Vintage Original Mr and Mrs Potato Head commercial 1960's

[enduroman428]

Used to make the most stupid looking Potato head I could, then taunt my little brother telling him that's what he looked like. Yes boys and girls innocent Mr Potato head was the catalyst for many a family "wrasslin" matches. Kids today just don't get to have that kinda fun.

[GamaGame24]

Kid: Mommy! Daddy! I can't find Mr. Potato Head

Mommy: We'll find him!

Daddy:...

Mommy:What is it?

Daddy:*Whispers in Mommy's ear*

Mommy: Here he is!! *Gives Kid a plate of fries*

Kid: Mommy, he got all skinny. And he multiplied.

[tavishlaidlaw101]

why does mr. potato head look like mr hanky?

[ranchocline]

I 'm in love! Where can you get the Doctor kit ?

[GunUDwnAt2nd]

A modern kid would murder their parents for buying this shit.

[JAocon22]

the cartoon looks 6, but she sounds 70

[Thekikiandkuddles]

Talk about playing with your food!

[swampzoid]

From the makers of The Elephantman

[PatriciaSmear]

They got into a car accident and became mashed potato heads! HA ha HAR har ha.. OY!

[Arballo420Cali]

haha, so thas why they are called potato heads - now it all makes sense

[bluebird3042]

i would have loved that vanity case, ahhhh, I was just a scruffy looking urchin & dreamed of being beautiful !! Oh well !!

[visor109]

Mr. Po-ta-tahhhh Head"????

[ncdude367]

Mrs P looks like she's been hitting the meth house! X-D

[1KatyPerryFan1]

its like buying food only it comes in a plastic container with body parts!

[1KatyPerryFan1]

a real potato? mommy daddy wheres mrs. potato head?! honey, i think you ate her

[TheCNVault]

This is why I never played with my food. I was more of a 90s person, one of the later years when Mr. Potato Head was just plastic!

[In2Peacefulness]

Back in the 60's if you didn't finish your dinner, this is what you got. Mr.Potato head always came with an extra side of sour cream and chives. Mrs. Potato head came with a free potato peeler and if you diced her up just right, you could throw her in hot oil and eat her. Some sets came with two packets of catsup, a packet of salt and a packet of pepper. They would have had baby potatoe heads, but the eyes and ears were too big and they looked retarded no matter what kids did. Scared kids off.

[Vic1206]

The psychedelic 60's and 70's happened because of toys like this!!!

[Chadzxx1]

Potato what?...No really...What's new?

[PlatinumGlitchMint4]

$2.00 for all that!? Don't Mr. Potato Heads cost like $15.00 now a days?

[sonicscreamingblue]

I like the plastic ones better, no offense. This one looks like the elephant man. BUt it cool to see how much the toy has progressed over the years.

[xxDaNextBallaxx]

Now that is cool lol

[yusmin123]

they look like zombies spechialy if u watch this ad in a old computer at night time in your room with lights off and alone ween no one is home

[BlankParty]

Mr Head looks like Groucho Marx

[vexenlover4444]

It's fun to play with Hasbro.

[Ramoli07]

Who remembers this?

[rfm2ckt]

@Ramoli07 I DO! They should STILL be making Mr. Potato-Head sets like this! Manufacturing them complete with THEIR idea of the head, (SIZE, and where the holes are) is a PRIME example of why kids have less creative imagination nowadays!

[silverthevampirewolf]

I remember mr potato head but he was plastic not a real veggie

[mynameisnterin]

And my mom told me don't play with food.

[GamblerofFates]

those potato heads are creepy looking, i prefer the plastic ones

[WhoShatInHere]

There are bored, starving kids in Africa that would love to have your Mr. Potatohead. Now quit complaining!

[rfm2ckt]

@WhoShatInHere LOL... in MY house it was China!

[waltonmt]

Wow-with this stuff I could build my own politicians

[C0LL1N]

2 dollars?? I dont have that kind of money!

[ttkjv1611]

How super cool! And only two bucks ! Make your owm Spudman ! LOL LOL!

