Coco Cod:  Worst Flavor Mashup Ever?

Original ad here.



Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 21, 2016 - Comments (1)
Category: Food, Advertising, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Children, 1920s

Follies of the Madmen #291

Rockabilly, R&B Sharpie the Parrot is an authority on shaving. Or maybe you would pay more attention to Sharpie's barbershop-quartet incarnation.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 14, 2016 - Comments (0)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Cartoons, 1950s, Facial Hair

Stop dragging dead horses

The thought process of the ad men must have gone something like this:

If you don't use Macmillan Oil your car's engine won't achieve its full horsepower. And this is kind of like dragging around a dead horse. So to really drive home this point, let's include a picture of a car actually dragging a horse!

Source: Life magazine - June 20, 1949

Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 12, 2016 - Comments (6)
Category: Advertising, 1940s

Follies of the Madmen #290

Worst. Pun. Ever.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 05, 2016 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Music, 1980s, Puns and Other Wordplay

Follies of the Madmen #289

Erotic embrace of gasoline pump by 1920s woman indicates America's love affair with cars dates to earliest era.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 30, 2016 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Motor Vehicles, Public Indecency, 1920s

Mystery Illustration 26

What domestic problem is this couple undergoing? Halitosis? Bad coffee? Visit by mother-in-law?

The answer is here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 24, 2016 - Comments (7)
Category: Domestic, Advertising, Husbands, Wives, 1940s

Follies of the Madmen #288

This was not a model of car that had nine lives.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 13, 2016 - Comments (6)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cats, 1960s, Cars

Sunscreen-Pooping Seagull

What if seagulls were robots and they pooped sunscreen on small children? Nivea made it a reality.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 08, 2016 - Comments (2)
Category: Video, Advertising

Follies of the Madmen #287

Click to enlarge.

Original images here. (Pages 10 & 11.)

Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 05, 2016 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Comics, 1950s

Follies of the Madmen #286

Lots of goofy stuff here.

First commercial: who's the publisher for that special Mom propaganda book?

Second and third commercials: love that trippy 2001: A Space Odyssey sequence as we fly thru the aspirin particles.

Fourth commercial: once upon a time, hairy chests were okay.

Fifth commercial: this woman has ingested so much iron that her bare feet are comfortable on metal stirrups.

Sixth and seventh commercials: life in a circus-acrobat household.

Eighth commercial: multivitamins promote blue balls.

Ninth commercial: children are iron-vampires.

Tenth and eleventh commercials: psychedelic scrumpcheroo!

Twelfth commercial: hey, a rerun! Or is this a flashback from dropping too many Chocks?

Thirteenth and fourteenth commercials: Charley Chocks, pusherman.

Fifteenth commercial: Chocks and chopsticks!

Sixteenth commercial: And you thought the Archies were too fake!

Seventeenth commercial: interplanetary Chocks colonialism!

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 18, 2016 - Comments (2)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Drugs, Psychedelic, Children, Elderly, 1960s, 1970s