IHOP commercial - 1969

[Didgebaba]

I expected the waitress's arm to just extend back forever into the distance after pouring the coffee.....

[lavalamp625]

"They Shoot Horses Don't They?" came out the same year. The slow mo and music of this seems reminiscent to me of a scene from that

[caseyjoy97]

I just can't handle this madness.

[psychicwhoosh]

This commercial was clearly aimed at the "stumble into IHOP at 3 am tripping balls on 'shrooms" demographic.

[JerzyDevil54]

Katy Perry at 0:36 ?

[Vaspira]

@JerzyDevil54 face is to long, she has a baby face.

[indyfan22k]

@JerzyDevil54 She's 27.

[Joel5118751]

Now I have a pretty good idea of what a Dan Deacon produced IHOP commercial would be like.

[misterbean106]

the fuck?

[nielsdeminitair]

this shit is scary!

[Hiroslave]

They all FLOAT!!!!!!!

[DreAmeoba1]

@Hiroslave too funny! (wonder how many will get it...)

[spershall]

This is like my version of heaven. Everything has a Moog soundtrack, the color scheme is all orange and teal, and my dinner is served in a chicken dish. Except for the fact that the rest of the family gets Italian food (and whatever's in the chicken dish) and the mom gets a side salad. That part will have to change.

[Serai3]

"but there's a lot more on the inside!"

Psilocybin - our new mystery ingredient!

[MrSh0w]

this is a ripoff of a WEEN song

[Serai3]

@MrSh0w Really? That song was out 45 years ago?

[Cohonees]

After being cranked on acid and running around on a field all day with colorful, humongous ballons it's always yummy with a sloppy meal at IHOP's.

[EP1KCAMPER]

Seems fuckin legit

[rdmb57]

Someone stole my rack and pinion.  Where did I leave my Creamettes? There's a smiley face on my big toe.

[smith1958b]

Check out their food. It looks pretty bland, tasteless and unoriginal. They could have ate better if they stayed home and made it themselves.

[VioletYoshi]

I don't even..

[JeffHardyExtreame]

Better than Bieber

[Mushieify]

Scared me a lil bit :( idk y i came across dis buh i was hungry

[alwrig]

So what is the flapjack du jour?

[ace198]

Pancakes make aliens and humans come together.

[TheGallade42]

we come in peace. *vulcan hand sign thing*

[TipsDelicious]

thats awesomeee

[cameron20101000]

i remember those days!

how the hell you taped this!

Betamax was 1975

VHS was 1976 or 1977

[WiseGuy57]

When you're tired after a long day of running around with bunches of giant balloons, nothing quite beats shitty dinner menu items at a pancake restaurant.

[MrBraithwaight]

@WiseGuy57 Almost. I think a good dump after the meal would really top it off.

[bocajrthug106]

we all on acid right

[ZPEddieRay]

Reminds me of Boondock Saints 2.

[liwowoli]

Best commercial ever.

[cro44magnum]

What a bizarre little psychedelic blast from the past. I never knew you could get all HOPPED up at IHOP.

[Highbrowser]

Played over and over again, this could violate the geneva convention.

[420sarabee420]

How did I end up here?

[cubicleboy]

this commercial is why black people always fight in waffle houses.

[MattHatter]

International House Of Pancakes....giving you hellish nightmares....just for the fun of it.

[xWiZxKiDx]

I though IHOP was new...

[Centaurmanexe]

See people TIME TRAVEL IS NOT GOOD for you, becasue then you get stuck in shit like this....creepy, dimly colorful, demonic even....

[WinchesterLock]

This commercial is the stuff of nightmares.

[elkikex]

why does everybody say it's funny, this shit's scary!

[8balls122]

I will never see pancakes the same way ever again...

[proudlatina1510]

The song is kinda funny , weird , but cute! It's like when they were trying to morph voices to creative the chipmunks' voices.

[Jimaera]

Wat... da... fuk...??

[masic88]

Al-VIIINNNN!!

