Old Bill Spud

Yet another food industry mascot whose creepiness prevented a longer career. From The Chicago Packer - Apr 10, 1937.

Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 09, 2014 - Comments (7)
Category: Advertising

Cyriak for Coke

Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 07, 2014 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Surrealism, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Follies of the Madmen #217

Maybe I tend to overthink things. But I confess I am baffled by the situation depicted in this ad.

1) Assume the girl in blue is a child, not an adult. Let's call her 8-10 years old.

2) The thing in her lap could be a doll.

a) But if it is a doll, its eyes are directed at the cookie, and it's reaching for it. It is not drawn to resemble an artificial thing. It is drawn as real as the girl.

3) The thing in her lap could be another living child.

a) But the only living child bearing that proportion to a ten-year-old would be, oh, what, a six-month-old baby? And what six-month-old baby ever looked like that?

Alternate explanation.

The girl in blue is an adult woman, the creature in her lap is a midget, and the whole thing is a fetish setup.

Please provide other theories, if possible!

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 05, 2014 - Comments (14)
Category: Business, Advertising, Comics, Candy, 1940s

EDEKA Supermarket Commercial

It worked. I want to shop there now.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 23, 2014 - Comments (7)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Surrealism, Europe

Follies of the Madmen #216

I understand James Cameron is already adapting parts of this for the Avatar sequel, along with all his other "influences."

Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 09, 2014 - Comments (2)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1950s

COKE TIME with Eddie Fisher

"Product placement? What product placement?"

The lowdown from Wikipedia.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 03, 2014 - Comments (5)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1950s

That Formfit Feeling

What exactly is she feeling? Insanity? Hysteria?



And here she looks like a vampire craning its neck back, about to bite a victim.





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Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 01, 2014 - Comments (8)
Category: Advertising, Underwear, 1960s

Make Molds for Fun & Profit

Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 30, 2014 - Comments (3)
Category: Hobbies and DIY, Sexuality, Advertising, 1950s

Follies of the Madmen #215

Does anyone under the age of fifty even know who Felix the Cat is anymore? Having a character born in 1919 as your "hip" cartoon representative seems a somewhat dubious move to me. And Felix is only onscreen for like a millisecond.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 26, 2014 - Comments (9)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Cats, 1910s

“Now you can SHAVE in your car!”

The dawn of the era of distracted driving.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 25, 2014 - Comments (2)
Category: Advertising, 1950s, Facial Hair