The Kool-Aid ad needs a little context. Just in case you forgot, that ad aired to a generation of parents who had fought a bloody war against the Japanese (and so many had lost brothers and fathers/uncles). Given the time, showing a happy Japanese family enjoying Kool-Aid was actually an incredibly bold, anti-racist statement. Imagine a business showing an al-Qaeda family enjoying their product today.

@wdtaut5650

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Well said.

@joshua42777

11 ай бұрын

Only 20 yen! about 2 cents

@DNDNDumbness

11 ай бұрын

OH YEAH!!

@Lime1958

11 ай бұрын

Oh wow thanks for that! I just assumed that KOOL aid somehow was inspired by Japanese drinks.

@Zzplys

11 ай бұрын

​@joshua42777 Damn ,That cheap

That doll ad is the stuff of nightmares. That doll's laugh is something straight out of a horror film.

@jkbrown5496

11 ай бұрын

Flip it. The horror films came right out of those commercials.

@DocWolph

11 ай бұрын

Yeah... I vaguely remember that commercial. I did not need to remember that commercial.

@unironically_me

11 ай бұрын

Speed up the video to 2x ⏩ and it's even worse. 😄

@lacaramela0073

11 ай бұрын

@@unironically_me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@timothyadcock5103

11 ай бұрын

That doll could be Vice President.

Please do more of these. I remember an ad for TAB cola that was discontinued because the girl on the beach, drinking a TAB, was so good looking people weren't even aware of the product being advertised!

I just stumbled on your video tonight. I just had to comment that your delivery is so refreshing! Your voice is animated & your gestures are natural.

Does anyone else just binge her videos?

@ShootsBrah16

11 ай бұрын

Yes I do

@The1nOnlyGeorgia

11 ай бұрын

Yep

@MadisonEdits943

11 ай бұрын

Me

@2kT3ify

11 ай бұрын

@@PaolaC23true

@tylersena1611

11 ай бұрын

Yes

I’m a baby boomer and I can say with certainty that my generation didn’t get offended with TV sitcoms and did not know what what gender pronouns were, good times!. Also the best advice my parents gave me was if you listen to idiots you’re going to become one

@RemoteCamper

11 ай бұрын

WE didn't know what gender pronouns were because they were only created 10 years ago.

@G360LIVE

11 ай бұрын

@@RemoteCamper We did know what racism and sexism was back in the '80s, but we were more tolerant and inclusive back then than people who preach tolerance and inclusiveness are today.

@romelleabdulaleem283

11 ай бұрын

​@RemoteCamper less than that

@FandomCanon

11 ай бұрын

You didn't know what gender pronouns were? What did you call everyone? It?

@joseojea565

11 ай бұрын

@@FandomCanon we called people by their name and boys were boys girls were girls and none of this nonsense existed. Now Go take your meds

As much fun as it was to watch vintage ads with a young person, the zeal and joy Brett had on her face using the grill gun was still the best ad. Proof the that there is a little pyro in all of us, and as the wise Beavis said, "Fire is cool".

@user-tp8gn8vy7l

4 ай бұрын

Hilarious 😂

Andy Griffth and I Love Lucy were both extremely well written and filmed.

So so happy I grew up during times where we weren't so sensitive and offended. So exhausting now.

@marknewton6984

6 ай бұрын

Sea Hunt! Cheyenne! Have Gun Will Travel! Annette!

@HughJayness-pd5hn

4 ай бұрын

Way to rub it in my face

@LittleGlockLittle

4 ай бұрын

I wish I wasn't growing up right now I only a few more years till I'm 18 but I hate how everything is offensive now

@marvabeadle7789

4 ай бұрын

Me to

@susanschley4265

27 күн бұрын

Amen to that 😊

I miss the days when ads would sell you on their product like they're supposed to instead of selling an ideology.

@rexsceleratorum1632

11 ай бұрын

Funny thing in the first ad shown is that Manhattan is a Native American term and they appropriated it by reinterpreting it as an English language term. It's okay when they do it.

The Coopernator with the flame thrower😂😅😂😅 "Get to the chacoal!"😂😅😂

That Baby Laugh A Lot is absolutely terrifying!😂

The coffee one TOTALLY felt like a mini episode of something. You already knew when he blew out that candle they conceived their first kid after that cup of coffee. Folgers saves marriages, Folgers gives life. Coffee is life.

@daddywoofdawg

11 ай бұрын

caution may cause pregnancy

@Lia.z.888

11 ай бұрын

Lol

@bruceellenburg429

11 ай бұрын

The coffee kept him awake all night You do the math

@kdkay4039

11 ай бұрын

😂🤣😂☠️💀☠️

@geoffstrickler

11 ай бұрын

Folgers is awful. Barely drinkable, and only if you brew it very strong.

