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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed Feb 12, 2020 8:49 pm

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I still get those treat paks or Variety packs once in awhile. Saves on washing dishes becuase you can eat them with milk right in the box. Image
NOMF NOMF NOMF

that's my imagined sound of eating them out of the box like that
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:04 pm

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Another Post commercial with Bugs Bunny for Alpha-Bits cereal.



Mel Blanc voices Bugs as usual, with Hal Smith voicing Elmer Fudd.

Fudd's original voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan, had died by the time these commercials were being made. Smith's Elmer voice is, uh, very off :-I
Elmer Fudd must live in a stand your ground state
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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Another one, featuring Yosemite Sam.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:18 pm

These ads are, like, the anti-Trix. The rabbit always gets the cereal in the end.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:30 pm

Before creating "Doug", creator Jim Jinkins was designing commercials, some of which featured a kid who looks like Doug



And yes, that's Lorenzo Music narrating.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:03 am

also grapefruit juice is pretty good
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Octavia (?) » Mon Feb 17, 2020 10:10 am

Garfield loves lasagna AND grapefruit juice
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Octavia wrote:
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Garfield loves lasagna AND grapefruit juice
Lasagna and Grapefruit Juice > Palm Tree

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i want some lasaga
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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i want some lasaga
But do you want palm tree??????

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:18 am



More marketing silliness with Bugs Bunny,this time for Kool-Aid. Directed by Tex Avery.

The animation's pretty weird in this one. Anyone notice that glass cup disappears suddenly?

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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:31 pm

Pwe sweetened :good:

I wonder if that was an early use of saccharine in foods. :flutterdear:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 5:02 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:
Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:31 pm
Pwe sweetened :good:

I wonder if that was an early use of saccharine in foods. :flutterdear:
They used Cyclamate, which is 30-50 times sweeter than sugar and it was banned in the USA in 1970 because high doses were linked to bladder tumors. :spike101:
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Tue Feb 18, 2020 5:50 pm

Oh yes. I've heard of that.

Pwe sweetened with dangewous chemicals :evil:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:17 pm

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Bigdog (?) » Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:46 pm

Octavia wrote:
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Garfield loves lasagna AND grapefruit juice
:thunk:

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:21 am

Bigdog wrote:
Thu Feb 20, 2020 11:46 pm
:thunk:

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Garfield seems to like grapefruit juice more than pogo sticks, though.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:24 am

Doug and Porkchop also appeared in this station ID for the USA Network.


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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Bigdog (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:36 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
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Garfield seems to like grapefruit juice more than pogo sticks, though.
oh man the tail end of the MCI commercial takes me way back

who else remembers the AT&T/MCI wars

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Post by Octavia (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:39 pm

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who else remembers the AT&T/MCI wars
1-800-COLLECT vs 1-800-CALL-ATT
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Post by Bigdog (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:42 pm

MCI Friends & Family vs. whatever the AT&T plan was called :granny:

Nowadays it's bizarre to think that there was ever such a thing as long distance charges.

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Octavia wrote:
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1-800-CALL-ATT
I always used this one (for what I think was the one time in my life that I did call collect) because "dial down the center" was such an easy way to remember it. Now I imagine kids these days not only don't have to worry about possibly ever needing to make a collect call, but they don't even have to think about those letters on the phone keypad being used as a mnemonic for phone numbers or as a text message entry method!
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Post by Octavia (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2020 4:16 pm

AT&T was split up due to an anti-trust lawsuit, then gradually just reacquired all the other companies again.

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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:18 pm

Splitting it up regionally never made much sense anyway. You still have a monopoly; it's just a different one depending on where you live, and one that now has fewer resources.

But it was a court ruling, I think, and there's not much that courts have authority to do to companies. Nationalizing them would have been the best option, but it would have required the cooperation of the other two branches to work out the hows and whos, and they weren't exactly on board with an idea like that in the very exact middle of the Reagan era.
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:20 pm

In 2009 Yomiuri Shimbun, a major newspaper in Japan, teamed up with Studio Ghibli to produce a series of commercial spots.

This is one of them. It features characters created by Shigeru Sugiura, manga artist active from the 1930s to 1950s that was known for producing REALLY bizarre, surreal comics.



I love it when Studio Ghibli makes something that looks different from their house style.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:22 pm

It's only 15 seconds long, but I think this is my favorite thing to come out of Ghibli.

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I didn't see that coming...

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon May 04, 2020 12:12 am



Remember when cereals had baseball trading cards?

I don't, but it was a thing, I guess

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Post by ixnay (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 2:11 pm



hahaha holy crap

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oh my gooooosh
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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 3:32 pm

I was prepped for it to be a sleazy laptop commercial with a "hey buy our laptops and do SCIENCE" message

but no.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 3:51 pm

Jesus Christ, Hasbro. :facehoof:
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 3:51 pm

i hate it
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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 4:47 pm

Still not as bad as Millennial Monopoly. Let it never be forgotten that that fucking thing exists.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 4:48 pm

monopoly must be doing really bad if hasbro is so desperate to make us like it
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Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 5:08 pm

Monopoly is bad because it was designed to be bad. It was literally created as a demonstration tool as to why capitalism sucks, but then it got bought out and marketed as a fun game about money without actually changing any of the design that made it miserable to play on purpose.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Fri May 08, 2020 8:09 pm

I thought it was gonna be a Subway commercial
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed May 13, 2020 12:58 pm

There's a thread on twitter about the content of that board game.

it's bad.

like "You watched a movie with a female super hero! Get $100, if you're a man, get $150" is an actual card from that game
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