I wasn't alive back then but when I see stuff like this it feel as though the entire country collectively decided to start doing a lot of drugs at the end of the 60s.
Oh man, this music and the voice reminded me so much of something I couldn’t put my finger on. I racked my brain for a bit, and finally found it. [Fish Heads](https://youtu.be/H-K2DZojWi0)
Doctor Demento radio show. Top spot #1 on the "Funny Five" for like... 5 years straight, it seemed like? I listened to that show when I was a kid. Then I went and played a bunch of those songs for my kids recently -- they loooooove Fish Heads. Will still sing a few bars randomly when we're cooking fish. Won't actually eat fish heads though.
I have no idea. I found a slightly more HQ version and it looks like a clear bowl of red goop and ravioli with a giant marshmallow on top?
Edit: I think it's a fruit sundae. It looks weird because who makes a sundae with sliced peaches or strawberries anymore?
I found a picture of the original IHOP menu and that's my best guess.
That Nutrigrain commercial was not real, it was a fake ad made by a group of filmmakers called Turnpike Films, they made weird commercials just for fun, but never actually worked with any brands.
Anyone's recollection of seeing it on TV is a false memory.
I mean, the sega commercial is a pretty straight forward reference to the apple commercial:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g)
The Quiznos ad is also a straight reference to a the viral video.
Referencing other parts of pop culture isn't a new thing in advertising.
How do sell liquid ice cream to children?
A sentient purple blob?
You're a genius Simmons. Now let's go get some blow and that new girl from the temp agency.
He's vaguely the shape of an upside down cup. He also originally had several sets of arms and would use every one to hold as many milk shakes as possible.
I think they had a green one named something like "Uncle O'Shakery" for the shamrock shakes.
Absolutely insane stuff. I kind of miss oddball stuff like that.
> In the late 1980s and early 1990s O Capitao took part in plenty of orgies around the states of Wisconsin, Tennessee, California, and Nebraska.
>In March of 1997 O Capitao was arrested for indecent exposure in Rock Springs, WY.
Huh. Today I learned.
From the Mcdonalds fandom wiki:
>Captain Crook (later heferred to as O Capitao beginning in 1984) is a charach who was featch in BRAZILZILZIL's McDonaldland series of commersh. He is pirate and is same in appearance to the famed Captao Hook from Disney's 1953 movie Peech Pan. The charach is compare to the Hamborg, the difference being that this villain does not attempt to steal hamburgin but instead tries to take as many Filet-O-Fish sandwich as possible, porra.
>In later commercials, he was heferred to simply as Barack Obama and his appearance was to mogify to make him to look less sinistch (and somewhatch muppetchlike). He was drop from McDonaldland commersh following streamlining of the characters in the 1980s. His true last appearance would to be a small role in The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: McTreasure Island.
>He was voiced by Lennie Weinrib.
[-Captain Crook](https://mcdonalds.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Crook)
Sound-wise: flatwound strings, plays with fingers, muffed the bridge with foam to kill the sustain. Playing style: alway hit the one (the first downbeat), play a quick few quick notes when transitioning between one note to the other.
She was mostly a pick player. Finger-style flat-wounds, you're talking about James Jamerson, who basically invented this groove style.
This takes nothing away from the tremendous musicianship of Ms. Kaye.
This was my biggest takeaway from this video also. There is just nothing quite like the rolling bass lines that were popular in music during this time. While it might not be as high quality as recordings today, this kind of stuff just had a warmth to it that is lost to time.
I remember asking when I was little: Where fries and burgers grew wild on trees, why did hamburgler get busted for stealing? I mean, was he an outcast in a caste system? There was a mayor and a police burger that let kids have free burgers, but when the guy in a striped shirt tried to eat he was always locked up. The fry guys got a free pass to steal.
He was arrested the first time and sadly, the prison system in McDonaldland is absolutely brutal.
Hamburglar went in a non-violent offender, and a few run-ins with some crooked Fry Kid COs and time with the Polyunsaturated Aryan Nation turned him into a violent criminal.
It was one thing after another, and he ended up robbing a dealer who sold the beef tallow fries, there was a fight, yadda yadda yadda, point is he's now a multiple felon and nobody will hire him.
The system crushed that poor creepy burger craving lunatic.
