I can't believe Wet Pets beat out Flea Market Montgomery!

I'm only at number 48 and am laughing aloud.

Before I clicked the linked, I started humming "it's just like, it's just like a mini... mall."

As I watch these, I'm mentally composing my own list, including:

-Jason's Furniture ads from the NJ/Philly region, 1980s

-"Dont you buy no ugly truck!" ads from Texarkana in the mid-80s.

-This ad that played in Northern NJ in the late 80s for a greek-style wedding palace. It featured the hosts parading about the elaborate halls and gesturing widely while saying things like "Graceful, elegant."

--Garden State Brickface & Stucco

Follow the arrows, follow the cars, to Cash Amburgy's Bargain Barn, South Lebanon, Ohiiiiiiiiiia. [Mid-1970s.] I don't know why I still remember this.

OK, I had to do a google search after that. I had no idea that Amburgy was a minister. He died in 2002 at age 80.

OMG, 15. Christopher Knight for School Board

Vern's Insurance and the Baptist Church on page 9 is mildly disturbing.

The whole Vern Fonk Insurance phenomenon, well known to Seattle-based TV watchers, is totally disturbing. His latest ad riffs off Napoleon Dynamite. Does anyone actually buy insurance from him? I guess the folks with the bumperstickers that say "HONK FOR FONK" do.

Vern Fonk is a God. Probably of Norse origin. I'm thinking the ancient God of ham and cheese. But, yeah - who in the Frozen Microwaveable Hell would ever buy insurance from Him?