They just don’t make good marble slot hole games like they used to. I clearly remember this commercial being effective enough to make me ask for it for a birthday present. It was pretty fun, but my sister rarely wanted to play it , so like most multi-player games, it just sat in my closet. [...]
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Remco’s Baby Laugh A Lot Commercial … Pure Evil!
February 27th, 2010 
rberry Wow! I’m a bit late to the Baby Laugh A Lot craze, as there appears to be several weird remixes of this on YouTube, but ho-lee crap this is one scary ass commercial.
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Unintentionally Funny Commercials #2: Mr. Bucket
February 25th, 2010 rberry Love this one a lot! “Put your balls in my top, and out my mouth they will pop!” It doesn’t get any better than that!
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Unintentionally Funny Commercials Part 1: Boobytrap
February 25th, 2010 rberry The commercial I was looking for actually had a fun Bobbytrap jingle, but this one would have made me laugh like crazy, too! I always imagined some poor woman getting her boobs caught in this game. It of course seems silly and immature now, but in my childhood context, I never really knew that booby [...]
Remembering Sizzlean
February 23rd, 2010 rberry Sizzlean was available for about 10 years through the ’70s and ’80s as a failed attempt to sell healthier “bacon”. But it tasted like salty play-dough mixed with SPAM. You can’t beat bacon for tasty salty tasty goodness. It’s too tasty to be defined. It’s like saying, “I’m going to be cooler than Fonzie!” Here’s [...]
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Tags: 90210, bacon, carol potter, commercials, sizzlean, sizzling 
2 Comments »Heroes In Action (1975)
January 27th, 2010 rberry I was 6 years old when Mattel released these back in 1975, and they seemed like the coolest thing ever on the TV commercial. Each figure was animated when you moved a lever back and forth. My friend David Dowdy had a few of these, and though they looked neat, it was clear that the [...]
Happy 125th Birthday, Dr Pepper!
January 26th, 2010 rberry It’s hard to believe that Dr Pepper is 125 years old today. Yep…it actually predates Coca-Cola. Hats off to Dr. Pepper for making super great tasting throwback editions that use real sugar instead of that horrible corn syrup crap. Here’s the classic retro Dr Pepper commercial featuring David Naughton. It’d be cool if they made [...]
Real Life Bananaphones!
January 22nd, 2010 rberry I can only imagine what sort of banana related gizmos the fine folks at Chiquita Marketing were pitching before they settled on Banana Walkie Talkies. This was a comic book ad from 1980.
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Gre-Gory The Big Bad Vampire Bat!
January 21st, 2010 rberry Here’s a great ad from 1980 for Gre-Gory The Big Bad Vampire Bat. Like many toys, he was big and fearsome, but also…HE’S FUN! Much like the Pulsar action figure that pumped blood, Gre-Gory had an exposed chest with a full working circulatory system. Unfortunately, like many toys with fluid inside of them (like Real [...]
Posted in Toys and Videogames, Vintage Advertising and Commercials Tags: action figures, gre-gory, pulsar No Comments »Brilliant Stephen Colbert Piece on Domino’s Pizza
January 7th, 2010 rberry The Colbert Report
Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Posted in FOOD, Vintage Advertising and Commercials Tags: domino's pizza, stephen colbert 2 Comments »Make Way for the Baby Brigade
January 1st, 2010 rberry Found this in a fun 1976 Superhero Merchandise Catalog that I’ll reprint in its entirety at a later date. Gotta love the super ’70s reference that the dolls are so cute they make Donny and Marie look like Alice Cooper! For the life of me, I can’t find any trace of the actual dolls these [...]
Kim Kardashian’s Carl’s Jr. Commercial
December 23rd, 2009 rberry Jeepers! I haven’t been this turned on by a fast food commercial since McDonald’s took the Fry Guys off the air! CLICK HERE to watch it!
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Posted in FOOD, Videos, Vintage Advertising and Commercials Tags: commercial, Kim Kardashian No Comments »GIANT MOON MONSTER
December 12th, 2009 rberry Here’s one of the great “too good to be true” ads of comic book history. The LIFE SIZE GIANT MOON MONSTER with 3 monster masks was available for an unheard of $1.25, plus you got membership in the prestigious Monster Fan Club. What kid wouldn’t want a “Horrifying” and “Exciting” and “Thrilling!” Monster?
So what did [...]
1977 Spalding Ad with Rick Barry and Dr. J
December 12th, 2009 rberry I was never much of a basketball kid growing up, but I thought this comic book ad from the late ’70s (with Mad Magazine’s Jack Davis handling the art chores) was fun. How cool would it be to shoot some hoops with your pals and have two of the greatest players of the era just [...]
Creepy Old SAAB ad
December 2nd, 2009 rberry I was looking through some old ads from a 1980 magazine to put on retroCRUSH and at first glance, this SAAB ad just looked like any other boring car ad from the time, until I took a look a closer look at the driver.
Holy crap! Is that Michael Myers behind the wheel? Why on earth [...]