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So glad the attendant at the gas station sold be rust proofing, a fragrance crown,, floor mats, seat covers, bumper stickers, and a raccoon tail for my antenna, I had no idea my car needed so much! But now I’m comforted that he is taking good care of me.
I used to clean windshield, check tires, oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid, window washer fluid, radiator water levels and so much more. I was happy when full service mostly ended and those same people had to do all of those things themselves. They had a free ride for decades. The gravy train ended in the 1970s.
Yeah, amazing how many viewers (well maybe not so amazing, loads of morons out there) think this film is about William/Fred and his supposed “troubles”. LMAO, it’s just a made up customer “profile” excuse to push the station attendants to upsell their customers as much as possible. Yikes, many people have no analytical ability at all.
I’m 61 and still remember the last of the times when there was still your local gas service station where the bells dinged, they pumped your gas for you, you knew the owner or mechanics and that’s where you took your car or truck for repair and maintenance. - Now it’s all self-service and it’s like pulling teeth to find a reputable mechanic.
Dang near 7 gallons… @ 0.29¢ a gallon in ‘53/‘54 (seeing as I couldn’t spot any specific car newer then a ‘54 in this film). So take $2.00 & ➗ by 0.29¢ gets you 6.896… 6.90, rounded off. Currently, $2 gas, even if ElCheapo Thrifty 87 oct, wouldn’t buy enough volume for me to make it to work.. ONE WAY! 6.9 gal here in SoCal is still on av @ $35.00 for regular; well OVER a 100% increase in 50 years
@@MoeLarrycurly1 , I remember when he was on "MY THREE SONS" they would break for lunch, and "BILL" would hit the local bar. and just just their the rest of the day. when they resumed shooting, they had no choice but to shoot scenes around him, so when his contract was up for renewal, they let "BILL" go, he was a first class "LUSH", even when he was on "I LOVE LUCY", DESI ARNAZ told BILL "YOU MISS ONE MORE SHOOTING OR YOU ARE LATE, YOU ARE FIRED!!!!!" , nothing like putting the fear of god into him!!!!. VIVIAN VANCE could not stand to work with BILL!!!!. LUCY wanted GAIL GORDON for the part not WILLIAM FRAWLEY!!!!.
This may have been true years ago, but today you can't trust dealerships to do the right thing. I just paid a Ram dealership to go over a newer truck to make sure it was safe to tow a camper all over the USA, I was very clear about checking the suspension and drive line. When I made it from Tennessee to Sturgis I knew something was wrong! Turns out Both front wheel hubs were shot (completely rusted not from a few weeks and very visible) and about to come apart!!! I could have lost a front wheel on a highway while towing a heavy camper. I put what I found on YT after I left a review and they responded to the review , asking to contact them. So I tried the guy in charge, would not call back nevermind answer me. So I posted the video and put the link in the review! YT is a powerful tool today. I'm just glad I caught it before someone got hurt because of a bad dealership that just took my money and didn't do what they were paid for
You rolled the dice and came up snake eyes. A dealer is just hiring whoever they can get that will show up 60% of the time and hope they aren't under the influence of something. Unless you know a mechanic and his reputation it is going to be all luck on if you get someone who both knows and cares to do the job right. Considering most of them work flat rate your odds are low.
You never TRUST ANYONE in the auto industry. They pay scientist to lie and have been feeding Americans BS propaganda all their lives. I know because I work for one of the largest.
Such a total different mindset compared to today. These days people are far too in a hurry to be bothered and/or think they know what their car needs when they really don't and won't listen to anybody until it breaks down.
My own niece, I'm embarrassed to say, didn't maintain her _HONDA,_ until the engine finally blew. What a shame, and waste of money. Why change the oil? It runs just fine. Yikes.
Hehe I think that attitude was plenty in the past. this is a training video and we see first hand a ton of impatient customers complaining about their umbrellas being busted or the fleece being the wrong color or whatever....and the guy's solution? Send someone else to deal with it and go to lunch to rant about a completely unrelated problem telling someone else to do what he should be doing himself. XD It's probably a lot more honest about how spoiled people were back then just as much as they are now, we just see it a lot more often but we haven't really learned a lesson. (Why pray tell do 13 year olds need cars? Cause car companies can some how get parents to drop $400 a month just to look at it.... that's how stupid people are when they're spoiled)
WOOOOSH. The point of the film goes RIGHT over your head. It’s a “fake complaining customer” profile, that the gas corporation is planting in attendant’s heads to help them justify massive and continual upselling of goods and services the customer doesn’t actually need. It’s PRETEND, for the sake of justifying adjusting the attendant’s mindset to be constantly annoying selling robots. Nothing to do with the reality of the drivers/customers at the time or now.
