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Not only has the Sonic Heroes one been a viral hilarity for quite some time, but generally the Pakistani Happy Meal commercials are stupefyingly AWFUL! But DAMN are those jingles catchy 😤.....

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Not only has the Sonic Heroes one been a viral hilarity for quite some time, but generally the Pakistani Happy Meal commercials are stupefyingly AWFUL! But DAMN are those jingles catchy 😤.....

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Here's an old ad for an awesome inflatable Thing toy, THAT DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER AT LEAST GIVING MARVEL A COPYRIGHT CREDIT!!

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Here's an old ad for an awesome inflatable Thing toy, THAT DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER AT LEAST GIVING MARVEL A COPYRIGHT CREDIT!!

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The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV)

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The Thing [Inflatable] by Funstuf (Commercial, 1979)

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The angels' disciple and Michael Jackson wannabe himself behind the greatest bad album of all time, Corey Feldman, was the little kid in a McDonald's Christmas gift certificate commercial (1976, 5 years old) and the ketchup-crazed freak in a Heinz commercial (1978, 7 years old).

Jack Black (13 years old) was famously the kid in that Atari ad for the 2600 game Pitfall (1982),...

there was, as I already did an entry on, SAVAGE Sarah Michelle Gellar (5 years old) in that Burger King commercial (1982),...

Keanu Reeves starred in exclusively-aired Canadian Coke (1983) and Corn Flakes (1987) commercials,...

there was Christian Bale (8 years old) in a Pac-Man Cereal ad (1982), which was, of course, filmed and shown in the U.S., so it was surprisingly a good head start for him internationally,...

Jenny Lewis and Jaleel White (both 6 years old) were two of the many kids who sang in the iconic "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" Toys "R" Us ad (1982),...

William Zabka of all people appears for a brief moment in a Showbiz Pizza commercial (1983) of all THINGS,....

Alfonso Ribeiro (13 years old) was the kid who moonwalked and ended up bumping into and dancing with Michael Jackson in his first Pepsi ad (1984),...

there was Cree Summer (16 years old) singing the jingle for a Quaker Chewy Granola Bar ad (1986),...

Leonardo DiCaprio (14 years old) appeared for Kraft Fat-Free Singles (1989),...

Michelle Trachtenberg (6 years old) starred in another Burger King ad (1991),...

Tobey Maguire (16 years old) was in Doritos and Twister juice ads (both 1991) two years after his cinematic debut as an extra in The Wizard,....

there was Devon Sawa (14 years old) in a Nerf ad for the Arrowstorm gatling gun (1993),...

Mila Kunis (11 years old) was one of the kids in the ad (1994) for the dumbass Telephone Tammy doll that inspired my Meendolls character,.....

AND, of course, there was Drake Bell (12 years old) in a Pokémon Red and Blue ad introducing the Game Boy's Link Cables (1998).

Even kickass voice actor Cam Clarke (Leonardo and Rocksteady in the first Ninja Turtles cartoon, Kaneda in the hilarious old dub of Akira which became a huge hit on VHS, the singing voice of Simba in Lion King II and Liquid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid games) uploaded onto his official YouTube channel a 1977 Faygo commercial he was in and remembered shooting when he was 19.

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This is a 1987 Corn Flakes commercial with a young pre-international fame Keanu Reeves that was filmed on-location in Toronto and aired exclusively nationwide in Canada. 🇨🇦 It is STILL methodically and scientifically IMPOSSIBLE to sit down at a table with a bowl of stale bland shreds of golden toasted construction paper made with male parts, drown it all in a nutritious fresh edible white liquid substance, willingly demonstrate the sickening consumption of it and make it seem like it's delicious.......without at least microwaving it for one minute or adding sugar or syrup! 😆 But whatever. At least Ted/Neo/John Wick loves it.

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What if I told you.......

From 1968 to 1971, the earliest known Jack in the Box advertisements appeared in the form of now-restored and available-to-hear radio spots that I can characterize with a strange and slightly suspicious atmosphere, incomprehensible situations, bizarre and surreal dialogue, frequent questionable instances of people hysterically laughing together (Seems fitting for this restaurant's Joker theme...), all ending with the slogan "Good food for people who just can't wait to eat" and a groovy raga rock jingle?!

