Writer's Block: Commercial Appeal

[figmo]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I can't find video of it, but there was a commercial in the 1960s they showed a few times during Saturday morning cartoons.

The setting: A group of kids, both male and female, run out of the house and onto an outdoor swingset -- only dressed in underwear. As they do this, some lady is singing the following to "Happy Birthday:"

Happy Underwear to you
Happy Underwear to you
Long wearing, easy caring
Happy Underwear to you.

I will never know where tehy found a bunch of kids willing to go running around in their undies on national television

Comments

And making real money as an ***ACTOR***

[capplor.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think this was a problem.

Re: And making real money as an ***ACTOR***

[figmo.livejournal.com]

My cousin Beth Anne and I used to wonder how these kids fared when they went back to school and got the snot beaten out of them for showing up on national TV in their unmentionables.

For her and me, anyway, no amount of money would have gotten either of us to go on national TV in our underwear. Period.

Re: And making real money as an ***ACTOR***

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's your school, and maybe it's you. My younger sister has always gotten away with wearing stuff that would make me look like a clown, and the only comments she gets are "How stylish!" If the kids have whatever that quality is; no problem.

Re: And making real money as an ***ACTOR***

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Um, trust me; there was nothing particularly outstanding about this underwear. It was standard white children's underwear.

The kids in that commercial did not have that quality. It wasn't just me who laughed at them, either; we used to joke about it at school. To this day I can crack up my cousin by singing the "Happy Underwear" song.

Re: And making real money as an ***ACTOR***

[capplor.livejournal.com]

On TV and in person are two different things. For all you know, everyone in their grade-school class got invited to a release party with cake & ice cream.