Hey good lookin'! We'll be back to pick you up later!

[janradder]

No, this is not a parody.

Comments

[justinhowe.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[pierogi-queen.livejournal.com]

Didn't your sister have one?

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think she did. If I remember right it was the only things she asked for for her birthday one year.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of getting one so I can pick up chicks in my car.

[pierogi-queen.livejournal.com]

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.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

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.

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

I never noticed, before, how much the "Hey, good lookin'!" segment resembles the Zapruder film.

Too bad it doesn't end the same way.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

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!"

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

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.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite 70's ad was for the "genuine faux diamond."

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Was that the Sparkling Diamelle?

[janradder.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right. My sister and I would see it advertised on the UHF stations after school and we'd laugh each time.