So if Fred was filling up his car, would it only be with 'ethyl'? Not even sure he helped pay for any gas when the four of them drove to California in 1955.
Sure wish they still had service like this in Oregon where you can't pump your own gas. The attendants don't even ask if you want your windshield clean.
ATTENDANTS⁉️ 😳😂 Gas stations here in RUDE A$$ SoCal, you’re lucky to get ‘any’ employee to even acknowledge you exist, from ‘their’ “important” personal cellphone convo & more likely have homeless at entry DEMANDING $, instead of offering to clean windows or whatever
Anyone who experienced the gas station attendant of the 40s,50s and 24.9 cent a gallon gas, may also remember short sticking and overfilling. Short sticking would occur when the attendant checked the oil. Show the dipstick down a quart of oil and sell a quart of oil…….and result in an overfilled crankcase. Not a problem. It’ll burn off in 500 miles. Don’t forget overfilling to show even dollars on gas pump. You could impress the attendant with that crisp $2 bill you gave him to pay for those eight gallons of gas. Funny, driving down the road there was the distinct smell of gasoline in the air. I think New Jersey still requires attendant pumped gas? Do those old time gas attendants traditions still exist?
Sometimes, short stick & "fill" with an empty can with the metal spout stuck back in the hole. Another- squirt oil on the shock absorber then claim it was leaking.
most likely still could have been alcohol based not even glycol yet so not listed as permanent until glycol based with lots of additives and even said 3 years etc. came out and that old red stuff was fairly nasty even though it has some glycol in it.
Wtf is permanent antifreeze? To my knowledge even the blue antifreeze used in allot of contemporary vehicles needs to be changed. sure, it's good for 60k miles, and manufacturers sell it as "good for the life of components". This means ur gunna blow a hose, a radiator, or a pump before 60-70k miles. Maybe self changing coolant is a better name lol.
I'm old enough to remember full service gas stations. They were just starting to be phased out. Watching out of the back window at the attendant with a coin changer on his belt and the biggest folded up wad of cash I ever saw. And they NEVER demanded tips.
I feel like these stations generally only exist in small towns where it's possible to service everyone with that level of effort, or the wealthiest towns where they can charge like $200 for such a service, but it must've been rare as the biggest reason the same thing isn't done today is there's just no time for everyone to get the full treatment (nothing worse than sitting in the parking lot for an HOUR waiting for the guy before you to finish getting a sponge bath along with his car...) but a larger population will do something like that, and I think more so, there comes a point where technology needs to grow with the population, if 1 million people have mechanical cars in America, it's easy to do a full service and expect it, but if 300 million people each have 2 cars then everyone pretty much has to be their own mechanic or the whole town is littered with gas stations and no jobs to actually afford them. Unless they pay for themselves. Though the internet also has tons of tutorials and information now, people just mostly do it themselves so there's no need for a full tune up. It's not a matter of past vs present, but just change in time and the lack of evolution to match it. and now .... the population needs vastly out classed the technology and people are switching to electric cars to avoid gas stations entirely.
@@MarioMastarWow, a wall of text just because you don’t know it’s been made ILLEGAL for stations to pump gas for customers any more, must be performed by customers now.
Not a good use of everyone's time. Especially as things get more complex. My grandfather owned a shop and I do all my own maintenance from replacing pistons and transmissions down to tires and air filters. The knowledge to really understand how all of the modern machines we use work takes a lot of time to acquire, time that people who don't love the mechanical world can spend understanding things I don't do well like art of any kind.
I wonder how many gas station attendants and mechanics contracted cancer and other illnesses due to unprotected exposure to chemicals in gas and anti-freeze?
Here’s how it works for me…call it like I see, predict eventualities and get called salesman. Do only what is asked, cause owners know and are highly trained, it flies apart and ya get yelled at for not doing enough.
