Levi's Jeans Commercial (1983)

Child-oriented television commercial for Levi's jeans and corduroy pants. (1983)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• levis
• jeans
• lee
• cords
• corduroy
• bluejeans
• american
• blue
• tarzan
• kids
• animated
• animation
• children
• child
• tv
• ad
• television
• advertisement
• commercial
• consumerism
• 1983
• 80's

[zooomm]

family guy eat your heart out!

[mournstar6]

I always liked the monster sequence in this commercial, along with the spacey synthesizer!

[BritneyHateMachine]

User '71stealth' found one version of the "train" commercial. Search for "80's Commercials Vol. 188" and jump to about 2:40.

[LINCOLNREALESTATE1]

@mournstar6 I love this commercial! Loved it then, when I was 12 and love it now! The monster sequence was so cool. Also the reoccuring tarzan levi guy in each one of these.

[RetroToledo]

@CKlemow For me it's "Can I get those to go?" and thinking some robotic hand was going to be boxing me in a styrofoam burger container!

[BritneyHateMachine]

@dan1216 Take a look at the video called "1983 Levi Jean Commercial" by Kevinedge. I'm almost certain the computer-generated model that flies in that ad was reused in the train track add as the "train cars" (if I remember correctly, they were turned on their sides, though).

[BritneyHateMachine]

@dan1216 Yeah, I do, and it was Levi's. It started with an angled shot of quiet train tracks in the early evening. After several seconds, a dozen+ gigantic, faceless mannequins wearing Levi's came hurtling down the tracks, head-to-foot. There may have been 2 versions, one for corduroys where the sound the "train" made was a guy shouting "Cords! Cords! Cords!". Also, at the end, I think there was the sound of a dog barking, and a guy saying "thank you Mr. President". It was very weird.

[dan1216]

Does anyone remember a creepy pants commercial (I don't know if it was Levis or not) where these pants were on a train track? It was a very strange commercial. It was around 1983 or so.

[TheDarkThunder]

@mournstar6 "Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh. . . .LEE-VIEEZZZ."

[CKlemow]

Yes! I've been looking for this one for a long time... the "raspberry and chocolate" line has been on a tape loop in my head for nearly 30 years now... thanks!