Even the first TV commercial spices it up a little bit with NUDISTS! WHAT?!! 🤣 Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, would ever show that ad today!! See THAT for yourself!!

So even before the real main man Jack debuted on national television in 1995 and became recognized as one of the absolute greatest S.M.F. mascots in advertising history,....even during their early years in advertising they took on a super strange and odd vibe.

(Check the madness out here:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNxryEp3Z9I

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Okay, now onto something surprisingly normal; just two cute girl dolls with hair that…(*gasp*).....grows? It grows?! THEY WENT THERE, THEY WENT THERE! 

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Okay, now onto something surprisingly normal; just two cute girl dolls with hair that…(*gasp*).....grows? It grows?! THEY WENT THERE, THEY WENT THERE! 

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Honestly, what a sweet and pleasant flower power time capsule this is. ✌☮🌻 Apparently you have to push this button on their dresses to have their hair grow and twist it around when you want it shorter depending on what specific length you want it to be, which I think is nice,....but why did they even put that on them to begin with? It’s such a weird placement to have if the hair’s gonna grow; shouldn’t they probably place that at least on their backs? It doesn’t even help that the narrator says that a little bit strangely. Yeah. “Tummy”. What? (*sigh*) I don’t know, I guess I can get through this with what sounds like Paul McCartney’s angelic voice serenading me with this jingle.

Yeah, the hair growing is the big gimmick, but it HAS to have a limit. It has to! It can’t be unlimited! Don’t you tell me girls who owned these babes pushed that button as long as they could for hours and hours and, right after, pulled that hair out further and further until they became Rapunzel! And had fun with it! They would be addicted! Not only that, no parent would ever want that hair to terrifyingly stand out from all the other shit their daughter owns; it’ll be insane! The hair would just extend all the way down to a wall when put up front! Boy, I can already imagine what that would look like. It’s creepy. Damn narrator, she didn’t even mention that! Disembodied sister, you gotta help me figure this out; ya can’t if you don’t say anything! Mmm, fu’nnn, in a..55-year-old commercial. Jeez. Ugh! We’ll never know!

Well, that’s all the quips I really have for this one, as this ad is really peaceful and jolly swell, especially as spring is about to end.

(“Beautiful Crissy and new Velvet. They’re Ideal.”) Ideal? Ya seen E-kids?

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McDonald's Japan - Red Hot Char Aznable Burger Commercial (June, 2022)

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Oh, okay. Here's the exciting one. Terrifying cereal-craving, bulgy-eyed, fast-moving floating furry hellspawns too normal for ya? ("KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!" - Bulma, Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged) Well, I bet that mascot still creeps you out. WHAT IN FUCK'S NAME IS THIS?! 🤣

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Oh, okay. Here's the exciting one. Terrifying cereal-craving, bulgy-eyed, fast-moving floating furry hellspawns too normal for ya? ("KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!" - Bulma, Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged) Well, I bet that mascot still creeps you out. WHAT IN FUCK'S NAME IS THIS?! 🤣

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Okay, here we go. Here is everything that should not be ever in the history of the world!:

First off, WHY IS THERE THIS GROUP OF LOGS TUMBLIN' AROUND TOGETHER ALL OVER THE PLACE IN ONE SPOT, WHILE SOMEHOW FLOATING DOWN THE STREAM ON THEIR OWN?!!! It clearly seems that this inanimate object, when made direct and close contact with multiple others of its kind, can somehow think like a human. Seriously, THAT'S LITERALLY THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN LOOK FINE!! IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T HELP THAT THEY'RE CRASHIN' INTO EACH OTHER AND SPLASHING THROUGH THE WATER SO AGGRESSIVELY!!! WHAT EPISODE WERE THESE KIDS EXPERIENCING WHEN MAKING THIS?!! This is already getting insane and we're only at the very tip of the iceberg; timewise, when I paused this, I was down to quite a crumb (0:05). Holy Heavens, I promise I'm sober.

