The Kool-Aid ad needs a little context. Just in case you forgot, that ad aired to a generation of parents who had fought a bloody war against the Japanese (and so many had lost brothers and fathers/uncles). Given the time, showing a happy Japanese family enjoying Kool-Aid was actually an incredibly bold, anti-racist statement. Imagine a business showing an al-Qaeda family enjoying their product today.
10:00 Pro tip for all the parents out there. Toys are, for the most part, easily taken apart and the speaker is a VERY obvious piece of gear with two wires running to it. Cut those wires. Toy no longer annoys the absolute hell out of you but still has the flashing lights, rolling wheels, etc. You're welcome.
You missed a Golden opportunity to recreate the Folgers commercial with the Grill Gun. "Honey, what do you want for your birthday?" "How about a decent way to light the grill? I'm sorry my dear, but your "matches" just aren't cutting it." (leaves without kissing her goodbye)....
That last one about the jeans caught me by surprise! I was expecting to see the GWG ad, jingle and all... BUM BUM BUM BUM...BUM BA BA BUM BUM! GWG's!!! THEY'RE LOOKING AT ME!!! Encouraging total strangers to stare at my ass is not my thing, but I suppose for others it might be something they're into.
Whenever I visit my folks and we watch tv where we can't fast forward through commercials (or we watch SB ads waiting for the "funny" ones), I like to play "what's this a commercial for" game. Sometimes we don't get it and then at the end the name of the company or brand pops up and I'm like "ok, so what is that?" I'm not googling your brand to find out what you make when you wasted my time and could have just told me directly.
As a teenager, I would have relentlessly made fun of that blue jeans commercial. Regardless of what time period you grew up in, the sexual innuendo in that commercial is unavoidable. Back fifteen years ago, I remember writing a parody script about "McDonald's" character Grimace. Even back then, there was no denying all of the bizarre stuff those commercials contained.
@@vaderladyl, I was born in 1982, so I have many fond memories of the 80s; movies, music, roller skates, and water guns. I wish I could have experienced the 80s as a teenager, and I wish I would have gotten into filmmaking in the 90s rather than the 2000s. In the 80s and 90s, you could be sensitive and controversial at the same time; treat people well, and make fun of them at the same time.
Baby laugh-a-lot was creepy as crap. My mom gave my son a firetruck with sound effects (she didn't like my wife). I put tape on the speaker so my son could keep playing with it.
I’m a 67 white woman, and this video came up as recommended. What I didn’t expect in her showing these old commercials, some of which I remember as a kid, was the commentator actually thinking some these commercials were ok. What?! I can tell you that much has changed for the better in the past 60 years. I’m no longer deluged by cigarette smoke in public, my nieces have all sorts of occupations opened to them (they are not defined by their role as wife), it’s no longer appropriate to make fun of and stereotype minority groups or to grab a woman’s behind in public, and science has provided much more longevity (67 was ancient back then). This young lady needs to get some life experience and history lessons before throwing out these click-bait videos to a retrograde white audience. Sorry I watched.
I’m a baby boomer and I can say with certainty that my generation didn’t get offended with TV sitcoms and did not know what what gender pronouns were, good times!. Also the best advice my parents gave me was if you listen to idiots you’re going to become one
@@RemoteCamper We did know what racism and sexism was back in the '80s, but we were more tolerant and inclusive back then than people who preach tolerance and inclusiveness are today.
Funny thing in the first ad shown is that Manhattan is a Native American term and they appropriated it by reinterpreting it as an English language term. It's okay when they do it.
Please do more of these. I remember an ad for TAB cola that was discontinued because the girl on the beach, drinking a TAB, was so good looking people weren't even aware of the product being advertised!
"Tab, what a beautiful drink...Tab, for beautiful people, Tab, it's beautiful to me...real cola taste, just one calorie..." I loved Tab! In the pink can ... and then Diet Coke came, which is awful! Who remembers "Pepsi-lite?" Light blue can, half sugar and lemon, it was awesome!