[PGMEagle]

Alvin

[marokokisetter]

tanned ppl varry noice

[mystic132]

I"m kind of scared of balloons now O.O

[arod2211]

This music makes me think of Earthbound.

[crystalvoodoo91]

FFOREVERRRRRRRRRR

[kascnef82]

Ihop, now the site of a shooting in Nevada that killed 6 people, including 2 militiary.

[RobDog65]

Enough with the commentary re: the hallucinogenic soundtrack. That has GOT to be the most meager, most pathetic serving of spaghetti and meatballs (0:37) I've EVER seen. Even CANNED shit looks better than that.

[zenviper]

Iam thinking this was inspired by the music of the beatles.

[LpF1983]

It looks like Rip Torn and Norman Mailer should be attacking each other just off screen...

[windbeamproductions]

so bizarre, thx for posting.

[GeneralFantastic]

this is before the international house of pancakes turned into the international house of processed horse crap

[BrooklynEagle]

LOL--this commercial from '69 is as much of a trip as when I frist saw it on here back in 2008! Still makes me smile, though. Even though it probably shouldn't! And I'm still surprised this wasn't a "Retromercial" on TV Land back in '96-'97--when that network was official!!!

One more wonder for me on this late-60's ad...I wonder if this spot aired in the NYC Tri-State area back in 1969. The one and only IHOP I know of--and been to--is out near the airport on Rockaway. But NYC still had...

[BrooklynEagle]

...a lot of mom & pop diners citywide in the late-60's/early-70's (yup, think "Goodfellas"). So I can't see the need for an IHOP in the boroughs back then a little over 4 decades ago. But maybe there were a few (including the one out on Rockaway).

[baraxor]

This must have been the time IHOP hired Timothy Leary to design their ad campaign

[pictureisup1]

did the alvin and chipmunks sing this song

[Nick8398]

well to make a confession why does he make that squeeky voice and ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

[HelloKellen]

the song is... very trippy and scary lol

[richmjr67]

Food looks as crappy as it does now...what was that on guys plate spaghetti and meatballs...chef boy r de looks better

[Hayeshacker0NE]

Holy Shit!

[blakbull11]

International House of (5 second delay) Pancakes!

[lettemknoww]

..what the hell were they thinking? this makes me scared :I

[FCA1975]

0:33 That lettuce is beyond wilted. That is lettuce right?

[akampfer]

You didn't even have to tell me. I would have guessed late 60's.

[Retrofanatic10]

Rooty Tooty Fresh & Fruity , i'm in a big pile of doody. Sorry , i had to say it.

[CosbyTheCaterpillar]

this is one of the weirdest commercials I've ever seen

[akuma327]

*tweettweettweettweet*

[Malkmusianful]

@rickdillard That's not ravioli.

That's actually thin pancakes covered in something like a boysenberry sauce.

[Badgerinmaine]

I think the singer was inhaling from one of the many balloons in the ad. :-)

[airbendingavatar1]

Who else got here from TV Tropes?

[notpointed]

what do you mean it wasn't made on drugs?

[52MattyB]

I'm going to have nightmares of this music for the rest of my life.

[Scarleto]

*SOB* OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, MAKE IT STOP PLEASE GOD MAKE THE NOISES STOP.

[01Wrong01]

666

[gerryono]

Oddy enought, I feel as though I lived during this time even though I was born in the '90s. When I was younger, I knew things about the '70's that it was imposible for me to know as a kid, never coming into contact with anything, and when watching old programs, I get the feeling that I remember it from my past even though it was decades before I was born

[BigBeautifulBalloons]

Very weird commercial; I couldn't watch with the sound on more than once.

Having said that, I would still love to have a huge bunch of big beautiful balloons like these to run around with.

[kidzmama5]

its alien music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:P this chant keeps getting stuck in my head.:( annoying, but funny:oHAhahahahahahhahhahhaha­h

[tojushiro]

um... what?