HOOOOLY shit, that kid's in trouble! Those logs already seem strong enough; you can already see them screwin' about with all their might! WITH THE LAWS OF PHYSICS IS WHAT THEY'RE SCREWING WITH!! (whispering:) Those logs are the DEVIL'S work, I tell ya. They're no good. (Okay, back to normal voice:) I wouldn't even be surprised if they immediately crashed down the legs of that bridge; these damned logs are forming a stampede more violent than the wildebeests that caused Mufasa's death! I can't believe I'm saying this nonsensical ad is better than the FUCKING LION KING RIGHT NOW!!! Do you see what this is doing to me?! And by the way, why do these kids think that this is normal? Why? You can say that I'm too into reality, and this is supposedly fictional, BUT THIS IS TOO DEMENTED EVEN BY FICTION'S STANDARDS; I KID YOU NOT!!

MAN, are those possessed logs just comin' and goin'; THIS IS SO OUTRAGEOUS THAT I FEEL THE NEED TO MENTION IT THREE DAMN TIMES; I'M SORRY!!!

Oh, my GOSH, Roy Rogers! AHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! The way he just...he just....picks up and grabs that kid!! What?!! "THERE'SNOTIMETOEXPLAINONTHEHORSENOW!!!" AND THE KID'S JUST LIKE "AAAAAAH!!!! WHAT IS YOU DOIN' TO ME, BOY!!!!" Look closely at his face. Even he is absolutely worried and has zero clue what will happen from this very moment on.

AND THEN HE JUST JUMPS OFF THAT CLIFF WITH HIM!! HE JUST DID IT!!! HE JUST JUMPS OFF A CLIFF ALL OF A SUDDEN WITH THE BOY SOMEHOW STAYING WITH HIM AND HOLDING TIGHT….NO VERBAL REACTION!!! AT ALL!!! HE JUST KEEPS THAT SHOOK EXPRESSION FOR A SHORT WHILE!!!! That expression just displaying permanently on his poor, innocent face for those few seconds was also probably the exact same expression kids actually had when they first saw this. I believe they’re smart enough to know when enough is enough and the damage has clearly been done right before their very eyes! But….this is not even the crazy part. Not….even….close. But at the same time that it’s crazy,...…...it’s actually genuinely pretty awesome. No joke, folks! It was genuinely cool as shit when I first saw it! You won’t believe this,....or maybe you will, I don’t know. Check this out.

Okay, let’s get our minds off the boy’s funny-ass expression for a moment.

(Honey Comb Kid: “We’ll go by dolphins.”) Dolphins. Yes.  A cowboy…..riding…...on a pair of dolphins down the ocean. A cowboy riding on dolphins alone…….I believe this is the main selling point. No one in the entire history of the world has ever seen something like it before, and although there are certainly concepts that could be better…..I truly believe that this is genuinely awesome. This ad’s getting into awesome territory because I now want to see him riding on dolphins with lasers (reference to Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie)! I know I’m sounding like a little kid right now, but as an aspiring artist, who cares! It’s cool as the HEAVENS, man! IT ROCKS!!!   (FUCKIN’ DOLPHINS, DU--)

Oh, of course. You have to put in the product somehow. They’re just eating it; it doesn’t really have any necessary point in this short narrative.

Billy: “How ya gonna stop the logs from unintelligible to the bridge?”

Honey Comb Kid: “I don’t know yet, but I’m glad I have my Honey Comb. Post Honey Comb is now bite-sized. Crisper, crunchier, better than ever.”

You see here? The hell was that all about?! I know this was all clearly made to advertise Honey Comb but I don’t even understand how Honey Comb even made its way onto here out of nowhere! It makes…zero sense!

And then, somehow, by eating some goddamn cereal, he successfully grabs one of the logs with great strength, and somehow manages to use it to raise the godforsaken hellish bunch of logs up to a mountain, which they somehow climb up to somehow form into a Lincoln Log-like house for the parents of the little boys! This is somehow INSANE!! I SAID ‘SOMEHOW’ OVER NINE TIMES IN THIS SEGMENT, BECAUSE THIS IS MOTHERFUCKING SOMEHOW TRIPPI--(*breathes in and out*) Somehow, I’ve lost my damn mind.

Oh, and the dolphins apparently start flying! THOSE DOLPHINS HE’S RIDING ON ARE STAGE TEN TERMINAL SICK!!! MEANWHILE, TH-THE LOGS……I just can’t stand those logs, man. Those logs complete me! Why are those logs like that?! And the cowboy mascot’s riding on dolphins.

Wow! That really was something!! Damned logs, though! What the hell!

