See this is why advertising execs are clueless. They didn't need a commercial to remind you to eat cheese. They should have made a jingle about where your keys are.
Hands up anyone who still has this jingle buried somewhere in their cerebral cortex? Even to this day if I just feel peckish and want something to tide me over, I hanker for a hunk of cheese and hear the song in my head.
Another fun fact about that: For the cutscene where Timer appears in, creator Seth MacFarlane, on the Season 4 DVD commentary, explained he wanted to hire Lennie Weinrib (Timer's original voice actor) to voice Timer for the gag, but Weinrib was suffering from failing health when the episode was being produced, and as MacFarlane explained, he (Weinrib) "didn't remember doing it" after the recorded audio was played back for him later. In the end, Timer was voiced by Seth himself and Weinrib died about a year after "Petarded" first aired.
All these Saturday morning songs, kids’ PSAs, and Schoolhouse Rock lessons are etched in my brain from childhood. This one pops into my head every now and again, and did again just now so I had to search it because I’d forgotten its origin. (Commercial or PSA? 😂) I may not remember why I went into a room, or what I’m looking for in the drawer I just opened, but I’ll never forget these little ditties! 😂🤣😩
My wife and I grew up 1,500 miles apart. These little cartoons are something we can still both laugh about; with only three TV networks all the kids in the county knew these inside and out! Almost feels like we went to the same high school sometimes. Ha ha. I hope our kids can share this kind of national identity. God bless America!
I’m more surprised when I meet people who have never seen these awesome PSA commercials for kids. Like, for instance: my wife of 20 years… who is only two years younger than me… has never seen this until today. (12.28.2023) 😆
Mostly because the lobbies that used to pay for these advertisements have moved on to other pursuits. The dairy lobby is no longer in dire straits to get consumers to purchase so they don't make industry-wide ads for milk anymore (like they did in the "milk, it does a body good" ERA).
I'm a 37 year old dad of two, and I have been singing this little tune to my kids ever since they were little. Of course they would think I was nuts. I could never find this clip any where until now. Thank you
A seminal work from the golden age of advertising-based animation, which went on to surprisingly far-reaching influence in the then-burgeoning field of post-modern dance. Notice how the cowboy dancer's staccato and unpredictable movements allude to pangs of not only hunger but deep existential longing. A premium work, and one obliquely referenced in the 1987 performance of "High Noon" by infamous dancer/choreographer Zoe Gephart in Vienna, Austria.
Ah, Zoe, how well I recall those golden years of our youth when I was tasked with massaging her nude with hot chocolate. She kept a blind dwarf in a suitcase who managed to persuade her to cut off the leg of the hotel proprietor in Turkestan, when we were touring her production of "Flare Path." We had to hide the whole company in the Altai mountains, living off Argali sheep's cheese, of which I still occasionally hanker for a hunka. Simple times.
I thought it went like this... I hanka for a hunka l hunka for a hanka,l hunka for a hunk of cheese yaaahoooooo!!!!!... Dam I've been singing it wrong for years.....ha...oooh weĺl. Still one of my favorite commercials of all times growing up Yahoo!!!!!!!
This is why you never left the room during Saturday morning cartoons back in the day. You always wanted to see these info commercials between shows. And the School House Rock songs .
I do cuz I'm a mafuckin' foodie!! I'll smoke a whole bunch of crack, then some bud to override the comedown & kick start the munchies, then I'll have a hankerin for a snack like this! ha ha ha 😆
Yep every time I eat a salad (doesn't matter where or what kind) that's the first thing that comes to my mind. Hanker for a Hunka cheese hits me while walking around work. I'll be walking from one patient room to the next and all of the sudden this song hits me. Thanks 1980's!!!
Much better than that damned Yu-Gi-Oh!, or whatever the hell it's called. All the characters with pissed-off lookin' faces, and bad-attitudes.Unfortunately, I guess that does fit a lot of todays' kids---and then they get "hurt" so bad when they suddenly have the REAL-world tossed onto them when they suddenly become "young-adults"...!
Now, Big Food would never allow such a thing to be shown to young, impressionable minds. This would cost them profits. They want was us to believe we can apply moderation to inexpensive, highly processed junk food.
For some reason it's the latest trend to comment on how terribly unhealthy everything was in the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s, all I have to say is that the WWII generation lived into their mid eighties and nineties, and some even older. Probably because they were so incredibly unhealthy. Then you have my generation who are a bunch of obese diabetic fucks who won't make it past their late forties, the generation that is so enlightened about heathy eating habits. Makes perfect sense.
Thats for sure ,, My parents smoked , drank alcohol , soda pop , ate candy fried foods and lived to 90 as did most of my relatives and their friends ,, They had Respect LOVE and personal CONNECTIONS We baby boomers have less of that as do their children , We do not live as long and have less connectionwith our kids , grandkids ,, They will be sorry when our grandkids ignore them while texting
Back then cheese was cheese,. It was nutritious and good for consumption, because you could safely metabolize anything. Lactose intolerance was never heard of. Today cheese is typically from a bovine injected with antibiotics, hormones, and who knows where the shit comes from exactly - probably some third world country.
I remember this PSA advertisement of Hunka Cheese. This was taken from ABC Saturday Morning back in the day. My intresting fact that It was my childhood days of watching Saturday Morning Cartoon on this station, they always do that during the commercial block. This was a nostalgic PSA ad of all the segments in TV history.
