Connect Four - "Pretty Sneaky, Sis..." (Commercial, 1981)

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
  • Here's a classic commercial for the "vertical checkers" game Connect Four (Connect 4) with the memorable line, "Pretty Sneaky, Sis..."
    From Milton Bradley.
    This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 23rd 1981.
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Комментарии • 250

  • @LanceEhlers
    @LanceEhlers 7 лет назад +250

    I especially like how the brother uses his Carrie-like telekinetic power to release all the pieces upon defeat.

    • @jacquelineburrell2010
      @jacquelineburrell2010 6 лет назад +13

      Lol...just noticed that after all these years!

    • @sa3270
      @sa3270 6 лет назад +16

      Back in the day this would come on when I was at my friend's house and we always tried to figure out how they did that.

    • @jazz2B
      @jazz2B 6 лет назад +9

      Ok that's scary.

    • @jayknowles2146
      @jayknowles2146 5 лет назад +9

      Use the force luke

    • @twasbrillig33
      @twasbrillig33 5 лет назад +6

      @@sa3270 damn steve, I've seen this commercial 100s of times I didn't even notice that. you and your buddies could be the cast of Stranger Things,

  • @notaaccpp
    @notaaccpp 4 года назад +276

    Who's here after Fake doctors, real friends Podcast with Zach and Donald?!

    • @falkthieme9889
      @falkthieme9889 4 года назад +9

      I knew there was gonna be a comment like that here, bless you!

    • @rizzy8445
      @rizzy8445 4 года назад +2

      brought me here too! I had to see for myself 😂

    • @jaykaybrewer303
      @jaykaybrewer303 4 года назад +2

      Yep hahaha

    • @Zaxomma
      @Zaxomma 4 года назад +3

      Ayo, this made everything better

    • @jamesstead9037
      @jamesstead9037 4 года назад +3

      Same-sies! Loving that pod

  • @Legend813a
    @Legend813a 7 лет назад +174

    Sister not included.

    • @KishorTwist
      @KishorTwist 6 лет назад +9

      Narrator IS included.

    • @olmanrich81
      @olmanrich81 6 лет назад +8

      Cheating bitchez

    • @KishorTwist
      @KishorTwist 4 года назад +1

      @Christopher Hagee Ooof... That's out of my jurisdiction... ☻

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper 4 года назад +1

      You sank my battleship...

    • @missayawk
      @missayawk 3 года назад

      " CLASSIC!" Reminds me how we used to get so excited about a toy until the disclaimer: " BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED" or " FIGURES NOT INCLUDED" .....forget about asking for THAT toy!

  • @sadtapioca8726
    @sadtapioca8726 3 года назад +7

    My dad always says this to me and I finally know where it's from.

  • @David12864
    @David12864 4 года назад +27

    Who's here after listening to zach and Donald?

  • @TheQuantumWave
    @TheQuantumWave 7 лет назад +40

    I've been quoting that commercial ever since.

  • @wolverinefangowings
    @wolverinefangowings 4 года назад +11

    This video probably has more views today than it does in the last year.

  • @cooncat111
    @cooncat111 5 лет назад +9

    It’s scary that I know every word by heart ...

  • @greylanders6101
    @greylanders6101 3 года назад +7

    I will never forget,"here, diagonally." "Or, pretty sneaky sis."

  • @SuperSight
    @SuperSight 9 месяцев назад

    What a great game! All these years later! Such a classic ad from back in the day, voice and all.
    20 Nov 2023
    3:03pm NZ

  • @ORam...
    @ORam... 5 лет назад +15

    PRET-TY SNEA-KY SIS, oh yo
    I got my socks off, my rocks off, my Nestle's cup of cocoa
    Holly Hobbie tried to slob me, tried to rob me silly stunt
    Diggedy-dun dun dun dun dun, DUN DUN!

    • @SoulGemzEnt
      @SoulGemzEnt 3 года назад +4

      They want Efx, The Live Efx!

