I seem to remember the Dolly Parton Wiggy, a couple of oranges stuffed in her shirt, and that microphone - and her telling us we had never heard her "real" singing voice.
Ha-ha-ha -- I remember that, too. She was trying to convince us she would be a huge singing sensation one day but that she only used her "real" voice when she was alone in her room.
Do you remember one of the later ads where a four or five year old on a trike delivers the line? Even back then I thought that was creepy -- "Hey, get a Mr. Microphone and teach your kid how to harass the ladies! It'll be cute!"
It sounds familiar, but this is the ad that played constantly when I was a teen, and which my friends and I used to mock constantly, so it's burned into my brain.
It's amazing how successful these kinds of campaigns are, and all for completely useless crap. I saw a *shitload* of Mr. Microphones in real life, back then, all in the same position: discarded under a bed or in a box or the back of a closet, clearly barely used, because as it turns out, shockingly, talking over the radio next to you is kind of retarded.
Same deal with all the "super tools" and whatnot, over the years. People who don't actually work with their hands, regularly, never seem to learn that when it comes to manual labor, the simplest and most direct tech is the best, always. If it's a hammer *and* it does something else, it's not going to be good at either job, and nowhere near as good as just going and buying a freaking hammer. If it does five other things besides hammering, you may as well just burn your money. That thing's going to break the first or second time you try to use it for its primary purpose.
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Too bad it doesn't end the same way.
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It's amazing how successful these kinds of campaigns are, and all for completely useless crap. I saw a *shitload* of Mr. Microphones in real life, back then, all in the same position: discarded under a bed or in a box or the back of a closet, clearly barely used, because as it turns out, shockingly, talking over the radio next to you is kind of retarded.
Same deal with all the "super tools" and whatnot, over the years. People who don't actually work with their hands, regularly, never seem to learn that when it comes to manual labor, the simplest and most direct tech is the best, always. If it's a hammer *and* it does something else, it's not going to be good at either job, and nowhere near as good as just going and buying a freaking hammer. If it does five other things besides hammering, you may as well just burn your money. That thing's going to break the first or second time you try to use it for its primary purpose.
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