Since Dorothy brought up old trans commercials, I wonder if anyone else can recall this radio spot from the very beginning of Sprite's "obey your thirst" ("image is nothing; thirst is everything") campaign:

A sexy, "unaccented"-American female voice encourages listeners to drink Sprite, then points out that we know nothing about her and shouldn't take her word for anything. After about three-quarters of the ad time, there's a short pause, and then the commercial is completed by someone claiming to be the same person, this time sounding like a cultured, laid-back black male DJ.

Race, of course, was never mentioned. But I always wondered whether that, rather than the TG element, was the reason that the commercial seems to have been pulled off the air within a week of its coming out. I heard it, one time, on a Cal basketball broadcast, and the marketers there were notorious for not replacing ads over the course of the season, to the point where Toyota's October sales promotion, complete with end date in the disclaimer, was still running in February. Other Sprite ads ran for all or at least most of the season, but I never heard that one again.

Anyone here know anything more about it?

Eric