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Old ads that have become (unintentionally) goofy as time has passed

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The Internet is full of these, post some of your favourites.

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/helkropp_small.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

Sebastian Tellier?

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/med_dog_car_sack.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/cigs.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

WTF is "over-smoked"?

ENBB, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a171_c4.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a155_a4g.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a155_a5g.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nvsaac.com/photogallery/images/1967/500/67Shelby_ad4.jpg

You'll notice that that kid is about to get brief close look at the front end of daddy's speeding car.

C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite sexist car ad:

http://www.adclassix.com/images/69dodgecharger_rtse.jpg

C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/bisse.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

^^still relevant

M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/latino/images/LA_1968_frito_bandito_wanted_poster.jpg

C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/1952ibmad.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/eldridgeparis.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2221/2298732257_cc645c7c2c.jpg?v=0

C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/crab_orchard.jpg

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think those peener pants were known to be goofy when the ad was just a marketing sketch.

Abbott, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

Um I think all these ads were intentionally "goofy" when they came out, but I can understand why someone from Finland might think differently.

Alex in SF, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

Not an actual ad, but back in 1972 a Finnish tabloid tested which car model is best for having sex:

http://www.hymy.fi/s/f/editor/attachments/autotesti.pdf

Tuomas, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jeep.com/jeep_life/legends/heritage/popups/honcho_77/img/honcho_ad.jpg

C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

That engineering one is amazing. AMAZING. I am so glad I didn't live in the era in which things were engineered by 150 disembodied heads wielding slide rules.

Abbott, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

over-smoked???????????????????????????

pisces, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.adrants.com/images/winston_cigarette_ad.jpg

C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/2428731792_16290033c0.jpg?v=0

C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/63/185238650_bf9f1ff02a.jpg?v=0

j.lu, Friday, 9 May 2008 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hahah because chatting up a bro is all about CORRECTING HIS GRAMMAR wtf.

Trayce, Friday, 9 May 2008 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

Also Lucky Strikes ad OTM.

Trayce, Friday, 9 May 2008 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

In the Kingston ad, why is the couple on the foreground continuing the discussion of the couple in the background?

Tuomas, Friday, 9 May 2008 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hasselhoff_soap.jpg

This has got to be a Photoshop, right?!

Tuomas, Sunday, 11 May 2008 08:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bay-of-fundie.com/img/2007/world-trade-center.jpg

Noodle Vague, Sunday, 11 May 2008 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

goofy

Jarlrmai, Sunday, 11 May 2008 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

O_o

Bodrick III, Sunday, 11 May 2008 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

o_0

RabiesAngentleman, Sunday, 11 May 2008 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.solidoxygen.com/tutorials/antique-ad/orig.jpg

RabiesAngentleman, Sunday, 11 May 2008 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

MORE!

jed_, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://i31.tinypic.com/jsm3i0.jpg

Kerm, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

rolling exercises?

sunny successor, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Goofy probably isn't the word, but...

http://images17.fotki.com/v13/photos/4/43690/590568/ad13-vi.jpg

Savannah Smiles, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

i saw this ad in the back of a '30s pelican book i was reading (sorry for the bad picture):

http://oi48.tinypic.com/2vvw2vk.jpg

what struck me most was how if you switch a couple of words you have a modern shampoo advert voiceover.

danny houellebecq (Merdeyeux), Friday, 4 May 2012 13:29 (fourteen years ago)


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