The King of the Hill was a cross-promo with the Masked Magician, a TV show where a magician revealed how magic tricks are done. In the KOTH episode Seight of Hank, Hank gets obsessed with figuring out how a magic trick is done.
The mask was a reference to “Breaking the Magician’s Code” and it’s main star, The Masked Magician. Pretty interesting show if you wanna know how magic tricks are done.
@Michael Pannoni Late 90's - early 2000's: Buy 100 CD-R's so you can keep a load of backups / will have space to store downloads on 2020: Still have 95 unused CD-R's in the back of the wardrobe
@@worldcomicsreview354 oh man, so true, back in the mid Aughts I had a big 200 disc spool (maybe it was 150? Dunno) used to make all kinds of crappy mix discs with pirated music and shareware games/software, there's probably half the spool left, long forgotten in my parents' home somewhere.
I block all computer & phone ads so I have more time to listen to vintage ads on oldtime.radio Every pound of Parkay margarine contains 9000 units of vitamin A (in the 1940s at least)
@@Komander5062 I think they renamed it Braking the Magician's code after Fox put the show on Hiatus. I remember the first few episodes well because of rebroadcasts. And he reveals his face on the final episode like 4-5 years later.
It was on Netflix last I checked, if anyone wants to see. It was a show dedicated to revealing famous magic tricks. Apparently it really pissed off a ton of magicians, which is hilarious to me.
11:57 WOAH! I remember this ad campaign! The 7up guys tried to brand themselves as an underground fighting against the evil soft drink syndicate, and the only way to avoid their influence was to be an "Un" by drinking 7up. The head in the suitcase is supposed to be one of their evil soda agents spying on you to make sure you only drink the right drink. Even back then, I understood that rebelling against one soft drink brand by drinking another as commanded by their ads was a "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" scenario. I guess that's why 7up has removed all evidence of its existence, because I couldn't find it anywhere...until now. Hold on to that tape, Brutalmoose. It's a valuable relic of regrettable ads. And keep an eye out, because there were more "Are U an Un" ads.
@@lineriderman7 yea i was getting some heffer vibes as well, thats why i thought it was Tom Kenny. I love when some voice actor's voices are immediately recognizable to me, like not only Tom Kenny but Patton Oswalt especially
Lighting designer here, “GE enrich” bulbs only had a coating to lower the color temperature. They were rebranded as “GE reveal” and I believe they are still sold under that name as LED bulbs. (Yes I know lamp is the proper term for light bulbs)
@@OneOfThem same. 🤣 Recognized the purple coating. If you want an LED that gives off comparable color, go w "daylight". It's nice if you get bummed out, w dreary days.
My mom bought 20 4-packs of enrich bulbs, when they were on clearance. She's a hoarder. I think she finally burned through the last of them in the past year or so. She has a big house with lots of lights.
This is basic shit. if you don't know this you gotta go back to lightbulb school! And for the love of Edison, just call it a lamp. We don't need to dumb down lightbulb discourse to make it more palatable for muggles
I worked at Service Merchandise in like 98/99 in the electronics dept, and my manager was cool with this older guy who would come in every now and then and buy a bunch of VHS tapes cuz he bootlegged movies. My manager would hook him up with a few extra for free and he'd give him some of his newer movies he had.
@@zackschilling4376 my friend worked at a dunk's and there was an old lady who came in and sold her son's bootleg DVDs and like, openly watched porn in the dining area. i thought my friend was full of shit, but then I met the lady myself.
Yeah, it was a throwback to that. The promotion had a storyline where "uns" were Cool Young People who drank 7Up to fight the "Anti-Refreshment Syndicate." It was weird.
Light bulb expert here: The ge enrich (later called reveal and now HD light) bulb was made with neodymium glass that had a distinct blue tint to it that would filter out some of the redder wavelengths of light to give a more daylight and blue appearance as incandescent bulbs emit more longer wavelengs of light due to procese of incadesing the metal to emit said light.
Yeah I work in the lighting department and all I can tell you is that LEDs can create any wavelength and there HD light doesn't make sense and that's after the product knowledge training
Regarding the Taco Bell Dog: The cost of animating the dog speaking with the technology at the time was incredibly expensive, and didn't necessarily result in the increased sales they were hoping for. It took a lot of work and required a lot of really expensive hardware.
And of course the voice stylings of the same guy who did rocko on rocko's modern life and the Geico gecko among many more. And of course he was on the cast of Reno 911.
18:46 I literally thought this was Ian putting on a voice filter as a joke the first time I saw this. That is the actual voice used in the promo "OH GIRL.. WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN _THEY_ COME FOR _YOU_ ?" This series is hilarious. I can't wait to see another.
The Big Lots puppet actor sounds like Tom Kenny, specifically close to his voices closer to his natural speaking voice like Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life.
28:08 That man voicing the puppet is Tom Kenny. You probably know him from Spongebob, Dilbert, and the Ice King from Adventure time. He also voiced one of the pigs in Hoodwinked.
Upset man: "You had me kidnapped" Irritated woman: "I'm sorry.... okay?!" For cryin' out loud mister, can't you see she's sorry? jeez... some people. Can't even move past a little kidnapping. (¬_¬ )
RE: How the in-theater bootleg was filmed. I had friends who worked at the movie theater who would set up camcorders in the handicap section in the back and film the movies themselves. They'd duplicate and spread them around to friends and family.
I worked at Service Merchandise around 99-00 and we had a guy that would come in and my manager would hook him up with blank VHS and he would hook him up with bootleg movies. That same manager was later fired for taking a 300 CD tower box and filling it up with expensive electronics (we worked in the electronics dept.) and having a friend come in and buy it. I think he did it multiple times. He was actually a pretty cool guy.
The dogs on the RCA tape cover is a throwback to the painting titled "his masters voice"; a painting of a dog called nippy looking at a gramophone. You can see it on the centre label of many record company's as he became a mascot for Victor Talking Machine co. That later became the parent company to RCA records who we now know as the EMI record label. One of their other subsidiary companies was called 'the Japan Victor Company' I.e. JVC. So essentially it would be a JVC tape just with the RCA logo on it. Probably a marketing strategy to say it had better audio quality seeing 'stereo hifi' written on the spine. Interesting find!
That is undeniably the voice of "Tom Kenny" doing the voice of that puppet, ironically plugging video tapes for a show he also voice acted in. He was the voice of "Heffer Wolfe" in Rocko's Modern Life. Also the Downey ball was made so you didn't pour laundry detergent directly on your clothes in the wash. Some detergents, especially the gritty sand like ones, would sometimes leave soap strains behind. The idea was that you'd fill the ball with detergent, lock the ball with this rubber pull up thing, and then it would release the soap mid-wash. My family had one in the late 90s and what would always happen is that the ball would open, but most of the soap would still be inside of it. So what you ended up with was a watery ball of soap at the bottom of your washing machine.
@@RedTV8888 I think that you missed the point that the puppet was advertising for the sale of VHS's including Rocko's Modern Life in which Tom Kenny voiced a character on. Bringing up Spongebob makes no sense in this context as it did not even exist at the time this commercial was created and has nothing to do with the products being sold.
The Downy Ball is not for detergent, it's for Fabric Softener. Fabric Softener counters hard water and is supposed to be added during the rinse cycle. I use one today. They're still very much a thing.
The 7UP "un" thing was a reference to them calling themselves the "Uncola", basically saying they were different than regular cola drinks therefore superior...somehow
I was about to say it was an uncola reference, but you beat me to it. Funny thing is I remember the Mt. Dew and Splurge commercial, but not the 7up one. Of course the Mt. Dew one was better.
10:40 I believe this is in reference to the final scene of that King of the Hill episode. That's the mask the magician in "Magic's Greatest Secret Revealed" wears and that is the mask that Bobby wears at the end when they parody the show and demonstrate how the trick is performed.
I just left a comment about it being from the masked magician too but glad you got to it first. It was driving me nuts because I knew it looked familiar and then I remembered when I got to work. Lol
Big lots puppet is Tom Kenny, the man has done possibly thousands of voices, fun fact he was also the Guy (groom) in the Smashing Pumpkins music video for "tonight tonight"
Funfact: The concept of the Big New Yorker was made by Reggie Fils Aime back when he was the marketing executive for Pizza Hut and it was a massive success
I believe the reason they talk on phones so much is simply a cost saving measure. These actors often can not be there in the same studio each day and they likely film on separate days at different times. So The conversations are shot at different times and lets them save time and money.
Back when that episode of King of the Hill aired, there was a big hoopla in the magician community (I know, I think it's weird they have one too) about Fox's airing of a show in which the "Masked Magician" revealed the secrets behind some of their biggest, flashiest illusions. Hank Hill wearing the mask was both promotion for that and also because that particular episode was about a magician. Peggy Hill is asked up on stage and goes through one of the magician's tricks, and then spends the episode shooting down Hank's attempts to figure out the trick, because Peggy Hill was arguably the most insufferable pain in the ass on TV at the time.