Wow. "I don't know anything about cars! I expect you to tell me what I need!!" A mechanic's dream! I bet the garage owners line the streets waving and shouting at this guy like hawkers outside of strip joints.
The best customers (and bosses, wink wink) are the ones who know nothing but have a TON of money to spend. He basically just confessed he's an easy paycheck. XD
WOOOOOSH. Right over your head. Not the point of the film. The “helpless customer” is just a fake marketing tool, to convince the gas station attendants to UPSELL EARLY AND OFTEN. Has nothing to do with any actual customers. Rewatch the film and try to gain some analytical skills.
Chuck Berry said it best and put it to music: "Working in a filling station, too many tasks. Wipe the windows, check the tires, check the oil, a dollar gas. Too much monkey business, don't want your botheration, go away, leave me!"
Back in the days when every shop had a varsol tank in the back........you dunked your part and grabbed a brush with bare hands......sometimes with a smoke in your mouth......thankfully we're past that. The smoking part, I mean.
FWIW, I've spent many an hour cleaning parts back in my youth. I'm approaching my 7th decade ... I don't think it was as bad as "they" want us to think.
Republicans want to go back to those days with no regulations or safety measures. It’s part of MAGA. They also want to eliminate civil rights and put minorities and women back in their place. Republicans mindlessly cheer wildly when their candidate says they want to slash regulations. They don’t give a damn what happens to people of the environment. Ralph Nader write Unsafe at any Speed back then and was attacked by republicans and corporate owned democrats. But Nader saved millions of Americans from injury of death, me included. Republicans claim to be prolife but they don’t give a damn about people or the environment. They ridicule and condemn people who care about the environment calling them terrorists and tree huggers. Those same morons live in the same environment so it’s obvious they don’t even care about their own families being exposed to toxic wastes.
While gas stations no longer do this (they are now focused more on the convenience store aspect) all of this still need to be taken care of. Sad part is that even if there is a service station at a gas station they aren’t equipped with the necessary equipment and products to service every car on the road. Back then cars were alot simpler. Many tools and products were universal. They only had stock a handful of tire sizes and oil and filters. Now they would need to be massive buildings to stock all the parts. Plus you add to the fact that people do t like to spend much time at gas stations (in most cases they don’t have to time). Get there gas, their coffee and move on. I imagine that people back then must of left an hour or 2 early for work if they needed gas. Getting gas, tires checked and aired up, topping off fluids and a check over must of taken forever. Then you add on to the poorer and poorer reputation gas station service centers got in pricing and ripping people off (antacid in the battery, pretending to top off the oil with empty cans, not sticking the dipstick all the way in to show that the car needs oil, even as far as puncturing a tire to either sell them a tire or a repair. Now it’s an in and out deal. Gas and go.
Because cars of that era needed lots of service- Chassis lube, some every 1000 miles, frequent oil changes, tires wore out in 10-15,000 miles, brakes, etc. Anti-freeze was an OPTION on new cars then.
This film is about HOW TO RIP OFF customers by upselling them crap too often or that they don’t need. The “confused customer” is just a selling tool. Yikes, these stations were there to make money, not make your perfect fantasy world.
Woooosh, right over your head. The film is about justifying massive upselling by gas station attendants whenever possible, because the customer “doesn’t know any better and WANTS you to upsell the holy hell out of him”. It has no basis in reality, it’s a psychological tactic to get the poor little gas pumpers to jack up their sales numbers.
"Saaaaaaay......filler up boy! I gotta get home to my dog and my slippers and my tube of K.R.E.M.L and my petite subservient wife who gets slapped around because I don't brook no back-sass. I'M 50's MAN!"-50s Man, On The Go Well, Fred Mertz was hardly a 50s man, because he was already a bloated walking corpse by then, but still...............you get the idea.
2013 rusty frame rails? What did you do, buy a Chinese jeep and park it in a swamp? Major automotive brands are DECADES past highly effective metal treatments and coatings.
Yikes, some of the comments here clearly demonstrate the failures of various educational systems, and the gullibility of people to the overlying message of a film. No wonder we have so many cultist voters who don’t have a clue. This film is about UPSELLING, not whether “Fred Mertz” ; ) there knows anything about how his car runs. It’s totally about “hey, station attendant, upsell the holy hell out of stuff, because your customer really “wants you to”. LOL, it’s pretty simple and pretty blatant.