[inkey2]

that was potato slavery back then

[123lugbug]

that is pretty cheap

[777katsmeow]

2$ omg, real potatoes! love it! times have changed!

[BoogsterSU2]

Haha They looked weirder in this ad than Toy Story

[TEPanda]

what happens when Mr. Potato Head expires???...... :D

[crusher1944]

@TEPanda mash him and eat him

[SoulSilver002]

ohhh I thought it said tomato so I made a Mr potato head with a tomato and made a mess

[filipethereaper]

disturbing...

[midnightsunanime]

those faces looked kinda creepy..... in a weird way.... 0-o

[HyperGolem]

2 Dollars?! Wow things were much better than nowadays.

[0z0az]

@HyperGolem Not Really. Back then 2 Dollars Was Like 10.

[SexxyMessiah]

@HyperGolem The minimum wage was around 3 cents back then, how was that "better"? LOL

[silverose1209]

@SexxyMessiah Umm no! Minimum wage was $1 in 1960. So that would be like paying almost $15 today. So it kind of evens out.

[SexxyMessiah]

@silverose1209 MINIMUM WAGE DIFFERS FROM STATE TO STATE, OR IN CANADA, PROVINCE FROM PROVINCE.

[inkey2]

@silverose1209 I definately remember minimum wage being $2,25 an hour in 1972

[swampzoid]

The kids today have really cool and groovy computerized toys. We all had was a bunch of crap like plastic Mr Potato Head or Lincoln Logs. Many caucasian boys got brain damage from crewing on Lincoln Logs which contained hallucinogenics chemical preservatives. 

[realamericanMarines]

@swampzoid explains a lot lmao

[duchess458]

They are kind of spooky looking.

[underwaterwoman30]

Now a days Mr & Mrs. Potato head are addressed as Mr. President & The first lady, no matter who they may be.........(Fill in the blanks).

[TheBlackLesbian]

Reagan and Nancy

[thesoothsayers]

It looks like Obama.

[elc1960]

Any fruit or vegetable, eh? Try this with a tomato!

[underwaterwoman30]

@elc1960 ;They tried, it failed. when the eyes, ears etc were pushed into the tomato,it bled out, it became the assassinated version of Mr Tomatohead, censors stated it was too surreal and violent, so it was banned.

[elc1960]

@underwaterwoman30 Interesting visual, though. Any truth to the rumor that they reenacted the Zapruder film using tomatoes?

[underwaterwoman30]

@elc1960; Actually the tomatoes revolted, disregarded the script and the film was newly entitled.......Attack of the killer tomatoes. Real sucky C rate flick.

[elc1960]

@underwaterwoman30 Wow, it's sort of like we've got our own little dialogue going here. Are we watching all the same videos or what? BTW - I love "Killer Tomatoes". It's supposed to be sucky. The movie would have been REALLY terrible if they'd had a bigger budget.

[underwaterwoman30]

@elc1960 ; Great minds think alike, I love to laugh and some of your comments level me .Especially McClown bashing, I never knew so many people thought alike and thought that there was something queer about that clown character and all his martian type buddies from a dimension called McDonald land. As for a bigger budget for the killer tomato movie, forget it more money couldn't save that moronic flim waste.

[elc1960]

@underwaterwoman30 Keep watching, Kiddo! As long as they got weird stuff here, I'll keep coming up with one-liners for ya!

[blackwhimsy]

@elc1960 Zapruder film! LOL ! Funniest comment here.Thank you for the laugh.I have bad flu right now and need a giggle...even if I wheeze when I laugh.

[elc1960]

@blackwhimsy Thanks, you've been a great audience! Actually, I, too, had this as a kid and . . . aw hell, just check my comment from about 4 months ago . . . get well soon, kiddo! (If you wheeze when you laugh, it just sounds like more people laughing.)

[Brandonspimpin]

Omg i have this and its in a glass vault in the american museum in D.C.