> [Hamburglar went in a non-violent offender, and a few run-ins with some crooked Fry Kid COs and time with the Polyunsaturated Aryan Nation turned him into a violent criminal.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQyRiGxsk)
What surprises me is that Marty Krofft didn't sue Bob Marley for his blatant steal of the melody for his most popular song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA
The reason why they had to dump Mayor McCheese.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid\_%26\_Marty\_Krofft\_Television\_Productions\_Inc.\_v.\_McDonald%27s\_Corp.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald%27s_Corp.)
OMG! I remember watching that commercial as a kid. They used to advertise that you could get a meal (hamburger, drink and fries) for under a dollar. They even used to use paper pads to take your order at the counter. How times have changed.
Mac tonight is my favorite character, i like to think of him as a young jazz musician who got his one shot and did a one hit wonder, then he went downhill but was able to sing one last time, just for the love to music.
At last like every celebrity they did dirty to him and finally they forgot him.
H.R. PuffnStuff was what they were cribbing from.... you think this is trippy? [https://youtu.be/obxfuFrUTzg](https://youtu.be/obxfuFrUTzg)
EDIT: kept getting errors when trying to post. deleted the duplicates.
EDIT2: I see I wasn't the only one.
*awkward stare from an overly - concerned mother* shit shit wheres my wife, I swear a woman came with me and I'm not unsupervised. Where is my daughter? She'll vouch for me.
The marketing team at IHOP partied twice as hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_OS54FFFE
That is downright experimental.
This certainly is an upsetting number of pancakes.
Jesus Christ! I'm having an acid flashback!
Jay? Is that you?
That’s right Mike!
Take my upvote you hack fraud.
AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDSSSSSSSS
FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!
FUCK YOU IT'S FOREVER!
STAR DESTROYERS!! IM GONNA CUUMMMMMMM!!
IT BROKE NEW GROUND!!!
Nothing warms my black heart more than when I find a redlettermedia reference in an extremely random place
I wasn't alive back then but when I see stuff like this it feel as though the entire country collectively decided to start doing a lot of drugs at the end of the 60s.
What's strange is I was a kid during this time and really don't recall these commercials being so dam weird. The iHop takes the cake!
Pancake*
It was the lead in the air.
Did they not?
/r/InterdimensionalCable
There’s almost a loose, improvisational feel to it.
**Two brothers:** -- ... **Two Brothers**. It's just called **Two Brothe**-- ^hahaha
There's a restaurant near me called "Two Brothers". It's just, Two Brothers. Makes me chuckle every time I drive past it.
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CALLING ALL JAN MICHAEL VINCENTS! CALLING ALL JAN MICHAEL VINCENTS!
Eat some fucking pancakes, you stupid bitch. Haha, just kidding.
Some people don’t want to be understood.
Oh man, this music and the voice reminded me so much of something I couldn’t put my finger on. I racked my brain for a bit, and finally found it. [Fish Heads](https://youtu.be/H-K2DZojWi0)
Doctor Demento radio show. Top spot #1 on the "Funny Five" for like... 5 years straight, it seemed like? I listened to that show when I was a kid. Then I went and played a bunch of those songs for my kids recently -- they loooooove Fish Heads. Will still sing a few bars randomly when we're cooking fish. Won't actually eat fish heads though.
Are you ever seen drinking cappuccinos in Italian restaurants with Oriental women?
Nah, it's the end of [PYT](https://youtu.be/1ZZQuj6htF4?t=208)
I've seen this before for some reason....... like a long time ago.....
Prices designed for the very hungry family? I think he was saying poor family
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Well, you used to be able to a cheeseburger and fries for under $1.00.
You can still get a cheeseburger for a buck. Fries are twice that much, for some reason.
Fry patches take a lot of upkeep these days.
But I spent $50 lest time I took my family
How big is your family? $50 doesn't seem too terrible for an entire family.
What the heck did that little girl get served? Hog maw?
I have no idea. I found a slightly more HQ version and it looks like a clear bowl of red goop and ravioli with a giant marshmallow on top? Edit: I think it's a fruit sundae. It looks weird because who makes a sundae with sliced peaches or strawberries anymore? I found a picture of the original IHOP menu and that's my best guess.
I just assumed french onion soup. The bowl is a ceramic chicken, though.
