Sunday, February 08, 2009
'Retro ...'
Considering that retro Keynesianism is back big time (“prime the pump” and pull out those “job multiplier’’ calculators everyone!), Armchair Gen. Savin Hill hauls out oldie-but-goodies TV commercials from the '60s and '70s:
You have to see the Crisco salad oil ad to believe it. They have a guy literally gagging on natural foods to make their point. ... Any day now, I'm half expecting Obama to show up at a state dinner in a baby-blue tuxedo with big lapels, completing the retro transformation of the American economy.
Update -- Reader No. 1:
Considering that retro Keynesianism is back big time (“prime the pump” and pull out those “job multiplier’’ calculators everyone!), Armchair Gen. Savin Hill hauls out oldie-but-goodies TV commercials from the '60s and '70s:
"Crisco - It's digestible too!" -- You have to love the aunt mentioning that "it's digestible too." That's good because forcing children to eat undigestible food is called child abuse.
When toy guns were fun.
Buffalo rifle -- Americans like killing buffalo, we really do - we just can't help it.
Crisco Salad Oil -- Apparently olive oil wasn't discovered until some time in the 1980s.
Hai Karate ad -- You'll have to beat the women off you! No really -- violently beat them.
First Ronald McDonald commercial -- Gee, maybe the whole creepy clown angle isn't such a good idea.
Fred Flintstone cigarette ad -- Hey kids, Fred smokes Winston, why don't you?
You have to see the Crisco salad oil ad to believe it. They have a guy literally gagging on natural foods to make their point. ... Any day now, I'm half expecting Obama to show up at a state dinner in a baby-blue tuxedo with big lapels, completing the retro transformation of the American economy.
Update -- Reader No. 1:
Great ads. And don't miss the film noir stylings of Mattel Tommy Burst.
Reader #1's #1 points out it's not too late for Mad Men to pick up on the kiddie gunslingers, especially given the program's advertising theme - though it will be 1964 next time we see the show... time's passing.
Highly recommended as the funniest and least self-pitying nostalgia trip I've come across: Bill Bryson's Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.