    • @jonathancue1584
      @jonathancue1584 3 года назад +6

      I CAME ON HERE TO SEE IF THERE WAS A DAS EFX REFERENCE, YOU GET THIS👑

    • @ORam...
      @ORam... 3 года назад +1

      @@jonathancue1584 Like Roscoe B. Coltrane.

    • @jonathancue1584
      @jonathancue1584 3 года назад +2

      @@ORam... YUP!!! He said it too. We are on a ROLL with these Hip Hop lyrics.

    • @missayawk
      @missayawk 3 года назад +2

      "They want EFX "was like a microcosm of my entire childhood.Made me realize I watched WAYYYY too much TV.

  • @maazye3024
    @maazye3024 4 года назад +7

    Pretty sneaky Death!

  • @lancetschirhart7676
    @lancetschirhart7676 7 лет назад +26

    I still stay this phrase.

  • @TheVCRTimeMachine
    @TheVCRTimeMachine Год назад +4

    Something interesting about this commercial. No background music or theme music, but it's one of the most easily remembered and memorized commercials ever.

  • @JENDALL714
    @JENDALL714 3 года назад +13

    I had this game, it had a factory defect, it would always accidentally fall on the floor when I was about to lose. In fact all my games had the same defect.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 7 месяцев назад +1

    A+ video!
    LOVE IT!

  • @daviddband77
    @daviddband77 6 лет назад +35

    The little girl is my aunt Diane. She is now in her 50 s and lives on east coast.

    • @Lordofbklyn70
      @Lordofbklyn70 6 лет назад +2

      Just kidding btw

    • @SteveCarras
      @SteveCarras 6 лет назад +3

      Wow! Thanks fo the information!

    • @tag4650
      @tag4650 6 лет назад +4

      Pretty sneaky, David D. Band WAMIMS!!

    • @calvinweeder1067
      @calvinweeder1067 6 лет назад +10

      I heard she's in a polyamorous relationship with Maynard and Mikey, and when they're not having orgies they sit around playing Connect Four while gorging on Malt-o-Meal and LIFE cereal.

    • @joemasters2270
      @joemasters2270 6 лет назад +2

      Pretty sneaky, bro ;)

  • @dakotahernandez9511
    @dakotahernandez9511 6 лет назад +43

    I came here after watching the cinemasins video on megamind

    • @AnimeAngel-ov7eg
      @AnimeAngel-ov7eg 6 лет назад +1

      Same. It had been bugging me every time I watched Megamind and Cinemasins actually gave hit to the reference. He was right tho, I’m a 90s kid and didn’t get an 80s reference haha 😂

  • @RC568
    @RC568 5 лет назад +4

    Pretty sneaky
    *SIS*

  • @MasterRons177
    @MasterRons177 Год назад +1

    I was brought to this RUclips commercial because of the rap group that came out in the early '90s dasa fix he's the phrase pretty sneaky sis.

  • @FlexoShootFlexo
    @FlexoShootFlexo 6 лет назад +17

    Those kids clearly want Efx

  • @plateshutoverlock
    @plateshutoverlock 4 года назад +2

    I love those big collars!

  • @TheInkPitOx
    @TheInkPitOx 6 лет назад +3

    The one I grew up with made it look a lot more exciting.

  • @philiprichards2010
    @philiprichards2010 3 года назад +1

    I remember this commercial of connect four. And I used to play that game too.

  • @MrJamieMurph4141969
    @MrJamieMurph4141969 10 месяцев назад

    I remember this commercial like it was just yesterday.

  • @etrotm1226
    @etrotm1226 9 месяцев назад

    I was just looking up the Sneak Sneaky scene from Neptunia and suddenly i saw this commercial uploaded. Very nostalgic.

  • @jasoneaton9477
    @jasoneaton9477 3 года назад +1

    Thanks Das efx

  • @maddoxtolliver
    @maddoxtolliver 2 года назад +1

    *_GODDAMN_** i'm old.*

  • @cookytrix
    @cookytrix 4 года назад +9

    i still to this day have this line pop in my head from time to time. loved that game as a kid in the 70s

  • @jazz2B
    @jazz2B 6 лет назад +14

    Perfect comedic timing on checkers drop at end.