Seems to me the underpaid peons should know their place and keep my vehicle primed to go. Sure, I am just paying for the fuel you''re putting in it but obviously you need to do an engine and transmission oil change. And change my worn tyres while you're at it. And my brakes. And my suspension struts. All included in the price of the fuel right? Sadly this mentality is still alive in 2023. SOURCE: my life.
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So glad the attendant at the gas station sold be rust proofing, a fragrance crown,, floor mats, seat covers, bumper stickers, and a raccoon tail for my antenna, I had no idea my car needed so much! But now I’m comforted that he is taking good care of me.
I used to clean windshield, check tires, oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid, window washer fluid, radiator water levels and so much more. I was happy when full service mostly ended and those same people had to do all of those things themselves. They had a free ride for decades. The gravy train ended in the 1970s.
Still do at my job. Lucky enough I'm in an area where my clients can actually afford to maintain their cars properly in most cases lol
Yeah, amazing how many viewers (well maybe not so amazing, loads of morons out there) think this film is about William/Fred and his supposed “troubles”. LMAO, it’s just a made up customer “profile” excuse to push the station attendants to upsell their customers as much as possible. Yikes, many people have no analytical ability at all.
The beginning of this reminds me of "it's a wonderful life"
I’m 61 and still remember the last of the times when there was still your local gas service station where the bells dinged, they pumped your gas for you, you knew the owner or mechanics and that’s where you took your car or truck for repair and maintenance.
- Now it’s all self-service and it’s like pulling teeth to find a reputable mechanic.
" $2.00 worth of gas ought to be enough. "
4 to 6 gallons, maybe more.
Dang near 7 gallons… @ 0.29¢ a gallon in ‘53/‘54 (seeing as I couldn’t spot any specific car newer then a ‘54 in this film). So take $2.00 & ➗ by 0.29¢ gets you 6.896… 6.90, rounded off. Currently, $2 gas, even if ElCheapo Thrifty 87 oct, wouldn’t buy enough volume for me to make it to work.. ONE WAY! 6.9 gal here in SoCal is still on av @ $35.00 for regular; well OVER a 100% increase in 50 years
Always wondered what he did when not managing the apartment building...and calling himself "Mr. Smith" to hide from Ethel!
Lmao yesssssss he went to work in a department store
he is all about his alcohol consumption!!!!.
@@gregoryclemen1870 lol,😂
@@MoeLarrycurly1 , I remember when he was on "MY THREE SONS" they would break for lunch, and "BILL" would hit the local bar. and just just their the rest of the day. when they resumed shooting, they had no choice but to shoot scenes around him, so when his contract was up for renewal, they let "BILL" go, he was a first class "LUSH", even when he was on "I LOVE LUCY", DESI ARNAZ told BILL "YOU MISS ONE MORE SHOOTING OR YOU ARE LATE, YOU ARE FIRED!!!!!" , nothing like putting the fear of god into him!!!!. VIVIAN VANCE could not stand to work with BILL!!!!. LUCY wanted GAIL GORDON for the part not WILLIAM FRAWLEY!!!!.
He drank.....A lot! He was a big time alcoholic, could not memorize more than a line or two so they had to keep all his lines very short.
William “Fred Mertz” Frawley knows all!
You mean Bub from My Three Sons? 😆
I thought that was him!
Probably just good writers.
love your work keep it up like the industrial history
This may have been true years ago, but today you can't trust dealerships to do the right thing. I just paid a Ram dealership to go over a newer truck to make sure it was safe to tow a camper all over the USA, I was very clear about checking the suspension and drive line. When I made it from Tennessee to Sturgis I knew something was wrong! Turns out Both front wheel hubs were shot (completely rusted not from a few weeks and very visible) and about to come apart!!! I could have lost a front wheel on a highway while towing a heavy camper. I put what I found on YT after I left a review and they responded to the review , asking to contact them. So I tried the guy in charge, would not call back nevermind answer me. So I posted the video and put the link in the review! YT is a powerful tool today. I'm just glad I caught it before someone got hurt because of a bad dealership that just took my money and didn't do what they were paid for
You're first mistake was buying a RAM!
That happens so much more these days so that's why I just try and do everything myself if.. possible... mechanical wise..