And somehow peggy ended up being a positive to some people. She is a direct foil to Hank, she even lied to get Hank to marry such a trainwreck of a person. Love that show v well done.
Peggy is hands down the worst character on the show. Nancy is a close 2nd, but that's only because she doesn't have as much screentime. Now Bobby, Dale, and Cotton, those are the legends.
Bobby also wears the mask during a credits scene where they explain the trick, which i guess they just edited onto hank there. Screencap of it imgur.com/ifGtgvM
"What's up with the dogs, man? Whose dogs are those?" The dogs are RCA's mascot, Chipper and Nipper. They're not used as much now a days, so it's understandable you don't know who they are.
@@joshm.7592 Maybe he just didn't make the connection. If he were looking at the picture of the RCA mascot dog staring at the phonograph with its head cocked, maybe he'd recognize that.
Here's a legitimate question does RCA make anything anymore?! I honestly can't remember seeing anything with their name on it in quite some time. In fact I would say I haven't seen any RCA products since RadioShack closed down and that was years ago now.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu according to their website, they make TVs, and home alarms. And a $30 mp3 player that looks like a dildo. That being said, ... Today, RCA exists as a brand name only; the various RCA trademarks are currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which in turn license the brand name to several other companies including Voxx International, Curtis International, AVC Multimedia, TCL Corporation and Express LUCK International, Ltd. for their products.
Back in the day I knew someone who was a manager at a theatre. He would run late night showings for his friends and would set up a camcorder on a tripod to make copies of the movie. Not that I would be involved in anything like that.
The red headed guy in the pager commercial that said he was “waiting for his sweetie” was the kid from sandlot that said the notorious line “you play ball like a girl”
That mask Hank was wearing was about the Masked Magician show that was on in the 90s. At least thats the mask he's wearing. Im not sure why but its a reference to the Masked Magician show definitely. Anyways, this Magician would wear a creepy black mask with white stripes on it and he would do different tricks and he explained how he did some of them sometimes. He always had hot chicks helping him too.
That show gave me so many nightmares as a kid! The masked magician REALLY creeped me out. I rewatched it recently and it has Skinner from The X Files as the narrator and he makes REALLY creepy commentary about the assistants etc. Such a weird show
Friend: "So what do you watch on youtube nowadays?" Me: "Oh, gaming videos, vlogs, and this hippie looking guy that films himself reviewing VHS tape in VHS tape form" Friend: "Ok then..."
That mask on the Hank Hill is a reference to this old show where a masked magician revealed a huge amount of magic secrets and how to do the tricks. Love the content btw,
I don't think I've ever heard of this? Must have seen some promos for it back in the day because the mask is really familiar to me. I'll have to look into it some more. Thank you!
@@brutalmoose The show was specifically called "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed" and featured "The Masked Magician," who, true to the show's name, broke the Magician's Code by revealing how popular magic tricks actually worked.
@@brutalmoose I think some episodes were uploaded to RUclips awhile ago. It was called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.
One of the reasons why soap operas have the cliche of looking off camera is because they usually only have time for one take. So a lot of the stars are reading cue cards.
Reminds me of the time I pulled the fire alarm at a local super market while not knowing what it would do. I think the police actually came. I apologized to them and they understood that I was just a stupid kid, so they let me off with a warning. Before they came my dad was pretty bad with me, and I tried to put the lever back into place thinking that it would stop the alarm.
@@eldritch-tailedfeydeer7320 once I convinced my brother to touch the controls of the refrigerated section of the supermarket, said controls closed down the meat section and left everyone confused, neither me or him got into trouble thankfully
Few things: - I actually had the taco bell talking dog toy as a kid and LOVED playing with it lol. - My mom watched about 3 soaps a day back in the early '90s (Still watches General Hospital till this day) and she read those digest religiously. As a kid, I used to steal them and read them to see what the hell was so good about soaps. Turns out, they were just as boring as the program! - I used to have those call 1-800-ATT commercials stuck in my head for days since they happened all the time. They were so popular even Jhonny Bravo made a reference to it in their musical episode! I love these mystery tape videos so much! They are perfect to watch during any meal as well as in the evening before heading to bed. The nostalgia they bring are pretty heartwarming. I hope you keep making more of these!
as someone who rarely watches tv, brutalmooseis on to something here. watching commercials tells you a LOT about the state of the world, the cultural biases, the location, the time of day, the season of the year, the channel you're on. these disposable two minutes are kinda like layers of sediment, uncovering defunct companies or obselete technologies is one of the most fun things to do. nothing quite like going to florida and getting a lizard-removal commercial, or watching an old show on youtube and seeing Magic of like a cheap walkie-talkie. anyway the fact that this is just watching old commercials is real comfy yknow
I absolutely agree re: commercials. When on holiday in the US, radio commercials were some of the most fascinating things to encounter. Same reason I love going to local supermarkets and corner shops whenever I go to a new place.
The mask is from a show called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed and i suppose it's because hank wanted to know how the magic trick was done
I know this video is old but that laundry ball thing is actually super useful if you have an older model washer. You actually put fabric softener in it and throw it in with your detergent. Then when the washer goes into the spin cycle, the fabric softener gets diffused and you don't have to add some when the washer is filling with water again. Makes it so much more convenient since you don't have to wait to put the fabric softener in.
The king of the hill mask was a promo for a miniseries Fox ran called “Magic’s biggest secrets revealed”, or something to that effect. Show was pretty good, might be worth making a video on.
Yes it does, the lamest 7up commercial ever, but the “Are U an Un” tagline was funny. I prefer the 1970’s 7up commercials that has terrific animation, and it was used in the anthology film called “The Fantastic Animation Festival”.
10:23 Ian the deal with the mask over Hank’s face is a reference to *magic’s biggest secrets finally revealed* come on man you remember the episode and called it a “classic” but you don’t remember Bobby dresses like the magician from *magic’s biggest secrets finally revealed* and revealing how the trick was done and asking the audience to not tell his dad during the end credits!? How could you forget Ian!? lol XD
Oh thank god someone cleared that up!! The mask seemed so familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it. Would have bothered me for a long time. Thank you so much!
The only time I've watched "soaps" is visiting my grandmother. No lie, a year from one episode to another they were still having thee same conversation
My mother was an avid watcher of All My Children when it was on, and I swear, during sweeps (same thing as a season finale), the plot would come right back to “I must do this morally dubious thing because of my child!” And it got ad nauseum especially with this one character named Dixie who only ever did three things: Die, come back to life, and talk about her son. I watched it with mom because it was something to do with her, but it wasn’t very good. 🤷🏻♀️
On the GE bulbs, I imagine the Enrich bulbs work a lot like how GE's current Reveal bulbs work, which is that they dull a large part of the yellow portion of the light spectrum and use a filter to enhance the spectrum distribution of each individual color. There's something called the Color Rendering Index, or CRI, and it's a measure of how close a light gets for a particular color against a reference light in reproducing that color faithfully, and again if it's like the Reveal bulbs, you're looking at a pretty consistently high (>80) rating for all colors within the spectrum. Normal consumer warm and cold bulbs will usually wash out spots in the spectrum.
avfusion The Enrich bulbs are actually what the Reveal bulbs are today, though I believe the coating has been updated or something to that effect. I remember while working in maintenance for an office building the manager of a company which occupied most of an entire floor ONLY wanted Enrich bulbs, so when I told him that they stopped selling them he went on a hunt to scoop them up from hardware stores on clearance, only for me to get an email back from GE telling me that they just rebranded them into Reveal.
@@jerrell1169 Reveal and Enrich are similar but the light isn't anywhere close. Reveal bulbs are blue, Enrich are red, more or less. Lavender / Pink? They may have similar manufacturing methods but the color they produce is completely different. While they replaced Enrich with Reveal, they are NOT the same thing. Nowhere close to the same.
Renee Yes it does! I’ve seen Nipper everywhere. He is still on top of the building in Albany, NY. Nipper became the company’s very first mascot. He appeared on record labels like RCA Victor where you can hear Elvis, Neil Sedaka, Ames Brothers, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Vaughn Monroe, Perry Como, and ton more. This mascot first began in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Co., manufactures of the popular “Victrola” brand where they put out wind-up phonographs.
"you had me kidnapped." "i'm sorry, greg. GOD" also, kudos for the flashing VHS artifacts warning. i'm not epileptic, but it's heartwarming to see people care about others' safety.
