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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:39 pm



Another one from Japan. I like the brush lineart in the animation, something you rarely see in anime.

The animation looks like something you'd see in 1970s TMS shows like "Lupin" and "Gutsy Frog". I wonder who worked on it.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:42 pm

Okay, so I found a series of ads for Karl, a type of corn-puff type snack that's sold in Japan. These ads are weird because they have NOTHING to do with the product until the very end, when it's hastily mentioned. Like they were trying to psyche the viewers into guessing.

Here are some I found:










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I think everybody's familiar with the Winston ad with Fred and Barney sneaking out back to take a smoke while their wives do their chores, but there were several more ads done with the characters. Winston was the main sponsor of "The Flintstones" in the early seasons, so they produced a bunch of these.

Here's one.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:41 pm



There's something refreshing about this whiskey commercial. No flashy gimmick or anything. The ad just features some shlub getting drunk at a bar after a long day at work. The end. Buy our whiskey.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:21 pm

Here's another advert featuring a comic strip character. This time it's Andy Capp, a long-running British comic strip.

There were actually several ads made with the character for different products, but here's one with some nice animation, plugging Kit-Kat:


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Another ad with "Andy Capp", for Trans Cash service. This one was animated by future-Disney animator Eric Goldberg, who at the time was working in Britain.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:10 pm

Here's another PSA, which was a staple in Nagoya, Japan. It was for a thing Nagoya Television did called "Green Campaign", which called for people to not make a mess to the environment. It first came out in 1973 and they aired the spot up until 1990.



If the "Peanuts" influence is evident (complete with Snoopy look-alike in the 20-second mark), you're not alone. It was designed by cartoonist Kimihiko Tsukuda, who was very much influenced by Charles Schulz. He was never a household name but his stuff was everywhere, from print and animation ads like the one above to a newspaper strip he did called "Little Gentleman" (or "Honoboro-kun"):

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"Peanuts" was very popular in Japan, so it was bound to, uh, "influence" some artists there :-I

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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:51 pm

It also had a pretty clear influence on the art style of the Earthbound games.
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Theatrical ads like this used to be common before television came along. You go in thinking you're watching a regular cartoon, only to segway into product advertisement without warning in the end. Some announce the product placement straight up in the titles, but these didn't.

These ads were produced by Marten Toonder. He was a Dutch cartoonist who pretty much started the cartoon industry in Netherlands. He was and still is very famous there. This ad features two of his most well-known characters, Tom Puss and Bumble.

Also, can I just say that "Toonder" is the greatest name for a cartoonist?

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:39 pm



Japanese ads for Atari. I love the "A-TARI!" sound

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Sep 15, 2020 11:10 pm



Another video game ad, this one for Mattel Intellivison featuring George Plimpton (at the time the spokesman for the brand).

The kid is Henry Thomas, who played Elliot in "E.T.". This ad came after the infamous Atari game.

Yeah :-I

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I think the "Ummm....it's from Tootsie Roll" tagline in the end is perfect. It's so half-assed, but at the same time it describes Tootsie Roll so well :-I

This was made by an animation studio in NYC called Teletactics. It was a short-lived studio, only existing from 1975 to 1978, but it had some notable names in animation working there, like Dan Haskett, Tom Sito, Yvette Kaplan, Bob Lusk, Selby Kelly, Tony Eastman, etc.

In addition to producing a few commercials, they made at least two TV specials: Days of Liberty, a bicentennial special from 1976, and Why the Bears Dance on Christmas Eve, which aired in 1977. I can't find a copy of Liberty, but the Bear special is on YouTube if you wanna watch. Needless to say, there's a reason why it didn't become a Christmas staple like Grinch or Charlie Brown did.

Teletactics was run by Barry Drucker, who I know nothing about but was evidently a shady character according to people who worked there. In 1978 Drucker had a sudden heart attack and died, taking the studio with him. You can read more about the studio here; a bunch of people who worked at the company left comments there, sharing their own experience with the company and Drucker.