That Levi's commercial demonstrates how diverse advertising really was back then. Then it was natural and normal....today it's forced and obvious.

@beverlywhitman303

11 ай бұрын

yeah and even this whole thing about not being touched just feels wrong, touching and being touched is how primates show affection and for most of human history it was a non issue. i mean it's gotten so bad that people accidentally brush someone on a trolley and they feel like they have been molested. there is a big difference between molestation and touching, I doubt any of those girls or guys in the Levis add felt molested, getting patted on the ass was quite common back then, now guys look at you weird and girls turn around and deck you. when they both should just appreciate the attention!

@dalebillings6703

11 ай бұрын

It looked aggressive to me...

@dianem6951

11 ай бұрын

@@kellydarriusIt was more of just a dance. These people weren’t strangers. They were dancing. Y’all act like this was something that just organically happened out of nowhere. It was an obvious choreographed dance. So just stop! Even y’all get triggered for no reason.

@cottoncandiez8872

11 ай бұрын

So many shows and commercials from the 90s were naturally diverse but people seem to forget that and act like we've never seen a black person on tv

@vaderladyl

11 ай бұрын

@@beverlywhitman303 That is so true. People don't know what touch is anymore and cannot see that they are actually starving for touch. There are studies correlated to this fact and the rise of some mental and psychological issues.

I like the ad where the husband bought his wife what she really wanted for Christmas. Then it showed her lying on the floor hugging her new Hoover vacuum cleaner.

Hello Brett, I love your videos, they're very encouraging! I thought I'd mention that if you like old black and white shows, you might enjoy the Dick van Dyke show, a comedy show from the 60s. It reminds me a lot of the Folger's coffee ad!

@susanlprince

7 күн бұрын

Love The Dick Van Dyke show! It's still hilarious.

there's something so nice about the 40s commercials, no music, with a guy talking in a slow, playful and charming manner

@LALA-FU

11 ай бұрын

It’s nice until you realize the guy more than likely cringed at the thought of a black person eating in the same establishment as him.

@theapexdragon5010

11 ай бұрын

​@@LALA-FUnot everyone from the past was racist.

@LALA-FU

11 ай бұрын

@@theapexdragon5010 considering the civil rights act wasn’t released until 1964, you’re lying to yourself if you think everyone from the 40’s wasn’t racist at all. And I’m not just speaking on one race, I’m speaking on them all. The 40’s wasn’t as diverse in most countries as it is today

@CK_Lifts

11 ай бұрын

@@LALA-FUdoesn’t change that the ads and his voice are still so mesmerizing

@LALA-FU

11 ай бұрын

@@CK_Lifts debatable, context changes how mesmerizing something is, if he was a child killer that ate babies, would not feel mesmerizing anymore

Back in the 80s, my newly married mom couldn't make my dad a good cup of coffee to save her life, but instead of telling her, he let her fill his travel mug & stopped at dunkins, just tossing hers out. Unfortunately, he left a bunch of empty cups in the backseat, so she found out 🤦🏻‍♀ she thought it was sweet he didn't want to hurt her feelings. To this day, she can't make a decent pot of coffee 🤣🤣🤣

@marthavillanueva5505

24 күн бұрын

My mother could not, could not make waffles. My bro bought her a brand new waffle iron, no go. She threw it out the kitchen door.

The older commercials were SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better. They actually let you KNOW about product itself! I was born in '57 and I watched a lot of these commercials.

@MrChrisdube

3 күн бұрын

Was hoping for the Frito Bandito though.

@justmeandthethree

2 күн бұрын

Golly gee, wasn't racism so much more fun back then?

I usually mute commercials, but Brett is so darn adorable I will always watch her commercials! She's so fun listen to.

I’m just realizing that if we had these ads nowadays, I think I wouldn’t skip the ads- it’s so entertaining

@VolatileHunter2

11 ай бұрын

No dont talk with scammers

@crispendaysh3401

11 ай бұрын

We wouldn’t would we.

@PhilosophicallyAmerican

11 ай бұрын

FreedomToons Hallow ads are the only ones I don't skip.

@Blueberriez26

11 ай бұрын

@@PhilosophicallyAmerican factsss

@michellekrueger5122

11 ай бұрын

Yeah they were entertaining!

I love old commercials/television, especially from the 40s and 50s with that deep voice and the professional atmosphere. Its entertaining and a breath of fresh air

@laurenelizabeth2505

4 ай бұрын

The film 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' is so good for that.

@anneloving8405

3 ай бұрын

Or ciggie smoke

@johnboehmer6683

14 күн бұрын

I don't know about entertaining, but a much more honest, straightforward approach, leaving out abstract, irreverent, woke crap was indeed a breath of fresh air.

OMG Brett. I just found your channel today. This is a great video .... and you are a breath of fresh air!