My mom was actually subscribed to Soap Opera Digest for at least a decade, and I never really saw the appeal. The magazine would talk about all the latest juicy plot developments and such in different shows, as well as talk about rumors and even actual spoilers for upcoming episodes (seriously, who would want to get spoiled for this kind of thing?). It also had a lot of interviews with cast and crew, and that was about it. The magazines weren’t as big as your standard magazine-they were tiny, like the size of one of those word search books or Archie Comics you’d see at the grocery store checkout. It’s been ages since the last time I saw one of those (probably 7 or 8 years), so this really took me back, haha :D
Came to say this and you got to it before me. In addition: It had previously been one of 7-UP's slogans in the 70s (IIRC), and they decided to bring it back to the 90s for a short time, just before they went with the "edgy" ad campaign of "Make 7-UP Yours!"
I thought it said "Are u up?" in the commercial and I looked it up but couldn't find if they had used that as a slogan yet. If they actually haven't used that I'm wondering how, it seems so obvious.
I guess you could say they were going for 'this soda isn't like the other sodas' and the commercial for 7up was just 'a normal situation where something entirely unexpected happens' such as a living torso in someone's carry on luggage. That's all I got.
That mask on Hank for King of the Hill was from a short-lived show on Fox where a magician wore it to hide his identity as he showed off the tricks of how magicians did their tricks. And since the episode in turn was about Hank and his cronies trying to figure out how the trick is done, it was apt to show that mask.
"I'm not totally sure why you would want to put your laundry detergent in a plastic ball ..." It's not for the detergent, it's for the fabric softener. As far as I can tell, if you put the softener in with the detergent it just gets washed away and doesn't do anything, you have to add it later during the rinse cycle. Some washing machines I've used have built-in systems that do this for you, but if you didn't have one of those machines you could use one of these dispensing balls instead.
@@threadcreature4927 my mother insisted fabric softener was a scam and that it made your laundry even less soft than before you used it, after the next wash if you don't use it again. Only after moving out did I learn this is total bullshit
DefinitelyNot AShark Older machines. Mine was built a couple years ago and has the separate fabric softener slot, but the once I had before then was made probably around the same time as these commercials, maybe a little bit before, and you had to put the softener in yourself during the rinse cycle.
@@kenetickups6146 Damn. I read the initial comment and completely agreed, having a sense of pride for a moment that we overcame the corporate control over us...Then I read your comment and was like "oh yeah, I forgot that they still have many of us by the balls."
The best was when they tried to be hip and self-aware with the "Yeah, this is an ad. We know that you know it, and we don't really care about it either, but the suits are giving us money, so here's some stuff that nobody cares about, cool?" It's been so weird seeing the change from "doesn't care about anything" to "cares A LOT about everything". At least "we don't care either" was more interesting to watch advertisers try to grapple with than "we care about the things you care about".
If I recall, the removal of the chihuahua in the Taco Bell ads was a combination of two things. It wasn't drawing in good money, and taco bell lost a lawsuit to the people who originally pitched the whole dog idea, right down to the catchphrase, so they had to either pay a bunch of money to keep using it or just give it up. They chose the latter, I guess.
So the Downy Ball isn’t used for detergent but is actually used for fabric softener in tandem with washing machines that don’t have a fabric softener dispenser. Since fabric softener needs to be added during the spin cycle to work effectively, the Downy Ball holds the fabric softener inside during the first few cycles, and then using the momentum created by the faster rotating spin cycle, releases the fabric softener at just the right time.
This is so good if you watch it and then constantly check the comment section for answers on questions that brutal moose asks. It's like a good pairing on a meal. they just go perfectly with each other. Please make more of this content
Aw, I actually knew the Masked Magician reference on that King of the Hill commercial, the meaning of the 7-Up slogan tagline thing, and I thought I recognized that muppet's voice as Tom Kenny, but people already beat me to the punch. I swear you need to comment within minutes of a video being posted on these bigger channels or it's practically meaningless.
Bigger channels. Lol. Try and be first for anything, w AvE, or Hydraulic Press Channel. 🤣 At least it reminds you that some of the people of the world retain information. 🤣
RCA still uses the dogs today. Heck, RCA held a contest to to win plushes of the dogs. Edit: In Japan, JVC use the dogs for their music label (Victor Entertainment).
The reason for hank wearing the mask is that Bobby wears it at the end of that specific episode explaining how the trick that drove hank insane was done
I was thinking the same thing, but he had a mask that was inverted to those colors.(white lines with black mask) Was there a different version of his mask, since it was a "magic" episode, maybe they just wanted to make it similar but different.
No, that's 100% The Masked Magician. Fun fact: Breaking The Magician's Code was narrated by Mitch Pileggi who played Assistant Director Skinner in the X-Files
@@mood_court That's strange you say that, because I remember the announcer being Mark Thompson. I looked it up, and you're right - IMDb says Pileggi narrated, but it also says Thompson announced... What the heck is the difference between those two jobs?
No employees... no clothes... just the Vøīď... dont get too close... the charm of the endless abyss might try to pull you in... like it has before... many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, maný, maņý, måņý times before... Don't join _them..._
@@yakskiis7426 It seems the answer is in these comments so many times but nobody references that they are answering the king of the hill question, very annoying but at least guys like you help out :)
@@kissmyacidrocks I recommend watching them if it interests you. He basically revealed a whole bunch of classic magic tricks and had a big hand if advancing magic because of it.
I remember being so confused why soap operas were the only shows that in my adolescence I would call "fluid and fast recording" I never understood TV was 24fps and that they were showing soaps at around 60fps I believe. And if you told me as a kid that it was CHEAPER to record soaps at 60fps than at 24fps i'd be SO confused, it seemed like it was a more expensive effect!
That is so interesting! I have a really vivid childhood memory of seeing some soap opera playing in a doctor's office and thinking that it looked so weirdly fluid. I think about it from time to time and the only conclusion I came up with was it was a weird TV. Thank you for validating that lmao
I know on old British TV exteriors were shot on film, and interiors on videotape. The interiors looked clearer and nicer, but only because the sets were lit to bring out the best in the stock they were using. It's very noticable in old Doctor Who. I think Monty Python made fun of it too, once.
I'm pretty sure because soap operas were probably just shot straight to tape, so it was the typical 60hz refresh rate that all NTSC televisions at the time had. The more expensive things were probably shot on film with 24fps movie cameras.
I don’t know if this is the same thing, as I didn’t watch many soaps, but there were a few episodes of the twilight zone that I would have described similarly, and to this day I find it to look so “unnatural,” even though in a way it looked more realistic? I wonder if that’s the same effect you’re talking about?
33:12 - I had that exact same Pooh Bear toy!! I would have never remembered it if it weren’t for this video, and this series. Please continue it for as long as you can!
The return of the RCA dogs was one of the more interesting choices made in the 90s. Back when a brand like RCA was still sort of relevant. I'm trying to even remember the last time I saw those initials on anything. Maybe some writable DVDs or something.
The puppet is Tom Kenny, voice of Spongebob, Heffer and almost any other animated show out there! I guess it makes sense that he would be in a commercial advertising Nickelodeon tapes.
Fun Fact: Goody's Family Clothing was a store in Texas, which in late 2019 had its stores closed and converted to Gordmans. Palais Royal and Peebles, two other store chains by the same company, also had the same fate. Bealls, the final store in the lineup, is to be converted by the end of the year.
Omg, I remember having to watch The Young and The Restless at lunchtime because my mom was obsessed. I can tell you, there was ALOT of phone talk lol. So much nostalgia, wow. Simpler times.
The mask was worn by a magician that used to reveal tricks on a show on fox.
Bobby wears it in a bit at the end of that episode too
Woah so maybe I actually recognize it just because of the Bobby bit? I'm going to have to look into this magician some more.
@@brutalmoose He's got a youtube channel and stuff is still posted on it.
Didn't he reveal himself like "It is I. Valentino", and most of us were just like who?!?!
@@brutalmoose The masked magician show was a huge part of my childhood, it's great stuff!
“Will Diego be deported?” Dora the Explorer got intense
im glad i wasnt the only one thinking of that
Same
I was just thinking about Dora when that line popped up. Surprised it wasn't or it would've been funny.
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Dora in 2020
The voice of the Big Lots puppet is Tom Kenny. Spongebob, along with many other voiceovers.
Nice. I thought it was Cam Clarke.
i knew it i recognized him as that announcer from spongebob in that one episode where the krabby patty is in the void with some dude
I knew that's why it sounded so damn familiar
Thats it, it sounded like spyro and that's where i reconigized his voice.
Yeah, that's my shot and I'm calling it.
He sounds really close to the Ice King from Adventure Time, who is also voiced by Tom Kenny.
The King of the Hill was a cross-promo with the Masked Magician, a TV show where a magician revealed how magic tricks are done. In the KOTH episode Seight of Hank, Hank gets obsessed with figuring out how a magic trick is done.