  • @joeyd.589
    @joeyd.589 3 года назад +11

    I say that line, "pretty sneaky sis" to my sister to this day.

  • @joemasters2270
    @joemasters2270 6 лет назад +3

    Loved this game when I was little.

  • @Demfcane
    @Demfcane 5 лет назад +3

    Das Efx brought me here

  • @user-mj8nf2vp7q
    @user-mj8nf2vp7q 5 лет назад +5

    Mommyl...I can I have a Light Bright and Connect Four game for Christmas!?!?

  • @roselandstyle9488
    @roselandstyle9488 5 лет назад +2

    I remember this well

  • @TheStandardBearer
    @TheStandardBearer 2 года назад +1

    Das Efx took inspiration from this commercial.

  • @jugglingembalmer
    @jugglingembalmer 7 лет назад +9

    My Connect 4 didn't open that way and it always bothered me. On mine, you said a little bar at the bottom.

  • @phillipcotton833
    @phillipcotton833 2 года назад +2

    I'm here for "here...diagonally "

  • @WhiteSoxNation08
    @WhiteSoxNation08 7 лет назад +8

    I still have this game and play it with my Children. They love it.

    • @jacquelineburrell2010
      @jacquelineburrell2010 6 лет назад +1

      This game came out when I was a teen, now my son and grandson are here playing!

  • @happyface7836
    @happyface7836 5 лет назад +9

    When’s this game coming out seems like it’s gonna be a hit

  • @panowa8319
    @panowa8319 9 месяцев назад

    My childhood. I remember Mayor Adam West recited "pretty sneaky, Sis" on a "Family Guy" episode.

  • @ayden_clisham
    @ayden_clisham Год назад +1

    “Pretty sneaky sis, but there’s only one person I know who calls this town Metrocity.”

  • @GingerFoutley
    @GingerFoutley 3 года назад +4

    You can smell their excitement through the television

  • @stephentreadwell5851
    @stephentreadwell5851 4 года назад +2

    Pretty sneaky, Sis!

  • @jonathancue1584
    @jonathancue1584 3 года назад +3

    Das Efx used that line in a rap verse LMAO

    • @missayawk
      @missayawk 3 года назад +2

      They did a whole song with just 70s/80s cartoon and commercial references." They Want EFX" ....BRILLIANT!!

    • @jonathancue1584
      @jonathancue1584 3 года назад +2

      @@missayawk VERY F'ING BRILLIANT GREAT OVERALL SONG

  • @manakin5
    @manakin5 3 года назад +2

    Larry David thought it was pretty sneaky too. PRET-TEH PRET-TEH SNEAKY

    • @missayawk
      @missayawk 3 года назад

      I think that's where LD got his " PRITTEY- PRITTEY" reference from

  • @teptime
    @teptime 10 месяцев назад +1

    I would love to know where these kids are today, and hear their thoughts on being mini-icons in the 70s pop culture landscape.

  • @andrewschumm1848
    @andrewschumm1848 7 лет назад +6

    Thanks for uploading

  • @20TonChop
    @20TonChop 3 года назад

    Sneaky sneak snuck right in there.

  • @dembirdscanfly
    @dembirdscanfly 3 года назад +2

    I only heard this phrase on The Office when Andy said it to Pam. Then I'm watching Daybreak and Wesley says it and I think it's an Office reference but that seems like a pretty obscure Office reference so I had to Google it and find this.

    • @FuzzyMemoriesTV
      @FuzzyMemoriesTV  3 года назад +2

      Get an older cool friend. They could have told you in a minute what the quote was from. 😎

  • @morgan8757
    @morgan8757 4 года назад

    fun game

  • @magmacubz02
    @magmacubz02 4 года назад +2

    I love how it causes an earthquake when you need to reset the game

  • @finbah5706
    @finbah5706 3 года назад +4

    I wonder what kind of bowl they used to cut his hair?

