Stupid 1950s shampoo commercial

[mryellow123]

Same old scam. Ruin your hair so if you have to use it constantly.

[theycallmehanna]

Why does he remind me of Kramer in Seinfeld? xD

[Jabbawocky007]

"Now comb your hair..." comb it...COMB IT...OR ELSE!!!

[ultravioletgaia]

haha id like to try this..>>

[eltoro16ify]

why does everyone from the 50's look alike?

[UnoriginallyInclined]

0:35 Showering nekkid is the leading cause of fainting among tv audiences. For all your unrealistic modesty needs, try Enden first.

[melgibsonsballs]

I bet in the future people whould wish they chould live in 2011

[Nick89BR]

dam dat looks like the same lady from every 50s-60s commercial she mustve made alot of money.....

[RianAlive]

I don't see what's so extraordinarily stupid about this commercial. It's just regular 1950s everyone-is-living-in-the-dark stupid.

[lestateldiablo]

i find this difficult to masturbate to...

[sjjones2202]

that's enden shampoo. right

[sjjones2202]

that's enden shampoo

[Dam0nSalvat0re]

he's a fucking 50s Greaser boy.

shampoo can't save his hair.

[stellaluna4u2]

No wonder he has so much dandruff with all that greasy crap in his hair!

[SuperShakes10]

wife wearing swim suit in shower lol

[ITouchTheElderly]

Old people are old and/or lame.

[dx3100]

are you half filipino?

[1wolfiesLady]

That commercial would have been a hole lot more sexy if they'd use Elvis as a model!!!

[kjdgroove]

ummmm.... did he say prescription shampoo?

[moxie96]

wow what an reverberated echo! So you can remember the product better?

[matthewgroen]

@moxie96 i allready forgot what it's about, since i saw your comment haha

[56Mercgal]

I think it's funny! and a classic! I think commercials now are stupid!

[percheron1654]

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[12KX21]

its called enden because your hair will be enden if you use it!

[BenjaminGessel]

Its hard not to think of... Something along the lines of a middle aged, strict, conservative father, offering some fatherly advice to his son about shampoo. That kind of thing... Yeah, we definitely don't live in the 50's anymore, do we?

[ECILAROX12]

wow. lame. the guy has greasy hair. shampoo isnt working.

[DeathBringer9000]

is this the 50s? it sounds like a gramaphone

[afr126]

wooow that girl is a HOT! how must she be today, if not dead

[Jayee123]

Meant to add, I think the guy's kind of cute, even if he is dorky. Cute + dorky = Come up and see me sometime! :)

[tracytcb111111111111]

@Jayee123 thats if u want a really old guy knocking at your door he probley wouldnt have any hair left any way

[DisneyBlackJet]

@Jayee123 I agree. :-)

[TeddyZombiesUnite]

theyre in the shower with clothes?!

rofl.

XD

[t4t5]

wow, that guy looks really retarded in the shower!

[0ddzZz]

Yeah, this is not as stupid as commercials today.

[choklitchika53]

@OhMarGerine hahah sorry! Just so yuu know, cbear802 is my other account... Just so yur not confused! Didn't realize I was still signed in to this one! Hahah

[choklitchika53]

@OhMarGerine hahah whatev! I don't even remember this conversation! And I don't need to google anything... Segregation is dead...

[Sheri451]

@OhMarGerine I am NOT a BITCH you Athiest! I know where I'm going after I die.

[ramsterification]

Is she wearing clothes in the shower !?

[splosionsRfun]

I want to live a year in the stereotypical 50's, you know, with nice houses and white picket fences and everybody is friendly, and soda and ice cream parlors :D Too bad it wasn't like that :(

[TheTiana1991]

hahahahaha shes washing her hair with clothes on hahah

[potatoelover95]

ive seen worse andf im 15

[cbear802]

@OhMarGerine and segregation is dead! It's illegal!!! Discrimination and racism however, is not!!! Duhhh

[cbear802]

@OhMarGerine why u gotta insult sheri451? Yu think ur hot shit or something?! Ur a stupid bitch! God is good!!! U don't have to believe in someone else's religion! But yu also don't have to insult them for their beliefs!! Jackass!

[bobbyfishstick5]

at 0:20 look at his neck Is he wearing a mask?

[Sheri451]

Well I'm glad that segregation is dead and gone. I am white and from the South, I couldn't imagine treating anyone badly. God made us with the same blood, but different types, the same hearts that can be broken, the same eyes but different shapes that can cry when they're hurt. The same taste buds that like different foods, we all have a soul, and We are all made in Gods image.

[zimmawoman]

lmao i love his face while hes washing his hair

[nik0lhc]

and after the company closed down they sold all their stock to a car company for grease

[HectoRo97]

wath is this cheat:c????

[theycallmeomega]

lol u cant get rid of dandruff...unless u find a way to stop ur skin from dying and regenerating on ur head

[serclfs]

I wish I could live a year in the 1950's

[smurfswacker]

Having lived more than one year in the 1950's I can assure you it wasn't all it's cracked up to be.

