KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN / A GEM FROM THE 70'S

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I went into the kitchen and did the little dance number at :45

[Dynamo001]

As a kid, I remember how special it was to get a bucket of KFC and side dishes after Christmas shopping and as a quick meal on Christmas Eve or as a Sunday dinner during certain times of the year. This commercial, and others, were just good entertainment that worked because of the marketing genius known as Colonel Sanders, As an adult in today's society, I'd rather eat my shoe before I'd eat at a KFC.

[ghostdancer2302]

@Dynamo001

I haven't had anything from Kentucky Fried Chicken since I was a little kid either. What does "KFC" stand for anyway? Kitchen Fresh Cluckers or Killed Fake Clones. I don't even recognize this company anymore.

[therealcindymancini]

OMG, I remember watching this and knowing all the words. I was like 6.

[sexyvampirelol]

haha

[zazfilm]

@Stridersng1 given the choice, almost no one would chose to time travel into the future. nearly everyone wants to go back in time. interesting!

[zazfilm]

the golden age of the jingle!

[jrmetmoi]

Broadway musical. And that Mom lied she's not coming in no 'more and more' for KFC! Not unless bulimia was her friend....

[timepoet77]

Boy, do I remember that slogan from the mid-70s. The lip-sync is a little bit off, though.

[Replayability]

That girl in the middle is so freakin' hot.

[NebulizedNarcosis]

wow look at the old pedophile trying to dance....ITS NICE TO CONSUME DEATH AS A MEAL!

[patrioticcamerican]

anyone know who plays the mom with the little girl?

[duncanstpt]

I love women who smell like chicken grease.

[mattjamesreynolds]

It's the real Colonel!!!

[SuperGamer68]

Even after all these years it still is finger licking good :)

[willyboi708]

This is my favorite KFC Jingle. I sing it constantly......um...do you think I might have a problem??!! LOL!! But seriously I used to love KFC when I was a little kid in the 70's, it really was "Finger Lickin Good." but now I wouldn't touch the stuff. It's...well...GROSS!!!!

[RoyKnable]

@willyboi708

It's a good jingle, but to me the early 1970s "Get a bucket of chicken, finger lickin' good, have a barrel of fun, good bye ho hum" was better.

And it's just not the same if it's not in a bucket.

[FOSEEBOY]

Well folks...WHAT WAS DEM 11 HERBS & SPICES in dat SECRET RECIPE???? Them dancin children is STONED!!!

[barmtrail]

what ever happened to this perfect chicken?..It is awful today! Full of so much grease that the flavor is not their. The worst chicken i have ever had, and they use to be the best!...Our fast foods here in the states have been ruined!

[kiheisun]

Slap all of them

[rer8665]

Hey, where is the Mexican behind the counter that gets the order all wrong? Oh yeah, it was the 70s. Before "free" immigration!

[jhillst]

@rer8665 The 70s was a little ahead of the "before free immigration" period. You're thinking of the 1480s.

[BayviewFinch]

I read that KFC sometimes uses "emergency stock", which is frozen, not fresh, chicken.

[MICKEY4356]

The workers at my KFC don't dance or sing.

[Yourmomisnthere]

Anyone have the KFC Commercial where The Colonel is with the kids who complain about dinner?

[camron926]

They looked a little too happy to be working at KFC.

[groverd]

@camron926 You'd be happy too...if you booked a spot that paid residuals for three years running.....!!

[klippspringer]

kentucky schreit ficken

even more complicated than subway.

you may starve from hunger, if you try to make your order there

[mak1rk]

No chickens were harmed in the making of this advertisement.

[shelbb123]

was the Colonel being moved by pupet strings? Was he alive in this add?

[MiCKEyyB00iZSEXyy]

I agree with autumnenergy; they have definately changed the recipe in KFC, I dont even like it much anymore, everytime I buy it I wind up throwing half of it out. KFC used to be the best tasting chicken you could get.

[miamad]

Double down, people. Double down on my nipples, people!