That’s why this ad is really something,.....and I gotta tell ya, that something, in a way, kind of rocks! I love bizarre and surreal stuff, and this classic cereal commercial just takes it to a whole new level. But, um,….take your Sid and Marty Krofft shows that I love so much. With them proudly creeping kids out a little and unintentionally giving them a little bit of an unapologetic psychedelic aesthetic, I’m not surprised a commercial like this even existed. Plus, you know things like this definitely make me laugh. No one should ever play with fire, but I sure do love having fun with this absolute sheer incomprehensible madness. It’s definitely the crazy child of the rare pre-’80s Post cereal ad nursery. (singing a parody of the jingle): It’s stupid fun and you’ll have a ton, Post Honey Coooomb!!!

This is why I love dolphins so much. Dolphins are cool. Thank Lord for dolphins.

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Wild and Surreal 70's Commercial for Honeycomb Cereal

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O Heavenly Father, this will be the da--SPOKE TOO SOON!!

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O Heavenly Father, this will be the da--SPOKE TOO SOON!!

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D'OH, ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!! She's a female! That's the whole point! She even has what appears to be lipstick on!! (She looks hella weird.) THIS WAS CLEARLY MEANT FOR THAT TYPE O' KID WHO SNEAKS INTO HIS DAD OR HIS OLDER BROTHER'S ROOM TO READ HIS PLAYBOY ISSUES!!

"Pretend milk." Is that what you really think it is? I wouldn't even dare you to drink it, WHAT EVEN IS THAT?!!!!!!!

Oh, she's from Kenner. At the time when the Star Wars toys also started! A lot of these great toy companies had some ups and downs over the years, BUT BOY, WERE THE DOWNS DOWNS. What're they gonna put out next, the Sea Man? God, this is too weird. Save me.

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1970's Worst Toy Ever Made Commercial # 1

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My teenage mind's thinkin' somethin' else......

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My teenage mind's thinkin' somethin' else......

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(AHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!) Why, Hasbro? Why? Why are you doing this? Why did you even make this? Who's the MTV-binging immature, dimwitted teenage son of this high-as-hell executive who you had the audacity to hire for this to happen? You know where you're going with this, right? Lord, forgive them! HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

Innocent little girls learn how to be the naughtiest at such a young age, and boys learn how to be gay. That's it. Right there. That's the fucking motive from Transformer Devil himself!

This was the early '70s. Well, let's see what Hasbro products were still popular or were first released at that time. G.I. Joe, Mr. Potato Head, Lite Brite,......LITE BRITE! (Shows someone's recreation of one of the Mooninites flipping the bird on a Lite Brite, in reference to the controversial bomb panic that was around in promotion for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie)

THEY NEED TO GET THE HELL OFF THAT!!! Look at the worm's fucking face; all of this was clearly intended. Stay away from the FUCKIN' CREEPER, KIDS!!!! ("STOP...HARASSING...CHILDREN!!!!")

THINGS HAVE CHANGED, AND CERTAINLY FOR THE BETTER. NO OTHER COMMENT.

"Ride up and down, and up and down." SHUT UP!!!!!

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OK. NOW we're getting to the weird stuff. Thought Ford's attempts at catering to us anime fans were bizarre as hell? Shift back TWO DECADES PRIOR and look at what Volkswagen did to Speed Racer to sell the Gol GTI.

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OK. NOW we're getting to the weird stuff. Thought Ford's attempts at catering to us anime fans were bizarre as hell? Shift back TWO DECADES PRIOR and look at what Volkswagen did to Speed Racer to sell the Gol GTI.

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Mach 5's been horribly damaged, and Speed and his family are wondering, in great Kami's name, how he's ever going to win today's race. But Inspector Detector suddenly arrives at the scene and has a plan for him; he gives him a key....with the Volkswagen logo. WOW. What does he get? ("The Volkswagen GTI!") A normal subcompact meant for average people to drive around streets and neighborhoods. What? I mean, yeah, this whole thing is funny, but when you look at the GTI, you'd think it's even crazier that he's just speeding on a relatively normal-ass car! Where the hell was this in the show?! Is it really legal in the universe?!! Why is he even wearing his helmet?!! 'CAUSE IT'S STILL COOL?!!! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS WOULD KEEP HIM QUALIFIED; HE'S NOT EVEN DRIVING A RACE CAR!!!! What the hell, THIS IS SO DAMN BIZARRE!!!! 🤣 (Pops: Speed! Look out!): Aw, no, man, he's going over the cliff!!

