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Re: And Now A Word From Our Sponsor: Tab Cola: The Sexist Soft Drink
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2007, 12:31:56 am »
One was not enough... the stalker look of the guy makes me think Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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Re: Tab Cola: Be a Mindsticker
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2007, 12:34:16 am »
The creepiness continues...  the announcer to me says "Hello, Dave" - Hal the computer

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Re: Enjoy the "Now Taste" of Tab Cola
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2007, 12:36:20 am »
And before there was sodium saccharine, Tab was sold without ANY sweetener.  Yum...

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Re: Tab Cola: The Musical!
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2007, 12:38:25 am »
The 1970s are here... I know.  Let's make a musical for Tab!

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Re: Tab - For Beautiful People Only
« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2007, 12:41:11 am »
The most memorable Tab ads started in the late 1970s and kept the same jingle for a good part of the early 1980s until Tab lost so much weight on store shelves, it disappeared.  You can thank the Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi wars in the mid-80s for that... and NutraSweet!

But at least the jingle for Tab is good, even when the drink isn't.

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Re: Tab - 30 Seconds & A Bikini
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2007, 12:43:09 am »
Let's spend the whole ad looking at Miss Bikini...  from 1982


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Re: Tab - The Aussies Get In On the Act - 2 Calories for Them, One for Us
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2007, 12:45:42 am »
Tab wasn't just sold in North America.  It was foisted on Australia as well, with a different "sing" of the jingle by some Australian jingle singers.

"Every can has less than two calories."  Those Australians were pigs... they couldn't handle the one calorie American version I guess.  :)

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Re: Kaiser Wilhelm Drinks Tab And Becomes Bigfoot
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2007, 12:49:25 am »
Oooh, the days of Tab were really numbered by the time this stupid ad came out.  Coca Cola figured they needed to do something different, so they took the caramel coloring out (making the cola clear) and marketed it as Tab Clear with a completely ridiculous ad.  Nobody cared.

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Re: And Now A Word From the Japanese - Yeah, Tab Was There Too...
« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2007, 12:51:29 am »
Tab also was sold across much of Asia.  Here is how they tried to market their clear version to Japanese youth....

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Re: Reinventing Tab As An Energy Drink
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2007, 12:55:31 am »
Since most "energy drinks" taste awful , why not reinvent Tab, which has that nasty taste built-in anyway, as an "energy drink" and sell it to college students who have no idea what the history of Tab is.  Sorry, New Now Generation, Tab has a sordid past as you can see, and it's not ultra-cool to be carrying the Drink of the Mindstickers around campus.

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