  • @Ilostmyfob
    @Ilostmyfob Год назад +1

    No one is going to mention how the checkers fell without anybody releasing them at the end? Nobody is going to mention how that black checker looks just like an oreo cookie...

  • @entertainingsportshighligh7525
    @entertainingsportshighligh7525 10 месяцев назад

    1990s RAP GROUP called - (DAS EFX) brought me here, because of their song - (Want EFX)

  • @sbrostiansbrosorpitorps6315
    @sbrostiansbrosorpitorps6315 4 года назад +1

    Here's some stories...

  • @Photosounder
    @Photosounder 2 года назад +1

    Das EFX brought me here

  • @johnnywalker4857
    @johnnywalker4857 Год назад +3

    This is precisely what commercials looked like while in grammar school. Google searches? Had to go to the library to look something up. Cell phones? Had to be a wealthy businessman to procure one of those.

  • @jackpitts5561
    @jackpitts5561 4 года назад +1

    Absolutely DYNAMITE copy, we should all know the person who concieved this commercial as I STILL remember it and QUOTE IT ("HERE DIAGONALLY!) 40 years later AND it caused my family to buy the game one Xmas. PRET-TYYYY PRET-TTTYYYY SNEAK-Y SIS was plagiarized by Larry David. (Kidding, but Hilarist App on BitCoin Satoshi Vision will be the ultimate judge some day)

  • @jill5045
    @jill5045 3 года назад

    ❤️🍀♾hmmm one more game!!! Pretty sneaky sis 🤣

  • @traviscooper5911
    @traviscooper5911 3 года назад +1

    I'm here because of Deadpool from Marvel Crisis Protocol

  • @honkhonk5150
    @honkhonk5150 4 года назад +1

    who else came here because of Andy?

  • @bobygreen8429
    @bobygreen8429 3 года назад +5

    That old one looks so much cooler than the modern one, what with the yellow-and-blue mix and all. Every set I've played is pure blue.

  • @blu3blx866
    @blu3blx866 2 года назад +1

    There's only one guy I know who pronounces Metro City Metrawcity
    YOU!

  • @EPrimeify
    @EPrimeify 3 года назад

    THE DOUGLER!

  • @stevemyers2056
    @stevemyers2056 6 лет назад +2

    The board they're playing on and the board they zoom in on when she points out her victory aren't even the same. You can see her put the checker in a completely different slot too. I guess she is pretty sneaky.

    • @stevemyers2056
      @stevemyers2056 6 лет назад +1

      Jason X it's still a completely different alignment

    • @boywonder0319
      @boywonder0319 4 года назад

      Notice that when the brother says, "Gotcha! Four across," he actually points to the row above it.

  • @convair9
    @convair9 4 года назад +2

    This, operation, Mikey and life cereal rand for decades probably because the majority of people did not watch cable TV except for movies and with only three net work channels, and independent like WGN or a UHF like Field communication the advertisement did well just by virtue of saturation

    • @ellemjay
      @ellemjay 3 года назад

      We didn't have miniature pocket sized, networked computers that we could take everywhere back then. So we didn't get bored as quickly.

  • @TnseWlms
    @TnseWlms 2 года назад +1

    Tic tac toe with gravity.

  • @thefeintnetwork5429
    @thefeintnetwork5429 6 лет назад +6

    pretty sneaky sis...

  • @Action_Slacks
    @Action_Slacks 3 года назад +3

    This commercial originally aired in the 1970s, I remember as I was in grade school back then. By 1981 shirt collars weren't quite so fantastically huge.

  • @mergingmarky8274
    @mergingmarky8274 Год назад

    "But Look Out!"

  • @LawOffices
    @LawOffices 6 лет назад +1

    checkers check it out

  • @SteveGarza
    @SteveGarza 3 года назад +1

    Scrubs podcast brought me here.

  • @chrisw6164
    @chrisw6164 2 года назад +1

    They ran this commercial for years.

