Fred Flintstone Promotes Cancer Sticks

Just a reminder The Flintstones was a prime time show not originally aimed at children. Lord only knows what Seth MacFarlane will do with his remake due in 2013.

I was reminded of this commercial when I ran across Five Cartoons They Don't Want You to See this morning via Look at This.

I cannot believe the kist excluded the best Bugs Bunny World War II era cartoon. Presented here purely for the sake of history, of course. I certainly would not want to imply the Empire of Japan was barbaric or anything.

Three Stooges for Aqua Net (1964)

What better spokesmen for women's hairspray than the Three Stooges? The woman at the end with the stooges is Charlene Holt, a former Miss Maryland who would go on to costar with John Wayne in El Dorado.

Quite a step up, no?

This is the last consecutive day I am going to post an old commercial. They will pop up every now and then on appropriate occasions or when I find an interesting one. I wanted you guys to see what I am aiming for with it. Nostalgia and/or goofiness, basically.

Mean Joe Green Coke Commercial (1979)

You could not watch the NFL in the early '80's without seeing this commercial a dozen times a day. Advertisers still make parodies of it 32 years later. The original is still the best.

Bugs Bunny and the Monkees Shill for Kool Aid

Bugs Bunny advises the bored Monkees to make friends by making a pitcher of Kool Aid. Peter Tork had already left the group by this point to resume his career in folk music, so no word on how his "pass the joint" theory of friend making works in comparison.

Note Buga disappears after the first few seconds himself. The Monkees do not make carrot flavored Kool Aid. Losing new friends already. Not cool.

Star Trek for KFC

Now we know how they all got fat.

Nestle White Chocolate Commercial (1986)

Welcome to the first in an irregular feature of favorite commercials from the past.

This nestle commercial used to run frequently in the mid-late ‘80’s during television show that appealed to a younger crowd. The song attached is a quintessential love ballad of the era. Such songs have been rarely duplicated in the quarter century since this commercial debuted. Consider it odd the commercial uses two pretty people to sell a product that will make young people fat and pimple-faced.

Nestle still manufactures its candy in the United States. In recent years, Hershey candy has moved its manufacturing to Mexico.