Oh, I remember that show! The mask looked familiar to me, too
My husband recognized the mask as belonging to The Masked Magician but we didn’t know why it was there. That’s awesome!
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Damn it, Bobby. People don't care how the sausage is made, they just wanna eat it.
thanks bobby
The mask was a reference to “Breaking the Magician’s Code” and it’s main star, The Masked Magician. Pretty interesting show if you wanna know how magic tricks are done.
kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Sleight_of_Hank
Checks out, thanks
The Masked Magician was my favorite as a little kid!! I especially remember the episode when he got "buried alive"
I knew it! lol
commenting and upvoting to get it to the top. I loved that show and watched it any time it was on.
As I recall, that show was also on Fox
People in the 90s: tape shows to fast forward through commercials
Ian 2020: fast forwards through shows to get to the commercials
@Michael Pannoni Late 90's - early 2000's: Buy 100 CD-R's so you can keep a load of backups / will have space to store downloads on
2020: Still have 95 unused CD-R's in the back of the wardrobe
Also Ian:S P L O O S H !
@@worldcomicsreview354 oh man, so true, back in the mid Aughts I had a big 200 disc spool (maybe it was 150? Dunno) used to make all kinds of crappy mix discs with pirated music and shareware games/software, there's probably half the spool left, long forgotten in my parents' home somewhere.
I block all computer & phone ads so I have more time to listen to vintage ads on oldtime.radio
Every pound of Parkay margarine contains 9000 units of vitamin A (in the 1940s at least)
Grossly underrated comment my friend
The mask was from the “magic secrets revealed” series that aired on fox
yeah! I totally recognized that from watching those magic shows as a kid.
This. Google Val Valentino for more.
i remember it was called braking the magician’s code
@@Komander5062 I think they renamed it Braking the Magician's code after Fox put the show on Hiatus. I remember the first few episodes well because of rebroadcasts. And he reveals his face on the final episode like 4-5 years later.
It was on Netflix last I checked, if anyone wants to see. It was a show dedicated to revealing famous magic tricks. Apparently it really pissed off a ton of magicians, which is hilarious to me.
11:57
WOAH! I remember this ad campaign! The 7up guys tried to brand themselves as an underground fighting against the evil soft drink syndicate, and the only way to avoid their influence was to be an "Un" by drinking 7up. The head in the suitcase is supposed to be one of their evil soda agents spying on you to make sure you only drink the right drink.
Even back then, I understood that rebelling against one soft drink brand by drinking another as commanded by their ads was a "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" scenario. I guess that's why 7up has removed all evidence of its existence, because I couldn't find it anywhere...until now. Hold on to that tape, Brutalmoose. It's a valuable relic of regrettable ads. And keep an eye out, because there were more "Are U an Un" ads.
7up was the "uncola"
ruclips.net/video/xQFCyX-y_1U/видео.html
damn that’s interesting
Huh, I assumed it was just a reference to the movie seven with the head in the box
dnL
The puppet is Tom Kenny, but more specifically he's doing his Yancy voice, Fry's brother from Futurama. Also Spyro. That's likely the connection.
He’s also the voice of Sponge Bob Square Pants
also kind of his Heffer voice
Also Dog from CatDog, first character I could match from memory weirdly.
Yess thank you heffer i knew i was watching rockos modern life for a second.
@@lineriderman7 yea i was getting some heffer vibes as well, thats why i thought it was Tom Kenny. I love when some voice actor's voices are immediately recognizable to me, like not only Tom Kenny but Patton Oswalt especially
The lips of the talking jet dry dishwasher looks like a fleshlight if I’m going to be honest
Someone had to say it
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Self-cleaning too!
A speaking fleshlight would be peak character design
@@quill_master9454 someone Reddits I see
Lighting designer here, “GE enrich” bulbs only had a coating to lower the color temperature. They were rebranded as “GE reveal” and I believe they are still sold under that name as LED bulbs. (Yes I know lamp is the proper term for light bulbs)
Ah, you beat me to it. Here I thought my knowledge of light bulbs was unique enough to contribute first. Oh well.
@@OneOfThem same. 🤣 Recognized the purple coating. If you want an LED that gives off comparable color, go w "daylight". It's nice if you get bummed out, w dreary days.
My mom bought 20 4-packs of enrich bulbs, when they were on clearance. She's a hoarder. I think she finally burned through the last of them in the past year or so. She has a big house with lots of lights.
This is basic shit. if you don't know this you gotta go back to lightbulb school!
And for the love of Edison, just call it a lamp. We don't need to dumb down lightbulb discourse to make it more palatable for muggles
A true connoisseur of lightbulbs
Film bootlegging theory: the dude worked at the cinema or knew someone who was a projectionist
Sometimes they would put the camera in the projection booth, and then they would hook the audio to the camera. That is called a Telesync, I believe.
I worked at Service Merchandise in like 98/99 in the electronics dept, and my manager was cool with this older guy who would come in every now and then and buy a bunch of VHS tapes cuz he bootlegged movies. My manager would hook him up with a few extra for free and he'd give him some of his newer movies he had.
@@zackschilling4376 my friend worked at a dunk's and there was an old lady who came in and sold her son's bootleg DVDs and like, openly watched porn in the dining area. i thought my friend was full of shit, but then I met the lady myself.
@@jaynenunya6070 Was it at least a porn with a plot?
@@zackschilling4376 I didn't see the porn, only the bootleg DVD, but from what I know, nah. It was just straight undiluted porn.
“Are u an un” could be a reference to their commercials from the 70’s and 80’s where they tried to brand 7Up as the “uncola”
Yeah, it was a throwback to that. The promotion had a storyline where "uns" were Cool Young People who drank 7Up to fight the "Anti-Refreshment Syndicate." It was weird.
just scrolled down here to comment exactly this
Light bulb expert here: The ge enrich (later called reveal and now HD light) bulb was made with neodymium glass that had a distinct blue tint to it that would filter out some of the redder wavelengths of light to give a more daylight and blue appearance as incandescent bulbs emit more longer wavelengs of light due to procese of incadesing the metal to emit said light.
Yeah I work in the lighting department and all I can tell you is that LEDs can create any wavelength and there HD light doesn't make sense and that's after the product knowledge training
Username checks out.
Thank you bulbman
Damn it man you really are an expert.
I like your funny words magic man
Regarding the Taco Bell Dog:
The cost of animating the dog speaking with the technology at the time was incredibly expensive, and didn't necessarily result in the increased sales they were hoping for.
It took a lot of work and required a lot of really expensive hardware.
And of course the voice stylings of the same guy who did rocko on rocko's modern life and the Geico gecko among many more.
And of course he was on the cast of Reno 911.
John Doe carlos alazraqui
They could have just made his mouth stop moving
But RIP that dog though.
@@donutrapture
Yes thank you. I couldn't believe just how many cartoons I grew up with he voiced. And still does.
Please dont stop this series. This is one of the most interesting things Ive seen in a long time
I totally agree
It truly is! God bless 💓
18:46 I literally thought this was Ian putting on a voice filter as a joke the first time I saw this. That is the actual voice used in the promo
"OH GIRL.. WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN _THEY_ COME FOR _YOU_ ?"
This series is hilarious. I can't wait to see another.
The Big Lots puppet actor sounds like Tom Kenny, specifically close to his voices closer to his natural speaking voice like Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life.
was about to say, def tom kenny
I thought of him. Yes I think so!!
Agreed. I'd bet on Tom Kenny.
Also agreed!
Its almost an uncanny valley of Tom kenny
28:08 That man voicing the puppet is Tom Kenny. You probably know him from Spongebob, Dilbert, and the Ice King from Adventure time. He also voiced one of the pigs in Hoodwinked.
Great find, and I hope one day you get recognized for your discovery. I appreciate it!
its quite obvious to me
I'm sorry to come in a year late here, but I think it's Cam Clarke. It just has a little... Cam Clarke-iness. I could be wrong though.
Sounds like Jason Griffith to me he has that sonic the hedgehog quality to it
The voice he's doing is very similar to the voice he does for heffer from rockos modern life
Upset man: "You had me kidnapped"
Irritated woman: "I'm sorry.... okay?!"
For cryin' out loud mister, can't you see she's sorry? jeez... some people. Can't even move past a little kidnapping. (¬_¬ )
I know right. People are so sensitive.
"You had me kidnapped."
"I'm sorry, ok?".
She could've _at least_ gotten him a cake. Honestly.
Men are such drama queens. What's a few kidnappings or hired killers when ending the relationship? God, take a hint!
The puppet's voice is Tom Kenny doing his voice for Spyro!