@@theapexdragon5010 considering the civil rights act wasn’t released until 1964, you’re lying to yourself if you think everyone from the 40’s wasn’t racist at all. And I’m not just speaking on one race, I’m speaking on them all. The 40’s wasn’t as diverse in most countries as it is today
The coffee one TOTALLY felt like a mini episode of something. You already knew when he blew out that candle they conceived their first kid after that cup of coffee. Folgers saves marriages, Folgers gives life. Coffee is life.
yeah and even this whole thing about not being touched just feels wrong, touching and being touched is how primates show affection and for most of human history it was a non issue. i mean it's gotten so bad that people accidentally brush someone on a trolley and they feel like they have been molested. there is a big difference between molestation and touching, I doubt any of those girls or guys in the Levis add felt molested, getting patted on the ass was quite common back then, now guys look at you weird and girls turn around and deck you. when they both should just appreciate the attention!
@@kellydarriusIt was more of just a dance. These people weren’t strangers. They were dancing. Y’all act like this was something that just organically happened out of nowhere. It was an obvious choreographed dance. So just stop! Even y’all get triggered for no reason.
@@beverlywhitman303 That is so true. People don't know what touch is anymore and cannot see that they are actually starving for touch. There are studies correlated to this fact and the rise of some mental and psychological issues.
The older commercials were SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better. They actually let you KNOW about product itself! I was born in '57 and I watched a lot of these commercials.
@@justmeandthethree Yes but it wasn't as prominent as it is now. Racism has always been around but has been getting a lot worse in the last 10 years or so.
I love old commercials/television, especially from the 40s and 50s with that deep voice and the professional atmosphere. Its entertaining and a breath of fresh air
I don't know about entertaining, but a much more honest, straightforward approach, leaving out abstract, irreverent, woke crap was indeed a breath of fresh air.
I am an advertising exec and it's amazing the tightrope we have to walk when it comes to ideas and copy. I grew up on a lot of the fun 80's and 90's commercials that made me want to get into advertising. Every now and then a brand wants us to push some goofy SJW or Environmentalist message and it always fails. I miss the days when we could just have a fun jingle, kool-aid man busting through a wall and dogs drinking beer.
If an ad is annoying, played adnauseum (no pun intended) has a message beyond the products realm to try to influence or establish a cultural agenda we will household boycott forever. Maybe our few bucks do not make or break them but we won't be a party to b B.S. just always wanted to let ad people know that. Thanks.ust be very challenging work. 😮
The big thing for me about these commercials is getting to see how long some of the brands everybody knows have actually been around. It’s kinda crazy.
I was a little surprised to see the band-aid strips advertised with plastic in the 40s. I thought plastic wasn't developed or used in products until the late 50s at the earliest
@@ironymatt Polystyrene was invented in 1839. ( That wasn't a typo, 100 years before the add, and yes I went down an internet rabbit hole.) Google this to find the history of plastics if you're interested..... "Timeline of plastic development"... The Wikipedia search result gives you a good overview.
When she said, "Are you tired of waiting ages for your grill to heat up?" I thought for a second she'd said, "girl" instead of "grill" and wondered what she was advertising.
I was just talking to my wife about this phenomenon. I miss the days when you can identify what the commercial is about in less than 5 seconds. Now you would be lucky if you can figure it out after someone spoon feeds you its meaning.
@darrenjohnson2995 talking about in general...there will always be weird commercials...but for the most part it was understandable. These companies have to pay for air time by the second. So if they can deliver their message about their product faster, it will be cheaper. But now the message seems to be all about woke and virtue signaling.
I miss the early 90s commercials with all the fun, toys looked like hours of fun. You wanted to go outside on summer days and be thrilled with your rollerblades and super soakers. Or play a combative game if Crossfire on a rainy day. All the fun colors and animations for 90s commercials even for things like pringles, noxima, cereals were epic!
I know. Dolls don't scare me, and I feel like most people who are scared of them watch too many horror movies. However, that whole commercial was genuinely scary. The doll was scary, the kids laughing in return was scary, and the guy laughing like the Joker was terrifying!
Her name is tragic. "Brett Cooper" should be a CenterFielder for the Phillies. .294 lifetime batting average, good glove, good range, steals a few bases. Even so, she is HEAVENLY.
Brett have a genuine laugh and look of awesomeness during her own grill gun commercial is the best split second in a commercial ever. You know damn well she looked at those guys after that camera turned off n said “can i keep this?!?!?”😊😊😊😊
I think the biggest issue with the jeans ad was all of those men wearing skinny jeans. That is a crime against humanity, and every man who’s ever consensually, knowingly worn skinny jeans as a style choice should be prosecuted.