You rolled the dice and came up snake eyes. A dealer is just hiring whoever they can get that will show up 60% of the time and hope they aren't under the influence of something.
Unless you know a mechanic and his reputation it is going to be all luck on if you get someone who both knows and cares to do the job right. Considering most of them work flat rate your odds are low.
Aww hims poor baby has lots of money to do all these things and gets upset when something goes wrong while having fun. No one cares dude.
You never TRUST ANYONE in the auto industry. They pay scientist to lie and have been feeding Americans BS propaganda all their lives. I know because I work for one of the largest.
Such a total different mindset compared to today. These days people are far too in a hurry to be bothered and/or think they know what their car needs when they really don't and won't listen to anybody until it breaks down.
My own niece, I'm embarrassed to say, didn't maintain her _HONDA,_ until the engine finally blew. What a shame, and waste of money.
Why change the oil? It runs just fine. Yikes.
Hehe I think that attitude was plenty in the past. this is a training video and we see first hand a ton of impatient customers complaining about their umbrellas being busted or the fleece being the wrong color or whatever....and the guy's solution? Send someone else to deal with it and go to lunch to rant about a completely unrelated problem telling someone else to do what he should be doing himself. XD It's probably a lot more honest about how spoiled people were back then just as much as they are now, we just see it a lot more often but we haven't really learned a lesson. (Why pray tell do 13 year olds need cars? Cause car companies can some how get parents to drop $400 a month just to look at it.... that's how stupid people are when they're spoiled)
WOOOOSH. The point of the film goes RIGHT over your head. It’s a “fake complaining customer” profile, that the gas corporation is planting in attendant’s heads to help them justify massive and continual upselling of goods and services the customer doesn’t actually need. It’s PRETEND, for the sake of justifying adjusting the attendant’s mindset to be constantly annoying selling robots. Nothing to do with the reality of the drivers/customers at the time or now.
William Frawley was sippin the bottle between takes. Poor guy was a bad alcoholic.
Probably why he had to resort to doing training films after starring in one of the most popular TV shows of all time.
So if Fred was filling up his car, would it only be with 'ethyl'? Not even sure he helped pay for any gas when the four of them drove to California in 1955.
Sure wish they still had service like this in Oregon where you can't pump your own gas.
The attendants don't even ask if you want your windshield clean.
Those days are long gone. Here in NJ all the attedants do is pump your gas and tear the money from your hand without even a thank you.
@@johnorlitta station i work at we’re still nice and will do the windows if asked. Private family owned shop since the 1920s.
@@XXMETAL4LIF3XX is your station in NJ?
ATTENDANTS⁉️ 😳😂 Gas stations here in RUDE A$$ SoCal, you’re lucky to get ‘any’ employee to even acknowledge you exist, from ‘their’ “important” personal cellphone convo & more likely have homeless at entry DEMANDING $, instead of offering to clean windows or whatever
So when you just want gas you want some goof ball trying to upsell the holy hell out of you? No thanks, I’m not a rolling target.
0:46 "You know, he reminds me of someone I used to know..."
Next time, call on Lucy!
Hey Bill, what's in that there thermos? 😉
Vodka
@@fujifrontier Mmmmmm, VODKA ...
I just can't believer William Frawly was born in 1887. DANG, that's a long time ago !!
That’s WAY after 1400, or 500BC. Not every timescale or date revolves around your birthdate, although YT commenters often are self absorbed like that.
Anyone who experienced the gas station attendant of the 40s,50s and 24.9 cent a gallon gas, may also remember short sticking and overfilling. Short sticking would occur when the attendant checked the oil. Show the dipstick down a quart of oil and sell a quart of oil…….and result in an overfilled crankcase. Not a problem. It’ll burn off in 500 miles. Don’t forget overfilling to show even dollars on gas pump. You could impress the attendant with that crisp $2 bill you gave him to pay for those eight gallons of gas. Funny, driving down the road there was the distinct smell of gasoline in the air.
I think New Jersey still requires attendant pumped gas? Do those old time gas attendants traditions still exist?
You can pay extra for full service in some mom and pop stations if you're lucky enough to find one.
Sometimes, short stick & "fill" with an empty can with the metal spout stuck back in the hole.
Another- squirt oil on the shock absorber then claim it was leaking.
