9:43 Some 30 years back, a single mom I knew was in at the C-store I worked. Seeing she looked a bit troubled, I asked. She explained not knowing how to explain to a 5 y.o. that Santa won't be stopping at their home. (She was working at a factory but still struggling.) Next day, I dropped $100 on stuff for the boy. Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, various blocks, activity and coloring books and a few blank sketch pads, washable markers, colored pencils, 128 Crayon package, etc. NOTHING that needed a battery - I wasn't gonna saddle a single mom with that expense. Transferred the [pro wrapped] boxes to the stunned her at her next visit. She later told he was absolutely *thrilled* with the presents. Yes: I considered what I'd like to have if I were 5, and what would coax him to use his brain and imagination. Battery operated stuff can be cool - but not if you're struggling.
I think I had every one of these toys. the loud motor really brought back memories hooked down the back of my tricycle. 😊 thanks for these fantastic memories.
Wow! I'm a kid again. There were so many cheap toys that I sent for until I finally learned my lesson. So fun to watch these stupid commercials and remember how they used to entrance me. Thanks, for the memories.
My dad was left in the care of my infant sister who was less than a year old once, and he fed her two baby bottles of prune juice. Boy, did he have a gigantic mess on his hands! 💩 💩 💩
@@FlintIronstag23 Old people had their bottles of Prune juice ready whenever they were constipated. Like you said, I don't think anyone drank it except for constipation.
The Kool-Aid commercials with Bugs Bunny & The Monkees aired when CBS began airing reruns of The Monkees on Saturday mornings, beginning in 1969. Peter Tork had left the group earlier that year, hence why you don't see him in these commercials.
My first exposures to Kurt Russel were Disney movies with him as a college student to whom odd science happens: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, et al. (In fact, I need to find those fun comedies on DDs before they're nonexistent!)
dennisanderson-One of Kurt Russell's earliest appearances was as the Jungle Boy in the season one episode of Gilligan's Island, Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy.
I had the Robot Commando when I was a kid. In reality it didn’t really do voice commands. You turned the knob on the controller and then spoke into the mouthpiece on the controller. There was a metal plate in the mouthpiece that moved from the wind from your voice that turned on the command selected by the knob. Half the time the wind from your voice wasn’t strong enough to move the plate so you wound up just blowing into the mouthpiece. I don’t think truth in advertising was quite the same back then. But it was still fun. The Robot fired missiles out of the top of its head. And each arm would throw plastic balls. It was one of my favorite toys from my childhood.
I found that to be true of most electronic toys in the 70s. None of them really did all that much, and certainly not what the commercials said they did.
I also grew up in the 1970s and the 1980s, and I seldom had toys that required batteries 🪫. I knew that toys requiring batteries meant often that if I didn’t have any batteries or batteries that ran out of power meant I couldn’t play with the toy. For this reason, my favorite toys as a kid were Fisher-Price Toys and Lego sets, which I could play with for hours and hours because they didn’t need batteries.
Fun fact, or sad fad I guess: Walt Disney began fighting lung cancer in 1966 around the same time Kurt Russel had signed a contract with Walt Disney for a 10 year picture deal. While working at home, Disney began to suffer a circulatory collapse and was rushed to the hospital where he died 2 days later. It was later discovered that thing Disney had written down on a piece of paper was Kurt Russel’s name.
9:21 $17.97 in the early 60s is equivalent to about $180 today. That's a damned expensive toy. I doubt many children had the Great Garloo, in fact, I was born in 1948 and grew up in the 1950s and early 60s and I never heard of this toy.
@@tvcrazyman It was. That's how inflation calculators work. The one I use from the government is very good. I've looked up prices of items, mostly food in online newspaper archives then compared them to today's prices and they are very close. For instance, prices today are about 11 times what they were in 1960. What led me there in the first place was a Perry Mason episode where a rich old man left his heirs $250,000. I went to the government inflation calculator and found that to be almost three (3) million in today's dollars. In 1960 Goodyear tires cost $14.95 to $18.95 each, depending on size and quality. Ranges with ovens were under $140. U.S.D.A. Prime Sirloin Steak was $1.19/pound.
Wow! Varooom was cool, but by 70s we just fastened playing cards to the frames of our bikes with close pins, and positioned them to flap against the spokes of the wheels to make the same effect….
After a while in the 70s my parents got wise to the batteries issue at Christmas and started including packs of them as needed wrapped separately! After all, everything was closed on the holiday in those days!
Oh the cereals back then. They tasted awesome until the government stepped in (because busybody moms wrote their congressmen) and lowered the sugar content in them. They then tasted like cardboard. Easy fix we did was just to dump half cup of sugar in them so they tasted great again and you got that mound of sugary milk at the bottom.
Did anyone notice the finger Robin was using to scratch his head? At about 2:40 into the video. The commercials with guns and Tommy guns would never be allowed toady. Boys are being brought up like snowflakes. My brother had the Robot Commando toy.
You forgot something else on batteries not included. Back in the 60's if a parent forgot the batteries on December 25th, that child was not happy since stores were closed. December 26th could not come fast enough. But in the 70's with some convenience store parents were able to obtain batteries on December 25th but paid dearly for doing so since prices were higher at those locations.
How about William Conrad narrating the Kurt Russell blaster commercial. Also the same guy who sang You're a MEAN One Mr. Grinch was Tony the Tiger. 🤓😎✌🏼
Nothing like a tall glass of water, sugar and of course red dye #2 to get yourself going. Oh, and that came after the sugar ladened Capt’n Crunch with pink colored Cruch Berries!
I remember the asshole snobs in the music business insulting the Monkees, saying the weren't a REAL band. In 1967, The Monkees TV show was a smashing success, and the self-titled album released to complement the show sold 35 million records, outselling The Beatles Michael Nesmith & The Monkees Set a Billboard Chart Record in 1967 That Still Stands Today The Monkees sold over 18,959,940 albums, including 18,000,000 in the United States and 620,000 in the United Kingdom. Not bad for a group labeled as a "not a real band." Some of those other loser bands wished they had done as well. I believe the word is jealousy or maybe envy. LOL
You can bet that The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Buckinghams, and a sh*t ton of other American pop bands were keeping pretty quiet about who actually played the instruments on their records: the same exact musicians who played on The Monkees' records.
@@ernestcruz6316 And your evidence for that claim? You don't get away with making outrageous accusations without some evidence, unless you've CNN or MSNBC.
@@wayneyadams My evidence for that is printed and video interviews with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, plus the documentary movie The Wrecking Crew, which was written, filmed and directed by the son of session drummer Hal Blaine, who was the studio drummer on records by all three of those groups, plus many other bands including The Association, The Fifth Dimension, etc. Google the Wrecking Crew and then get back to me with your apology. Edit: The only Monkees album on which they played all their own instruments was the 1967 album Headquarters. On all their other studio recordings they used session musicians, just like most American pop bands.
What about The Flintstones shilling for Winston Cigarettes and Busch Beer in the sixties? I know it was the 1970's, but Johnny Smoke, PSA , The Native American crying by the highway at the trash thrown at his feet anti-littering PSA .
