Libby's Zoodles 1984

[o0Sp3cia1K0o]

I feel old

[GojiJuicePower]

Gonna make myself a Zoodle sandwich

[jsilence418]

Oh God I miss Wallace the waffle whiffer! hey , where in hell am I ?

[Fongolitus]

"If You've ever Eaten an Elephant

Or Chewed on a Kangaroo

If You've ever Bitten a Buffalo

Then You Must've been Eating Zoodles

Noodles with an 'N' spells 'Zoodles!"

[shmuli9]

Oh yeah, I remember this commercial... and the can... :-)

[penrithtearoom]

This commercial was made in 1980, not 1984. But it's great whatever year it was!

[Bieeanda]

The song returned to me from nowhere, a few minutes ago, and somehow I knew that the commercial would be here.

[gjc82071]

Holy crap. I almost forgot about this commercial. I ate these as a kid.

[CraftyCameron]

Wonder where that kid is now, claim to fame...

I JUST HAD A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR LUNCH !!!

[klaatu42]

There's a reason why so many of us remember this. For its time, it was a work of commercial art. Someone was absolutely brilliant manipulating the laugh accents in the background. At one point a monkey sound quickly becomes a human laugh, and of course the giggle at the end is perfectly formed and placed. Probably all done with tapes then as well.

[ShasoDnarb]

34 years of age and still eating them.

[Canadiana71]

Wow. I forgot all about this one. The words came flowing right back!

[tcr6v1]

Ha ha ha i luv the can

Lol the amazing palm trees

[Ripplin]

Un. Believable. Thank you SO much for upping a part of my childhood. I know it's just a commercial, but nostalgia is a very powerful force! Gave me goosebumps. :)

[Chibikity]

i'm 30, and i ate some today for lunch with my kids, which gave me the idea to come online in search of that commercial, damn! i remembered the song after all these years!

zoodles obviously fried my brains.... yummm i sure could go for some right now.......

[NeckPuncherJ0nes]

Absolutely love it.

But whatever happened to "Chicken Sauce flavored Zoodles"? Damn.

[sueraike]

I often think of this commercial. I don't know of any other that I remember so vividly from my youth. I can't believe I just saw it again. I thought it was gone forever.

[Canadiantalentshines]

Yes Crimsontown, this commercial is definitely set in my nostalgia department. I grew up very much a Canadian kid and most of my television was Canadian (thanks CBC, CTV and TVOntario).

People like Don Francks, Len Carlson and Billie Mae Richards' voices were in many shows I watched. And this Zoodles commercial is forever in my mind among a many others likethe ratan furniture ad with Blu Mankuma in the white top hat and tails.

[XavierProject]

Wow..If you long for these moments bad enough I'm pretty sure you can OD/blackout watching these things. This is (for some of us) literally re-enacting your childhood (I can see all the kids playing with windmills, blowing dandelions, catching caterpillars and ladybugs in the school yard now)...."Gay" yes, but all very nostalgic

[Retrontario]

Testify!

[XavierProject]

Hahaha....I can't lie.....I remember.

[ruthshere]

your internet reunion makes me all warm fuzzy inside. I find it amazing that decades and geography don't matter any more. (I guess I'm square like that, in fact I'm square for saying square - ha ha)

best to all!

[CrimsonTown]

This commercial was made in 1980 in Toronto. I know this because my daughter is in it and I was there at the filming. (Hey, Maggie!)It took over 8 hours and ran for over 10 years on Canadian TV. At that time commercials paid residuals, which meant these kids got paid 4 times a year for 10 years.

Yes, it's Don Francks singing, with my daughter's giggle at the end. Don is a great singer, sang a lot of jazz in Toronto.

Thanks so much for posting this, I've never been able to find a copy of it.

[Pocockable]

@CrimsonTown

Is this commercial Canadian? I remember seeing a lot when I was around 11 and 12 because I've spent most of my life in Canada. I mostly remember the earlier version, when you see the kids throwing their hats in the air.