[JaveDMode]

ahahahahahahaha What in the hell??? ahahahahahahaha

[ChattieKathye]

I want some Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity all of a sudden!!!!

[shunyata12345]

Holy good god

[holydave]

This is, quite possibly, the funniest thing I have ever seen and I have no idea why.

[techweenie1]

Trippy...

[crystalvoodoo91]

Jesus Christ! This seems like forever..

[themamagoatshow]

wtf was that!!!

[relayer07]

helps if you visited your older brother's International House Of Mushrooms before viewing this ;)

[relayer07]

helps if you visited your older brother's Internation House Of Mushrooms before viewing this ;)

[Keven19741]

Alvin, Alvin! ALVINNNNNN! Okay!

[CatalinaSafari73]

After watching this I can only think of the famous words of Krusty the Clown...."What the hell was that?!?"

[kascnef82]

The IHOP in parsippany is great.

[22centman36]

@kascnef82 kas, I been to that one, its in that mini mall area. Pretty good place.

[LorenzoColberti]

That is Mark Maron and Rita Ratskoff playing the children. The commercial was Produced by Marvin Maron and Directed by Danny Stone

[SkorpionAce]

Yep...I'm having nightmares tonight.

[Panozzo19]

tvtropes will ruin your lives

[kimsy520]

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.

[Buddha0769]

What in....the F@%K?

[trekgirl75]

That's it. I'm scarred for life

[albear972]

Oh hell no! I like the new IHOP chicken and waffles ad that's currently playing. This one makes the whole family seem like LSD fiends, and the terrible, ugly sounding early electronic music! WTH! really! just awful, I bet back in 69 it was bad-ass, but it sucks donkey b@lls today.

[holzapfelstein]

Are we to understand that ad men in the 60's heard the audio, watched the video and thought that this would really attract consumers? It looks & sounds like something out of a nightmare.

[broken302011]

Uhhhh....yaaaa....

[Keven19741]

I loved this commercial back in the old days when I was in elementary school. I wish that IHOP could retro the music score in their commercials of today!

[Jdo4031]

So say hi

[Jdo4031]

Are the people in this around if

[2much4mymirror]

Now if only I could put it on a loop so it would never stop playing...

[Jdo4031]

Wtf wait wait i .......wtf.ok now i WTF.baloons,running, kid with side burn hair, what what help

[SlowUrRoll212]

Weed is like tht intro song but in ur head ALL THE TIME!!!

[robaralis]

what the HELL is the little girl eating at 0:33 ??? this looks like it was directed by Sid and Marty Krofft

[TroyCutie679]

What the...



[MrRichicago]

Like all these other companies (such as KFC) they need to go back to calling it what it is. I always refer to it as the International House of Pancakes to my five-year-old daughter.

[darnpenguin]

Ah, I remember this commercial. It used to run during Candle Cove.

[Eagaida]

the producers probably took so much drug before filming the commercial

[atomicsharpiie]

I like how the spaghetti has exactly 5 meatballs all lined up.

[liteskinnededgal]

Creepy!!!

[rogelioconejo]

Where did they put the balloons while they were eating?

[DevSodDribble]

@rogelioconejo They tied them to the balloon rack out front, like everyone else.

[xochicruda]

Dear IHOP,

Whatever you were on, um, please don't do it again! It gave me flashbacks and weird creepy nightmares :P weirdos

[ftsjr]

Sounds like someone's been inhaling helium.

[teoteous]

I KNOW something is just downright wrong but my mind is unable to realize what is bothering me.

Really. I don't.

[extremehockeyfan]

this looks like something out of a bad dream..

[MentalSelfMutilation]

It's funny because the balloons were symbolic of being high.

[mangagor]

Let's all be tangle buddies

Tangle buddies

Tangle buddies

tangle buddies

[Stephie2007]

This commercial is creepy.

[roninz33]

The little girl at 0:34 is all like "Fuck..."

[TBTabby]

There's a fine line between whimsical and irritating.

And this commercial comes nowhere near that line. It's just irritating.