That’s exactly what I was thinking, the voice gave me a big spongebob vibe
No it’s Heffer from Rockos modern life
@@MarioPlushFromMars Tom Kenny also voiced Heffer too! :)
I recognized him as squanchy from rick and Morty
spyrp
RE: How the in-theater bootleg was filmed. I had friends who worked at the movie theater who would set up camcorders in the handicap section in the back and film the movies themselves. They'd duplicate and spread them around to friends and family.
I worked at Service Merchandise around 99-00 and we had a guy that would come in and my manager would hook him up with blank VHS and he would hook him up with bootleg movies. That same manager was later fired for taking a 300 CD tower box and filling it up with expensive electronics (we worked in the electronics dept.) and having a friend come in and buy it. I think he did it multiple times. He was actually a pretty cool guy.
I watched Scream when it came out because my cousin set up a tripod and camcorder in the theater. I still don't know how he got away with it.
@@zackschilling4376 This exact same thing happened at a Target I was working at, around the same time 99~00.
people also booked super early or super late screening so barly anyone is in the theater, then they set up the tripod un inturrupted
@@ShakSaintTiger yeah exactly, if there arent a lot of people in the theater it's easy to set up a small tripod in the back and go unnoticed.
*puts in vhs*
* *flickers in and out of the 7 levels of hell as the voices of Silent Hill groans out incomprehensible words* *
It's Friends time!
OH. OH NO.
"SEYOSUMAGAISH"
and topshelf expired product
The dogs on the RCA tape cover is a throwback to the painting titled "his masters voice"; a painting of a dog called nippy looking at a gramophone. You can see it on the centre label of many record company's as he became a mascot for Victor Talking Machine co. That later became the parent company to RCA records who we now know as the EMI record label. One of their other subsidiary companies was called 'the Japan Victor Company' I.e. JVC. So essentially it would be a JVC tape just with the RCA logo on it. Probably a marketing strategy to say it had better audio quality seeing 'stereo hifi' written on the spine. Interesting find!
and here I was thinking it was just trying to make people associate it with 101 dalmations
that's actually really interesting, thank you
Wasn’t the gramophone on a coffin, at least in some version of it if not the original?
That is undeniably the voice of "Tom Kenny" doing the voice of that puppet, ironically plugging video tapes for a show he also voice acted in. He was the voice of "Heffer Wolfe" in Rocko's Modern Life.
Also the Downey ball was made so you didn't pour laundry detergent directly on your clothes in the wash. Some detergents, especially the gritty sand like ones, would sometimes leave soap strains behind. The idea was that you'd fill the ball with detergent, lock the ball with this rubber pull up thing, and then it would release the soap mid-wash. My family had one in the late 90s and what would always happen is that the ball would open, but most of the soap would still be inside of it. So what you ended up with was a watery ball of soap at the bottom of your washing machine.
No.
"Yeah that's Barack Obama. He used to be a senator." That's how you sound for not mentioning Spongebob.
It's common in the UK to put liquid detergents in an open top ball as we have front loaders.
@@RedTV8888 I think that you missed the point that the puppet was advertising for the sale of VHS's including Rocko's Modern Life in which Tom Kenny voiced a character on. Bringing up Spongebob makes no sense in this context as it did not even exist at the time this commercial was created and has nothing to do with the products being sold.
The Downy Ball is not for detergent, it's for Fabric Softener.
Fabric Softener counters hard water and is supposed to be added during the rinse cycle.
I use one today. They're still very much a thing.
Ian this VHS aesthetic is the most relaxing thing ever.
I know it's straight legit.
He's filming this with his VHS camera,
Surprisingly, this is incredibly relaxing!
Vaporwave aesthetic > all else
I have one to, look at me everyone I am the center of the universe. Everything is about me.
Very Cozy
The 7UP "un" thing was a reference to them calling themselves the "Uncola", basically saying they were different than regular cola drinks therefore superior...somehow
Back in the late 90s there was this real weird push away from brown sodas. Clear sodas were viewed as less unhealthy by a lot of people.
Seven-up has been the "Uncola" since 1968. Pepsi and Coke were "the establishment."
Thank you. Was gonna comment just this but figured I should check first.
I was about to say it was an uncola reference, but you beat me to it. Funny thing is I remember the Mt. Dew and Splurge commercial, but not the 7up one. Of course the Mt. Dew one was better.
What was with the syndicate thing?
Broke: VHS filters
Woke: Filming on an actual VHS tape
Right?!? 🤭
@D Cannon i dunno my dude, seeing that boomers get upset about woke culture is enough reason.to be it.
besides what's wrong with equal rights for all?
@@PaulBadman cause that’s pussy shit
@@chemogoblin393 edgelord detected leave now
If you’re gonna do vaporwave, do it authenticity
10:40 I believe this is in reference to the final scene of that King of the Hill episode. That's the mask the magician in "Magic's Greatest Secret Revealed" wears and that is the mask that Bobby wears at the end when they parody the show and demonstrate how the trick is performed.
I just left a comment about it being from the masked magician too but glad you got to it first. It was driving me nuts because I knew it looked familiar and then I remembered when I got to work. Lol
Big lots puppet is Tom Kenny, the man has done possibly thousands of voices, fun fact he was also the Guy (groom) in the Smashing Pumpkins music video for "tonight tonight"
FoxNoctom SpongeBob! Can’t mention Tom Kenny without SpongeBob, everyone’s had to have heard that voice at some point
The puppet's voice is *exactly* how he voiced Spyro the Dragon (excluding the first game, which had a different voice actor)
Yeah, his voice reminds me of his Heffer voice in Rocko.
Was he also on Rocko’s Modern Life? Cause that’s what that puppet was talking about in the ad
@@middleschoolgravy yes, he was Heffer and other characters.
Funfact: The concept of the Big New Yorker was made by Reggie Fils Aime back when he was the marketing executive for Pizza Hut and it was a massive success
I always forget he worked for them.
Old Reggie really gets around.
Now he's going to help GameStop liquidate their inventory.
This IS a legitimately fun fact! Thanks for sharing!
He don't miss!
i passed by this comment 3 seperate times all of which i assumed it was a joke
THE Reggie?
I believe the reason they talk on phones so much is simply a cost saving measure. These actors often can not be there in the same studio each day and they likely film on separate days at different times. So The conversations are shot at different times and lets them save time and money.
The “Are U an UN?” thing is based on 7up’s tagline as the UNcola
Mr. Skerpentine for like a solid two minutes I thought you meant they were the official soda of the United Nations
Hannah B that’s what it should’ve been
R U AN UN?
Strangely enough, the first time I had a 7-UP was in a Taco Bell.
Eve after you explained it, it still makes no sense. Gotta love that era of ads.
Back when that episode of King of the Hill aired, there was a big hoopla in the magician community (I know, I think it's weird they have one too) about Fox's airing of a show in which the "Masked Magician" revealed the secrets behind some of their biggest, flashiest illusions. Hank Hill wearing the mask was both promotion for that and also because that particular episode was about a magician. Peggy Hill is asked up on stage and goes through one of the magician's tricks, and then spends the episode shooting down Hank's attempts to figure out the trick, because Peggy Hill was arguably the most insufferable pain in the ass on TV at the time.
And somehow peggy ended up being a positive to some people. She is a direct foil to Hank, she even lied to get Hank to marry such a trainwreck of a person. Love that show v well done.
I'm with Peggy just enjoy the freaken show
Dont talk shit on my girl Peggy!
Peggy is hands down the worst character on the show. Nancy is a close 2nd, but that's only because she doesn't have as much screentime. Now Bobby, Dale, and Cotton, those are the legends.
Bobby also wears the mask during a credits scene where they explain the trick, which i guess they just edited onto hank there. Screencap of it imgur.com/ifGtgvM
"What's up with the dogs, man? Whose dogs are those?"
The dogs are RCA's mascot, Chipper and Nipper. They're not used as much now a days, so it's understandable you don't know who they are.
I figured a guy pretty familiar with retro video electronics would have known that... Guess not though
@@joshm.7592 Maybe he just didn't make the connection. If he were looking at the picture of the RCA mascot dog staring at the phonograph with its head cocked, maybe he'd recognize that.
One of the dog mascots came from victrola, when the merger to become rca-victor
Here's a legitimate question does RCA make anything anymore?!
I honestly can't remember seeing anything with their name on it in quite some time.
In fact I would say I haven't seen any RCA products since RadioShack closed down and that was years ago now.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu according to their website, they make TVs, and home alarms. And a $30 mp3 player that looks like a dildo.
That being said, ...
Today, RCA exists as a brand name only; the various RCA trademarks are currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which in turn license the brand name to several other companies including Voxx International, Curtis International, AVC Multimedia, TCL Corporation and Express LUCK International, Ltd. for their products.