Back in the 80s, my newly married mom couldn't make my dad a good cup of coffee to save her life, but instead of telling her, he let her fill his travel mug & stopped at dunkins, just tossing hers out. Unfortunately, he left a bunch of empty cups in the backseat, so she found out 🤦🏻♀ she thought it was sweet he didn't want to hurt her feelings. To this day, she can't make a decent pot of coffee 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, she missed that one. It bothered Fred and Barnie to see Bettie and Wilma working so hard so they went to the other side of the house so they wouldn't have to see them and where they could enjoy their cigarette of choice (Winston?)
I grew up on a tobacco farm...growing it and smoking it, and I also smoked weed. After WWII we discovered nicotine causes cancer, yet today we put nicotine in vap cartridges and "smoke" it. The old ads for "Light" cigarettes touted less "tar", while marijuana has (4x) more "tar" than cigarettes and it shares many of the same cancer causing chemicals, yet today cigarettes are culturally/morally "illegal" and marijuana is culturally "legal". Just another example of our clown world.
What the band aid ad didn't specify was how blimin painful those plasters were to get off. I remember leaving them on and pulling a bit off at a time in the bath. They were probably the precursor to waxing strips. Very effective at stripping all hair and skin off.
in Italy in the 80s we had a commercial where a man approached a woman within kissing distance and with a winking gaze and whispered to her "I have perfumed it... my breath" and it was a commercial for peppermints 😄
No, that’s persuasion. Marketing is an activity that starts with finding out what a customer wants and helping the rest of the business to focus on delivering that. Think of any brands that sell very well but do very little advertising, their marketing (in the true sense of the word) is well done. Ikea & Costco are good examples.
Logic? She’s just feeding ignorant people with more manure because she’s a woman. I mean cmon dude, it’s disingenuous, it’s a persona that clearly pays the bills
@@LALA-FU Kids look here we have a internet troll. The crap you think she is saying is far more palatable than 99% of the things that are on the internet and news... The fact of her sex means nothing to me as I would say the same for Ben Shapiro let's go bro. I don't know what you do for a living but I'm sure you're pretty disingenuous to pay your bills. I'd repeat my prior post regardless.
You know, people really only started to find dolls creepy when the horror film industry started using them. It used to be that doll collections were really common.
My grandparents had a cuddly monkey plushie with a molded plastic face. It used to freak me out to see it in the dark. I've watched every Saw movie, all the Child's Play movies, grew up laughing at Gremlins, and The Thing. All fun till there's an inanimate monkey with a frozen expression of joy from the shadow side of the uncanny valley sitting on the pillow of my grandparent's guest room.
I found them creepy even before I would watch horror movies. I always had nightmares about them as a kid and no I had never watched Chucky before. Found out about the Chucky movies then I was a teenager and was creeped out by them.
I was around 9 years old when Nick at Nite started airing , so I have a special love of classic TV too. it was so wholesome and a lot of the shows from the 70s on were effortlessly diverse. they never seemed forced like everything now
Key words: Effortlessly diverse. I’ll never forget my childhood in the 90s where on one station all of America would watch Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Step By Step, and Sister Sister. All back to back. Everybody got along in the 90s and early 2000s. None of this woke crap.
Chased out of current movies, tv .due to propaganda, sexual depictions, etc. and totally enjoy the old shows. Something changed in the ‘90s when men and especially fathers were depicted as being stupid. I threw my tv out as I had two sons to raise.
@@nickmaestro the politicians and race grifters could see we were all starting to get along, and they couldn’t stand it. They were losing their source of employment.
@@pmscalisi And people fail to see this. The elites need us normies to be dependent on them while fighting amongst ourselves. Divide and conquer. It’s the elite class vs. the rest of us. And the elite sold the masses racism to keep us divided. Why? Because like you said and also Booker T. Washington, they’d have no source of income.
Wow, the instant coffee commercial brings back old memories. My mom was a constant bargain shopper and when she and my dad tasted the instant coffees she was determined to find a bargain on them. Two months she found what both my dad and mom enjoyed to drink on sale. She then proceeded to buy a 23 and a half year supply. She and dad grew up during the Great Depression is the reason so much.
Sounds like what my Mom and Dad would do! However, instead of instant coffee, they bought the cheapest ground coffee (laced with chicory filler), then made weak pots of boiled coffee.
I grew up on Kool-aid. It just shows how people will find anything to get offended over. I agree people would find something about this commercial to be offended over. I loved it.
Hope you do more of these. I was born in 57 so remember early advertizing. There are so many wonderfully funny and inappropriate commercials out there. The commercials were just as entertaining as the shows they were interrupting.