I feel that this would be more faithful if the characters had that insane, rapid-fire speedy fast delivery from the actual dub. I don't think anyone at the time actually found anything strange about or wrong with it, but I feel that was just a missed opportunity. But that classic Speed gasp was so on point, it's on a whole new unintentional level of satirical hilarity! ("Ohh!")

They actually had Corinne Orr reprise her role as Trixie, which is pre-tty nice. Plus, they also planned to get the dub's big man, himself, Peter Fernandez on board as well, but they couldn't find him anywhere, so they instead settled on working with Billy West (Yes, Ren and Stimpy. Yes, Fry, Farnsworth and Zoidberg. Yes, Doug. The Red M&M, Bugs and Elmer in Space Jam, Shaggy in Zombie Isla--). Volkswagen was the very first to even think of such a clever idea, and it was at the right time as while anime was only hitting a year before its eventual historical widespread boom in the United States, gems like Samurai Pizza Cats, Evangelion and the revolutionary first-run syndicated premiere of Dragon Ball Z created quite the buzz and were great stepping stones. Plus, people already knew and grew up with Speed Racer; it was one of the few popular and highly successful pre-boom dubs, and it cemented the character as a bit of an old anime icon among Americans. So it would be pretty funny to do something like this and try to cater to the people at the time who' knew the show and enjoyed it while it was on when they were kids.

I love the heck out of this ad. It's ridiculous and insane, but you can tell they knew exactly what they were doing and relished it with every last breath. He's a demon on wheels......that's soon to be getting a speeding ticket. AND GOING TO HELL. Actually, try looking at or listening to those lyrics, combine them with thoughts of this and what I said about it and TELL ME the whole thing didn't turn into an ACTUAL WARNING stating that you should avoid him on any city or neighborhood street and convincing you to stay at home every single day!! Speaking of cars and demons, what if the RED CAR is the possessed one? (Christine reference). I'm giving myself uneasy chills right now; I should just move on.

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Volkswagen Golf GTI - Speed Racer (1996, USA)

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Here's another interesting one: a Burger King joint from 1982. It's where the spokesperson is this little girl. Even though the ad itself treats her like the tiny baby she clearly isn't, even cutting over to details shown about the burgers that are cute crayon drawings that she probably did, she's a cool kid! 

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Here's another interesting one: a Burger King joint from 1982. It's where the spokesperson is this little girl. Even though the ad itself treats her like the tiny baby she clearly isn't, even cutting over to details shown about the burgers that are cute crayon drawings that she probably did, she's a cool kid! 

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She's adorable, highly intelligent and...a downright unapologetic savage!!! I'M TALKIN' BADAAASS!!! Here's what she did. She made these ads the very first EVER to directly ATTACK the competing candidate FULLY, BY NAME. WHAT AN ACCOMPLISHMENT THAT MUST'VE BEEN FOR THE ADVERTISERS AT THE TIME!!! I'm tellin' ya, BK was SCHEMIN' in '82!!! She said, ON LIVE TELEVISION, RIGHT TO MCDONALD'S' FACES, THAT HER FAMILY BOUGHT BURGERS FROM THEM ONE DAY, SHE TRIED THEM, THOUGHT THEY WERE STRAIGHT GARBAGE AS SHE KNEW THEY WERE 20% SMALLER THAN BURGER KING'S, SO SHE GOES TO BURGER KING NOW FOR THE RIGHT STUFF!!! HOW DID THEY LET THIS HAPPEN?!!! I NEED TO KNOW!!! This was a full decade before Jack flamed BOTH Burger King AND McDonald's for his secret hotline campaign, and millennials were just lucky to experience the emergence and heyday of such a legendary mascot, but this queen PREDATED 'im! And she's by far one of the most amazing spokespeople EVER!! WHAT A LEGEND!! Here's the question that will make all this even better: Who is she? Who is this queen? Ya wanna guess? None other than a five-year-old Sarah Michelle Gellar!! (*GASP*) Awwww, look at little Buffyyy!! THIS is a canon event. I don't care what anyone says. Screw the Season Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve comics; they ain't SHIT compared to THIS!!! (spoilers from Buffy + other Sarah Michelle Gellar media:) THAT WASN'T EVEN WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE IN THAT FLASHBACK FROM EPISODE 21 OF SEASON 5!!! We don't even get to see her hiring and the filming of the ads reenacted? BUMMER!! SUMMERS!! It is just SO INSANE that she was throwing that trademark witty shade WAY BEFORE SHE WAS EVEN A SLAYER. Maybe this is the real reason why Giles chose her. This is also why the real spoiler is that McDonald's were the ones pulling the strings all along. Yeah! They sent evil creatures to terrorize Sunnydale! I know Joss Whedon has that scrapped final battle against Ronald and the McDonaldland gang somewhere in his old archives! They cut the whole scene out and replaced them with Turok-Han! Why?! I wanna find out how Grimace is a Higher Being!! You may laugh, but he might be!! TO HELL WITH TUROK-HAN, I WANNA SEE HER USE MISTER POINTY ON BIRDIE!!! THERE GOES THE MAYOR'S BURGER-HEADED ASS!!! This was before she even met the Scooby Gang, but back then her Scooby Gang was BK, damn it!!! But PLEASE tell me she's not the same damsel in distress who got terrifyingly murdered last that she was in I Know What You Did Last Summer. Or one of Ghostface's victims (Scream 2). Or Daphne (the first two live-action Scooby-Doo movies). That would suck.

