I just want to say: the voiceover is Mason Adams and the Frito Bandito is voiced by Mel Blanc. And Mel never went anywhere without his American Express card! 👍😁
I had a geekgasm when I heard Mason Adams as well ("With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good"). I don't remember ever seeing this variation of the ad, it's great. Pretty sure Tex Avery directed - I know he did the black and white ad. Thanks!
Frito Bandito we grew up with him he’s fantastic and who cares if he’s politically incorrect this political correctness look what it’s done to our country
Every body that gets offended too easy, need to take a couple of midol or pamprin and a tampon for their panocha!!! Sorry had to say it. What a waste of air.
I'm of Mexican descent, my grandmother came from Mexico and we both used to love and laugh at the Frito Bandito commercials! Too bad some people didn't have any sense of humor and removed him!
It was the white people that are offended on your behalf.... These idiots are out of control. No black women on aunt Jamima syrup, no black man on uncle Ben's, no indian on land o lakes. White people removed minorities from all packaging to not offend anyone. Does it make any sense?
A commercial character generally has a limited life expectancy. The GEICO gecko is remarkable in its longevity, as are several other recent commercial spokes character. Still, most from the earlier eras did not live (exist) long. Some of the longest include Aunt Jamaima (who never really lived), Betty Crocker who exists only to sell those products. Duncan Hines was a real, flesh and blood, pants-one-leg-at-time human being, now with a museum to his story. Mavis Beacon (Teaches Typing) never. The face was from a bank teller of a different name and the name entirely fictional. Meanwhile, agreed! Those who feel this cartoon character represents or disparages all of Mexican descent have a sterotypeing mind. Sigmund Frued, legend has it, once said, 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.' Well, sometimes, a fictional character is no more than a silly, funny, laughable, fictional character, created to sell a corn chip. Benedict of Nursia, a was an insightful fellow who said "All things in moderation, including moderation." Political Correctness can go too far.
It's not a stereotype. Maybe it's a cliche, but it's a CHARACTER, a specific entity. He no more represents Mexicans than Bugs Bunny represents rabbits. He's a highwayman, a thug, a roving criminal--a bandit. From Mexico. Where that was a thing. Up here we'd call him an "outlaw," and we did. And we do. And nobody says outlaws are "stereotypes" of Americans.
I remember these commercials, and never considered them anything more than a silly cartoon. And to this day I still love genuine Fritos corn chips, they're still the best. I need to make frito pie for a camping trip sometime, and maybe I'll get some of the people I camp with to sing the frito bandito song.
It's never the supposedly 'offended' groups complaining. It is always the Leftists trying to stoke racial tensions. I was a kid back when these commercials aired and I knew darn well that the Bandito was not representative of Mexican people nor was he designed to malign anything or anyone. He was a cartoon character and nothing more. Children of the 60's and 70's were far smarter and intellectually astute than todays political 'elite'...
Broke my heart when this guy died. I thought cartoons were over. They did a comic with all his characters, looking stunned, and the caption was "Speechless". RIP, Mel Blanc.
I still have a Frito Bandito pencil eraser that came with the Fritos back in the 60's. I also have W.C. Fritos and the "Munch-a-Bunch". Somebody will be selling them on eBay when I croak.
I mean, at first, he tries buying the Fritos. A much better stereotype. The commercial was actually funny and who is going to get in a tizzy over a gun in a commercial?
Elmer Fudd used his gun all the time to try & get that "wascal wabbit'. The rule is cartoon guns are fine. We have the God given sense to know the difference between a cartoon gun and a real gun. When I was a kid, I knew.
MrJr And those kids that are watching a cartoon a guarantee or cheering up and down watching avengers endgame and that epic battle. The hypocrisy of Hollywood knows no bounds
It’s only considered inappropriate NOW. Back then, no-one felt offended. All my family thought he was cute & funny. What was offensive, was the way people treated you on the street. 😔
I just cannot imagine someone treating someone else inappropriately because of their ethnicity. My Dad told me the first day my school was integrated in 1968(?), treat someone by how they act, not by what they look like. 20 years later he was called a racist in a major newspaper editorial for arresting three corrupt politicians for bribery simply because they were black. No one apologized after he got three guilty convictions. Best wishes. - Old white guy.
I agree with you however part of the reason that people on the street might treat a Mexican in a rude way goes back to the stereotypes set in place by characters like Speedy Gonzales and the Frito Bandito. Obviously in Mexico they have their own prejudices and stereotypes, some of them are self depreciating as in the classic character like India Maria, and her small village illiterate, and culturally naïve character going to the big city. Like it or not there end up being stereotypes of gringos when they go to Mexico. Back in the early 90s I was walking down the street in a Mexican tourist city, and a guy approached me trying to sell me jungle tours and condominium timeshares. I asked him “how do you know I’m a gringo?” He said “oh it’s easy to tell: Americans have a certain walk, they walk differently than most Mexicans, also I can tell by the way you are dressed. You are wearing all original clothing: Nike shoes, Levi’s bluejeans, an American T shirt and an American ball cap with the logo of an American company on it. I know you probably didn’t consciously dress like that and it’s very common that people of most any economy in the US can be wearing the same clothes. On the other hand in Mexico to get original clothing like that it’s a lot more expensive because there are import duties paid by the importers, the wholesalers and the stores in Mexico. Therefore it has the first impression of being affluent. Well of course there are so many fake imitation products now, as we called them ‘fantasias’ or ‘de pirata’, that it’s hard to tell if people are a gringo or not..”
Blanc was the man. I remember my mother dying, and I remember the voice of all my favorite cartoons dying. My mother was first, and Blanc shattered the rest of me. I suddenly realized this would never stop...