Back in the day I knew someone who was a manager at a theatre. He would run late night showings for his friends and would set up a camcorder on a tripod to make copies of the movie. Not that I would be involved in anything like that.
Yep!. ,, ... i mean , ah .... right , im sure that happened ... somewhere , ... sometimes.... ah , the old days...
The Jet Dry "mouth" looks like a FleshLight for someone who has a thing for dishwashers.
The perfect meal for me!
Definitely what everyone was thinking... he does like to gulp that jet dry liquid down!
They’ve figured out my secret
Easier to clean too
The Jet Dry mouth looks like it came from a horror movie.
> obsessed with random puppets voice actor
> totally misses Jim Motherucking Cummings as the voice of the dog in the next
Godamnit, Moose
It's tom kenny btw
The voice of the puppet is Tom Kenny. You might know him as a little yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
That was Jim Cummings? Wow.
All I was thinking was "Huh, Dog's Life in the Real World before the PS2 and even came out!"
Eggman the dog
@@blacksun3884 the voice he was doing sounded more like heffer
The red headed guy in the pager commercial that said he was “waiting for his sweetie” was the kid from sandlot that said the notorious line “you play ball like a girl”
The Great Hambino
YOU'RE KILLIN' ME SMALLS!
And the other guy was a pre-scream David arquette.
And of course the woman selling the treasures chocolates was the mom from everybody loves Raymond.
Knew I recognized him.
John Doe David Arquette: the greatest WCW champion of all time.
"An all new King of the Hill!"
If that doesn't inject you with nostalgia...
That mask Hank was wearing was about the Masked Magician show that was on in the 90s. At least thats the mask he's wearing. Im not sure why but its a reference to the Masked Magician show definitely.
Anyways, this Magician would wear a creepy black mask with white stripes on it and he would do different tricks and he explained how he did some of them sometimes. He always had hot chicks helping him too.
the Masked Magician aired on FOX i'm sure this was some kind of tie in with that show.
In the episode, Hank obsesses about how a magic trick is done. At the end of the episode, Bobby (wearing the mask) tells us how it was done.
That show gave me so many nightmares as a kid! The masked magician REALLY creeped me out. I rewatched it recently and it has Skinner from The X Files as the narrator and he makes REALLY creepy commentary about the assistants etc. Such a weird show
breaking the magicians code its called, used to watch it as a kid
the premise of the show is raveling magician tricks, so it kind of makes sense.
Friend: "So what do you watch on youtube nowadays?"
Me: "Oh, gaming videos, vlogs, and this hippie looking guy that films himself reviewing VHS tape in VHS tape form"
Friend: "Ok then..."
Friend sounds like he's missing out.
I watch a white haired virtual character who laughs like a dolphin.
HEY HE'S CUTE DONT JUDGE
That mask on the Hank Hill is a reference to this old show where a masked magician revealed a huge amount of magic secrets and how to do the tricks. Love the content btw,
I don't think I've ever heard of this? Must have seen some promos for it back in the day because the mask is really familiar to me. I'll have to look into it some more. Thank you!
@@brutalmoose The show was specifically called "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed" and featured "The Masked Magician," who, true to the show's name, broke the Magician's Code by revealing how popular magic tricks actually worked.
@@brutalmoose The guys name was Val Valentino. Honestly it could totally work as an episode on the channel.
Omg I knew it was familiar I used to watch that show every Saturday, good times
@@brutalmoose I think some episodes were uploaded to RUclips awhile ago. It was called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.
Not sure if anyone else posted this, but here's the feature about the Atlanta mannequin models ruclips.net/video/r0mi8wvKXs0/видео.html
Very helpful
Was surprised this was legit (cause internet). Thanks for posting!
The purple man is Tom Kenny, Spongebob's voice actor.
Thanks man that was driving me nuts
As soon as it showed rockos modern life in that commercial, it hit me that it was Tom Kenny. Sound close to Heffer’s voice.
Marken Productions he kinda sounded like the guy from the kid cuisine commercial
yup, I came to the comments to say this. Definitely Tom Kenny
@@skittyrocks No problem! If you want to see Tom Kenny in something wild you should check out, "The Altered States of Drugachewsettes"
One of the reasons why soap operas have the cliche of looking off camera is because they usually only have time for one take. So a lot of the stars are reading cue cards.
also most of them are shot at 60fps instead of 30 which gives them a weird look.
@@ZeranZeran maybe a 45fps recording would look pretty solid?
@@ZeranZeran60 should stick to video games and other things that require a smooth video
@@vapor404 Agreed. Also works with very certain animation, like Studio ghibli. using SVP really makes the animation pop out, so beautiful
Fun fact: the last time i was in a goody's I was like 9 and got in trouble with the manager for raising the arms of all the mannequins in the air
The manager: why the hell did you do this!?!
The mannequins: whoo yeah!!!
Please don't touch the live models
Reminds me of the time I pulled the fire alarm at a local super market while not knowing what it would do. I think the police actually came. I apologized to them and they understood that I was just a stupid kid, so they let me off with a warning. Before they came my dad was pretty bad with me, and I tried to put the lever back into place thinking that it would stop the alarm.
@@eldritch-tailedfeydeer7320 once I convinced my brother to touch the controls of the refrigerated section of the supermarket, said controls closed down the meat section and left everyone confused, neither me or him got into trouble thankfully
The fact that you recorded it on a VHS and kept the quality that way automatically makes me love the video 3 times more
Yeah, I always find myself coming back to this series just to get some of that VHS warmth
@@timberwolfmerlot same ♥
Few things:
- I actually had the taco bell talking dog toy as a kid and LOVED playing with it lol.
- My mom watched about 3 soaps a day back in the early '90s (Still watches General Hospital till this day) and she read those digest religiously. As a kid, I used to steal them and read them to see what the hell was so good about soaps. Turns out, they were just as boring as the program!
- I used to have those call 1-800-ATT commercials stuck in my head for days since they happened all the time. They were so popular even Jhonny Bravo made a reference to it in their musical episode!
I love these mystery tape videos so much! They are perfect to watch during any meal as well as in the evening before heading to bed. The nostalgia they bring are pretty heartwarming. I hope you keep making more of these!
as someone who rarely watches tv, brutalmooseis on to something here. watching commercials tells you a LOT about the state of the world, the cultural biases, the location, the time of day, the season of the year, the channel you're on. these disposable two minutes are kinda like layers of sediment, uncovering defunct companies or obselete technologies is one of the most fun things to do.
nothing quite like going to florida and getting a lizard-removal commercial, or watching an old show on youtube and seeing Magic of like a cheap walkie-talkie.
anyway the fact that this is just watching old commercials is real comfy yknow
does anyone else think this kind of thing needs to be preserved forever??
@@dope_shark5632 No, absolutely not. 7 billion people on the planet and you are the only person who thinks that.
Shelby B your life must suck ass lmao
I absolutely agree re: commercials. When on holiday in the US, radio commercials were some of the most fascinating things to encounter. Same reason I love going to local supermarkets and corner shops whenever I go to a new place.
@@dope_shark5632 oh yeah they're history
The mask is from a show called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed and i suppose it's because hank wanted to know how the magic trick was done
oh shit
I know this video is old but that laundry ball thing is actually super useful if you have an older model washer. You actually put fabric softener in it and throw it in with your detergent. Then when the washer goes into the spin cycle, the fabric softener gets diffused and you don't have to add some when the washer is filling with water again. Makes it so much more convenient since you don't have to wait to put the fabric softener in.
The king of the hill mask was a promo for a miniseries Fox ran called “Magic’s biggest secrets revealed”, or something to that effect. Show was pretty good, might be worth making a video on.
cbaslee1 I remember it pissing off slot of stage magicians
That makes alot of sense
It was a big deal in 98, 99. They promoted the shit out that show.
Wow I thought it looked like the masked magician but I didn’t know the show aired that early, I thought it was in the mid 2000s
YES!!! This was totally it. Its funny that they ran this episode around the same time as the magics biggest secrets.
"are you an un? " is a reference to the fact that 7-up used to be referred to as the un-cola.
Yes it does, the lamest 7up commercial ever, but the “Are U an Un” tagline was funny. I prefer the 1970’s 7up commercials that has terrific animation, and it was used in the anthology film called “The Fantastic Animation Festival”.
10:23 Ian the deal with the mask over Hank’s face is a reference to *magic’s biggest secrets finally revealed* come on man you remember the episode and called it a “classic” but you don’t remember Bobby dresses like the magician from *magic’s biggest secrets finally revealed* and revealing how the trick was done and asking the audience to not tell his dad during the end credits!? How could you forget Ian!? lol XD
Oh thank god someone cleared that up!! The mask seemed so familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it. Would have bothered me for a long time. Thank you so much!
Came here to say this! Fox loved that terrible ass magician.
