was even less dependable than the 1979 Kenmore it replaced...I wanted to buy a Dependable Care Maytag to get the older agitator (the Whirlpool double-action...

If you wanna be happy? I think that line in "If You Wanna Be Happy" is... An ug-a-lee woman cooks meals on time She'll always give you peace of mind...

Put this in your Flair and bake it! And of course, you may remember that great Bachman-Turner Overdrive tune: "BAKIN' CARROT BISCUITS (every day!), BAKIN' CARROT BISCUITS (every way!)"... Of course, that's "Takin' Care of Business!"