It’s amazing what will trigger a reaction in people. I was browsing through RetroJunk.com tonight and on a whim decided to look through some old commercials. These were all made before I reached the age of 10, and it’s amazing how many of them I remember.
What about you, are you a chlid of the ’80s? Do you remember:
- Michael J. Fox flogging Pepsi (Back to the Pepsi…)
- L’il Sis drinks Milk (Punk kid…)
- The Owl & the Tootsie Pop (One, two, three…
Three.) - 7-up at Christmas (On the 7th day of Christmas…)
- Smurf Pasta (I don’t know how many times I asked for this…)
Some of these products aren’t around any more. In each case these marketing campaigns are long over, but it shows the power that television has on young minds. It makes me shudder to think that youngsters (and the rest of us) in 20 years are going to have memories of shows like Survivor, America’s next top Model and American (Canadian) Idol. *Shudder*
nothing disturbs me about working with children more than knowing that they idolize no-talent musicians and watch a lot of trash tv. It pains me further to think of them nostalgizing it in the future. (is nostalgizing a word? if it isn’t, it should be.)