Cookie is aghast.
Simply, aghast.
Seriously, what the hell was in the water in Bryan, Ohio, that led the makers of Etch-A-Sketch down this path?
The toy is not the issue. It's a record player with an attached mic. A white mic. One that Mike Douglas would be comfortable holding.
But the horrible sound quality of the commercial! The stilted verbiage!. The off-key singing! The sugared-up children!
I mean what creative mind came up with "It's a record player with a microphone, but without the record."
Would it have been so hard to write "It's a record player with an attachable microphone," and at the end state "records not included"?
And in what pop tart powdered sugared world DJ need a Mike Douglas-styled microphone?
Seriously, what the fuck?
Of course, now I must possess one...
You've just transported me back to the days when even we in the UK had to suffer adverts from the likes of K-Tel and Ronco, touting such shit as "The Veg-o-Matic", The Buttoneer", "Smokeless Ashtrays" "Whizz-bee" (whatever that was), or the plastic noggins you could use to make "crochet" shapes to sew together into a "stylish poncho"...
ReplyDeleteBizarre times. Jx
Even more is not being able to get the song out of my head.
DeleteOh, I disagree. I think it's perfect. My only issue? It was an opportunity at indoctrination wasted. Just think, we could have had it come with all sorts of records... it was an untapped market. Why there could have been a special Sylvester edition - comes with glitter eye shadow and a pair of cha cha heels. The Born To Be Alive collection - featuring songs that haunt you during your morning walk of shame! Sigh. Such fun. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Donna Summer version, the Village People version, and for the kiddies, Meco's Wizard of Oz version...
Deletehttps://www.discogs.com/release/107410-Meco-The-Wizard-Of-Oz
That commercial is so weird. Usually in these both the announcer and the kids (or housewives, etc., for other products) are hyper-excited, but here the announcer is blah and disinterested, and the kids don't look like they are having much fun. Were children this young ever into disco, anyway?
ReplyDelete--Jim
And you just know that they overdubbed it...
DeleteGood Lord! *said in my best Captain Hastings voice* xo
ReplyDeleteI know. Even Miss Lemon is shocked.
DeleteI wish I had the sweet sweet dance moves like the kid with red hair and mom jeans.
ReplyDeleteThose were solved once the pin worms were treated.
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