[OJB99]

1 and to dalar sizes holy shit

[MrHossCartwright]

This woman's voice reminds me a bit of Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright). I can hear Bart in the voice.

[snipsz39]

I have nightmares now (O_O)

[kidsworldable]

how he he died?well,lets just say he ended up being served in a fish and chips shop with lemon juice all over him

[SLAYERLEGEND13]

they should remake the originalsssss D:

[gdcat777]

OMG. I had that Doctor's kit with the round specs, and I recently found a pic of myself wearing them. I had forgotten all about this kit until now.

[TheDarkThunder]

This is the woman who did the voice of Olive Oyl, Sweat Pea and the Wicked Sea Hag.

[xiweiding]

what a waste of vegetables

[blackwhimsy]

@xiweiding That's probably why they included the plastic potato body later on.Mums probably complained that it ruined good edible food and in places like the UK which had rationing through the 50s they were very conscious of waste.For poor families trying to get fussy kids to eat the few good veges they could afford,Mr PH might have been a problem. Still,for kids who didn't use ALL the veges,this would have been fun.

I had a plastic one in the 70s.GREAT toy!

[SuperBostonAustin]

he sounds like bart simpson

[HurfDurfAlive]

those are some of the scariest things i have ever seen.

[0BatGirl0]

They looked pretty creepy back in the day. Infact alot of toys did, the dolls my mother and my grandmother still own are pretty ugly.

What, kids weren't allowed to play with anything cute?

[mcrrocks80]

@0BatGirl0 the 80s ones are better right?

[harry4health]

@mcrrocks80 - the 1970s were much better, never mind the 1980s Mr & Mrs. Potato Heads! 1960s did look much more like a real potato, I have to admit ...

[ultimatebakufan405]

0_0 im glad they changed it from a real potato to a plastic one.

[Vic7997]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! IT'S SCAAARY!!

[PandaGirl912]

Ironically, when the kid finished putting on the facial features on the potatoe, an IM came up and the screaming woman sound came on! XD

[SuperMarieoBeatle]

Damnit kids I told you to stop playing with your food!!!

[sinsorrow94]

Parents used to get mad about wasting food so they made the plastic body.

[1952kid]

You know the movie '' Christmas Vacation'' , the old lady who brings over a cat wrapped as a present. thats the women doing the Hasbro kid voice, she also did Olive Oyl in the old Popeye cartoons. She did alot of commercials and cartoon voices.

[HCShannon]

@1952kid

Her name was Mae Questal, she was also Betty Boop and Felix the Cat

[88bloo]

$2 not 2 mention the thousands of slautered potatoes

[xXZechiXx]

dont play with your food

[Lilicious1000]

Mr. Potato head has evolved sooo much through the years. (thats a good thing too!)

[elc1960]

I was born in 1960, so I had one of these early Potato Heads. I used real vegetables but when I was done playing with them I just put the veggies in the box with the accessories.  Went back to play with them a few days later, only to find that they had turned all brown and rotten and smelled real bad. (Whaddaya want - I was 4 for Pete's sake!)

[D3RK3]

fucking warped people.

[psychodamned]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee­ekkkkk That voice its like the dwarf from Poltergeist !! Creeepy carny toy ......AAGHGHGHGHGHHHHHHHHHGGGG­GGG !!!

[gazornim]

$ 2.00??!!! It's a joke!!! XD

[iHeartSantaFanta]

it looks like a turd.

[jman1948]

wow this commercial sounds like Bart Simpson...

[bgreen97]

That's like 5 billion times cooler than the modern Mr. Potato head

[smileykisses420]

thats a good cheap idea

[blondeballinbabe]

REAL potatoes?? Wow they should've kept making them like that instead of the plastic ones. :)

[tigerboy1227]

0:20 mr potato head looks ugly lol

[Raphite1]

Kids had such high-pitched voices in the 50s. Strange!

[Cohzaku]

I think it's because there's a lot more hormones and artificial ingredients in food now adays. Back then, girls were having their periods at around 13, my Grandmother was born early 1900's and she said the average age was 16 back then. So really, it's the kids with deeper voices nowadays that are strange.

