Follies of the Madmen #589

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Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 06, 2024
Category: Advertising | Junk Food | Wild West and US Frontier | Twentieth Century

Comments

All of the Stan Freburg Jeno's and Chun King commercials are genius. You may not have seen this... https://youtu.be/UUiJztrz3_g?si=HipuMbgJT1x3lFj1

Posted by seth on 03/06/24 at 12:47 PM

...and just for context, that Jeno's spot is a satire on... https://archive.org/details/Cigarette_Commercials_Lark/Commercial_Lark_Cigarettes_William_Tell_Overture.avi

Posted by seth on 03/06/24 at 01:00 PM

Colonials getting uppity about the copyright on Italian music... Not a good look.

Posted by Richard Bos on 03/09/24 at 07:40 AM

The Lark people looked happier while they showed their pack than the Jeno people. The Jeno people looked like they were in Soviet Russia and it was a Red Guard asking to see their pack.

Posted by Yudith on 03/09/24 at 08:09 AM