I just found your channel and immediately subscribed. These commercials were hilarious, especially the dandruff one. Thank you for your content and making me laugh❤❤

Even though there is an ad-free version on DW+, I still like to watch Brett on KZread because her ad reads are always so good 😂😂

@ashlyns_music_edits

11 ай бұрын

fr thou!!

@eyeLie

11 ай бұрын

Lol I wanna support them so i pay for it but I like the KZread player better so I'm always on here too 😂

@SourPickles8

11 ай бұрын

And I like the comments.

@DJJ81

11 ай бұрын

Oh man the kool aid video was awesome

@spideymatt85

11 ай бұрын

And what's not to like about Brett wielding a flamethrower?

I am an advertising exec and it's amazing the tightrope we have to walk when it comes to ideas and copy. I grew up on a lot of the fun 80's and 90's commercials that made me want to get into advertising. Every now and then a brand wants us to push some goofy SJW or Environmentalist message and it always fails. I miss the days when we could just have a fun jingle, kool-aid man busting through a wall and dogs drinking beer.

@swimm8329

11 ай бұрын

So... how was Brett's ad?

@panheaddavecinbee203

11 ай бұрын

If an ad is annoying, played adnauseum (no pun intended) has a message beyond the products realm to try to influence or establish a cultural agenda we will household boycott forever. Maybe our few bucks do not make or break them but we won't be a party to b B.S. just always wanted to let ad people know that. Thanks.ust be very challenging work. 😮

@stevesnodgrass7434

11 ай бұрын

I wish I could just watch TV. If I see made in 2019-2023 I just skip it.

@savage22bolt32

11 ай бұрын

@@swimm8329 my vegan neighbors are ordering the Grillgun!

@williambilyeu9801

11 ай бұрын

@@savage22bolt32 I would worry about it being used on your house while you are sleeping.

You're a natural sweetheart, I love your comments. I'm 67 now, somehow (?!) So I grew up with alot of what you are appreciating now. Thats great, you're giving us a fresh perspective on what we have experienced and enjoyed. Those old shows are great aren't they. Really enjoyed this "liked" and subscribed 😀 👍

That last commerial was a French Lee Cooper advert, circa 1985, very popular brand of jeans in France during the 1980s.

Back in the fifties Band-Aids were a cloth strip with a very strong adhesive and a tiny square of gauze. Removing them could hurt in two ways. First the really stuck so pulling them off hurt when done slowly or quickly. And secondly, often the scab would sick to the gauze and your mother would reopen the wound.

@theropesofrenovation9352

5 ай бұрын

We DREADED taking them off. lol

@Mushroom321-

Ай бұрын

Ouch !!😬

Well done. I'm reminded and old enough to remember when Band-Aids were sold in a metal box as shown in the commercial.

@darlahaines6928

9 ай бұрын

Those empty metal boxes came in handy for lots of things!

@annseabolt6645

27 күн бұрын

I still have the metal box and transfer my bandaids to it.

That first ad for Camels was in the 1950s, not the 1940s. For one thing, there was no commercial TV in the 1940s. Also, the car is about a 1952 at the earliest, more likely 1954. The one for Band-aids is also 1950s, not 1940s.

The laughing Chucky doll was terrifying, so was the commercial 😁😱

I was just talking to my wife about this phenomenon. I miss the days when you can identify what the commercial is about in less than 5 seconds. Now you would be lucky if you can figure it out after someone spoon feeds you its meaning.

@JOHN316izTRUE

11 ай бұрын

@darrenjohnson2995 talking about in general...there will always be weird commercials...but for the most part it was understandable. These companies have to pay for air time by the second. So if they can deliver their message about their product faster, it will be cheaper. But now the message seems to be all about woke and virtue signaling.

@ItsLaurenE

11 ай бұрын

I miss the early 90s commercials with all the fun, toys looked like hours of fun. You wanted to go outside on summer days and be thrilled with your rollerblades and super soakers. Or play a combative game if Crossfire on a rainy day. All the fun colors and animations for 90s commercials even for things like pringles, noxima, cereals were epic!

@daddywoofdawg

11 ай бұрын

@@darrenjohnson2995 those E-trade baby commercials were fun.

I find it hilarious that every daily wire host gets to use the grill torch for the ad, except Matt, whose editors staight up told him "no" 😂

@kristinazubic9669

11 ай бұрын

Oh why?

@shaunp9592

11 ай бұрын

Think of the fun the Mythbusters could have had if they did commercials with a grill torch commercial in their show.

@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro

11 ай бұрын

@@kristinazubic9669he’d probably use it to get revenge on Ben for the travesties committed against the walrus.

A friend of mine bought a crap ton of Aunt Jemima when it got cancelled. He said being black he grew up eating that brand because his Mom wanted the brand that had a black spokes person. He was genuinely pissed that they cancelled it!