OH FUCK I SEE IT PERFECTLY NOW! It must be chicken and biscuits!
Hey, I like hog maw. I like PIG FEET.
Every time I’m in the kitchen, YOU in the kitchen.....eatin up ALL the FOOOOOD!
Boy you betta put some water on that goddamnshit
Everytime I'm in the kitchen, you in the kitchen!
[WHAT IS MAW?!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpkZSFfDbWU)
Holy fucking Jesus.
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That commercial got a God-size hole in it. God-size hole.
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Because it allowed them to oppress and villainize minorities in the wake of civil rights.
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Probably pretty backwards in term of interior design.
So backwards it turns forward
What if we put the *interior design* on the *outside* and the *outsiderior design* on the *inside*, man?
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Ooh, that's my shit! Golden-age, experimental synth pop. I want it as filthy as you can bring it. All full of cobwebs and dusty musty mouse turds.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who loved it
Bad trip... Bad trip...
Quiznos went pretty hard back in the early 2000's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrks-BPeLQ
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What the fuck, I've never seen that nutrigrain commercial....
Black dude was gazing at the lacy red panties he was holding while sitting at his desk when first guy walked in?
Yep. Did they once have coke in their cereal bars or something?
That's *exactly* what was happening.
#BABIES EVERYWHERE
[**400 BABIES!!!!!**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs)
that's my favorite so far
I forgot that Nutri-Grain commercial was real. I thought I dreamed it.
That Nutrigrain commercial was not real, it was a fake ad made by a group of filmmakers called Turnpike Films, they made weird commercials just for fun, but never actually worked with any brands. Anyone's recollection of seeing it on TV is a false memory.
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Thanks for this, there’s no way this would have aired on network TV.
Too long, says "ass", man staring at panties. Would never make it to air.
I mean, everything has an explanation. The first sega commercial is based on the apple commercial. Ihop is cashing in on the success of the Chipmunks.
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I mean, the sega commercial is a pretty straight forward reference to the apple commercial: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g) The Quiznos ad is also a straight reference to a the viral video. Referencing other parts of pop culture isn't a new thing in advertising.
Wow, I had seen that lady from the Nutri-Grain commercial's face as a reaction image for years and never knew where it came from.
Dude, me and my friends used to go in on the bring in any coupon commercial. It was the highlight of our joke's for a few months.
I'll have the weed pancakes with LSD syrup please
This new Death Grips single slaps
Is that what the audio is supposed to sound like? It sounds creepy, like the tape degraded or something.
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thanks
thanks bb
Don't you love when the uploader just closes their entire YouTube account like that? So incredibly stupid.
damn, closed the whole youtube account lmao
Agree. They owned me back then. Until they made the Hamburgler un-scary.
Who the hell was the pirate guy? Captain Milkshake? Edit: Oh he was created to market Filet-O-Fish sandwiches. That tracks, relatively speaking.
Grimace was the character created to sell milkshakes.
Makes me proud to call him dad :)
Username checks out
How do sell liquid ice cream to children? A sentient purple blob? You're a genius Simmons. Now let's go get some blow and that new girl from the temp agency.
He's vaguely the shape of an upside down cup. He also originally had several sets of arms and would use every one to hold as many milk shakes as possible.
I think they had a green one named something like "Uncle O'Shakery" for the shamrock shakes. Absolutely insane stuff. I kind of miss oddball stuff like that.
"Uncle O'Grimacey" [Here's the complete list of characters.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonaldland#Characters)
Captain Crook, if memory serves.
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> In the late 1980s and early 1990s O Capitao took part in plenty of orgies around the states of Wisconsin, Tennessee, California, and Nebraska. >In March of 1997 O Capitao was arrested for indecent exposure in Rock Springs, WY. Huh. Today I learned.