Born in 65. The reason they were entertaining was to try and stop you from getting a sandwich or drink or going to the bathroom during the commercial break. If they weren't good people would disappear as soon as commercials started and it was a waste of money for them. Kind of like the super bowl commercials now, some people watch the game for the commercials.
@@LALA-FUand I’m sure whoever may be signing petitions to do so are not anywhere close enough to being a notable percentage of the population, even of those who do boycott those companies. We don’t need them banned. We don’t need the government doing our duties for us. We can run those companies into the ground on our own if we so choose.
Unironically replying "trust the science" to a video about smoking in the 1940s, which had no valid science to back up the health claims in the first place, is simply wild lmfao
As much fun as it was to watch vintage ads with a young person, the zeal and joy Brett had on her face using the grill gun was still the best ad. Proof the that there is a little pyro in all of us, and as the wise Beavis said, "Fire is cool".
Back in the fifties Band-Aids were a cloth strip with a very strong adhesive and a tiny square of gauze. Removing them could hurt in two ways. First the really stuck so pulling them off hurt when done slowly or quickly. And secondly, often the scab would sick to the gauze and your mother would reopen the wound.
Hello Brett, I love your videos, they're very encouraging! I thought I'd mention that if you like old black and white shows, you might enjoy the Dick van Dyke show, a comedy show from the 60s. It reminds me a lot of the Folger's coffee ad!
As someone who studies Japan's culture, this ad was perfect for the time period. The English is spoken in that accent so the Japanese can understand it. Plain English can be harder than English with the Japanese accent. Literally Katakana's reason for existing. Also, the cultural references are beloved parts of old feudal Japan. A time period that Japan loves. This ad probably sold a ton of Koolaid, even though they would hate the flavor or taste... too strong and artificial.
My Mexican and Columbian friends prefer when I speak English in a Hispanic accent because they understand me better. Not only an accent but in a very simplified matter
......and called racist and changed by American's to "help" the Japanese feel better. People need to just concentrate on their own lives instead of constantly trying to change and fix things because they feel that they know best for others.
The doll commercial reminded me abt my old Wendy doll from toy story. It had a speaker in it and every time you pulled the string on the back, she would start talking to you. Well, eventually she started to break and would randomly start talking and so my parents threw her in our toy closet (which was in our guest room) buried under a bunch of stuff because me and my siblings wouldn't let them throw it away. We all kinda forgot abt the doll because we couldn't hear her anymore under the junk she was buried in. A few years later we were reorganizing the closet and found the doll. Me, being the hoarder I was at the time (I was abt 10) saved the doll and placed her at the top of a basket after trying to pull the string and make her talk. She didn't talk so I figured it ran out of batteries after all those years and it was fine to keep her. Biggest mistake of my childhood. That very night, my parents let me sleep in the guest room because I did a good job cleaning the closet (being able to sleep in the guest room was a reward at the time because the bed was rly big compared to ours and I shared a room with my sister). I was all alone and being the little insomniac I was, also wide awake. Out of nowhere I hear a tiny voice come out of our toy closet saying, "Howdy kids! Say hello!" and when the Wendy doll heard no response she continued with, "Come on, say hello! I just wanna play~~" "Aww say howdy kid! I just wanna play~~" "I just wanna play~~ I just wanna play~~" The voice lasted for what felt like HOURS. Scariest moment of my childhood. I threw away that doll immediately the next morning. I've hated all talking dolls since.
My daughter had a zuzu pet when she was 8 and we recently found it at the bottom of a pile of her old toys in a container (she is now almost 20) and it still talks! We were creeped out to say the least!
The flamethrower ad in the middle of the episode was pure genius. Watching a laughing Brett Cooper in dark glasses brandishing her flamethrower was a real Quentin Tarantino moment. A pack of Camel Unfilters and a flamethrower and the world would be my oysters flambé.
The thing that shocked me the most was when Brett said “Ads 80 years ago.” in reference to the 40’s. I was a kid in the 80’s. The 40’s for sure seemed like a long time in the past when I was just a little kid. Everyone over 25 seems old to you when you’re that small. 5 years ago seems like an eternity when you’re s little kid. But holy crap did it make my brain do a double take when she said “80 years ago” a few difft times and I realized the 40’s are still only “40 yrs ago” for me in my head ….. yeeeeesh. 😂 Every damn thing about that laughing doll was PSYCHOTIC. No. Just no. Nope nope nope nope noppity nope nope nope. This probably was the inspiration for a whole genre of horror movies, actually. A whole lot of traumatized kids grew up and worked it out in their movie production. I don’t remember the Lee’s jean ad, but I’m pretty sure even at the time it raised eyebrows and elicited some, “Oh, heck no!” Comments from mothers and fathers.
