May 052014
Now that Putin is doing his best to restart the Cold War, all things ’80’s might start getting cool again (it of course helps that the “80’s Generation,” mine, in other words, is now the primary adult demographic). To that end, may I present a TV commercial for Wendy’s, dated 1985:
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I haven’t seen – or even thought about – this commercial in nearly three decades. Yet I laughed my butt off when I saw it again. Yes, kids, back in the day we actually made fun of our enemies: had them as the bad guys in movies and TV shows, laughed at them in commercials, etc., without a bunch of fricken’ whiners getting all snippy. Ah, the days before PC…
And there was this one, which I don’t remember so well:
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