As for who worked on this ad, the song was recorded in 1976. It was sung by Rebecca Jane Weinstein (then 9 years old) and David Johnson (then 13). David was supposed to sing the solo "whatever it is I think I see, becomes a Tootsie Roll to me." but his voice was cracking due to puberty so Rebecca did it instead. Rebecca actually had a "Tootsie Roll Girl" website for a while, although you can only view it on Wayback Machine now. She claims to own the original reel-to-reel recording, probably the only master material left of the song.

The character designs and animation were done by Yvette Kaplan (except the part with the plane, which was probably Kim Miskoe). She worked on several cartoons since then, including Doug, Beavis and Butt-Head, and Clarence. Kaplan was more or less the co-director of the Beavis and Butt-Head Do America movie (she was credited as "Animation Director" in the film)

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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Bill Plympton did a lot of commercials back in the 1990s. Here's one for Taco Bell. This was based on a short he did in the 1980s called "Your Face". He later remade the short as a couch gag for "The Simpsons", with Homer in its place.

The animation has higher frame-rate than usual for Plympton, who usually animates in fours, but considering the ad's only 30 seconds long, and the guy talks super-fast, he had to deviate from usual for this one.

I always love it whenever they hire indie animators for these ads.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:24 pm

Another Bill Plympton ad. I think that's Emo Phillips as the narrator.

Another instance of Plympton reusing ideas from his short films, in this case "25 Ways to Quit Smoking". Some changes were made, like the part where an overweight woman crushes the guy; in the original it was a sumo wrestler.


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Anyone who watched "South Park" in the early days should recognize the logo in the end

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These two cat girls are dating, Prove me wrong.

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I'm more weirded out by the implication that these cat people still shit in a box and let it sit in their homes. :-I

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Post by Scuderia (?) » Sat Nov 14, 2020 2:27 pm

I'm on a weird kick of looking at old famicom ads


and the Namco ones are really :-I "well this was certainly a choice they made"




bonus: 80's computer graphics used in ads are an aesthetic in themselves; people really liked their glowing wireframes.


Pixar, a decade later...

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I couldn't stop watching them :maud:

Those kids playing the games in the woods kind of gave me the creeps :whyme:
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Japanese commercials starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Enjoy :v:

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I think this is up there in the worst ad for a fast food joint :-I

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Definitely in Dollar Menu Guy tier:

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Post by Pocket (?) » Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:18 pm

What is that music from? It used to get used as stock music in a ton of things.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...

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Pocket wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:18 pm
What is that music from? It used to get used as stock music in a ton of things.
This one. I'm pretty sure this was heard in "SpongeBob" as well


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...WHATTTTTTT!?!?!?!

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Why can't all PSAs be as good as Todd Rundgren's.

Don't go deaf!

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The '90s, everyone! They were ... certainly a thing.
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The 90’s was a time for all of us.


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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:43 am

You know that famous 1984 ad Apple put out? Turns out it had a sequel for the following year's Super Bowl.



The ad was a colossal failure, both because of its dark theme (calling your potential customers lemmings is a bad marketing move, turns out) and because the product advertised, Macintosh Office, didn't come out until 1987, two years later.

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Mr. Big wrote:
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You know that famous 1984 ad Apple put out?
In hindsight, that ad is a lot weirder if you're aware of what the computer market was like at the time. Most of us have only known a world where a single platform has a stranglehold on the computer industry and Apple is the sole competition, the perpetual underdog... but in 1984, the IBM PC had only been out for a few years, was too expensive for anything other than offices, and was already facing competition from clones; Microsoft was over half a decade from even releasing something besides DOS that anyone would have heard of; and the home market was saturated with cheap, fat keyboards like the Commodore 64, Atari 400, TI 99/4A... and the Apple II. Who was Apple even casting as the villain? Who did audiences expect to see that Big Brother figure and think "Oh yeah, that's totally ______"?
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of...

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:starity: This is a thing

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