Also the dog on the RCA tape is Nipper the old mascot!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper
The only time I've watched "soaps" is visiting my grandmother. No lie, a year from one episode to another they were still having thee same conversation
My mother was an avid watcher of All My Children when it was on, and I swear, during sweeps (same thing as a season finale), the plot would come right back to “I must do this morally dubious thing because of my child!” And it got ad nauseum especially with this one character named Dixie who only ever did three things: Die, come back to life, and talk about her son.
I watched it with mom because it was something to do with her, but it wasn’t very good. 🤷🏻♀️
On the GE bulbs, I imagine the Enrich bulbs work a lot like how GE's current Reveal bulbs work, which is that they dull a large part of the yellow portion of the light spectrum and use a filter to enhance the spectrum distribution of each individual color. There's something called the Color Rendering Index, or CRI, and it's a measure of how close a light gets for a particular color against a reference light in reproducing that color faithfully, and again if it's like the Reveal bulbs, you're looking at a pretty consistently high (>80) rating for all colors within the spectrum. Normal consumer warm and cold bulbs will usually wash out spots in the spectrum.
avfusion The Enrich bulbs are actually what the Reveal bulbs are today, though I believe the coating has been updated or something to that effect. I remember while working in maintenance for an office building the manager of a company which occupied most of an entire floor ONLY wanted Enrich bulbs, so when I told him that they stopped selling them he went on a hunt to scoop them up from hardware stores on clearance, only for me to get an email back from GE telling me that they just rebranded them into Reveal.
@@jerrell1169 Reveal and Enrich are similar but the light isn't anywhere close. Reveal bulbs are blue, Enrich are red, more or less. Lavender / Pink? They may have similar manufacturing methods but the color they produce is completely different. While they replaced Enrich with Reveal, they are NOT the same thing. Nowhere close to the same.
Wait the blond guy in the pager commercial is the “You’re killing me Smalls” guy from The Sandlot
That's what I thought! I thought he'd be younger back then though...
@@SomeRUclipsTraveler He was 20 in 1999
Wasn't the other guy a Baldwin?
@@TheRealGamerGuys that was David Arquette former WCW champion
@@pmejac9353 Hahaha. I thought it was Luke Wilson. 🤣 I swear, they're the same guy, re-branded. 🤣🤣
12:40 The “un” is short for un-cola. 7UP was branding itself at the time as “The un-cola.”
@Cali SocReject sprite and 7up exist.
@@InVinoVeratas so does squirt
@Cali SocReject the only one of those I haven’t had in the past 3 months is Slice, never heard of that one. Fresca still exists too...
Orange slice is bomb bro
No idea what that’s even supposed to fuckin mean. Lol
12:17
"It's just strange for the sake of being strange."
Yep, that's the late 90s in a nutshell.
I'll bet they filmed the movie screen by hiding the camera in a giant novelty cowboy hat.
Like Doug Dimmadome.
@@diegomedina4145 exActaly
maybe its inside a fake plastic pie
Hmmm everyone knows you only get 15 minutes before permanent neck damage
The puppet from Big Lots' commercial voice sounds A LOT like Tom Kenny.
Is that Jim Cummings on the t bone commercial?
Mike Kazz yep that’s Jim
It is 1000% Tom Kenny I'm sure of it
I think it is Tom Kenny it sounds like his heffer voice from Rocko's Modern Life
Yeah I was thinking that as well that has to be Tom Kenny.
I have to admit , filming this vid through a vhs camera is super neat aesthetic. 😁👌
Dude you're here too? You watch everything I watch with few exceptions
wow, genuinely loved hearing the pillsbury dough boy timidly say “…dood” thank u for this beautiful cinema moment
“Will Diego be deported?”
My mind instinctively went to Dora and Go Diego Go.
I went to Jojo part 7 myself. The best Diego.
@@ChargeQM -_-
The dog is named Nipper! He was RCA’s mascot. We have a giant Nipper on top of an abandoned RCA building in my town, it’s often on our postcards
i thought you were saying some different things there bud
@@itisyarb "We have a giant caricature of a Japanese person on top an abandoned building.
From "his master's voice" advertisements
Renee Yes it does! I’ve seen Nipper everywhere. He is still on top of the building in Albany, NY. Nipper became the company’s very first mascot. He appeared on record labels like RCA Victor where you can hear Elvis, Neil Sedaka, Ames Brothers, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Vaughn Monroe, Perry Como, and ton more. This mascot first began in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Co., manufactures of the popular “Victrola” brand where they put out wind-up phonographs.
"you had me kidnapped."
"i'm sorry, greg. GOD"
also, kudos for the flashing VHS artifacts warning. i'm not epileptic, but it's heartwarming to see people care about others' safety.
My mom was actually subscribed to Soap Opera Digest for at least a decade, and I never really saw the appeal. The magazine would talk about all the latest juicy plot developments and such in different shows, as well as talk about rumors and even actual spoilers for upcoming episodes (seriously, who would want to get spoiled for this kind of thing?). It also had a lot of interviews with cast and crew, and that was about it. The magazines weren’t as big as your standard magazine-they were tiny, like the size of one of those word search books or Archie Comics you’d see at the grocery store checkout. It’s been ages since the last time I saw one of those (probably 7 or 8 years), so this really took me back, haha :D
I love how the Brutalmoose channel completely changes every season
I like that he kept the VHS style for the Audible sponsor.
It’s not a filter, he filmed the video on one of the tapes he bought, he even shows which tape.
*aumdible spomsor
@@AsrielDreemurr56 he never said filter, he said style. As in, the style that comes with being filmed on a vhs tape
@@AsrielDreemurr56 I never said it was a filter.
They had a campaign where the called themselves the “un-soda”.
I've actually got two "uncola" glasses, which are basically shaped like upside-down Coke glasses
Came to say this and you got to it before me. In addition: It had previously been one of 7-UP's slogans in the 70s (IIRC), and they decided to bring it back to the 90s for a short time, just before they went with the "edgy" ad campaign of "Make 7-UP Yours!"
I thought it said "Are u up?" in the commercial and I looked it up but couldn't find if they had used that as a slogan yet. If they actually haven't used that I'm wondering how, it seems so obvious.
I guess you could say they were going for 'this soda isn't like the other sodas' and the commercial for 7up was just 'a normal situation where something entirely unexpected happens' such as a living torso in someone's carry on luggage. That's all I got.
That mask on Hank for King of the Hill was from a short-lived show on Fox where a magician wore it to hide his identity as he showed off the tricks of how magicians did their tricks. And since the episode in turn was about Hank and his cronies trying to figure out how the trick is done, it was apt to show that mask.
"you're a day old fish, and tom is ready to take out the trash"
When you go a few days without showering 👑💁🏼🙋
"I'm not totally sure why you would want to put your laundry detergent in a plastic ball ..."
It's not for the detergent, it's for the fabric softener. As far as I can tell, if you put the softener in with the detergent it just gets washed away and doesn't do anything, you have to add it later during the rinse cycle. Some washing machines I've used have built-in systems that do this for you, but if you didn't have one of those machines you could use one of these dispensing balls instead.
What sort of machine does not have a separate slot for the softener???
I have to use one as the washer that came with the apartment doesn’t have one and yes it is so you don’t have to watch the cycle.
Fabric softener doesn't do anything though.
@@threadcreature4927 my mother insisted fabric softener was a scam and that it made your laundry even less soft than before you used it, after the next wash if you don't use it again. Only after moving out did I learn this is total bullshit
DefinitelyNot AShark
Older machines. Mine was built a couple years ago and has the separate fabric softener slot, but the once I had before then was made probably around the same time as these commercials, maybe a little bit before, and you had to put the softener in yourself during the rinse cycle.
Gen X confused the hell out of advertisers. They had no idea how to get them interested in what they were selling.
Now it's easy
they just pretend to be progressive and morons just eat it up
@@kenetickups6146 Damn. I read the initial comment and completely agreed, having a sense of pride for a moment that we overcame the corporate control over us...Then I read your comment and was like "oh yeah, I forgot that they still have many of us by the balls."
The best was when they tried to be hip and self-aware with the "Yeah, this is an ad. We know that you know it, and we don't really care about it either, but the suits are giving us money, so here's some stuff that nobody cares about, cool?"
It's been so weird seeing the change from "doesn't care about anything" to "cares A LOT about everything". At least "we don't care either" was more interesting to watch advertisers try to grapple with than "we care about the things you care about".
Today i saw a cookie commercial with the "hit the switch" trend from tik tok. A sour patch kid and cookie changed bodies
@@kenetickups6146 Rip.
The aspect ratio of this video makes me nostalgic af. These videos really are like mini time capsules.