[GoGoGadgetBeer]

Narfle the Garthok!

[JeffHardyExtreame]

Dear Ihop

I want whatever the fuck ur smoking and some fucking pancake with a smiley face!!

[eriggs1228]

@ 0:31.....What the Fuck was that Girl Eating?

[TBTabby]

@eriggs1228 Looks like ice cream in a bowl shaped like a chicken. A bowl which is considerably less than ideal for eating out of. Funny what passed for tantalizing meals in the '60s.

[mst3kanita]

@TBTabby lol the chicken bowl is chicken pot pie. Yup, you're eating out of a chicken.

I want that chicken bowl :(

[eriggs1228]

@TBTabby I know, take a look at that Lady's Salad Bowl!

[ClamThingy]

You know, after this commercial aired, IHOP was forced to remove it's "Special Syrup" from the menu.

[MegaOrwell1984]

what the hell are in those pancakes ?

[store275]

I'd finger fuck the mom.

[JuanRTR]

the mom looks like katy perry

[barao78]

is this the same place where it occured the famous Orangeburg IHOP brawl?

[nbreese73]

New IHOP commercial 2011: "Come to IHOP and watch black people fight over pancakes!"

[kittykatcher]

U know just scrolling through the comments gives me a laugh! But wats funnier is that the workers at the ihop i know actually sound that way!

[Pooky1991]

Alvin and the Chimpmonks loved IHop so much thay sung a song about it apparently.

[thekahunatiki]

Helium is wonderful, isn't it?

[fgldnglbs]

Alvin, you need to enunciate better. Alvin? Alvin? ALLLLVINNNN!!!

OKAY!!

First in breakfast, first in boysenberry syrup, IHOP is still here, kicking Denny's butt, no thanks to this ad. I've had the most laughs on YouTube reading the wisecracks here.

[preciousillusions201]

Do ya'll remember the old IHOP commercial on the way back in the 1960s when you all were kids.

[SoulGuy25]

That must be some good SHIT!!!!!!!!TWEEKER!!!!

[Zzyyxxyyxx]

This is how all the voices in my head sound like. Now you know what I go through each and every day!

[blazin408grass]

lol am i trippin?

[geezerbill]

Who needs LSD when we have YouTube?

[gamerguy322]

sounds like aliens sang this

[Marckymarc71]

27 people have never done shrooms.

[Biodham]

What.... did I just watch? :O

[CautiousSaint]

Did that guy suck on a few helium balloons? LOL!! That was BAD.

[ChainsawGenie]

Alvin must have really wanted that hula hoop.

[AlexSpalex1]

That voice for the jingle, it sounds like Foamy tripping balls!

[BambiShaker]

i feel like i took Codeine

[a1cjlock]

@BambiShaker I wonder what Codeine Syrup on top of Pancakes taste like! :9

[Devitron5000]

Why WOULDN'T a restaurant like IHOP target people who are known to frequently have the munchies? Can't be mad at them for doing good market research.

[AsphodelFilms]

I told everyone in my office "this is what it sounds like inside my head". They leave me alone now.

[joshuathemagician]

sounds like alvin

[TampaFlorida813]

The 60's had to reach out to the stoners great marketing tool? o_O

[OzzInter]

Cool, in a weird sort of way!

[lemonrind]

Drugs are fun.

[midwestmacrame]

It was after this commercial appeared that my parents decided Bill Knapps was a more wholesome place to take the family. My dad swore that something about IHOP was :"just not right".

[ledgerlist]

When I was in 7th grade, I was fascinated by this commercial. I learned how to sing the song in that squeaky voice and went around the playground singing it for people.

This led to my first experiences with being bullied.

[insaneinthesfv]

International House Of Pancakes...now with LSD in every meal!

[MrJacMac1986]

@insaneinthesfv Yeah LSD laced blueberry syrup

[PabloGogMagog]

I'll hear this again in hell.

[burntbricks]

@PabloGogMagog hell? this is my idea of a dream