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I was inspired by the recent "Games we used to play as kids" list to create this one. There are a number of board game commercials with quotes that have just the right amount cheese and nostalgia for us to inject into everyday conversation to subtely tell our friends, "Hey, I like boardgames. Look at me, I'm a geek". Hell...Movie Geeks do it all the time ("We are the Knights who say Nih!" "That's incontheivable";), why can't we Boardgame Geeks do it as well?
Since my memory isn't what it used to be, feel free to correct any misquotes and add anything I may have inevitably missed. Perhaps some of you youngn's could add some of the new classics that I'm not aware of. Or maybe you geezers could fill us all in on some classic Classics :)
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1. Board Game: Connect Four [Average Rating:4.80 Overall Rank:5626]
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 In my opinion, the hands down classic.
Girl: I won.
Boy: Where?
Girl: There, diagonally.
Boy: Pretty sneaky sis.
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I love the Scrubs parody where Dorrian is playing Connect Four against Death.
'I win.'
Where I can't see...
'Right here, diagonally.'
Pretty sneaky, Death.
2. Board Game: Operation [Average Rating:3.90 Overall Rank:5669]
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 "It takes a very steady hand...."

I use this one way too often in real life.
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I'll admit that I used this quote in my AP chemistry class just *last week* during a lab. They had to hold a piece of copper inside a flask without touching the sides. They even understood the reference!
Jeff Hellen
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I prefered the kid who said, "remooove ranched an-kul."
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"Take out the spare rib for 100 dollars..."

Kid: "It's my turn to operate."
Mom: (shocked and appalled) OPERATE!?!?!
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My fave from this commercial was the kid that said

" Here goes his funny bone...... (BUZZZZZ)"
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"It's my turn to operate!"

"OPERATE!?"

It's Operation, the wacky doctor game (batteries not included).

"Take out his spare ribs for $100"

"Oh you'll never do that!"

"Don't touch the sides! Bzzt!"

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"It takes a very steady hand..."

"I win! That's $200 for me!"

"May I play?"
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"Operation: The Goofy Game for Goofy Doctors"

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3. Board Game: Stay Alive [Average Rating:4.91 Overall Rank:5554]
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 "I'm the sole survivor"

I must admit that I had forgotten about this gem until somone on another list mentioned it. I used to love this game, although I'm not sure I ever played by the correct rules. I just kinda pulled the tabs in and out to figure out how everything worked. Did anyone every succeed in 'drawing' all the pixie dust off the inside of an Etch-a-Sketch to reveal the steal Hershey's kiss inside?
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This is (unfortunately) one of my clearest early childhood memories of a television commercial. The kid with the sailor hat, intoning that phrase astonishedly into the camera.
4. Board Game: Battleship [Average Rating:4.42 Overall Rank:5656]
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 "You sank my Battleship!"

I love the "Bob Dobbs" artwork on these 1960s boardgames. I've got an old edition of Stratego that has a particularly goofy cover.
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I always thought the dad in this picture was so stupid. You NEVER hold your ship up to show how it has been hit!!! Geez, no wonder he was losing (Atleast the sister had to help with dishes...AND LIKED IT!!!):D
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My girlfriend had an absolute conniption when she saw the cover pictured above. While I'm not one to agree with most "conspiracy of the patriarchy" ideas, one does wonder why the artist felt the need to include Mom and sis cleaning dishes in the background.
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The one I'm taking away is "conniption"!!!!:laugh:
5. Board Game: Battling Tops [Average Rating:5.65 Overall Rank:4151]
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 "Its all in the wrist action"
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"...he's down; no, he's up again!"
6. Board Game: Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots [Average Rating:4.79 Overall Rank:5405]
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 "He knocked my block off"
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7. Board Game: This Game is Bonkers! [Average Rating:5.63 Overall Rank:4328]
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 "Bonkers is fun. Bonkers is nice. Bonkers is never the same game twice!" That damned ditty has been going through my head for the last 25 years. :-p
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You forgot the rest of it Scott!
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Definately a catchy tune - I still remember it distinctly.

What's the rest of the lyrics, if there are any?
8. Board Game: Crossfire [Average Rating:5.24 Overall Rank:5279]
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"You'll get caught up in the crossfire...crossFIRE...CROSSFIRE!!!"

With headband-and-mullet-wearing winner exclaiming, "YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!"
9. Board Game: Candy Land [Average Rating:3.16 Overall Rank:5675]
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 The Candyland commercial I remember had three little girls sing in unison "OOOOOOH Daddy's going down, down, down!"
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Paging Finbar... paging Finbar :laugh:
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Oh Crap! That commercial was for Chutes and Ladders not Candyland!
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Heh, never mind.

It's not a commercial, but what I hate are those ads you read for games / game stores / publishers where they say

....... BOARD GAMES, NOT BORED GAMES

That's so flicking unfunny. It's like they contacted the spirit of Oscar Wilde for advice, but accidentally threw away his reply.
10. Board Game: The Game of Life [Average Rating:3.86 Overall Rank:5674]
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 "Play......the game.....of Li-ife!"

Eeek! Now that song is stuck in my head! Somebody sing me the Bonkers song fast!
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No no, let's keep with this one...

You can be a winner at the game of Life!
Spin the wheel!
Make my play!
Make some choices!
Collect my pay!