I'm a new fan. And I'm old enough to remember most of these. What a wry sense of humor this lady has. Good job!

Brett was having way too much fun with that grill blazer 🔥🔥🔥

@fibanocci314

11 ай бұрын

Every DW host I've seen do an ad for the grill guns have had too much fun with it.

@markg9177

11 ай бұрын

I was surprised that she didn't pour some gasoline on the charcoal first, that made me a little bit sad, but I will survive.

@user-kx7ri9im1s

Ай бұрын

Ist das ist eine flammenwerfer?

The Band Aid commercial made me realize why I cried every time my mom had to RIP one of those things off. She was like "One *"TWO"* ...riippp!! 3."

The irony in watching this on You Tube how many commercials interrupt the video. Streaming sites without Ads has become my favorite source for entertainment because I sincerely HATE commercials.

Just found this channel yesterday and love it.

10:00 Pro tip for all the parents out there. Toys are, for the most part, easily taken apart and the speaker is a VERY obvious piece of gear with two wires running to it. Cut those wires. Toy no longer annoys the absolute hell out of you but still has the flashing lights, rolling wheels, etc. You're welcome.

The big thing for me about these commercials is getting to see how long some of the brands everybody knows have actually been around. It’s kinda crazy.

@ironymatt

11 ай бұрын

I was a little surprised to see the band-aid strips advertised with plastic in the 40s. I thought plastic wasn't developed or used in products until the late 50s at the earliest

@shaunp9592

11 ай бұрын

​@@ironymatt Polystyrene was invented in 1839. ( That wasn't a typo, 100 years before the add, and yes I went down an internet rabbit hole.) Google this to find the history of plastics if you're interested..... "Timeline of plastic development"... The Wikipedia search result gives you a good overview.

@matthewpatrick7263

11 ай бұрын

When she said, "Are you tired of waiting ages for your grill to heat up?" I thought for a second she'd said, "girl" instead of "grill" and wondered what she was advertising.

@ironymatt

11 ай бұрын

@@shaunp9592 1839?? Wow, that did raise the old eyebrows, I had no idea. Thanks for the rabbit hunting - I'm trying to cut that habit out

@canadafree2087

11 ай бұрын

I know right? Why hasn't the Woke Left dug these videos up and killed the companies?

Brett laughing like a maniac while wielding a flamethrower pistol was just what I needed today.

Watching these ads reminds me of when we all basically got along with each other and life was happy, simple and uncomplicated.

Hope you do more of these. I was born in 57 so remember early advertizing. There are so many wonderfully funny and inappropriate commercials out there. The commercials were just as entertaining as the shows they were interrupting.

@shaunp9592

11 ай бұрын

Born in 65. The reason they were entertaining was to try and stop you from getting a sandwich or drink or going to the bathroom during the commercial break. If they weren't good people would disappear as soon as commercials started and it was a waste of money for them. Kind of like the super bowl commercials now, some people watch the game for the commercials.

@davidransom4476

11 ай бұрын

It's Howdy Doody time..................................

@dianem6951

11 ай бұрын

One of the most I remember was Madge. The Palmolive dish soap. I think it was Palmolive. I just remember Mage the most.

Watching Brett whip out a flamethrower during the ad was my favorite part of the video. 😂

@kabluey_louie1718

2 ай бұрын

FINALLY! The general public can afford flame throwers! It only took EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS!!😂😂

There was super glue on the tip of said bandage 🥴 Instant coffee …..seriously ? I collected almost every Barista Bears . Dandruff is why I only wear light colored clothes . The only female hand in my back pocket is my wife’s ……after my wallet .

Ok, the Grill Gun commercial is the FIRST time I have seen an ad in a youtube video that I actually WANTED to watch the whole ad! Now I NEED one of those!

That Folgers commercial was better than some romance movies these days.

@LALA-FU

11 ай бұрын

Romance? It was more like a housekeeper and her employer getting into a tiff

What the band aid ad didn't specify was how blimin painful those plasters were to get off. I remember leaving them on and pulling a bit off at a time in the bath. They were probably the precursor to waxing strips. Very effective at stripping all hair and skin off.

@davidgoodnow269

11 ай бұрын

Valid.

@xakirax_8864

11 ай бұрын

Comes with free hair removal

@jprevost25

11 ай бұрын

It's where the sayings about ripping off the Band-Aid came from, cause it actually hurt & took hair with it.

@deebee533

11 ай бұрын

Ya, I remember those times. Now good luck at getting a bandaid to stick. Or if I do, I get a bad rash from them.

Sadly, I grew up in the era of these commercials. Never thought I would grow old but now that I’m here, I guess I have to roll with it. BTW, I love your outlook on life. You certainly are the type I would have found interesting and funny. ✌️

You are a very intelligent and entertaining young lady, a pleasure to watch. Keep up the good humour!

