Gee wiz, Billy!

It's kind of interesting to see retromercials now and then, but today I found some that were really something! Cereal boxes that look like a half drawn cartoon intro, cars that are freakin' long and scream "women can't drive me", and space food sticks (proof that you can even sell horse**it if you say it's what the astronauts use), yup, it's all there. The very beginnings of using cartoon characters and prize toys for grabbing the attention of youngsters and your typical household women presenting almost products for every "man in the house" in the USA are kind of funny to look at after all these years. But, since the average person in those days thought that everything you see on TV is true, a bunch of propaganda movies were also introduced to schools, such as "Are you popular?" or "Homosexuality - the silent disease" (?) which molded the youth to become what it is today - a hard working and respecful society (yeech... I'm a bad lier).

What really intrigues me is the relative calmness and total blissfull ignorance that cigarette commercials used to employ - it's very weird to see a whole industry get banned from the public today, but that's reality that no one was aware of back then - smoking kills... There's one thing though, I'm pretty sure that most people did not smoke as much as they do now - cigarettes were usually reserved for the end of the workday, or during a coffee break, not for making you lose hair over finding a smoker friendly area because you can't hold on much longer without one.

Nah... 'nuff bitchin'... Just watch:

Alright kids... Settle down, we're gonna watch a movie:

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Add comment May 18th, 2008