[handinside]

Great commercial-unlike the lame titty cancer commercial

[LitterboxDiorama]

@handinside Yeah, but KFC is what caused the 'titty cancer'

[handinside]

@Stridersng1 True that

[wsidechris]

If they again advertise with a lavish number like this, then maybe I'll go. Otherwise I'll keep looking elsewhere for my favorite dish.

[craziestbxboy]

LOLZ was ectasy or amyl nitrate put in the KFC commercial?

[spacecowboy5000]

Wow! Look at these happy, happy people! This must have been when the Colonel tried out his new "recipe".

[Vercetti777]

Happy Workers=Happy Customers=Happy Chicken=Happy Colonel

[Vercetti777]

Is that Colonel Sanders!

[vfreeck]

If anyone of you are craving told school KFC, the closest you'll get to it now is if you visit a chain in Michigan called Chicken Shack.

They're high as hell, but well worth it.

[vfreeck]

And by Michigan, I mean the Detroit area.

[THESOULbornold]

lololololollol kernal was pimpin but he had to get back to whiipin nem slaves in the fields

[reanimate280]

hahah I love how the make it seem like the employees really love their job there....someone should make a parody based commercial pairing this music with real 2009 employees showing how unhappy they are and how bad the service is...it would be funny but sad at the same time...btw the girl @ :16 is hawt

[DJTrell07]

who in the world is this happy about working in fast food?

[LittleToyGunsRicardo]

yea working at kfc was so shit. and the stuff you see....is unbelievable

[autumnenergy]

I think they changed the recipe to TRY to make it healthier and ruined everything. In my humble opinion, we all know that KFC and other chains are not the healthiest foods. But when eaten in moderation it is okay. But some people go over board, then social scientists and nutritionists get involved and punish the companies for making good food. Then they change their recipes and the result is REALLY BAD FOOD that no one wants to eat. The same happened with McDonald's french fries.

[jack2breeze]

@autumnenergy remember the McLean? Gone now.

[handinside]

@autumnenergy The colonel is probably turning over in his grave. And all you health freaks--FUCK OFF!

[wannawatchu66]

@autumnenergy Well put...thanks for saying it.

[willyboi708]

@autumnenergy Amazingly enough, that great Chef, Julia Child, said the same thing about McDonald's French fries. That the changing of the oil to what they use now, ruined them.

[nexusutube]

@autumnenergy They didnt change it to make it healthier. They did it to cut costs. Now its just MSG seasoning.

[InsertName125]

No, I think they meant that if you eat too much KFC you'll get pudgy. Or maybe, it was that if you get excited about the menu you get "a pudgy". In some parts of the country it's refered to as a fatty.

[MarkNF82]

Even the taste has changed over the last 10 years or so. Used to be attracted to the smell of KFC going up and down the street, Now you cant even taste it when you're eating it. There's no real way to make "Fried Chicken" health food, So why bother. We all deserve a snack every once in awhile. Don't have to change it t the point where it doesnt taste good anymore.

"Pick Up Kentucky Fried Chicken in your neighborhood. Colonel Sanders and his boys make it finger lickin good".

[TheIxtlan]

Back in the early 70s, the KFC was delicious, the gravy, bread especially the chicken. Today KFC is bad and even their gravy is terrible.  i don't think they are using the original recipe.

Some ingredients are missing. If you love today KFC, you are not tasting the real KFC back in the early 70s.

[InsertName125]

They WERE using the original recipe but they digitized it and then a power surge wiped it out. They had an emergency reserve of leftovers from the 70s, but the last bucket was finally polished off in a small town in Ohio about 10 years ago. Now they're just winging it. It's a sad story when you think about it - very "McCarther Park". "... and it took so long to bake it... and I'll never have that recipe.... again! .... AGAIN!!!! .... OOOH NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[happymundo]

wow Thelxtlan.you got it right. Todays KFC Chicken taste very different than the way it idid during the 60s and 70s. STOP MAKING IT MORE HEALTHY....ITS NOT.

