I agree - they're as much a part of the fun as the show itself
And they still work, at least on me, after listening to the whole Superman series, I so want the darn thingies you could only find in kellog's cornflakes!
I particularly love those about car oil and other products like that, they're very distant in time and utterly American
Nice!!
By the way, on the national tv channel here, up to a few years ago (now I wouldn't know, I stopped watching Italian channels) there was a special program that aired once a year called "La notte dei pubblivori" ("The night of commercialsivorous" (sorry for this poorr attempt at translating an invented word that was intended to mean "those who eat/live on commercials")).
That was a whole night - like 10 or 12 hours in a row - of commercials from every place and era. That wasn't just a lot of fun, but it also gave you an overview of what life was like in every decade in the various nations. It was fantastic
In a way, it's the same thing with the commercials in the shows, as Jake pointed out
