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These Skeletons Terrified Me! Jason and the Argonauts

I was five when I saw this in the theatre, and it terrified me! I mean, if the skeletons are…

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Saturday Morning Cartoons in 1965

It’s Saturday morning in 1965. You’ve got a bowl of your favorite cereal in front of you, the cartoons are…

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Why Did Kids Have to Be Warned About Blasting Caps?

I remember seeing these warnings as a kid. They showed us what blasting caps looked like and told us never…

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Branded

I remember Branded, but what sticks with me most isn’t the stories—it’s that theme song. And I also remember that…

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FUNYUNS — THE SNACK THAT ALMOST WASN’T CALLED FUNYUNS

This commercial takes me right back to when a bag of Funyuns seemed like one of the strangest snacks in…

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Happy Meals

Here’s a commercial showing the beginning of something that eventually became such a normal part of childhood that it’s hard…

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Enjoli: The 24-Hour Woman Who Could Bring Home the Bacon

Who remembers “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan…”? Sometimes the commercial becomes more memorable…

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Who remembers when Bugs Bunny was actually on the Kool-Aid package?

This commercial takes us back to around 1965, when Bugs and Elmer Fudd weren’t just Saturday morning entertainment — they…

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The Herculoids

How many of you can still name all the Herculoids just from watching this opening? Zok, Igoo, Tundro, Gloop and…

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Tiger Joe

As kids, we used to play army, and this commercial is a pretty good demonstration of what that looked like…