[CrashingCrockery]

I would like to see the dullard uninterested teens behind the counter at MY "KFC" (no longer called "Kentucky *FRIED* Chicken!") go into this song-and-dance with EVERY order placed. It would get old soon, but imagine the gaiety!

[johnnybeane]

i drove through a wendy's drive thru a couple months back & the girl at the window wouldn't stop singing to herself!!!

[elcamo11]

WUT:THU:FUUUUUUUUK!!!

[DelosFive]

Why drop the 'h' from herbs?

[fattoler]

I believe it was because the first 'erbs Americans encountered would be Italian ones, and the Italian for herbs is erba... Or at least that what my dad told me...

[DelosFive]

Ah, well it makes sense at least! Thanks :)

[ihaveairlockers]

I love to eat KFC

H Sanders was a freemason too.

He was a good man.

Love live KFC and the memory of Colonel Harland Sanders.

[InsertName125]

Yeah, I tried to open a restaurant that was all you could eat - to go. Didn't work out for me either.

[blackshogun77]

insert i would pay to hear your restaurant stories. From the good to the bad and everything in between, it isnt often someone gets to hear about running a place from the owners point of view. At least you werent on Kitchen nightmares

[InsertName125]

Well, when I ran a restaurant that was "all you could eat - TO GO" people backed moving vehicles up near the front of the restaurant and came in with wheel barrows hauling out thousands of pounds of prime rib from the buffet and using shovels to scoop it into their vehicles. One day, I did the math, and, after figuring $7.99 for the buffet, and 13.00/lb for prime rib, & the fact that each customer left with hundreds of pounds of the stuff, well, I was startign to lose money on the deal.

[InsertName125]

I think I have a better idea now. I'm planning to start a chain of restaurants specializing in all you can eat deep fat fried balluga caviar and free refills on Chateau Lafite Rothschild. I'll probably charge about $4.99 for this due to the fact that I'm mostly dealing with lunch traffic. Wish me luck! I have a good feeling about my chances this time!

[blackshogun77]

Insert, you can make more money than you dream if you have the first mobile strip club. Imagine it, driving around town and youstop the mobil home whereever you want, the stage xtend out of the side of it and the girls come out. You can take it all around the country. You'd make millions

[InsertName125]

...sort of a carny stripshow. Nice idea. Mobile lapdances for the busy executive. McDonald's has the weiner mobile. We could have the "mobile snatch shack"! Better do something with that idea quick before someone SNATCHes it up!

[blackshogun77]

insert my man, we are on a roll. Now we need to think up a commercial. Kind of nice and peachy like the KFC commercial. Something like , " We do women right". You dress up like the coronel and I'll be the black guy in the back spinning the records. You drive the mobile snatch shack into town, and the girls come out. It'll be like joe francis the creator of girls gone wild. If francis can make a billion dollars so can we.

[InsertName125]

Yeah, we'll market to the family values crowd. We'll advertise a good ole' fashion good time with attractions like cotten candy and free rides on the ferris wheel for the kids + cotten candy and free rides on the stripers for the adults. We could say, "are you tired of looking after your kids? Well, at mobile snatch shack we do DAYCARE RIGHT (enter Chuck e. cheese dixieland banjo music). Just leave your offspring with one of our board-certified family-style strippers and leave the rest to us.

[hungrybeetle]

This was kinda like a bad acid trip

[abcaines]

I went to a KFC the other day and I think the Colonel would be absolutely disgusted at what his product has become.

[sisalrug]

Im a proud american, but when I see a commercial like this it reminds me of how much better the food is in Italy and France than here. We just know how to sell the shit out of anything, dont we? Wow.

[blackshogun77]

and dont get offended. I was on the trian once and this older woman in her seventies pinched my rear when I was standing next to her seat. i guess all bets are off once you get over sixty. You might as well enjoy life.

[blackshogun77]

If I was the cornel I wouldve pinched the butt of the brown haired woman who looks like she is telling us a secret. Shes positioned in the center of the trio of women. Shes just so cute. I probably wouldve pinched her as well.