Wow, the instant coffee commercial brings back old memories. My mom was a constant bargain shopper and when she and my dad tasted the instant coffees she was determined to find a bargain on them. Two months she found what both my dad and mom enjoyed to drink on sale. She then proceeded to buy a 23 and a half year supply. She and dad grew up during the Great Depression is the reason so much.

@darlahaines6928

9 ай бұрын

Sounds like what my Mom and Dad would do! However, instead of instant coffee, they bought the cheapest ground coffee (laced with chicory filler), then made weak pots of boiled coffee.

Its really weird when you see things from the past and compare to now and you can see the changes were HEAVY.

@Conserpov

11 ай бұрын

The Camel one didn't change - only the "product" changed

@LALA-FU

11 ай бұрын

@@sheilaharrison8547yeah the Ching Chong racist caricature was really relaxing and “nice” 😍

I remember going with my mom to the doctors occasionally when i was young and he always had a smoke burning in the ashtray. He also made home visits.

The grill blazer is the first add that I have not fast forwarded through. Well done.

Andy Griffith is still some of the most quality entertainment to this day.

@tsolgames

11 ай бұрын

I grew up watching Andy Griffith because my Dad loves it. Now i love it too.

@VeronicaWhitney

10 ай бұрын

reallllll

@rooky55

10 ай бұрын

@@tsolgames My Dad liked Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction and I treasure those early days of TV.

@troytroy6325

10 ай бұрын

And Matlock when

@AmericanIdiotPolitics

10 ай бұрын

fr

Brett have a genuine laugh and look of awesomeness during her own grill gun commercial is the best split second in a commercial ever. You know damn well she looked at those guys after that camera turned off n said “can i keep this?!?!?”😊😊😊😊

@benripley4537

11 ай бұрын

She was literally advertising a flame thrower 💀

@McGurk72

10 ай бұрын

Id like one as a weed burner

Wow, you did a nice job of keeping things "real". Glad I watched this one.

Having been born in 1968, grew up through the 70s and 80s there were things done then that could raise eyebrows now, but like you said today’s advertising is beyond PC. What we need is a good hard look at ourselves and shift the scale to respect and balance

in Italy in the 80s we had a commercial where a man approached a woman within kissing distance and with a winking gaze and whispered to her "I have perfumed it... my breath" and it was a commercial for peppermints 😄

The flamethrower ad in the middle of the episode was pure genius. Watching a laughing Brett Cooper in dark glasses brandishing her flamethrower was a real Quentin Tarantino moment. A pack of Camel Unfilters and a flamethrower and the world would be my oysters flambé.

@robertbusek30

11 ай бұрын

I normally skip the commercials, but I had to watch Miss Cooper with a flamethrower…

Brett, thought for sure this would make the list. Mother and daughter walking on beach and daughter asking Mother "Mom, do you ever get that not so fresh feeling"? Anyway, great content, keep it up.

Best ad Grill Blazers: « Even girls can use Grill Guns! » 😂😂. Hilarious watching you playing with that thing, your smile made my day!

I was around 9 years old when Nick at Nite started airing , so I have a special love of classic TV too. it was so wholesome and a lot of the shows from the 70s on were effortlessly diverse. they never seemed forced like everything now

@nickmaestro

11 ай бұрын

Key words: Effortlessly diverse. I’ll never forget my childhood in the 90s where on one station all of America would watch Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Step By Step, and Sister Sister. All back to back. Everybody got along in the 90s and early 2000s. None of this woke crap.

@dtl2081

11 ай бұрын

Chased out of current movies, tv .due to propaganda, sexual depictions, etc. and totally enjoy the old shows. Something changed in the ‘90s when men and especially fathers were depicted as being stupid. I threw my tv out as I had two sons to raise.

@pmscalisi

11 ай бұрын

@@nickmaestro the politicians and race grifters could see we were all starting to get along, and they couldn’t stand it. They were losing their source of employment.

@jamesadams2334

11 ай бұрын

.....more like real life.

@nickmaestro

11 ай бұрын

@@pmscalisi And people fail to see this. The elites need us normies to be dependent on them while fighting amongst ourselves. Divide and conquer. It’s the elite class vs. the rest of us. And the elite sold the masses racism to keep us divided. Why? Because like you said and also Booker T. Washington, they’d have no source of income.

The very definition of successful marketing is making someone feel that they need something they absolutely do not want.

@jeremyf9124

11 ай бұрын

No, that’s persuasion. Marketing is an activity that starts with finding out what a customer wants and helping the rest of the business to focus on delivering that. Think of any brands that sell very well but do very little advertising, their marketing (in the true sense of the word) is well done. Ikea & Costco are good examples.

Young Lady, YOU are wonderful. The grill lighter commercial was perfect!

Reminded me of the TV show Leverage, episode titled the The Toy Job were they promoted this doll called Baby Feels-A-Lot.

