Folgers Coffee Commercial 2 (1960)

★★★★★ · Folgers - It will save your marriage · TheBigSmoke · 2005-10-04

I believe the first ten seconds of this ad are possibly one my favourite moment out of the entire archive. The breakfast bliss of Harvey and his wife are shattered when he inexplicably rips into her coffee making ability, makes a veiled threat that he's going to start looking for other women, and then in one of history's great passive-agressive turns delares "well, see you later" and exits dramatically stage left. Of course this outburst is entirely the fault of the wife's poor culinary skills, but once her non-phased friend turns her on to instant coffee (as opposed to, say, some counciling)…

★★★★★ · Dump it on his lap! · quadrophenic · 2006-01-03

This is my favorite Folgers ad. It does follow the typical Folgers routine (wife makes bad cup of coffee, husband gets pissed, wife makes Folgers coffee, husband is happy) but there is so much more drama here, even a hinted office affair! If I were his wife I would have dumped that scalding pot of coffee on his lap.

★★★★ · Good one in the series · stingrayfilms · 2010-10-17

The message: "Honey, you'll always be a totally inadequate piece of crap wife until you learn to make a decent cup of coffee." Despite the happy ending, I still feel this guy is fooling around with the "girls at the office". Have always regarded Folger's as something to drink out of sheer desperation when you run out of regular coffee and can't make it to the store. Pretty harsh, dreadful stuff.