Perhaps justice was met as they checked your antifreeze for flakes with their bare hands. Odds are cancer took a lot of them early.
Yep i work at a station in nj its still required full service. Never heard of any traditions like that. Must be real old school.
Exactly, this film is about being a persistent upselling salesman, it has nothing to do with what the customers actually NEED.
"...you Takeatizzy!!" Truly expected Desi to show up!
I was waiting for Lucy to pop in and start her crazy stuff. !!
RICKEEEEEEE! WAAAAAAAA!
Wow! Back in the days when "permanent anti-freeze" wasn't so permanent.
most likely still could have been alcohol based not even glycol yet so not listed as permanent until glycol based with lots of additives and even said 3 years etc. came out and that old red stuff was fairly nasty even though it has some glycol in it.
@@jimhaines8370 Good point about the anti-freeze still having an alcohol base back in the day.
@@jimhaines8370 looked like it was straight glycol without the ethylene.
Wtf is permanent antifreeze? To my knowledge even the blue antifreeze used in allot of contemporary vehicles needs to be changed. sure, it's good for 60k miles, and manufacturers sell it as "good for the life of components". This means ur gunna blow a hose, a radiator, or a pump before 60-70k miles. Maybe self changing coolant is a better name lol.
I do love that. the guy "That's not what permanent means" He was dead on blunt about that! That's the kind of honesty we need today....
I'm old enough to remember full service gas stations. They were just starting to be phased out. Watching out of the back window at the attendant with a coin changer on his belt and the biggest folded up wad of cash I ever saw. And they NEVER demanded tips.
That's right
I feel like these stations generally only exist in small towns where it's possible to service everyone with that level of effort, or the wealthiest towns where they can charge like $200 for such a service, but it must've been rare as the biggest reason the same thing isn't done today is there's just no time for everyone to get the full treatment (nothing worse than sitting in the parking lot for an HOUR waiting for the guy before you to finish getting a sponge bath along with his car...) but a larger population will do something like that, and I think more so, there comes a point where technology needs to grow with the population, if 1 million people have mechanical cars in America, it's easy to do a full service and expect it, but if 300 million people each have 2 cars then everyone pretty much has to be their own mechanic or the whole town is littered with gas stations and no jobs to actually afford them. Unless they pay for themselves. Though the internet also has tons of tutorials and information now, people just mostly do it themselves so there's no need for a full tune up. It's not a matter of past vs present, but just change in time and the lack of evolution to match it. and now .... the population needs vastly out classed the technology and people are switching to electric cars to avoid gas stations entirely.
@@MarioMastarWow, a wall of text just because you don’t know it’s been made ILLEGAL for stations to pump gas for customers any more, must be performed by customers now.
I like Fred, I mean "Mr. Smith's" tie and thermos!
If you operate a machine you MUST learn how it works and it needs
OK, Boss!
4:49 Drain the ol' lizard...🚾
Not a good use of everyone's time. Especially as things get more complex. My grandfather owned a shop and I do all my own maintenance from replacing pistons and transmissions down to tires and air filters. The knowledge to really understand how all of the modern machines we use work takes a lot of time to acquire, time that people who don't love the mechanical world can spend understanding things I don't do well like art of any kind.
@@luisreyes1963 lol
Were my dad still alive he would agree with you wholeheartedly!
Just don't let them try to sell you no Ethel.
I am afred to say something.
I wonder how many gas station attendants and mechanics contracted cancer and other illnesses due to unprotected exposure to chemicals in gas and anti-freeze?
What? You mean you don't test engine coolant by splashing it about in your hands?
Loads, welcome to industry and corporations.
Here’s how it works for me…call it like I see, predict eventualities and get called salesman. Do only what is asked, cause owners know and are highly trained, it flies apart and ya get yelled at for not doing enough.
Damn water cooled engines
Fascinating stuff.
We live in a time today when cars can go a hundred thousand miles without hardly maintaining them.
When liquids came in steel cans. 🤗
Steel cans can be lined with all kinds of coatings. The more you know.
Wow. "I don't know anything about cars! I expect you to tell me what I need!!" A mechanic's dream! I bet the garage owners line the streets waving and shouting at this guy like hawkers outside of strip joints.
"Can't believe I need tires and wiper blades EVERY MONTH!
