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Serve them often.
Joseph A. Campbell III: “We need the perfect word that’ll really get these beans flying off the shelves!”
Tommy Thompson: “How about… ‘digestible’?”
Campbell: “Thompson, my boy, I see a VP title in your future!”
Who’s Your Daddy?
’Tis a charmin’ cereal…
It’s a lucky day when you’re flipping through an old comic book and happen upon one of the first, if not THE first, ad for General Mills Lucky Charms!
Fun facts: “The cereal was created by product developer John Holahan. He developed the original prototype based on Cheerios cereal pieces and chopped up pieces of his favorite candy – Circus Peanuts.”
Circus peanuts!?!? Noooooooooo!
“The marshmallow pieces in Lucky Charms are called ‘marbits.’”
Marbits!?!? Nooooooooo!
More Lucky Charms history can be found here.
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All the horrors of karaoke plus all the horrors of 8-track tape!
What a way to celebrate America’s Bicentennial.
Fun fact: Billboard’s #1 song on the Hot 100 around the time of this ad?
Starland Vocal Band’s “Afternoon Delight”.
Another fun fact: Radio Shack sold blank 8-track tapes until 1990.
“The treacherous are ever distrustful. Send in that dollar, Margie!” — Gandalf
Uncle Sam wants… YOU!?
Behold, the American Motors Gremlin.
Fun Facts:
Its sales brochure called it “the first American-built import”.
It was marketed as “cute and different”.
Both Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush once owned and drove Gremlins.
In 2007, Time magazine included it in its list of “The 50 Worst Cars of All Time”.
In 2020, Automobile magazine gave it a good review, but still called it “one of history’s dorkiest cars”.
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BONG!
Fun fact: The final original episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle’s show aired on June 27, 1964, two months before the comic book this ad was found in hit the stands.
Another fun fact: Cheerios was originally named CheeriOats. That didn’t last long.
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