[monicannabella]

But the movies always make it seem like it was so fun and innocent.

[smurfswacker]

What I remember most is the constant fear of nuclear war--the visit to the segregated South was memorable as well. Almost scandalized a department store by drinking from the "colored" water fountain.

[monicannabella]

Yikes. My grandma graduated from college and started teaching in 1955. She worked in segregated schools until the early 70s (we're black) but she never said anything about having colored and white water fountains, etc. Probably because we lived in Maryland. She made it seem like the way she lived back then was basically the same as now, just no internet, cell phones, etc.

[smurfswacker]

Yeah, it was 1956. I was 7. My dad was transferred from the Philippines, where everything was very diverse, to Alabama, heart of the South. All of the "deep South" states were segregated. The "whites only" and "colored" signs were everywhere. I remember, while my mom freaked out hoping no one saw me drink from the wrong fountain, I noticed that the pipe from the "white" fountain branched off to serve the "colored" fountain. It didn't make sense. Same water, I thought, so what's the big deal?

[megaman12521]

@smurfswacker

well the water is actually different and the fountains were different like the whites were normal or better than the other races. not only that conditions were horrible for africain americains. in little rock nine the 9 africain americain teens were bullied and i mean it. they were lucky to have 1 or 2 friends and ernest green stepped on glass after taking a shower and the coach didnt care at all

[hardstyle905]

@monicannabella Yikes? Some people prefer to not drink from the same water fountain as niggers. Don't want to catch AIDS and other diseases you know.

[Daenyris]

@hardstyle905 Cool racism, bro. Get off of my internet.

[Jayee123]

@smurfswacker I remember these things, too, smurfswacker. I wouldn't want to go back, yet I am charmed by these old commercials.

[Ardalla555]

@smurfswacker I had totally forgotten this commercial. I think Enden sort of lost out to Head and Shoulders. I'm from Alabama. I was a kid at Ft McClellan during the Cuban missile crises. I don't remember anyone living in 'constant fear'. I certainly wasn't afraid, and no one mentioned it much in school. Nuclear trauma was a creation of the media. Also, you could drink from the colored fountains and ride in the back of the bus if you were white.

[lambchopxoxo]

@smurfswacker "Almost scandalized a department store by drinking from the "colored" water fountain."

you did that? that is so full of win.

[IwshIcldstrtover]

@monicannabella It was, compared to the world we live in, today.

[MelanieLouM]

@serclfs Me too...I'd come back to the present as a very wealthy person! ^_^

[Deathotto21]

This wasn't stupid it was just a normal 1950's commercial

[LadySierraSays]

That was before head & shoulders I take it !!!!

[Existantia]

lol why does it sound like it's being narrated through a megaphone???

[kinmanyuen]

lol nice wife!

[Dreadedaries]

ohhhhhh yeahhhh.... lol

[Smittyswymer]

That HAS to be Vince Offer's dad.

[sunjy5]

Of course she wore a bathing suit in the shower -- everyone did in the '50s...it was the law.

Also, the commercial neglected to mention that because of the enormous concentration of DDT in this product it also eliminated lice.

[tristan01101]

@sunjy5 It most certainly was not the law.

[stuntpenis]

Really ? Are you sure? I think it was law you could only have one tit out each shower.

[inkey2]

@sunjy5 : good comment. I remember when just about every product proudly boasted that it contained "HEXACHLORAPHENE"....gum, shampoo, tooth paste...even a soap called physohex.....then.....they discovered that it was as bad as rat poison (or something bad like that)......As a teen I scrubbed my pimply face with "Physohex" soap three times a day.....I must have soaked up and ingested buckets of Hexachloraphene....well I am 56 and still alive.....but....it does make you wonder

[mrmoraelin]

@inkey2 : They thought it caused cancer, and later it was proven NOT to cause cancer. But it got a lot of bad press so now its only available with a prescription.

[inkey2]

@mrmoraelin : hmmmm..... that makes you wonder. If it is so safe why is it a controled medication only available by prescription.?

[marvy1118]

Apparently using this shampoo would do wierd things to your hearing.

[gandy74]

Dorky or not..he's still pretty cute.

[gotameanglare]

the narrator sounded really creepy..... bad voice overs in the 50's i guess.

[MrDragontamer2009]

Wow that was stupid

[nukeurhouse12]

Notice she has badingsuite in tha shower

[Trancemaster2052]

I'm now convinced people in the 50's were stupid as hell.

[CWOLF28]

A WOMAN ON TV!?

[TVDude78]

If you type in Soaps 1968 in the you tube search, there is a 1968 clip of the actor (Ed Bryce) from this commercial on Guiding Light.

[TVDude78]

If I'm not mistaken, I think the guy in the commercial is actor Ed Bryce who played the role of Bill Bauer on Guiding Light on and off 1959-1983. He died not too long ago. His son Scott Bryce played the role of Craig Montgomery on As The World Turns starting in the 80's.