  • @jeffreybaker100
    @jeffreybaker100 2 года назад +2

    Once i woke up one morning and just began laughing over how the boy said "gotcha 4 across"! LOL! That boy reminds me of my cousin

  • @prot07ype87
    @prot07ype87 6 лет назад +9

    This game is very *dank.*

  • @punchline43
    @punchline43 3 года назад +7

    They almost went with "clever, girl" 😆

  • @playsbass1969
    @playsbass1969 5 лет назад

    Pretty sneaky sis

  • @grudgerun
    @grudgerun 3 года назад +1

    Guarantee you Don Draper was behind this ad

  • @ertznay3142
    @ertznay3142 3 года назад +2

    How could the actress here possibly be Dale Dickey? She was born in 1961, this commercial came out in 1981. That would make her 19 or 20 here.

    • @grapefruitm00n
      @grapefruitm00n 3 года назад +1

      That commercial is from the 70s and they aired it for years! But I don’t think that’s Dale Dickey anyway

  • @smoton2
    @smoton2 6 лет назад

    Childhood memories of playing this game. And the commercial we loved back then.

  • @CultureCrusader
    @CultureCrusader Год назад +1

    1981, so I was 13 and remember this commercial WELL! Why? Because of the way the pieces seem to automatically dropout by themselves at the end. Yes! So I begged for it and got it. Nope, got scammed. No auto drop. There was a guy pulling a string to release it for the commercial, to con little gadget nerds like me...

  • @RuckStar13
    @RuckStar13 6 дней назад

    My granfma

  • @AwesomePossum510
    @AwesomePossum510 Год назад +2

    I've heard the line "pretty sneaky sis" so many times and I never knew where it came from, until Bill Burr mentioned this commercial in his podcast.

    • @stevenholst
      @stevenholst Год назад

      Just paused the podcast to come find the commercial😂

  • @morp4212
    @morp4212 6 лет назад +2

    Megamind

  • @stephenulmer3781
    @stephenulmer3781 10 месяцев назад

    The bowl haircuts on boys in the 70s and 80s were horrendous 😅

  • @LawOffices
    @LawOffices 6 лет назад +2

    checkers check it out LOL OIL OHIO MICROSOFT ANIKO MARIE scrabble

  • @MurderofBirds
    @MurderofBirds 7 лет назад +11

    RWBY Volume 2 Chapter 2 references are the best!

    • @CEOSolarWolf
      @CEOSolarWolf 6 лет назад

      MurderofBirds Didn't think I'd see you here! :O

  • @DwasTV
    @DwasTV 3 года назад +1

    So that was Patty the Daytime Hooker.

  • @hyrulehero7834
    @hyrulehero7834 5 лет назад +2

    But there’s only one person who calls this city metra city

  • @jbro8934
    @jbro8934 5 лет назад

    Hmmmm. One more game!

  • @bbo40
    @bbo40 3 года назад

    I don't understand this game? where are the smart phones?

  • @52griffin
    @52griffin 10 месяцев назад

    Das Efx

  • @eyeofhorus70
    @eyeofhorus70 2 года назад

    Where? I don't s... here diagonally!

  • @paulroseen4394
    @paulroseen4394 3 года назад +3

    Love how she mocks
    the way he asks “where?” with”here!”

  • @BigScoobyFan
    @BigScoobyFan 2 года назад +1

    Love this memorable commercial! And the boy looks like he has an imitation Mr. Spock haircut.

  • @LeadSurge3000
    @LeadSurge3000 Год назад +2

    ♦️ *My brother & I have been quoting this since the 70s bc of the way the girl says diAG'nally.* ♦️🤨😉

  • @lcozzarelli
    @lcozzarelli 4 года назад +1

    I thought it was from Milton Bradley! I remembered this commercial :) Now it’s from Hasbro?

    • @TnseWlms
      @TnseWlms 2 года назад

      Hasbro swallowed up every toy and game company.

  • @herbertmacaulay8987
    @herbertmacaulay8987 Год назад +1

    Some people think it's a game like Connect Four, till I rise the thing and them collect four

  • @FigureGunplaFan
    @FigureGunplaFan 2 года назад

    _But there is only one person I know who calls this town _*_Metrocity_*