[dandydonaldo]

Hasbro sounds like Mae Questel, the voice of Olive Oyl.

[quarilari23]

I WANT ONE... the potato is real?????? wow so much better than plastic

[MasterStacona]

*COUGH* Doesn't come with a potato, comes with the plastic accessories, you take a potato from the giant potato sacs that your parents buy from the store...

[mnm5200]

freeeeaky..........

[Sypran]

am I the only one that thinks that Mrs Potato head in this looks absolutely SCARY!

[basshounder]

real potato ? so much cooler

[underwaterwoman30]

@basshounder : They conducted a study and found out a real potato was durable and inexpensive however when left in the sun for extended periods it began to rot and was dubbed Mr. Mashed Potatohead and then nobody wanted to play with them.

[HyperGolem]

Well what stops you using the modern Mr.Potato Head parts and putting them on a real vegetable?

[0121ryanh117]

haha, look at those things!!!!!!!!

[jmgthatsme]

Apologies first, for my being a Potato Head geek and then for knowing this: I'm guessing that ad is actually from the 1950s. Hasbro introduced the plastic potato in the early 1960s.

[legoboy186]

This commercial is boring

[ysbaddaden2003]

Good thing it ain't for the Mr Hanky Family Set.

[bettygoodbody]

mom said don't play with your food. then got mad when the darn potato got lost under the bed, she was giving too many mixed messages. they sure stink after six months. now they make these out of plastic. its just not the same, you know?

[6motion6]

Hasbro has a weird accent-"mr. and mrs. potat-ah head and "it's a vannn ity set. HIs voice is weird too. He scares me

[D3RK3]

0:40 is that the Gman?

[loophole572]

it looks like a real potato with fake eyes and crap

[6motion6]

It probably is a real potato, after awhile the set came w/styrofoam heads.

[sortashaman]

I would imagine that Mr. Potato Head gets a tad nervous when he passes a Rax restaurant...

[leftforever]

I had the real potato version when I was really little and remember being so happy when the one with the plastic head became available! =)

[arsdag81]

wtf, real potatos??

[MelanieLouM]

...and the best part was, after you were done playing with them, you could make fries out of them!! Yum! ^_^

[hotsickle]

That sounds like Bart Simpson!!

[tonystewartchamp]

What memories! Of course being born in 64', by that time they had a smaller version Tater Head and Carrot Head that I used with my Mr. Potatohead parts. stll have the parts, just no heads! 8-(

[ravenez0]

...And then the hand came out the sky and grabbed Mr. Potato as Mrs. Potato watched in horror. His facial features and hat were removed painfully, his skin was peeled with a knife and the giant cut him up into slices, deep fryed them, and served them to her children with ketchup.

Mrs. Potato Head is now Mrs. Carrot Guy...

[unojamericangurl]

@ravenez0 ahah

[Vic7997]

@ravenez0 More like Mr F. Ryed

[MJWasNotAPedophile22]

@ravenez0 That joke is crap!

[ichbinstark]

@MJWasNotAPedophile22 Oh yeah? Then why is it the highest rated comment?

[ledzep126]

I had this also. I didn't like the juice that ran down & made it slippery. Ahhhhh Memories.I miss colorforms,the old kind.That's when toys were made to last.

[POKOHelba]

XD they look so creepy!

[rainbowmuppet]

DUDE! my latin teacher needs one of these things...she loves anthropomorphic veggies.

[ACH68]

My brother always used to leave the potato in the box; My mother would find the potato rotten about 2 months later.

[Dluvs2jam]

lol that lil spud has come a lonnnnng way lol

[MuffledSword]

This will forever haunt my dreams.

[bigg3469]

Ahhhh! those were the days where we(before they came out with the plastic spud) used real potatoes for Mr & Mrs. Potato Head until they (the real potatoes) started to stink!!

[avp60685]

wow! never expected that one coming

[ariannaluvr9]

um...