Something to that effect. I'd try and remember it more accurately, but down that road lies madness...
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The Game of Life,
The Game of Life...
You can learn a lot
When you play the Game of Life!
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"You can be a winner in the Game of Life!"
"Hey, look! I've got a wife!" <-- The guy who said that had the cheesiest look on his face I've ever seen.
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"You can be a winner at the game of life
{do something}
{something rhymes with ay-bee}
Get Married
Have a baby."
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Find a job
Have money, maybe
Get married
Have a baby...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNAzo8FU2_4&feature=related
11. Board Game: Perfection [Average Rating:4.02 Overall Rank:5651]
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 "Push the plunger down, set the timer
Put the pieces in place
don't be slow
'cuz in Perfection you gotta move 'em fast (move 'em fast)
Or the pieces pop up before you put in the last!
And that's Perfection!"
12. Board Game: Dark Tower [Average Rating:6.31 Overall Rank:1540]
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 "And I was victorious!"
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Orson... Freaking... Welles...
13. Board Game: Yahtzee [Average Rating:5.08 Overall Rank:5586]
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 I'm sure all the gamers will love this one... "Yahtzee, the FUN game that makes THINKING... fun!"
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Heh, now that IS a classic for so many reasons. Wasn't there a similar slogan for 'LCR' :)
14. Board Game: Gnip Gnop [Average Rating:4.70 Overall Rank:5449]
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 I can still hear the voice over announcer on the commercial saying "Ga NIP, Ga NOP! It's Ga NIP Ga NOP!" "One player Ga NIPs, the other Ga NOPs..." (quote from a retro toy site)
15. Board Game: Trouble [Average Rating:3.70 Overall Rank:5673]
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 If you've got trouble, wait! Don't run! This kind of Trouble is lots of fun! Pop-O-Matic pops the dice [should have been die - ed.]. Pop a six and you move twice. Race your men around the track and try to send the others back. That's Pop-O-Matic Trouble! Watch the dice in the plastic bubble, it pops you in and out of trouble. Here comes Sister! LOOK OUT, JACK!! You've got trouble. You go back. The game is fun for Dad and Mother, and Sis can trouble her mean old brother.
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:laugh: Hilarious... it is disturbing to think how many times "Iiiiiit's popamatic trouble!" has invaded my conciousness... way too many times to really be healthy... damn those advertisers!
16. Board Game: Stratego [Average Rating:5.94 Overall Rank:1832]
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 STRAA--TEEEEE--GOOH-OOOH!
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Capture the enemy's flag and WIN THE GAME!
17. Board Game: Hungry Hungry Hippos [Average Rating:4.10 Overall Rank:5659]
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If you wanna win the game
you gotta (blah blah blah blah)
And get the most marbles with your HIPPOS!

Playin' Hungry Hungry Hippos! (Ba da ba da ba da)
Hungry Hungry Hippos! (Ba da ba da ba da)

(I never understood what you had to do to win the game according to the commercial.)
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"Who will win?
No one knows
Feed the hungry hip-ip-pos
HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS
Open up and there it goes"
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I have now remembered more of the HHH commercial:

"It's a race
It's a chase
Hurry up and feed your face
Who will win?
No one knows
Feed the hungry hip-ip-pos
HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS
Open up and there it goes"
18. Board Game: Ruffhouse! [Average Rating:4.39 Unranked]
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 "There's no such thing as a friendly game of Ruffhouse."

This was, of course, the English edition of the popular German game, Rufhaus. :-)
19. Board Game: Twister [Average Rating:4.57 Overall Rank:5644]
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 "Spin the Spinner and call the dots
Twister will tie you up in a knot
You reach, and stretch.
You balance and twist.
Try it once, you'll get the gist."
No two twists come out the same,
Twister is a Milton Bradley Game."
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I don't know if it was ever used in a commercial, but Weird Al did a twister rap on his "Even Worse" album.
20. Board Game: Mr. Mouth [Average Rating:4.93 Overall Rank:5301]
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 Music in the commercial had the lyrics:

"Mr. Mouth...Mr Mouth..."
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Me too!
21. Board Game: Mouse Trap [Average Rating:4.11 Overall Rank:5664]
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 "Roll the dice, move the mice, build a traaaap!"
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"...flip the man
in the pan
the trap is set
now drooooo-oop the net
Catch a mouse with Mousetrap"
22. Board Game: HeroQuest [Average Rating:6.75 Overall Rank:492]
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 Kid 1: "I'll use my broadsword!"
Kid 2: "FIRE OF WRATH!"

My brother and I still quote this commercial often...
23. Board Game: Snakes and Ladders [Average Rating:2.70 Overall Rank:5677]
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 Someone erroneously referenced it earlier:

"I'm going up, up, up the ladder!"

"Daddy's going down, down, down!"

(The US version, with s/Snakes/Chutes.)
24. Board Game: Blip [Average Rating:3.81 Unranked]
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 "Blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip..."

Tomy should have had a class-action suit on their hands for this one. Dear god this wretched, buzzing, boring thing wasn't anywhere close to what was advertised.
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Paddle the paddle the side to the side to the paddle the paddle the paddle...PONG machine.

My brother and me used to play it down at the bars.
Taking money from fellows more used to the playing of cards.
Now virtually everyone's singing a popular song,
Yeah but I still believe in the excellent joy of the Pong.

If they could make an H G Wells,
Well I'd be on the first flight.
To the time before the Kong.
Oh whatever happened to Pong?!
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I was in the 1987 commercial for the board game Dr. Tangle. I am trying to track down the video to show my students. Anyone have an idea? The producers no longer exist apparently and I can't seem to get a lead. Any help is greatly appreciated.

corts1117@gmail.com
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You're all horrible, horrible people for drawing out of my head the long-suppressed memories of ditties and phrases sledgehammered into my brain by endless Saturday morning TV watching as a child.

<cries>:D
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Husker Du rocks!
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wiggly worms, ya just can't catch 'em,
wiggly worms, ya just can't catch 'em,
wiggly worms, ya just can't catch 'em,
those wiggly worms!

AHHHH!
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:(

When was the last time you saw a commercial on t.v. for a board game...

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Well, if you count Heroscape as a board game....
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