Bic Pen commercial with Marlin 336

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:49 pm

Waaaaaaaaay back when Bic had an add on television showing someone dropping a bic ball point pen down the barrel of a Marlin 336 then shooting it through slab of wood. They'd then take the shattered pen still sticking through the wood and write with it.
Their tag line was something like: Bic pens write the first time, every time.
Does anybody remember those commercials? Is there a Youtube video of it? I only ask cos I'm search challenged.

Bic sure couldn't get away with an add like that today. But I wish they'd try. It would be a hoot and half.

Joe

wecsoger · Post by **wecsoger** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 2:50 pm

Oddly enough, on a quick search I can't find anything about that old commercial even though it's a classic.

Did find this one involving that Frankenstein guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSJ1AlcaaU

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:12 pm

I remember paying .19 cents for them, or .29 cents for the deluxe Bic with the fine point.

Some of the best old commercials I remember was when John Cammeron Swazey used to do the Timex watch commercials, "takes a lickin and keeps on tickin."

GregT · Post by **GregT** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:51 am

How about the commercial with the Master Lock resisting the impact from a .44 Magnum slug? I recall that Marlin 336 Bic commercial. Why would it not be done today? Just wondering. The pen would have to be fired out the barrel with a blank load.
GregT

Hillbilly · Post by **Hillbilly** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:56 am

I remember both of those ads.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:56 am

GregT wrote:How about the commercial with the Master Lock resisting the impact from a .44 Magnum slug? I recall that Marlin 336 Bic commercial. Why would it not be done today? Just wondering. The pen would have to be fired out the barrel with a blank load.
GregT

Greg,
I remember that Master Lock commercial. But you really can shoot them off. You just gotta shoot down at the lock body between the hasp part.
Don't ask me how I know that.

Joe

Beaker · Post by **Beaker** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:20 pm

What about the old Aerowax commercial where they shoot a machine gun at a piece of plexiglass to show how tough their floor wax was? Does anyone remember that one?

pwl44m · Post by **pwl44m** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:52 pm

J Miller wrote:
GregT wrote:How about the commercial with the Master Lock resisting the impact from a .44 Magnum slug? I recall that Marlin 336 Bic commercial. Why would it not be done today? Just wondering. The pen would have to be fired out the barrel with a blank load.
GregT
Greg,
I remember that Master Lock commercial. But you really can shoot them off. You just gotta shoot down at the lock body between the hasp part.
Don't ask me how I know that.

Joe

I know !! , every cowboy movie where They threw the strong box on the ground-The Stage Robber was always standing avove the Box when He shot or on His Horse. Am I right.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:15 pm

pwl44m wrote:
J Miller wrote:
GregT wrote:How about the commercial with the Master Lock resisting the impact from a .44 Magnum slug? I recall that Marlin 336 Bic commercial. Why would it not be done today? Just wondering. The pen would have to be fired out the barrel with a blank load.
GregT
Greg,
I remember that Master Lock commercial. But you really can shoot them off. You just gotta shoot down at the lock body between the hasp part.
Don't ask me how I know that.

Joe
I know !! , every cowboy movie where They threw the strong box on the ground-The Stage Robber was always standing avove the Box when He shot or on His Horse. Am I right.

Pretty much, but I've done it in real life.

Joe

markinalpine · Post by **markinalpine** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:37 pm

GregT wrote:How about the commercial with the Master Lock resisting the impact from a .44 Magnum slug? I recall that Marlin 336 Bic commercial. Why would it not be done today? Just wondering. The pen would have to be fired out the barrel with a blank load.
GregT

Lawyers + namby pamby business executives.
Happy New Year,
Mark

markinalpine · Post by **markinalpine** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:38 pm

GregT wrote:How about the commercial with the Master Lock resisting the impact from a .44 Magnum slug? I recall that Marlin 336 Bic commercial. Why would it not be done today? Just wondering. The pen would have to be fired out the barrel with a blank load.
GregT

Lawyers + namby pamby business executives.
Happy New Year,
Mark

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:51 pm

I remember that one....took the refill out of one and fired it into wood with my Crossman .22 pellet gun. Put cotton wad in, and dropped the refill in....went a 1/4 inch into pine and wrote just fine afterward...

Catshooter · Post by **Catshooter** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:20 pm

Joe,

Your message reveals that you indeed have lived too long in a communist country.

There are lots of places they could re-run that ad, just not anywhere in your state. I've seen ads on TV for guns/gun shops in the mid west, even down here in Florida.

Quite the country we live in today.

Cat

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