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MIGHTY MOUSE & ZESTABS — WHEN CARTOON HEROES SOLD VITAMINS
Seeing Mighty Mouse selling vitamins takes me right back to an era when our Saturday-morning cartoon heroes seemed capable of…
Before Comic-Con: When Batman Took Over Shea Stadium
This ad feels less like a concert promotion and more like somebody accidentally invented a pop-culture convention four years before…
FUNYUNS — THE SNACK THAT ALMOST WASN’T CALLED FUNYUNS
This commercial takes me right back to when a bag of Funyuns seemed like one of the strangest snacks in…
SKITTLE BOWL — BOWLING RIGHT ON THE KITCHEN TABLE!
Remember Skittle Bowl? This was one of those toys that could turn an ordinary kitchen table into your own miniature…
From Frosty to the Lennon Sisters — Jimmy Durante in 1969
Most of us probably know Jimmy Durante’s unmistakable voice as the narrator of Frosty the Snowman. What I didn’t realize…
“Ever Eat a Pine Tree?” — The Commercial That Turned Euell Gibbons Into a Punchline
This may be one of those commercials where one sentence became much more famous than the product being advertised. Euell…
Jane Russell Playtex Commercial
Watching this 1981 Jane Russell Playtex commercial, one thing really jumped out at me when I compared it with the…
THE JERRY LEWIS TELETHON — A LABOR DAY TRADITION
For a lot of us, Labor Day weekend wasn’t complete without the Jerry Lewis Telethon. You could turn it on…
The Joey Bishop Show: Taking On Johnny Carson With a Young Regis Philbin
I remember The Joey Bishop Show as one of those late-night programs that always seemed to live in the shadow…
Happy Meals
Here’s a commercial showing the beginning of something that eventually became such a normal part of childhood that it’s hard…