This move was so bold and pissed off the world's greatest fast food chain so much that they sued ALL parties involved, including Sarah, and eventually BANNED HER FROM ORDERING AND EATING THERE. Yeah! She's legally not allowed to go to McDonald's AT ALL! FOR HER, IT'S A LEGIT CRIME TO GET A HAPPY MEAL!!! A HAPPY MEAL!!! SHE CAN'T EVEN TAKE A PEEK!!! You're a MOFO, if they catch you nibblin' on some nugs!

"I wasn't allowed to eat there. It's tough because when you're a kid, McDonald's is where all your friends have their birthday parties, so I missed out on a lot of apple pies." (in a 2004 interview)

In 1982, a young Sarah Michelle Gellar changed the whole course of advertising forever...and I'd tell dear Elizabeth Anne Summers to watch her back;...there's a pretty big chance those people over at McDonald's ain't human. Keep fightin' the good fight, Buff!! AND BURGER KING.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Burger King Commercial - 1981

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This is a 1996 Adidas Rookie ad, promoting a young Kobe Bryant during the early days of his career (MAY YOU REST IN PEACE AND POWER, KING 24!!!!). It's overall fine. I especially love the interactions with his friends and him showing off his skills. There's nothing really special about it.  Except one small thing.   Why is NAPALM DEATH the music of choice here?! That's so hilariously bizarre, especially in a basketball ad marketed to the PUBLIC! Yeah, Cannibal Corpse did appear in Ace Ventura - in fact, Jim originally wanted Napalm Death, but they declined - and death metal in general did have its brief period of MTV airplay and mild mainstream success (Death, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Sepultura, Morbid Angel; 1991-1994), they were in the soundtrack for the first live-action Mortal Kombat movie, and as I've learned many months ago, African-Americans have had their little history with heavy metal and the entire subculture, but....GRINDCORE IN A COMMERCIAL?!! WOW!! IMAGINE IF PIG DESTROYER WROTE A JINGLE FOR....I DON'T KNOW, A....A BARBIE AD!!! That song would kick ass.

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Oh, wow. Casper. Great! We're already starting off strong! It's not even fully animated! This is the leaked unfinished storyboard that could've become an ad for one of Post's scrapped cereal ideas, Ghosties. The cereal itself, I think would look a little sick and would add to the ghost theme, but as far as this goes, it just looks like a regular-ass cereal with Casper the damn Friendly Ghost as its mascot! What's really special about it?! PUT A YOKAI IN THERE, OR SOMETHING!!! 

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Oh, wow. Casper. Great! We're already starting off strong! It's not even fully animated! This is the leaked unfinished storyboard that could've become an ad for one of Post's scrapped cereal ideas, Ghosties. The cereal itself, I think would look a little sick and would add to the ghost theme, but as far as this goes, it just looks like a regular-ass cereal with Casper the damn Friendly Ghost as its mascot! What's really special about it?! PUT A YOKAI IN THERE, OR SOMETHING!!! 