I think the biggest issue with the jeans ad was all of those men wearing skinny jeans. That is a crime against humanity, and every man who’s ever consensually, knowingly worn skinny jeans as a style choice should be prosecuted.

@DocWolph

11 ай бұрын

But that was the style in the 1970s and 1980s.

@mallorycarpinski1160

11 ай бұрын

And early 2000s (at least in some circles)

@ElinWinblad

11 ай бұрын

Freedom goes for fashion too everyone can date whomever they please

@LinkfromTLOZ28

11 ай бұрын

that's def your opinion

@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro

11 ай бұрын

@@DocWolph style choice was included in my judgement, yes. Opinions be damned, skinny jeans on men in particular are an abomination.

I grew up on Kool-aid. It just shows how people will find anything to get offended over. I agree people would find something about this commercial to be offended over. I loved it.

@shawnkelly695

4 ай бұрын

Never knew what offensive meant. I guess just didnt care.

Lol. Never saw that jeans ad thankfully! Just wierd all around!😂😂😂

Enjoyed this video very much you should do more of it

I own a marketing agency, and a small part of what Brett’s talking about, with regard to “when was the last time an ad was about how well the product works?” is that there are fewer game-changing innovations in products today. There are so many new, kind-boggling things, but cell phone products for example have such minute differences between generations that it comes down to aesthetic, lifestyle, fear of looking dumb/or missing out, or supporting a company that supports your values. That’s why I like Jeremy’s Razors: razors either suck or they don’t. You can’t really market on whether they work. *This argument paints in broad strokes.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

10 ай бұрын

I have greatly made this point, since the 1990s, we have only focused on safety obsession and touch screen technology. Every object now has a touchscreen on it, a vacuum (if it's a company that offers), a sink, a refrigerator, a car, an oven, a clock, a phone. The 1950s and 1960s offered the prosperity of an all out change, whereas instead of adding some modern twist with a light up touchscreen panel, the entire design of the object or even its composition would 1, be entirely different, and 2, probably materialize if you called upon it. In the 1950s the frosted glass was created for extremely modern homes, you would turn a dial and the clear glass would immediately frost over and be entirely matte. I think Boss's offices in Manhattan had this. That is true technological advancement. People are confusing the somewhat amazement of a computer, a digital source for "information" whether that be incorrect or correct information, as being a new invention every time a phone comes out. It's the SAME exact thing with slight differences in each model. We haven't done anything but that, in fact even buildings today are inspired by that touchscreen appearance. Where is the toilet seat that fits comfortably, the sink that keeps the water inside the sink only, the vacuum that sucks everything spotless including stains, the dishwasher that washes dishes in 39 seconds like the 1939 worlds fair dishwasher which ran for a 30 minutes because simply put, safety is more important than speed but that is still very fast. The hover cars, the unbreakable glass, guns that only hit the person its directly signaling and goes around the other person. Now some of this is whimsical, but what we've made in 80 years since the 1940s-50s etc, is laughable at best. Now we're trying to make robots a thing?? Why on earth would you want a complete and total lack of privacy at a level that changes everything.

@richatlarge462

10 ай бұрын

The problem is that ESG blackmail results in every ad having to keep up with the Woke Joneses.

@mikeobrien3744

9 ай бұрын

Go back to offensive ads, nothing wrong with those.

@dwaynemauk566

5 ай бұрын

@tedley70 The last 5 years or so, the ads are garbage. Used to be the ads were funny, catch your eye, or stick in your mind. Ads like the Geico, or the State Farm or even the Mayhem guy commercial. And the ads for Crest Toothpaste, or a whole lot other ads that told you why you needed their product over the other guys product. But now, got ads focused more an having the most overweight person singing about the product, or making sure only certain races are shown, and very little about the product itself. Believe that its really laziness on the part of the advertising company to default to "fewer game-changing innovations in products today". There's got to be something that should make me purchase your product that costs more than the generic brand, so tell me what it is, and it shouldn't be because you saved a bunch of whales in Antarctica. Even the ads for medications are a bore. Companies are ending up spending millions on merely trying to get an ad out, that its knocked out a whole bunch of businesses that actually have a product I care about. Go google www.pinterest.com/acw45/ads-and-stuff-you-don-t-see-anymore/ Those ads would stick in your head, and you'd actually look for the product when shopping because they'd tell you why theirs was better than others. Now its just information-less ads that say nothing.

@ahapka

5 ай бұрын

I remember when Apple put a handle on their computers for a short time. One of those all in ones that never took off. The engineers told Steve Jobs it didn't matter since no one would move it. Steve said it didn't matter, it's that people would think they could. I liken that to sports mode in modern transmissions in cars. I've only known one person to ever actually use it regularly. But it's one of those things that makes you think..ooo..sporty, this car can perform if I want it to. Do you find that works?

