TV ads were different in the old days.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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It just keeps going.

[virgogal]

1. They were better in many ways----no prescription drug or lawyer ads.

[gratuitous]

5. Prescription drug ads

How many products are advertised so regularly that you can't go out and buy, that spend about 2/3 of their time explaining how bad the product could be for you, and that are appropriate for such a small segment of the population? And the ads are on the nightly news programs, sports programs, and other presumably expensive ad-buy programs?

[MuseRider]

2. The Zero M Sonic Blaster

Isn't that Kurt Russell?

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. I'd recognize those dimples anywhere n/t

[MuseRider]

9. I had such a crush on that boy

when I was little. Now we are all old and not so adorable. Oh well, he was a cutie, weren't we all.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. He's still hot to me

Unfortunately he's a libertarian gun nut.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Check out Billy Mumy at 3:56 in the second video.

The commercial is for the Dick Tracy Power Jet gun. It starts at 3:49.

[MuseRider]

12. LOL, he needed his teeth!

I left it on and the beginning of the next one a bunch of boys are running with their guns down the hill and the last boy looks like he was getting ready to take a head first dirt dive before it cut away. LOL

[msongs]

3. back when black brown and asian kids never wanted or bought toys apparently nt

[edbermac]

4. Ill never forget this one.

I’m sooooo old...

[Ptah]

6. 1961 Flintstones Winston Cigarettes

[CanSocDem]

8. These toys...

...were the beginning of the 'gun culture'. At some point in every American boys life he leaves his toys behind.

Or he gets bigger ones.

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[left-of-center2012]

13. Toilet paper so good you don't need to wear underwear

Some of these TV ads are just so 'out there'.

I think how shocked my mother would have been.

[Solly Mack]

14. That's a very young Kurt Russell in the Sonic Blaster commercial.