Holy crap! The Flintsones in a 1960's cigarette commercial!

Reverend_Smitty

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:38 PM
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Holy crap! The Flintsones in a 1960's cigarette commercial!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjxVBUSkrr0&search=vintage

And you thought Joe Camel was marketing directly to children!

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terrya

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:43 PM
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1. Well, remember "The Flintstones" was on prime time.

It's still disturbing to see Fred and Barney pushing cigarettes. But "The Flintstones" was on prime time...and they were targeting adults, also.

I remember they would do that on other 60's television shows.

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Reverend_Smitty

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:47 PM
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2. It's just so strange to see any cigarette commercial...

but doubly strange to see popular cartoon characters push smokes...I couldn't imagine a modern day equivalent like the Simpsons do something like that.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:47 PM
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3. Not weirder than an early-1930's magazine cover I saw

The cover art was a call for world peace with a couple dozen nymph types each carrying a country flag and -- yep, you guessed it -- the Nazi German flag was one of them.

I'm sure it looked all awww and cutesy at the time.

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catmandu57

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Thu Jun-22-06 02:43 PM
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4. It was a different world

All of the tv people pushed cigarettes back then, most of the shows were sponsered by tobaccao companies, actors in their character hawked winstons and marlboros.

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cmkramer

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Thu Jun-22-06 04:53 PM
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6. Not just cigarettes

I remember many episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies" ended up with Granny and Uncle Jed enjoying a nice bowl of Kellogg's Corn Flakes or some other cereal.

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Bucky

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Thu Jun-22-06 05:18 PM
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9. Yeh, I recall seeing a rerun of Ozzie and Harriet that did that.

They were "in character" and then Harriet Nelson goes, "You know, Oz, I could sure go for some crack cocaine right about now." And Ozzie goes, "Sounds keen, princess. Just make sure it's Uncle Mike's Home-Made Brand of Crack Cocaine. Just like they say, 'When the rock burns right, you know it's Mike's'."

I mean, that shit didn't even rhyme! And don't even get me started on that Gilligan's Island episode where they hawked Dow Chemicals' new-and-improved Napalm for defoliating the island. Of course they never show reruns of that first season when the castaways had to kill off all the natives so they could live on the island "in peace."

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Reverend_Smitty

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Thu Jun-22-06 04:05 PM
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5. Kick...just because

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ChickMagic

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Thu Jun-22-06 04:55 PM
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7. They advertised those shows then

as "adult cartoons" believe it or not. Because of that, I
was not allowed to watch them.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Thu Jun-22-06 04:58 PM
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8. Pick a TV show from the sixties and back...

they probably did a cigarette commercial.

I think I remember Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock enjoying a pack of Salems. Spock liked the menthols.

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Oeditpus Rex

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Thu Jun-22-06 05:19 PM
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10. Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel did cigarette ads

There was also product placement for Phillip Morris in "I Love Lucy." I remember one scene where Lucy met some of Ricky's old friends from Cuba and offered them cigarettes thusly: "Phillipe Morrisa, se�or? Lighto?"

Lucille Ball smoked another brand, but for the show they were placed in Phillip Morris packs.

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