Are you a choosy mother? Another example of how an Ad agency purposely played on a known expletive phrase to sell their peanut butter. The first time I remember hearing a reference to “mother” in the sense of “Mother F****r” was in the song “Shaft” by Issac Hayes. Some AM stations even bleeped the “mother” [...]
Archive for ‘77 Ads’
That’s right, America’s Burger! Screw the rest of the world! USA! USA! BEEF! Man, I had forgotten about this ad campaign. We had just been through the USA love fest known as the Bi-Centennial and we were still all about Baseball and Apple Pie (on TV at least). Holy crap this is sickening. You wonder [...]
Going through my collection of National Lampoon magazines from 1977, I came across this beauty of a rockin’ stereo system! Only $169.95! What a bargain! I know a lot of crap products are made every year, but this one is killer. A real product for “a person on the move”. Battery operated too! Who could [...]
No shit. This is a real Ad from a National Lampoon back in… wait for it… 1977. Lampoon did do Ad spoofs, but this one showed up over several issues, so it was a real Ad. Now we know how Farrah Fawcett had her headlights on all the time! Now that was Must See TV! [...]












