Bugs Bunny for Kool-Aid, "Doin' the Kool"

[Narateful2]

you uploaded this on my 8th birthday. :D

[Narateful2]

@Narateful2 whoops. i mean my 9th birthday.

[and1kid23]

Bugs dances like Shaggy from Scooby Doo

[8DXD8]

So THIS is what gave Kool-Aid it's "cartoony" personality before the pitcher grew limbs and started breaking down walls!

[GuitarPlaya2000]

Wow, I had no idea that Bugs could groove like that - you go Bugs!!

[TheDrunkenwhale]

Funny thing is these kids are now in their 50's...

[disneyrangerblue02]

Eh... dat's a Kool commoicial, doc.

[KALEIDOSCOPEN]

rotor head

[YoshiAngemon]

You know, this is referenced in the Animaniacs episode, "Back in Style," when Warner Bros. had to shut down the animation department, and Thaddeus Plotz had to use Yakko, Wakko and Dot for loanout deals.

[gimbragreen]

I NEVER see it before! I was born in 1964.

[fromthesidelines]

This was produced in 1966, and seen during Saturday morning repeats of "THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW" on ABC; General Foods [Kool-Aid] was the original sponsor of the prime-time series (1960-'62), and they continued to sustain the Saturday repeats, with Bugs appearing in commercials for their various products {during the night-time run, he [and most of his "gang"] pitched Post cereals and Tang- by the mid-'60s, it was Kool-Aid}.

[Khultan]

[jaw drops] I see it and I don't believe it....

[deen1207]

the NO ADDING SUGER ADDING THING was a total rip off...

[sharky5921]

this is better than the scary punch bowl coming through the living room commercials

[brightbite]

Willy Wonka stole that "scrumdiddly-umptious" line, I see.

[brightbite]

For whatever jerk thumbed that comment down, please be INTELLIGENT and look at what came first: THIS commercial was way before the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where Willy Wonka makes "Scrumdiddly-umtious Bars."

[hebneh]

This commercial WAS originally done in color; I have a copy on VHS tape in color.

This was inspired mainly by the music show "Hullabaloo". That show usually ended with a live music segment in a set that looked like this, with a blinking-light sign reading "Hullabaloo A Go-Go" flanked by two go-go cages. I believe, however, that this commercial came out a year or two after "Hullabaloo" had already gone off the air.

[weenielongus]

Post your color copy!!

I have another copy that may have been in color, but it's so washed-out (it's red-orange-ish), so I posted the black and white version I had...

[BadNews88]

Bloody Heck -- I *remember* this advert from way back when...Mebbe cause'a th' catchy jingle with th' American bandstand/Shindig/Hullabaloo-s­tyle riffs, yes?

And, yes, Tex Avery *did* direct bugs in these telly ads in the 60's...a kinda "reunion" of sorts..after Leon Sclesinger had shown Avery the door some time prior..

Thanx fer this'n, m8..

[bguitarbrown1]

Today, I would buy almost any product that had this kind of ad.

[yockybunny]

Wow, This was COOL!! Like a take

off on Hullabaloo or Hollywood A Go Go?

[061342]

I remember my first go go rave with bugs. It was off the hook!

[AOERADIO]

After the standard opening of Bugs Bunny (animated by Ken Harris), the linking segment featuring the package was directed by Tex Avery and animated by Rod Scribner! The Bugs a-go-go part was definitely done in the late '60's. I have no clue who did that animation.

[looneywoman]

Tex Avery was back to directing Warner characters in the sixties?

[AOERADIO]

Well...not exactly. Tex worked at Cascade Pictures making commercials. He got the contract to do the Bugs Bunny Kool Aid commercials from an ad agency significantly impressed to be working with the director of "The Wild Hare" (cause he practically created Bugs Bunny in 1940) and got his old Warner colleague Rod Scribner to animate these 1960's tv spots. Tex used to hand out cels from this cartoon commercial from his car trunk to neighbourhood kids and other fans.

[potsdam28]

Sadly by this point Avery was done with theatrical animation and mostly did commercials. He'd been burned by three studios at this point: Warner Bros, MGM, and Universal

[thaBoooooogerMan]

wow.. never knew bugs went through so many drink commercials

[FairlyGrrl]

Thanks! Should have been in colour. See her gorgeous hair.

[ggblueam]

Most TV shows were still in black & white at that time. Color TV came about a couple of years later. LOL

[ggblueam]

I remember this commercial...when mini-skirts, go-go boots and girls dancing in cages were the craze! We even had a go-go pudding commercial calle "shake-a-pudding." Yummy!

[zombiebaitonvacation]

KOOL KOOL KOOL KOOL KOOL-AID KOOL

[LiliumXLovesXGambit]

Talk about originality xD

[sassysmarts123]

bugs bunny is cool aid cool!!!!

[MetroidPat14]

OH YEAH!

[GamingPalooza]

that was... um, perhaps weird. (referring to the dancing)

[nick6var]

@GamingPalooza It was the '60s, Heck even Batman was dancing on tv. UGH! I'm glad I was born in the '80s. We didn't have any tacky clothes, hair styles, or music... right?

[CrummyCurtis]

The commercial was a takeoff on "Hollywood A Go-Go", a very popular program for teens in its day, hosted by Sam Riddle, and airing between 1964-1966. Sadly, Pre-Sweetened Kool Aid was pulled off the market in late 1969 during the ban on cyclamates.

[RBkidd510]

What? Isnt there pre-sweetend Kool Aid today?

[CrummyCurtis]

You're thinking of "Sugar-Sweetened Kool-Aid". The original stuff had to use the "Pre-Sweetened" preface, because it wasn't sugar-sweetened, but sweetened with cyclamates which were banned admisdt great publicity in 1969.

[RBkidd510]

Wow...you know a lot about Kool-Aid...

[ggblueam]

Yeah, the ban was a big deal and Bugs Bunny never did kool-aid commercials again.

[XPatty0X]

wow lol

[acidtones1]

Lol!

[AceGunner2005]

I wonder when this was made.

[RockerOyea]

in 1897

[atvman1000]

lol.looks more like the 50's or 60's

[RockerOyea]

actually in 1401

[atvman1000]

actually it was made in the dinosaur ages.

[YodaBannon]

LOL! NICE PUN!!! :-)

[atvman1000]

lol