...and the voiceover was Mason Adams. Mason was on many commercials also did many radio programs. You may remember him as Charlie Hume, in the TV series Lou Grant.
I showed this to my 1/2 Hispanic adult son, for the first time last year. He was rolling on the floor. Now he's got the Frito Bandito song for his ringtone.
This is charming and heart warming..."how bout some lead senor" hysterical!...makes me crave fritos koRn chips...my Mexican friends will love this...here in Orange county California...people need to stop being so sensitive
+chuckiesjamochashake ahaha. Well you're the one who said the commercial couldn't be made today. While yore probably right. That's still bullshit. There's nothing wrong with this commercial.
This commercial was from a time when Americans could actually laugh at themselves without all of this political correctness B.S.! I miss that America. (and yes I am of Hispanic heritage)
As an African American brother,I do agree that Political Correctness has gone way to far today, and it is stiffling.it has reached stupid and idiotic proportions today.
I miss that America so much too, which is one of the reason why I live in Spain today. Americans, the ones all concerened about everything being racist, are the very ones who have literally driven me away.
I grew up in a barrio watching these commercials, they were hilarious! Just for fun My Pop let his mustache grow out longer like the Frito Bandito .Nobody that I knew was offended ,we all thought the commercials were funny! We would collect the pencil erasers that came in the bags of Fritos for school in fact I still have one. Grow up people laugh at yourselves. Or just laugh period.
I am not Mexican, but in support of many of my Mexican friends below who approve of this message, I approve this message. It was a fun time of life and commercials such as this did not offend anyone.
For some reason my grandpa will literally be anywhere at anytime and just start going “ay yi yi yi I am the frito bandito I love Fritos corn chips I love them I do” decided to look it up on the internet and here I am
Im eating some fritos with Aunt Jemima syrup on them, sprinkled with Uncle Ben's Rice and watching the Redskins play football.....I AM HAVING A GREAT TIME
I can sing almost all the jingles, and it was the cartoons that kept me watching.. I still buy a lot of the products because of the commercials that were burned into my brain haha
In 1970, when I was 11 years old, Ricardo Moltabán was instrumental in getting rid of this commercial. You know, the guy on "Fantasy Island" and peddled Chrysler Cordobas with Corinthian leather interiors 40 years ago? I guess he was jealous of the Frito Bandito. Cesar Romero, he had so many numerous roles. The Joker on the campy 1960's Batman TV series was my favorite of his, never complained about the little guy. It just goes to show you, you can't please everybody. :^)
He must have been mad because he was cast to do Plymouth Volare commercials and sing "Volare" around the same time. Maybe he wanted to sing the frito's song and didnt get cast.
When I was a freshman in college in Mississippi (as an exchange foreign student) in the mid 70s my dorm mates used to sing that song to me. I still giggle remembering.
Thank the late actor, Ricardo Montalban for removing the Frito bandito. Disappointing that a well spoken, intelligent man found the bandito threatening. As a kid back then, we just loved the little dude and his song 😢
im sorry but no ad nowadays will ever live up to this. This is low key, funny and memorable. My brain is exaughsted from the over the top graphics , 1 million dollar ads and pitch perfect product placement. This is perfection
I was a kid back when the commercial was on the air! I had no idea of stereotypes or political correctness or bigotry, I just thought the commercial was funny and I wanted to be like the Frito Bandito so I joined the club! Fond memories of simpler times!
I’m Mexican and grew up on the border in Nogales, AZ. And I approve. That commercial was hilarious. I remember it when I was young. All my friends (also Mexican) thought it was awesome.
So tired of all the political correctness, censorship, and perpetual warm fuzzies that are going around today. Seems like it's not ok to dislike anything or have a negative opinion about anything. It's only ok to be negative about being negative. :(
I actually remember when this Comercial was running, and thought behind its removal was that it stereo typed Mexicans as a bunch of banditos. which might hurt sales from that sector of our society.
Imagine a chain of ads where the more you fight sharing fritos with someone the more they turn into various latin archetypes, like banditos, psycho spanish soap opera girls, or El Santo, until they just beat up the other person and take their Fritos.
I loved this character as a kid. Hell, it had Mel Blanc doing the voice. PC sensitivity is a joke. I find MARIO from Nintendo stupid as hell, but I wouldn’t want to campaign to remove him as their mascot.
I love the fritz bandit so much ,I laugh every time I watch it ,im Hispanic also what happen to the past ,I miss it so cool to watch, my friend is Mexican and I show it to him and say its you 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@harley8680 It's sad that you consider that an insult. I don't want the earth to overheat or people to discriminate against others based on sexuality. How dare I.
I remember these ads. There was a song he used to sing too. And I brought a bag of Fritos to school in my lunch every single day for all of elementary school.
They're saying that the Mexican Bandit stereotype is racist and I'm sure they might of referenced the gun's as violent, also. PC is fickle this was always the lefts stab at Christianity, saying that Christians will take away freedom's like this , Isn't this sort of weird they 're the ones that are being extreme and doing this not the churches. They're also saying we're to stupid to understand and that they have to take this from us. hmmm We aren't even allowed to talk about certain subject because they have spoken . Where is our Freedom and Free country going.
I remember the Frito Bandito. I don't understand why Latinos (namely Mexican-Americans) didn't find him funny. He replaced a longtime character in The Frito Kid in 1967, and he lasted until 1971. There are two notable voices in this spot. Mel Blanc, the successful voice actor who voiced Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig and Barney Rubble, is the voice of the Frito Bandito; and that's Mason Adams doing the voiceover.