My cousin when she was 5 or so was asked how old she thought me and my twin brother were. We were early 20s at the time. She literally said she thought we were in our 70s or something. She thought my grandparents were about 1000 years old
@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 bahahahah !! Yup. And then when you’re in your 40’s, twenty somethings look like they’re barely out of elementary school. Mind you, when I look back on how teenagers looked in the 80’s, they really do look old !! For their age. It’s weird …
I just found your channel and immediately subscribed. These commercials were hilarious, especially the dandruff one. Thank you for your content and making me laugh❤❤
I'm 56 years old smoking a cigarette and having a drink while watching this episode. I remember cigarette commercials, I remember liquor and commercials for lawn darts. My generation is invincible.
That first ad for Camels was in the 1950s, not the 1940s. For one thing, there was no commercial TV in the 1940s. Also, the car is about a 1952 at the earliest, more likely 1954. The one for Band-aids is also 1950s, not 1940s.
To those who don't know, the coffee ad was pitting the old percolators against instant coffee. This ad worked for that because it's so easy to burn the coffee in a percolator. No matter what you do it will tend to burn the coffee to some extent. This was the advertisers telling the consumers that they didn't have to live with burnt coffee.
My dad still uses a perc. I thoroughly enjoy his perc’d coffee over a kurig and most definitely over instant coffee any day. Instant coffee is dreadful.
I recently went back to a percolator and it is much better than the Mr. Coffee type coffee makers. How do you burn coffee with hot water? You don't set your heat on high to make coffee.
Hey Brett, in the UK we used to and still have Yorkie bars. On the packaging was written "Not for Girls" it's been taken off the packages a few years ago. Want to see how crazy that advertising would be now with everyone being able to do anything
There was super glue on the tip of said bandage 🥴 Instant coffee …..seriously ? I collected almost every Barista Bears . Dandruff is why I only wear light colored clothes . The only female hand in my back pocket is my wife’s ……after my wallet .
A couple things: I hope the makers of Baby-Laugh-a-Lot are safely confined in straight-jackets The word "dandruff" now sounds weird to me Your producers missed one commercial, one crucial commercial, one strikes fear into the hearts of every adult who used to laugh at it when they were kids...the Welch's Grape Juice commercial.
I see your Welch grape juice commercial and raise you the McDonald's McDonaldland commercial of the 1980's.....that is what I presume an LSD trip would be like.
Brett this video was so fun! I was literally watching old 90s commercials this morning while getting ready for my day. Lol I turn 40 this year and my daughter and I watch usually old 80s and 90s commercials, television shows, and cartoons together on RU-vid on Saturday mornings. She's into that stuff more than the things on TV these days. She just started watching "The Wonder Years" today actually and she turns 13 this year Lol There's still hope for the young Generation at least in my household.
I paused the video just to say that I LOVE the Andy Griffith Show and I Love Lucy!😃 Those, or give me the Rifleman, Gomer Pile USMC, and Green Acres. I’m only 18, but grew up on those shows. I guess I’m an old soul in some ways.😂 Who agrees that Bret has good taste in television?😏
Most of the commercials I see actually do talk about the product and while also telling me how they could make me feel, they just all happen to be from pharmaceutical companies
Brett can I just say, you are by far the most creative youtuber I’ve seen with putting sponsorships into your videos. You always just effortlessly slide it into the video and it catches me off guard every time 😂
I think it's so funny cause my ex partner and I used to guess what commercials are about because they're just not clear. There's a beautiful sunset, people laughing drinking things, so you'd think it's about drinks but no, it's a car commercial 😂
The bandaid egg trick was like one of those Jr Science Kit experiments used for advertising. It appeals to the childhood fascination deep inside our brains. That’s a way that good advertising works
How do we know that the water was boiling and not just rigged to push air into it to LOOK LIKE it's boiling. It's rather like the fast food chain that has studio shots of their burgers, colour enhanced as they are. And when you get the product it looks nothing like the photo, nowhere near as appetizing