@@georgemartin1436 LOL
The best customers (and bosses, wink wink) are the ones who know nothing but have a TON of money to spend. He basically just confessed he's an easy paycheck. XD
Yup, that’s the point of the film.
William Frawley was sober that day. 🍸
🤣🤣
Doubt it. He was very good at stabilizing himself for the camera and then going off to “top off his tank”.
how about knowing how to service your own car,,,,?
WOOOOOSH. Right over your head. Not the point of the film. The “helpless customer” is just a fake marketing tool, to convince the gas station attendants to UPSELL EARLY AND OFTEN. Has nothing to do with any actual customers. Rewatch the film and try to gain some analytical skills.
Chuck Berry said it best and put it to music: "Working in a filling station, too many tasks. Wipe the windows, check the tires, check the oil, a dollar gas. Too much monkey business, don't want your botheration, go away, leave me!"
A classic!
LOVE THIS
Fred Mertz.. William Frawley!
is that fred mertz?
Yes it is Fred!.
So Nice 2 C Fred from Lucy here like this..
Back in the days when every shop had a varsol tank in the back........you dunked your part and grabbed a brush with bare hands......sometimes with a smoke in your mouth......thankfully we're past that. The smoking part, I mean.
FWIW, I've spent many an hour cleaning parts back in my youth. I'm approaching my 7th decade ... I don't think it was as bad as "they" want us to think.
When 'Health' and 'Safety' were just words in a dictionary.
I saw the hands letting the coolant flow through them, and I was like omg I bet he got skin cancer after years of doing that
When obesity, and being allergic to everything wasn’t a thing…
Republicans want to go back to those days with no regulations or safety measures. It’s part of MAGA. They also want to eliminate civil rights and put minorities and women back in their place. Republicans mindlessly cheer wildly when their candidate says they want to slash regulations. They don’t give a damn what happens to people of the environment. Ralph Nader write Unsafe at any Speed back then and was attacked by republicans and corporate owned democrats. But Nader saved millions of Americans from injury of death, me included. Republicans claim to be prolife but they don’t give a damn about people or the environment. They ridicule and condemn people who care about the environment calling them terrorists and tree huggers. Those same morons live in the same environment so it’s obvious they don’t even care about their own families being exposed to toxic wastes.
@@58sportsuburbanAh, we have a reality escaper here
Still pump gas in New Jersey
Srarring the legendary William Frawley of I LOVE LUCY fame!
Well I'm certainly relieved to see someone takes antifreeze seriously.
More of the seriously you need some and less of the seriously running this through my fingers will probably kill me one day.
1956?
1957.
Future ABC/CBS TV News anchor and correspondent Hughes Rudd on the left at 6:28.
Fred Mertz working the complaint department? 😀
While gas stations no longer do this (they are now focused more on the convenience store aspect) all of this still need to be taken care of. Sad part is that even if there is a service station at a gas station they aren’t equipped with the necessary equipment and products to service every car on the road. Back then cars were alot simpler. Many tools and products were universal. They only had stock a handful of tire sizes and oil and filters. Now they would need to be massive buildings to stock all the parts. Plus you add to the fact that people do t like to spend much time at gas stations (in most cases they don’t have to time). Get there gas, their coffee and move on. I imagine that people back then must of left an hour or 2 early for work if they needed gas. Getting gas, tires checked and aired up, topping off fluids and a check over must of taken forever. Then you add on to the poorer and poorer reputation gas station service centers got in pricing and ripping people off (antacid in the battery, pretending to top off the oil with empty cans, not sticking the dipstick all the way in to show that the car needs oil, even as far as puncturing a tire to either sell them a tire or a repair. Now it’s an in and out deal. Gas and go.
Kudos to anyone who read this entire passage of verbal diarrhea
Yup gas stations make little profit on gas itself, they make 💰 on products in the store
If one wants their auto fluids replaced, you're better off taking it to a oil change place. 🛢️
This is about OVERSELLING crap the customer doesn’t need (too often, unnecessary, etc), not how well you take care of your car.
Man, this guy’s a crank
Wow. Cars were pieces of shit back then. Or perhaps I should say cars are absurdly reliable and simple now.
Is that the guy from I Love Lucy?
*Freeeeed!*
Back when you could live on a retail salary and have that kind of first world problem...