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Plus, I simply think this is what happens when the animators just don't give a SINGLE CRAP anymore because they've worked on so much Casper material that they're tired out of their minds from it. Like THEY'VE SPENT HALF OF THEIR LIVES ON CASPER. It doesn't help that this song is horrid! I'm guessin' this is the late Norma MacMillan doing the voice. I would NOT like to imagine such a talented person like her seeing...THIS...and recording over it. What the hell's even the point of this cereal? Oh, wait! Does it have....

[WARNING: TANGENT FULL OF SPOILERS FROM THE MOST HARDCORE CASPER FAN. BUT HONESTLY, NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS GUY; HE'S FRIGGIN' CASPER!!]

a duckling raised by the dead who later gets horribly slaughtered but is somehow still alive, a ghost school, Casper sobbing on his groin, Casper laying an egg, Casper's skin blanket (A-Haunting We Will Go), Casper's emo tombstone that has a sign with a portion from a Bible verse on it ('Love thy neighbor'), a calf's mother jumping over the moon, a fox cub raised by the dead who later gets horribly slaughtered and becomes a ghost right after (There's Good Boos To-Night), How to Win Friends by Dale Carnegie, mortgage loans, Casper kissing a cat (The Friendly Ghost), early Casper looking like the chubbiest blob ever (all three films), fuckin' trees that are ninety times more sentient than Great Deku (The New Casper Cartoon Show - Episode 1: "The Greedy Giants"), an insomniac bear who calls on THE SANDMAN for help but even that didn't work (Episode 5: "Bedtime Trouble"), an evil scientist trying to block out the Sun as if the people making that thought the good God will ever let that happen and episode 2 of Chargeman Ken! doesn't demand money for stealing (Episode 8: "Cold Wave"), giant Casper (Episode 9: "Growing Up"), a lost fellow ghost who couldn't find his mother with an edgy name (Something) (Episode 11: "Lost Little Ghost") plus a horse named NIGHTMARE, a kickass big and muscular cousin resembling a hilarious DeviantArt drawing who we'll never see again (Episode 15: "Super Spooks"), Casper giving Wendy looks that will allude to their obvious future hookup (most of the episodes involving Wendy, or just having her in it), the friggin' Pilgrims being attacked by a sea monster (Episode 25: "The Wandering Ghost"), two quirky female galactic police officers (one being one of the earliest instances of the stereotypical angry black girl, and one being a scatterbrained ditz with a cute hairstyle and nose shape) with a large goofy-looking hairy ghost sporting a big bow tie joining them along (Casper and the Angels)....or a damn Christmas special with Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick-Draw McGraw and Augie Doggie and Doggy Daddy (Casper's First Christmas)?!! How about you include what the kids REALLY want (The live-action movie): The Ghostly Trio being the guys who I can't believe I laughed at as a little kid, multiple awesomely pointless cameos and pop culture references in which half of them Gen Z won't ever recognize or understand, a growing romantic relationship with Christina Ricci that starts with him being hornily delighted that a girl is on his bed ("There's a girl...on my bed. Yes!"), Eric Idle playing the antagonist's goofy sidekick who she loves abusing and mistreating, an underwhelming original tragic and dark backstory on how he (Casper) died, out-of-nowhere swearing ("I'll contest it, and then I'm gonna drag you and every one of those damn dolphins into court!", "If you would've just forged the damn will", "What the hell do you think ya doin', bulbhead?", "Piss off!", "Not so fast, little man....the BITCH..is back." [the big one]), a bullshit machine that UNDOES DEATH and SAID MACHINE revealing Casper to be Stan, years before his crazed Eminem obsession (played by Devon Sawa)!! SHERRI STONER AND DEANNA OLIVER (Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs).....WROTE THAT!!! And also the cartoon show spinoff that was on Fox Kids (The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper). Why? (I mean, Sherri's working on Curious George; I'm not always expecting the absolute greatest from my favorite people.)

I believe this randomly surfaced on TikTok too. (chuckles) Look at these kids watching this. There's a reason why this ad never came to be, and there's a reason why Ghosties never came to be.  Plus this is the second time I've talked about something ghost-related on these commercial Pads, specifically ghost CEREAL (Ghostbusters Cereal). What am I watching?