[swankrecords]

I once found a handgun on my box of KFC.

[blackshogun77]

could someone answer this question. why cant they do commercials like this for COSI or Panera Bread or even the dreaded Starbucks.

[MrClassicAds]

Unfortunately, we live in a different time now...People wouldn't respond the same way they did back in the '70s and '80s. Besides, it would be a hip-hop or Miley Cyrus/Jonas Brothers type song today.

[blackshogun77]

its because weve trained people to have rrible attitudes and to idolize being droll and sarcastic all the time to cover up their true feelings. thats a big part of it as well.

[NYBredBamaFed]

That is so true. Growing up in the 70's and 80's I experienced the last of the great advertisements. Commercials these days are just pretty awful!

[ThisIsBilbo]

why should or would they?

[ringbolt9]

i liked these simple old commercials....they sucked..but at least weren't pompous and artsy.

[woodamler]

And they got to the fucking point

[Korea4Me]

What kind of butt did the old Colonel pinch? There were both male and female dancers there you know. ;-)

[dutchman063]

i always wanted to meet the colonel

[icekid1994alive]

The woman at 0:04 looked like train engineers.

[michael38921]

awesome lip sync lol

[mubd1234]

Notice the way they chuck the burnt KFC into the bag in sync.

[Oge69]

Don't know about you guys, but as for me, I think it's really nice to feel good about a meal

[scottbaino]

Man, I'd love to be in '70s and '80s commercials and sing my heart out, lol. :)

[jaworskij]

It appears that the singers and the audio of the singers could be lip synced and not the same group of people.

[pat0s20]

lol 70,80,90s commercials sucks they looks like morons

[hardtruthsin08]

that made me laugh. nice.

[maxti6]

I think it has alot to do with who cooks the chicken now at KFC.

Sometimes it's so good it's falling off the bone, dark and crispy.

Other times it's sorta just blonde dark, not really 'there'...but still tasty.

If all trained to cook it could do it correctly that would be great!

[rockhopper10r]

This was clearly filmed at the Stepford, Connecticut, store. *shudder*

[groverd]

Hm. Pudgies. I think I'll skip the fried stuff and get right to the roast or grilled.

[DrewZZK]

@groverd Go for it Karen Carpenter! But before you fade out, check out the the big extra crispy greasy smile on my big fat happy satisfied corpse.

[phallystorm]

Today its all bread Crumbs, and greasy preservative chemicals. You want good chicken find a "Pudgies"

[jonasfan324]

I love KFC.

[StukInBuf]

I love KFC Buffet! Bring the buffet back!

[cubsrule2040]

I wish I was in the seventies

[bmovies60]

"I wish I was in the seventies"

Dont be mislead by these commercials. :-) I was in the seventies, and while I have some good nostalgic memories in those years, the seventies pretty much sucked.

[huntonpeck]

I grew up in the 70's, and while some things about it weren't so great, I found it to be generally a great time to be a kid. These old commercials bring back some good memories.

[bmovies60]

"These old commercials bring back some good memories."

So true. I also grew up in the 70s, and these commercials do indeed bring back wonderful nostalgic memories.

[mubd1234]

Aaaahhh...Americans saying 'erbs instead of herbs like we do in oz.

Sounds REALLY weird to me

[visor109]

"I'm coming in more and more for Kentucky Fried Chicken".  She probably weighs over 300lbs now!

[akmusica]

Probably dead. XD

[PioneerGrrrl]

She says this straight faced like she's doing her family a favor. I can't stop laughing from the images in my head. Funnier than the comercial!

[svante25]

You gotta love Colonel. He's so cool in this commercials and others as well :)

[RoyKnable]

I wish somebody had the commercials promoting the newly introduced Extra Crispy chicken from back then.

[FelixAtrox]

I sure did like when the parents came home with Kentucky Fried Chicken back in the Seventies!

