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Follies of the Madmen #205

Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed May 22, 2013 | Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960's

Follies of the Madmen #204



"I would sure like to see more fun commercials like that on television."

Seconded, Gary!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Apr 29, 2013 | Comments (5)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Television, 1950's

International Moves the Browns to Sterling Street



This film makes the Sterling Silver industry looks like the Freemasons, the Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati all rolled up into one. A plan for world domination unfolds!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Apr 27, 2013 | Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1940's

Follies of the Madmen #202







"Fun to play with, not to eat!" "Impossible to eat!" And why did the last commercial change the refrain to "impossible to BEAT"...?

Yeah, right, impossible to eat. How many of these imitation foodstuffs were forcefed or enticingly offered to unsuspecting younger siblings who scarfed them down?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Mar 15, 2013 | Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Toys

Follies of the Madmen #201

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The message here? Sloppy panties imperil the elderly and the nation's health care policies.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Mar 01, 2013 | Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Elderly, Underwear, 1940's

Follies of the Madmen #200

50 Jahre Orion (TV Ad) from MovieBrats Films & Animation on Vimeo.



200 dumb and/or silly ads! How did we get here? What did we learn? Where are we going? Will the public ever wise up? The answers remain enigmatic.

But this over-the-top ad seems his fitting for such a milestone.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Feb 17, 2013 | Comments (4)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products

Follies of the Madmen #199



Special smokes for wimps!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Feb 14, 2013 | Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, Tobacco and Smoking, Wimps, Milquetoasts and Cowards, 1960's

Follies of the Madmen #198



Sloggis? Really? Isn't that the worst name for briefs?

Still in business, so it must work, I guess.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Feb 07, 2013 | Comments (7)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Weird Names, Underwear, 1980's

Follies of the Madmen #197

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As gross-outs go, the notion of a giant head raining its dandruff on helpless humans (or is that a normal-sized head raining on shrunken doll people?), is pretty far up the scale. Not sure, however, that it makes me want to buy the product.

Original ad here.


Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Jan 24, 2013 | Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Disasters, 1940's, Hair and Hairstyling

Westphal’s Auxiliator

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Here's an old-timey hair tonic with a weird name. The strange noun just means "helper."

Composed of "55% grain alcohol," it went down many an alcoholic's gullet, I'm sure.

Believe it or not, the tonic was mentioned in a SIMPSONS comicbook. If you look at their ad below, you'll see why. The mutant female user resembles the famed Springfield three-eyed fish.

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