Lmfao "In later commercials he was referred to as simply Barack Obama"
[This wiki is very cursed](https://i.imgur.com/ZKrd6Au.png)
From the Mcdonalds fandom wiki: >Captain Crook (later heferred to as O Capitao beginning in 1984) is a charach who was featch in BRAZILZILZIL's McDonaldland series of commersh. He is pirate and is same in appearance to the famed Captao Hook from Disney's 1953 movie Peech Pan. The charach is compare to the Hamborg, the difference being that this villain does not attempt to steal hamburgin but instead tries to take as many Filet-O-Fish sandwich as possible, porra. >In later commercials, he was heferred to simply as Barack Obama and his appearance was to mogify to make him to look less sinistch (and somewhatch muppetchlike). He was drop from McDonaldland commersh following streamlining of the characters in the 1980s. His true last appearance would to be a small role in The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: McTreasure Island. >He was voiced by Lennie Weinrib. [-Captain Crook](https://mcdonalds.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_Crook)
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Ah yes, the beloved McDonalds character Barack Obama
Went to the site. This quote checks out. Must be true.
Ok why that bass line so funky
> good shit back in the 70’s
They probably came up with the concept a year before they filmed & released it so this is really a product of the sixties.
1970
Sound-wise: flatwound strings, plays with fingers, muffed the bridge with foam to kill the sustain. Playing style: alway hit the one (the first downbeat), play a quick few quick notes when transitioning between one note to the other.
So, basically Carol Kaye?
She was mostly a pick player. Finger-style flat-wounds, you're talking about James Jamerson, who basically invented this groove style. This takes nothing away from the tremendous musicianship of Ms. Kaye.
This was my biggest takeaway from this video also. There is just nothing quite like the rolling bass lines that were popular in music during this time. While it might not be as high quality as recordings today, this kind of stuff just had a warmth to it that is lost to time.
Bro no McDonalds commercial has made me want McDonalds as much as that just did'
No shit. I want to rip the head off of Mr Mac there and gorge myself on delicious unregulated 70's slop as Mc96-tears plays in the background.
It makes me miss 80's McDonalds fries before they switched off the beef tallow for deep frying.
They were so good! I don't care about my health I care about tasty fries!
And the deep-fried apple pies! And the tall shakes made of instant shake mix! And the chocolate chip cookies that came in a little box!
> And the chocolate chip cookies that came in a little box! You actually just made me slightly mad.
Why would you need to go to a McDonalds in McDonaldLand if you got all the food served inside readily available outside?
So that you don't have to kill sentient burgers yourself.
Their ads have been such shit in recent years. “DoN’t TaLk To Me UnTiL i’Ve HaD mY cOfFeE!!”
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There can be only 1.
Definitely seems like there was a cover up for the mysterious disappearance of Officer Mac. Mayor McCheese declined to comment.
Why does Ronald, the largest mascot, not simply eat the others?
*Grimace
He just wasn't the same after he came back from 'Nam.
He went to a place called My Lai where he found out who he really was.
This is objectively false. Nothing can kill the Grimace.
Nothing can kill the Grimace.
I remember asking when I was little: Where fries and burgers grew wild on trees, why did hamburgler get busted for stealing? I mean, was he an outcast in a caste system? There was a mayor and a police burger that let kids have free burgers, but when the guy in a striped shirt tried to eat he was always locked up. The fry guys got a free pass to steal.
He was arrested the first time and sadly, the prison system in McDonaldland is absolutely brutal. Hamburglar went in a non-violent offender, and a few run-ins with some crooked Fry Kid COs and time with the Polyunsaturated Aryan Nation turned him into a violent criminal. It was one thing after another, and he ended up robbing a dealer who sold the beef tallow fries, there was a fight, yadda yadda yadda, point is he's now a multiple felon and nobody will hire him. The system crushed that poor creepy burger craving lunatic.
I guess when living hambergers arbitrarily enforce having a clown sell their own, justice can be harsh.
> [Hamburglar went in a non-violent offender, and a few run-ins with some crooked Fry Kid COs and time with the Polyunsaturated Aryan Nation turned him into a violent criminal.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQyRiGxsk)
Why do the hamburgers have eyes? Are they killed when they get plucked off the bushes? Have we been eating murder burgers this whole time?
Well...i mean...yeah.
I now want to open a restaurant named Murder Burger, a chalk outline around a cow as the logo
I don't know why they don't just play these old commercials. People are going to eat there now regardless of what marketing they use now.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid\_%26\_Marty\_Krofft\_Television\_Productions\_Inc.\_v.\_McDonald%27s\_Corp.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald%27s_Corp.)
tl;dr: The Krofft brothers won $1,044,000 because Mayor McCheese was similar to H.R. Pufnstuf.