Was this before or after I Love Lucy?
Red Cap on the thermos.
He always asks for the ethyl
FRED MERTZ RULZ DUDE
Hey! Ethel's the only one allowed to talk to Mr. Smith like that...
Was this the original "Me too" movement ??
Jesus, you’re a cult member and you can’t even get the dogma correct. Maybe just give up entirely.
When there use to be "service stations" not "convenience centers" and the world was good.
Because cars of that era needed lots of service-
Chassis lube, some every 1000 miles, frequent oil changes, tires wore out in 10-15,000 miles, brakes, etc.
Anti-freeze was an OPTION on new cars then.
@@loumontcalm3500 recall however how those old cars could actually be repaired unlike today's complex disasters.
Absolutely true
This film is about HOW TO RIP OFF customers by upselling them crap too often or that they don’t need. The “confused customer” is just a selling tool. Yikes, these stations were there to make money, not make your perfect fantasy world.
@6:42 is that Hogan from Hogan's Heros?
No. Not Bob crain
Well if Fred says do it...
$5: full tank of gas and a radiator flush, lol
Wondering if this before doing i love Lucy show
Nope, because there is a 1955 Chevy in the film.
Never trust a mechanic wearing a clean and perfectly pressed shirt.
Car owners today are even worse with being absent minded or just ignorant.
Fred was even a prick at work
Up sell ! Come on fellas - Get out there and , get it done !
Would've been neat if Lucy was in that crowd of women.
Fred, your shit is over heating. Ya' gotta' quit with the street racing!!
lol why have i never once had to change or add anti-freeze in my life?
Do you even own an automobile? 😆
You don't really have to worry about it as much today. OAT typically last 150k which is longer than most people own a car.
Frawley often drunk at trocadero
A strangely grey nose... prosthetic?
He’s an old drunk with a red nose. They powdered it for the camera.
The Original Karen!
Maybe Ethel has been nagging him at home. 😀
Wow!! To be an a hole, just to be an a hole. Most men at those times DID know more about their cars than we do now.
Woooosh, right over your head. The film is about justifying massive upselling by gas station attendants whenever possible, because the customer “doesn’t know any better and WANTS you to upsell the holy hell out of him”. It has no basis in reality, it’s a psychological tactic to get the poor little gas pumpers to jack up their sales numbers.
"Saaaaaaay......filler up boy! I gotta get home to my dog and my slippers and my tube of K.R.E.M.L and my petite subservient wife who gets slapped around because I don't brook no back-sass. I'M 50's MAN!"-50s Man, On The Go Well, Fred Mertz was hardly a 50s man, because he was already a bloated walking corpse by then, but still...............you get the idea.
The anti-freeze gets changed and 5he car still died. Even my 2013 has rusty frame rails. those 1950 cars rusted out in 5 years so why bother
2013 rusty frame rails? What did you do, buy a Chinese jeep and park it in a swamp? Major automotive brands are DECADES past highly effective metal treatments and coatings.
@@DoctorShocktor no. An American made truck. Boston area salt. It is not catastrophic I undercarriage wash it. Chinese junks rust on the sea.
Wow that's a bunch of Karen's. Lol
“Karens” LOL, jesus, ever have an original thought?
@@DoctorShocktor yours is?
Yikes, some of the comments here clearly demonstrate the failures of various educational systems, and the gullibility of people to the overlying message of a film. No wonder we have so many cultist voters who don’t have a clue. This film is about UPSELLING, not whether “Fred Mertz” ; ) there knows anything about how his car runs. It’s totally about “hey, station attendant, upsell the holy hell out of stuff, because your customer really “wants you to”. LOL, it’s pretty simple and pretty blatant.
Fred Mertz from The Honeymooners TV show!!
No- that was Gleason/Carney
From "I LOVE LUCY".
Seems to me the underpaid peons should know their place and keep my vehicle primed to go. Sure, I am just paying for the fuel you''re putting in it but obviously you need to do an engine and transmission oil change. And change my worn tyres while you're at it. And my brakes. And my suspension struts. All included in the price of the fuel right?
Sadly this mentality is still alive in 2023.
SOURCE: my life.
Fred was too cheap to buy a car
A very pleasant reminder of why I got rid of my car twenty years ago. Good riddance.