[trailbikerharo]

@CrimsonTown wow amazing!!! love love love this commercial. first time ive seen it since it stopped airing. didnt know it was a canadian commercial but it makes sense. another good commercial i miss is only back in 2002. the nestea plunge commercial i watch on here alot. with the anthropologist safari guy. awsome commercials.

[lq5277]

i can't post the link but if you google 'zoodles label' it will give you a site with the original label online. and it aint hard to see the "problem"!

[Canadiantalentshines]

OMG!! It's Don Francks singing! When you think Don Francks (father of Cree Summer) and his voice, singing is the last thing you expect from this guy who usually plays the bad guys on cartoon voice-overs.

And as for the male anatomy scandal, I never noticed it as a kid and I never heard about it until 1 week ago. I think someone's mom had a little too much time on their hands.

[joeytubeface]

Haha I totally remember this commercial and you are a god for putting it on here nice job. Most certainly among my top 5 favourite ads of all time. It's just so catchy!!

[simonizer888]

Oh my god! This is so old!

[KOATV]

Out of curiosity... I checked the kid's pasta section of the Sobey's near me, Zoodles are now owned & made by Heinz

[LondonOntGuy]

Wow..... @_@

"I just had a hippotomus for lunch!"

I'm having a real bad 80's flashback...

[KOATV]

Do you think that these ads could work nowadays?

[KOATV]

I wonder what the kids who took part in the Zoodles campaign must be saying now. In all honesty, I'm thinking of getting a few cans for my little one

[CelesteK]

The kids in this ad are probably all in their late teens or early twenties by now.

[joeytubeface]

Umm, I'm no math genius or anything, but if this ad was made in '84 and it is now 2008, then this ad was made 24 years ago. And I'm guessing these kids are about 5 years old in the ad, which would put them in their late twenties

[joeytubeface]

By the way, last comment was a reply to Celestek saying they were in their late teens or early 20s

[aedgell]

Actually... I'm one of the kids in the ad. My husband found this video for me. I was 5ish when we made it in '79 or '80. So that makes me 32 now. I think people tend to remember it because it ran for about a decade. Thanks for posting this (since we lost our beta copies of this commercial years ago!).

[maggieblue75]

I am the other little girl in this commerical. Remember, my name was Blueberry, i was wearing the sports shirt...

I am now Maggie Blue, I was 5 too! I am also married and living in Hong Kong!

all the best to you...

[aedgell]

I absolutely remember you and your name! In fact, when recently clearing out some old stuff, I found a polaroid of us together in our safari hats. Hilarious. All the best to you in Hong Kong! Wendy

[CelesteK]

Yeah I remember this quite well. You never forget when a person wrote to the company and complained that the tree on the can looked like a certain part of the male anatomy when it was turned upside down.

I didn't see what there was to be so upset about to be quite honest.

[WNED17]

????

[micr0cosm]

Double???????

[CelesteK]

Oh some half-witt mother wrote to company and complained that when the Zoodles can was turned upside down the tree on the label looked like a penis and thus the reason for the plain white background on the Zoodles label and no trees.

I don't understand it either.

[micr0cosm]

Ahh alright lol.

[comedyguru]

I remember that too. I think it was the blue colour can. The palm tree trunk looked like a penis. The coco"nuts" were just that and the plam leaves were supposed to be the pubic hair and it was poking the hippo in the ear. I think it was around 1993 I heard it on a radio station and we happened to have a can in the cupboard. It did sort of look like that.

[KOATV]

I remember that CelesteK... I couldn't stop laughing at how stupid that mother was. Even then I was thinking that she should find herself a hobby.

[CelesteK]

If the tree on the Zoodles label did look like a penis I wouldn't have noticed it anyways. My mother certainly didn't notice it.

[brithgob]

Remember this one quite well.

[RetroWinnipeg]

I'm familiar with the next-generation commercials with Alpha-Getti and Dino-Getti.