We need commercials like that these days. Not only will it make advertisements more appealing, it also puts some of the toons we grew up with back on the screen.
......or Fred and Barney smoking cigarettes. In 1960 when The Flintstones first aired on ABC, Winston was its major sponsor. I think the show was shown in prime time then and not on Saturday morning.
Sometimes I get so sad seeing what is happening in America nowadays. Seeing these videos from the past helps distract me for a while. It also brings up good memories from my childhood.
"It looks like another bad year for Wile E. Coyote!"lol! But I've always wondered why Plymouth used "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" in their commercials. I mean it's a beautiful song, one of my favorites, but it just doesn't scream "car commercial " too me! But then what would I use?
I remember watching that Sylvester cartoon in syndication with other Looney Tunes cartoons. Not sure it was a commercial... and I still don't understand what the cats mean by saying, "What do you want to do, upset our whole economic system? You don't!". What does "You don't" mean?!! Lol
7:20 Casper the Friendly Ghost tells kids to "Stay alive, and healthy." I'm sorry, but it is ironic to the point of being sick for a person who obviously *died in childhood* to be urging children to stay alive. Not exactly the voice of experience.
I was in.my 40s before I had Tang. But I know what it tasted like because my.mom used to make a hot drink called Russian tea with Tang Instant Tea and some other stuff
I read in a book once about the true story of Popeye. He was a deformed face merchant marine with one eye bigger than the other. He was a bad guy, from a moral point of view. He was obsessed with a Liverpudlian barmaid named Olive. She had a baby with a big brawny guy named Brutus. Popeye was one of those pipsqueak guys with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove. When he found out he could whup the brawny husband, he stepped up his efforts to bully him and sexually harass the girl. But the way legends usually go, because he was a small guy who could whup big guys, he got turned into the hero.
I think that's a load of rubbish. Olive Oil 1st appeared in the Thimble Theatre comic strip by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1919, where as Popeye didn't appear until 1929 a whole decade latter as a side character whose popularity eventually had him become the strips star. Bluto, later Brutus was a one-off villain in the strip. It was the animated theatrical cartoons by Fleischer Studios that cast him as Popeye's main foil. Local folklore in Chester, Illinois, Segar's hometown, claims that Popeye is based on Frank "Rocky" Fiegel, a man who was handy with his fists. Fiegel was born on January 27, 1868. He lived as a bachelor his entire life. According to local Popeye historian Michael Brooks, Segar regularly sent money to Fiegel
You're probably right. I did read a book when I was 13 in the late 70's, with all kinds of weird stuff in it like that, and the story I've relayed above is exactly as I remember it, but admittedly, my mind adjusts stories over time to suit me. There were also werewolves, vampires, witches, aliens, demonic possession and pagan torture and sacrifice in the book.
I don't much like a Peanuts commercial passing out cigars as soon as the wrong message that it's okay to smoke and it's not specially when it comes to kids