We'd all be waiting 'round, our mouths watering!

Now, if they'd only improve their methods, I could eat there, again!!!

[ncfo20]

what a shame kentucky fried chicken isn't around anymore, the KFC that we have now stands for Killing Friendly Chickens

[cpjp1029]

where do you live that there is no more KFC's, there are KFC's practically in every town in Illinois

[zobajoe]

Really? I had no ideal that KFC stands for that.

[wilkes85]

My mom's friend used to work at KFC, and she actually met Colnel Sanders. Apparently he's a really nice guy, and he was very passionate about the quality of his product.

[bigboy45454545]

How about this one: "Bigboy's Chicken and Watermelon". Are you in trump?

I'm a white guy from Canada, I know nothing about chicken. If it worked for a Colonel from Kentucky, It has to work for me.....;-)

[trump34]

I'm in like Flynn. And I can help with what the real brothers & sisters want since I am Black.

[pgllama]

What - is this like the extended mix or something? lol

[nnaw]

The girl in the middle is Debbie Clinger, best known as Superchick from Kaptain Kool And The Kongs on The Krofft Supershow from 1976 to 1978 and who later starred in the short-lived CBS series The American Girls and the 1980 cult movie Midnight Madness.

[Alessandro110]

Why, Lawd, Why oh why don't they use "Fresh chicken, not frozen" any more? Zombie Colonel, we need you to fix this! Bring back KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, not KFC (and I know it stands for the same)!

[Mystifier122]

Cool, this is when they were Kentucky Fried Chicken and not Kitchen Fresh Chicken or whatever KFC stands for.

[wilkes85]

KFC still stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Where did u get "Kitchen"?

[Mystifier122]

I heard the state of Kentucky copyrighted the use of their name. Kentucky Fried Chicken suddenly became KFC and people assumed it stood for Kentucky Fried Chicken. It could stand for Knack For Conformity for all we know.

[54spiritedwill54]

jejeje i love my job

[ClassicTVFan82]

Colonel Sanders, 1890-1980

[DiscoBaby1978]

omg, my mom used to work at KFC in the 70s when she was, like, 18

[0franko9]

Man I feel old, I actually remember the words.

[tyoung317]

Yum! It was great chicken back in the day. I worked there while in college. I wore this same uniform. MEMORIES! I loved the job. I especially liked the homemade biscuits. We made everything right there from scratch. I think today it all comes premade...you just simply bake the frozen biscuits. We also had rolls for awhile, then they did away with rolls, just biscuits. It is so expensive today...............

[sammyreed]

It looked like the Colonel was attempting a disco dance at the end!

[JoshuaTaylor]

I was a kid back when that commercial came out, and believe it or not, KFC *used* to make really good fried chicken...Not the God-awful crap they serve now..... Shame, I really miss it....

[dsweetheart2008]

The women employees in this commercial are wearing leggings, refer to 00:50-1:00, you can see leggings.

[dsweetheart2008]

The guy who showed up in 00:11 looks like Colonel Sanders son, since the glasses are similar to Colonel Sanders glasses.

[dsweetheart2008]

00:01-00:22, it sounds like military music, just like the ad where people walk around the big KFC bucket.

[InsertName125]

Why do you think they called him "Colonel" Sanders? He fought in the Spanish American War (on the side of the Swiss).

[seka1986]

KFC should bring back those uniforms.

[dsweetheart2008]

Bring em' back KFC Chairman!

[JoeRamboUK]

My word! I want some kfc now.

[sydneygayboi]

oh lord its the man him self SANDERS!!! lol

[statestore]

I going to Kentucky Fried Chicken NOW!!!

[jimking19]

Cos I know how good I feel when I've finished a KFC meal!

[xpeperx]

jejeje i love my job :D i work in a Peruvian KFC, excelente xD! "es bueno sentirse muy bien por una comida" jejejeje

[DocRocks1]

I LOVE THIS SONG

[dsweetheart2008]

The song was echoing if you used a headphone or made your speaker so loud!