If I recall, the removal of the chihuahua in the Taco Bell ads was a combination of two things. It wasn't drawing in good money, and taco bell lost a lawsuit to the people who originally pitched the whole dog idea, right down to the catchphrase, so they had to either pay a bunch of money to keep using it or just give it up. They chose the latter, I guess.
So the Downy Ball isn’t used for detergent but is actually used for fabric softener in tandem with washing machines that don’t have a fabric softener dispenser. Since fabric softener needs to be added during the spin cycle to work effectively, the Downy Ball holds the fabric softener inside during the first few cycles, and then using the momentum created by the faster rotating spin cycle, releases the fabric softener at just the right time.
Fun fact: They STILL sell Downy Balls (and other branded versions) to this day.
Also some delicate fabrics if you pour the detergent directly on them before the water can leave a stain
I've seen my mother use Downy Balls when I was a kid and we still use the same ones. I would say it's a great investment
Why would you drive away when your friend has your Surge? He's holding all the cards!
I like this comment but it's at 69 and I'm not gonna be the one to do it.
@@willcharles3419 Now you can
Based on my experience with Surge, I was expecting him to drink them and then outrun his friend's car.
I was thinking this the whole time lol
This is so good if you watch it and then constantly check the comment section for answers on questions that brutal moose asks. It's like a good pairing on a meal. they just go perfectly with each other. Please make more of this content
Aw, I actually knew the Masked Magician reference on that King of the Hill commercial, the meaning of the 7-Up slogan tagline thing, and I thought I recognized that muppet's voice as Tom Kenny, but people already beat me to the punch. I swear you need to comment within minutes of a video being posted on these bigger channels or it's practically meaningless.
Bigger channels. Lol. Try and be first for anything, w AvE, or Hydraulic Press Channel. 🤣 At least it reminds you that some of the people of the world retain information. 🤣
Last time I was this late I was pregnant
Well maybe there's still a chance to explain the dogs on the RCA box...
SlipHank
The old logo for RCA had a dog looking at a gramaphone. Those dogs were the same breed I think.
The Seinfeld episode “The Little Kicks” is basically an instructional video on 90s bootlegging.
Also in that episode, Elaine learns that she's a terrible dancer, and Jerry gets a gun pulled on him.
@@Endocrom coming through with that deep cut info
That episode is all I was thinking about during that
Those dogs are from the old RCA Victor logo that said “His master’s voice”
Yoooo that's right! What a callback.
In Britain we actually have His Master’s Voice stores with the dog as the logo. I buy my records from there
RCA still uses the dogs today. Heck, RCA held a contest to to win plushes of the dogs.
Edit: In Japan, JVC use the dogs for their music label (Victor Entertainment).
@@jclay205 Our TV starts up with a splash screen of the dogs.
@@BBC600 Nice.
The reason for hank wearing the mask is that Bobby wears it at the end of that specific episode explaining how the trick that drove hank insane was done
me : a mature woman in her 30s
Ian: adds a fart sound effect to a deodorant spray
me: laughs for full minute and need to replay what I laughed through
Lady Kaiserin same here!!!! Tee hee
Poot!
No one that looks at you sees a woman lmao you don't pass. Not even slightly.
It was a hoohah deodorant. Are we sure it wasn't a queef?
@@JenIsHungry well thats an awful thing to say, it would have cost you nothing to say nothing.
DrunkenRobot don’t you have something better to do than say this?
the mask is Valentino, the Masked Magician from “Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed”
I was thinking the same thing, but he had a mask that was inverted to those colors.(white lines with black mask) Was there a different version of his mask, since it was a "magic" episode, maybe they just wanted to make it similar but different.
@@11comecastk11
I dunno, the mask shown in that "King of the Hill" promo looks just like that mask to me.
No, that's 100% The Masked Magician. Fun fact: Breaking The Magician's Code was narrated by Mitch Pileggi who played Assistant Director Skinner in the X-Files
@@mood_court
That's strange you say that, because I remember the announcer being Mark Thompson. I looked it up, and you're right - IMDb says Pileggi narrated, but it also says Thompson announced... What the heck is the difference between those two jobs?
There was a Goody’s in my town for a good while, and you aren’t wrong, their store was an endless white void.
An endless dark void of attitude tees during the early 2000s.
DankWilliamsJr lest we forget the musical musings of Lisa Loeb playing quietly over the store intercom.
I worked at Goody's. It was alright. Not too many name brands I remember
No employees... no clothes... just the Vøīď... dont get too close... the charm of the endless abyss might try to pull you in... like it has before... many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, maný, maņý, måņý times before...
Don't join _them..._
Where else would you get your wide leg Duck Head Jeans?
The fact you record these on VHS tapes is the icing on the cake.
The 90's sure seemed like an embarrassing time in retrospect.
I admire that.
It was only embarrassing in retrospect. At the time it was glorious.
@@gurvmlk What about modern times??
@@Koops2245 Oh, I'm sure we'll all be embarrassed by the 2010s within a few years.
Every time period is embarrassing in retrospect.
@@space-case I'd like to be embarrassed.
Right now.
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
Yea the end of the episode is Bobby doing a spoof if that show
For anyone confused that is the source of the mask.
@@yakskiis7426 It seems the answer is in these comments so many times but nobody references that they are answering the king of the hill question, very annoying but at least guys like you help out :)
The Masked Magician
@@kissmyacidrocks I recommend watching them if it interests you. He basically revealed a whole bunch of classic magic tricks and had a big hand if advancing magic because of it.
I remember being so confused why soap operas were the only shows that in my adolescence I would call "fluid and fast recording" I never understood TV was 24fps and that they were showing soaps at around 60fps I believe. And if you told me as a kid that it was CHEAPER to record soaps at 60fps than at 24fps i'd be SO confused, it seemed like it was a more expensive effect!
That is so interesting! I have a really vivid childhood memory of seeing some soap opera playing in a doctor's office and thinking that it looked so weirdly fluid. I think about it from time to time and the only conclusion I came up with was it was a weird TV. Thank you for validating that lmao
I know on old British TV exteriors were shot on film, and interiors on videotape. The interiors looked clearer and nicer, but only because the sets were lit to bring out the best in the stock they were using. It's very noticable in old Doctor Who. I think Monty Python made fun of it too, once.
I'm pretty sure because soap operas were probably just shot straight to tape, so it was the typical 60hz refresh rate that all NTSC televisions at the time had. The more expensive things were probably shot on film with 24fps movie cameras.
I had the same experience. In fact, as a child the way Soaps moved was unnerving to me.
I don’t know if this is the same thing, as I didn’t watch many soaps, but there were a few episodes of the twilight zone that I would have described similarly, and to this day I find it to look so “unnatural,” even though in a way it looked more realistic? I wonder if that’s the same effect you’re talking about?
33:12 - I had that exact same Pooh Bear toy!! I would have never remembered it if it weren’t for this video, and this series. Please continue it for as long as you can!
The RCA dogs are supposed to evoke recollections of "His Master's Voice."
The mask they put on Hank's face is The Masked Magician's mask.
The return of the RCA dogs was one of the more interesting choices made in the 90s.
Back when a brand like RCA was still sort of relevant. I'm trying to even remember the last time I saw those initials on anything. Maybe some writable DVDs or something.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The last RCA branded product I bought was an RF amplifier for a TV antenna, 4 or so years ago at Lowe's.
@@MatroxMillennium
The last time I really saw RCA as a brand was back when RadioShack was still around.
And that was a good while ago.
Wow. I kept thinking “these commercials can’t be THAT old! I remember all of this vividly.”. Turns out I’M the one that’s old.
Isn't that the mask from the "Magician's Code" show? It's probably just a joke because the episode was about Hank seeing a magic show.
yup
That's the one. They were running a lot of promos for that show at the time.
Bootlegging was so huge in the 90's, especially in NYC, that there was an entire episode of Seinfeld about it.
The puppet is Tom Kenny, voice of Spongebob, Heffer and almost any other animated show out there! I guess it makes sense that he would be in a commercial advertising Nickelodeon tapes.
As soon as the puppet started talking, I immediately thought of the Spyro 2 opening, because Tom Kenny did the voice acting for that too :p
@@TheVideogamemaster9 I thought Carlos Alazaraqui voiced Spyro?🙂
It's funny how commercials can be appreciated a lot more when they're old and long unaired.
Fun Fact: Goody's Family Clothing was a store in Texas, which in late 2019 had its stores closed and converted to Gordmans. Palais Royal and Peebles, two other store chains by the same company, also had the same fate. Bealls, the final store in the lineup, is to be converted by the end of the year.
oh wow, from a small town in texas bealls is the only clothing store we have so this is interesting!
Omg, I remember having to watch The Young and The Restless at lunchtime because my mom was obsessed. I can tell you, there was ALOT of phone talk lol.
So much nostalgia, wow. Simpler times.