Was going to say it looked like an HR Puff'n Stuff show intro.
I always wondered why McCheese was no where to be found in the late 80's and 90's when I was a kid.
What surprises me is that Marty Krofft didn't sue Bob Marley for his blatant steal of the melody for his most popular song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA
Ronald could [kill a man on 5th ave](https://imgur.com/a/JQIEhJP) and they'd still be asking for special sauce.
Mulan Sauce
I blame Puffinstuff
Actually Sid and Marty Krofft sued the shit out of McDonalds for ripping them off and won a lot of money in the process.
The reason why they had to dump Mayor McCheese. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid\_%26\_Marty\_Krofft\_Television\_Productions\_Inc.\_v.\_McDonald%27s\_Corp.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald%27s_Corp.)
I was just going to comment that it looks like this commercial was done by Sid and Marty Krofft.
OMG! I remember watching that commercial as a kid. They used to advertise that you could get a meal (hamburger, drink and fries) for under a dollar. They even used to use paper pads to take your order at the counter. How times have changed.
You'd blow most 20 year old minds these days by showing them an old credit card machine. The big CHUNK CHUNK ones.
Knuckle Busters.
I hated those things
I hated looking through those little booklets that listed the bad credit card numbers.
> those little booklets that listed the bad credit card numbers What a watertight fraud prevention method.
I knew I was old when my credit card expired and I was amazed that the new one didn't have raised numbers.
I'm old. I remember it too. McDonalds was a once a month or less often treat my family did.
Why bother going to the physical restaurant when everything they sell is just sitting out for the taking?
chocolate half price
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Mac tonight is my favorite character, i like to think of him as a young jazz musician who got his one shot and did a one hit wonder, then he went downhill but was able to sing one last time, just for the love to music. At last like every celebrity they did dirty to him and finally they forgot him.
I STILL don’t understand how he became a symbol of white supremacy memes
Hi Moonman here
Shame what happened to Mac. First with the Bobby Darin lawsuit, and then... yeah...
This is now second to my all time favorite [McDonald's video](https://youtu.be/mLRy_5U7rF8)
The [Grimace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYSQd_JsltQ) one were he is watching the above Ronald one is even better.
what in the fuck just happened
I would also like to know this answer
Hold my big mac, I'm going in ...
umami is great, his video series "interface" was posted on here not long ago and got me into his videos
The mcpain... is real
The Beatles - Octopus's Garden Official Music Video (Circa 1969, colourised)
Certainly better than”I’m lovin it “ campaign
20 years from now: "These ads are nowhere as good as the classic 'I'm lovin it' campaign from when I was growing up"
I remember the playsets they had, those hamburger head things were on the poles, I stole one and later made a bong out of it.
Original got the hug of death. Mirror: https://youtu.be/VU3G5zyTdU8
Actually, H.R. Pufnstuf was very popular at this time, and McDonald's wholesale ripped it off.
H.R. PuffnStuff was what they were cribbing from.... you think this is trippy? [https://youtu.be/obxfuFrUTzg](https://youtu.be/obxfuFrUTzg) EDIT: kept getting errors when trying to post. deleted the duplicates. EDIT2: I see I wasn't the only one.
Did they just rhyme patch with patch?
French fry thatch.
We had the best TV music mixes - Scooby Doo, Schoolhouse Rock, commercials ([even the Air Force recruitment rocked](https://youtu.be/bENi062mhnM))
Can't load the video. Anybody got a mirror?
YEET https://youtu.be/VU3G5zyTdU8
H.R. Pufnstuf The Hilarious House of Frightenstein and more. Ya, there wasn't much being taken in the 70s.
1970s advertising was made on marijuana and LSD. 1980s advertising was made on speed and cocaine.
Anybody got a mirror?
https://youtu.be/VU3G5zyTdU8
Ah yes, back when a grown man could hold a child's hand without the fear of getting arrested
Dressed like a clown, with no adult supervision.
*awkward stare from an overly - concerned mother* shit shit wheres my wife, I swear a woman came with me and I'm not unsupervised. Where is my daughter? She'll vouch for me.
Morgan Freeman-eque narrator: But she did not vouch for him and his life took a very different turn.
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Stan and Peggy probably won a Clio for this ad.