I respect the days when commercials are once again what commercials should be and not what humans feel they should be.

@grimreaper5521

11 ай бұрын

Amen to that

@Anthony-yg9qj

11 ай бұрын

I agree but most humans suck

@centurion7398

11 ай бұрын

Is this satirical? It's hard to tell.

@LandOfWessonia

11 ай бұрын

… but commercial are /meant/ to pander to humans

@jimhughes2621

11 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what this comment means. Commercials are made by humans for humans lol

You may enjoy an old book called, “The Hidden Persuaders.” For instance, the better tasting coffee that the office girls have might be something other than coffee. I’d love to see you do a series on subliminal advertising. It was great in the 60’s but truly blossomed in the 70’s. Check out the add for Terryton cigarettes where the man and woman are playing in the surf. Hmmm….is that surf?

@thegreencat9947

2 күн бұрын

How about the book " Subliminal Seduction "

I loved your " Grill Gun" ad. Very funny.

This was funny and fun, Hope Brett makes more of these type of videos.

I'm 56 years old smoking a cigarette and having a drink while watching this episode. I remember cigarette commercials, I remember liquor and commercials for lawn darts. My generation is invincible.

@markjacobs1086

10 ай бұрын

Or got hit by a Lawn Dart 😜

@kevinmunger1842

10 ай бұрын

Rolled over in a 56 chevy, no seat belts. 7 people, no injuries. Lucky.

@athenathegreatandpowerful6365

10 ай бұрын

​@@kevinmunger1842Detroit steel vs Japanese/Chinese plastic. I'll take the steel.

@hillbillyhomestead1966

9 ай бұрын

IKR 👍

@theropesofrenovation9352

5 ай бұрын

@@markjacobs1086 We did a few times, then we learned. lol

I often can't even figure out what the commercials are trying to sell..

9:40 The ad is terrifying but I love the transparency "Batteries not included." They should bring that sentence back.

That Grill Blazer ad was one of the best advertisements I’ve ever seen.

In WW2, my Grandfather was given rations of cigarettes for stress relief.

@stevethecross2727

11 ай бұрын

Used to give cigarettes for asthma then too.😊 Heroin for coughs was a thing also.

@andrewgillett5411

11 ай бұрын

My grandpa got them when he was in Korea and Vietnam too

@BWolf00

11 ай бұрын

I grew up on a tobacco farm...growing it and smoking it, and I also smoked weed. After WWII we discovered nicotine causes cancer, yet today we put nicotine in vap cartridges and "smoke" it. The old ads for "Light" cigarettes touted less "tar", while marijuana has (4x) more "tar" than cigarettes and it shares many of the same cancer causing chemicals, yet today cigarettes are culturally/morally "illegal" and marijuana is culturally "legal". Just another example of our clown world.

@goyablackolivesmatter179

11 ай бұрын

The average person was a smoker from the 20’s through the 50’s

My dad was a doctor, and he smoked every day since he was 11 (which would be in 1932). If you were in the military, you could take a smoke break but if you didn't you didn't get a break. He had ashtrays in the lobby of his office. Cigarette vending machines were every where, in every bar and restaurant, all throughout the airports, at the entrance of every grocery store. It was mind bending, but I was just in Munich, and I had to take a photo because there was a cigarette vending machine in the lobby.

You holding the flame thrower had me sold,

I'm a 51 year old woman and I just LOVE Brett's energy and commentary!! ❤

@The_Deaf_Aussie

11 ай бұрын

I'm 49 year old man, and I too enjoy her commentary...

@JanettaB.

11 ай бұрын

@@The_Deaf_Aussie hello there! I am a CODA, it is very nice to meet you!

@The_Deaf_Aussie

11 ай бұрын

@@JanettaB. hi. What's a coda?

@JanettaB.

11 ай бұрын

@@The_Deaf_Aussie its Child Of Deaf Adults

@JanettaB.

11 ай бұрын

@@The_Deaf_Aussie its Child Of Deaf Adults

“I’d walk a mile for a Camel” was an advertisement slogan from back then.

The dandruff commercial should prove most of all, kids say the first thing that comes into their heads. NO filters, plain honesty.

And I do not know wether you will even have heard of that show but when I need comfort, I do watch a very old series on dvd I watched during my childhood. It is called "the Waltons" and it is about a family with quite a lot of children deep down in rural USA. This series brings back old memories, even of my childhood... And it is, in a way, very comforting because it is so wholesome...

The doll commercial reminded me abt my old Wendy doll from toy story. It had a speaker in it and every time you pulled the string on the back, she would start talking to you. Well, eventually she started to break and would randomly start talking and so my parents threw her in our toy closet (which was in our guest room) buried under a bunch of stuff because me and my siblings wouldn't let them throw it away. We all kinda forgot abt the doll because we couldn't hear her anymore under the junk she was buried in. A few years later we were reorganizing the closet and found the doll. Me, being the hoarder I was at the time (I was abt 10) saved the doll and placed her at the top of a basket after trying to pull the string and make her talk. She didn't talk so I figured it ran out of batteries after all those years and it was fine to keep her. Biggest mistake of my childhood. That very night, my parents let me sleep in the guest room because I did a good job cleaning the closet (being able to sleep in the guest room was a reward at the time because the bed was rly big compared to ours and I shared a room with my sister). I was all alone and being the little insomniac I was, also wide awake. Out of nowhere I hear a tiny voice come out of our toy closet saying, "Howdy kids! Say hello!" and when the Wendy doll heard no response she continued with, "Come on, say hello! I just wanna play~~" "Aww say howdy kid! I just wanna play~~" "I just wanna play~~ I just wanna play~~" The voice lasted for what felt like HOURS. Scariest moment of my childhood. I threw away that doll immediately the next morning. I've hated all talking dolls since.

@LaurenGreenberg

11 ай бұрын

Omg. I cried laughing reading that. It’s great!

@annieholbis2430

11 ай бұрын

My daughter had a zuzu pet when she was 8 and we recently found it at the bottom of a pile of her old toys in a container (she is now almost 20) and it still talks! We were creeped out to say the least!

The fact that Head & Shoulders still exists is kinda cool, I wonder how different it is now to how it was back then!

@robertbusek30

11 ай бұрын

Commercials like that one are interesting historical artifacts. The fact that the woman’s hair just doesn’t move is interesting…

“Baby laugh a lot” ….. Kamala doll??? 😂😂😂

"What do you want for your birthday, my dear?" "Nevermind that. Have I ever told you what a failure are at making coffee? Even the girls at the office are more competent than you!" (Slam)

The thing that shocked me the most was when Brett said “Ads 80 years ago.” in reference to the 40’s. I was a kid in the 80’s. The 40’s for sure seemed like a long time in the past when I was just a little kid. Everyone over 25 seems old to you when you’re that small. 5 years ago seems like an eternity when you’re s little kid. But holy crap did it make my brain do a double take when she said “80 years ago” a few difft times and I realized the 40’s are still only “40 yrs ago” for me in my head ….. yeeeeesh. 😂 Every damn thing about that laughing doll was PSYCHOTIC. No. Just no. Nope nope nope nope noppity nope nope nope. This probably was the inspiration for a whole genre of horror movies, actually. A whole lot of traumatized kids grew up and worked it out in their movie production. I don’t remember the Lee’s jean ad, but I’m pretty sure even at the time it raised eyebrows and elicited some, “Oh, heck no!” Comments from mothers and fathers.

@visaman

11 ай бұрын

There are Jack Benny radio programs online that are 90 years old this year!

@thing1thing2themediamaniac43

11 ай бұрын

My cousin when she was 5 or so was asked how old she thought me and my twin brother were. We were early 20s at the time. She literally said she thought we were in our 70s or something. She thought my grandparents were about 1000 years old

@robertbusek30

11 ай бұрын

Regarding the doll, I would be “surgically removing” the voice box late at night…

@northwoodfalls1403

11 ай бұрын

@@robertbusek30 😆

@northwoodfalls1403

11 ай бұрын

@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 bahahahah !! Yup. And then when you’re in your 40’s, twenty somethings look like they’re barely out of elementary school. Mind you, when I look back on how teenagers looked in the 80’s, they really do look old !! For their age. It’s weird …

The bandaid egg trick was like one of those Jr Science Kit experiments used for advertising. It appeals to the childhood fascination deep inside our brains. That’s a way that good advertising works

@ChrisJensen-se9rj

2 ай бұрын

How do we know that the water was boiling and not just rigged to push air into it to LOOK LIKE it's boiling. It's rather like the fast food chain that has studio shots of their burgers, colour enhanced as they are. And when you get the product it looks nothing like the photo, nowhere near as appetizing

My Doctor always smoked even during exams (1960s.) He was an army MASH surgeon during the Korean war

Does anyone remember an old TV ad where a woman comes on and states "When you have men in your house, you have to clean your bathroom every day".

Most of the commercials I see actually do talk about the product and while also telling me how they could make me feel, they just all happen to be from pharmaceutical companies

Brett, you had WAY too much fun with that GrillBlazer! 😂😂

Love that you said I Love Lucy and Andy Griffith are your comfort shows, 'cause I definitely grew up on the likes of those as well!

Growing up in the 60s and 70s was a blast. We didn't worry about everything. BTW, when I left for basic training in 1972, there were people at the plane giving us Bibles and cigarettes. When you're toting a rifle for Uncle Sam the last thing on your mind is that smoking is bad for you. Our cars were cooler than anything today.