[PoliticalNatGirl24]

looks like bobby brown 200 years forward...

[BrittlezSkittlez]

i like how the wife is lathering up with a full face of makeup. i don't know about you but i don't usually shower with lipstick on. haha.

[carlsperr]

How is it any more stupid than today's commercials????

[Tinymoezzy]

I agree this commercial was to the point and had a very attractive man selling the product. I see it as good

[1y9b9b]

@carlsperr

i know right

[lemaranta]

lol , i Like this ...his hair looks so perfect !

[Hauntzor]

I love how they try to act all sophisticated while they're talking about such a trivial little bottle of shampoo

[RealDefentertainment]

I feel like slapping the past.

Sometimes I look at an LCD screen and I ask myself why haven`t someone thought about that before but instead made a winding huge ass Tv set?

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

Because it takes years of incredible research in science to develop such things.

Not only the invention it self but the technology used to make it, machines, tools, you name it. Then comes the materials of which such things are made of another difficult challange.

When you look at the development of certain things looking at all its elements and processes you end up wondering just how in the hell we manage to make such things even today.

[RealDefentertainment]

I do agree a Computer steal freaks me out sometimes when i think about it`s technology.

[Lanceisabeach]

Looks like Motor Oil in his hair to Me Lol

[MelanieLouM]

It is...he had to change it every 3000 miles! ^_^

[tosheatower]

The wife wears a bra in the shower?

[KaiLuck]

lol - you had to go out of your way to find that one! haha =)

[baneskrbic]

^^ lol I didn't notice that first time.

[systat]

This guys voice reminds me of a half life scientists voice.

[jfkgirl85]

Why sir I am convinced. Where can I pick up a bottle of this fine product.

[MelanieLouM]

Hop in a time machine and go to your nearest drug store. ^_^

[ushakov7]

What does dorky and douche bag mean because Idon't fully understand?Tjis man is not "dorky".Why is it in description ?

[smurfswacker]

"Dorky" refers to someone who is socially awkward and dresses or grooms himself in a way that looks funny to most people. "Douche bag" means a worthless, despicable person. This fellow looks dorky to me, but I don't think he's a douche bag.

[sfbaygirl]

I think men's hair looked so nice in the 1050's

[sfbaygirl]

Haha, 1950's, not 1050's. In the 1050's, they had the medieval style that looked like a bowl cut.

[MelanieLouM]

...and instead of dandruff, they had to contend with lice! >:P

[xMcRnPaNiCxMaNiAx]

hahaha. they had to get prescribed substances for dandruff xD

[hebneh]

When the guy combs his hair after his Enden shampoo treatment, the announcer neglects to point out that he's also dumped on a goodly amount of some kind of hair grease in the meantime. That of itself would hold a lot of the loose dandruff flakes in place, before they could shower down onto his shoulders.

For some reason, I can remember Enden. As others have commented, it had a strong smell, and it was of a thick consistency. You had to dig it out of the jar with your fingers.

[Ethaniel82]

People had such great and healthy hair back in the day

[Prod62366]

I'm gonna try it!

[catzfoever]

YES! My Dear John, You better try it, ''ENDEN'', Shampoo is good, to get rid of the bellfry's, but, curious, again to know, what it smells like ???

Josee xxxx

[smukzie]

No? It was in the fiveties? If she didn't have that on, it would have been a scandal. For crying out loud, sexappeel weren't something people saw without being ashamed. Jesus! Argh.

[spectrum10]

END dandruff for good with ENDen.

[Tippycat]

Lol hes just having to much fun washing his hair...

[Janannne]

did he bark at the end?

[Ethaniel82]

LMAO :))))

[flatheadpower2000]

It's also great for pets.

[avcomth]

I wonder what kind of carcinogenic, mutation causing radioactive ingredients are in that shampoo.

[PretProd]

Why, there's nothing wrong with that shampoo! Made from the finest Lye/Arsenic/butane/petroleum/s­ulfur combination that's safe for the whole family!

[02chevyguy]

Most dandruff shampoos contain menthol.

[martin518441]

LoL i want shiny hair like that

[graydemon]

the woman takes the shower in a bathing suit, ehhe

[jpschubbs]

This is better than the stupid commercials they make nowadays. It's like their marketing to monkeys or something.

Course, most people are idiots. Either that, or I'm just cranky.

[chrissabin1412]

lol

[vetromaster]

Doctors approved smoking as a flu medication and drinking alcohol, for the children to be healthy, and heroine cough syrup too:)

[wickedkewlmommy]

codeine cough syrup? it was codeine till DXM replaced it

[vetromaster]

Codeine cough syrup still exists in EU, I don't know about the US though.

[Awesomina112]

lolz at the end where the man talks the words dont match his lips lolz!!

[Goddafodda]

Wow, that woman was attractive.

[ChesterDoraemon]

i'm sure the negros were all over her.

[UEHCfilms]

lol shes wearing a bra

[Cjewjew2]

in the 1950s tv was a contreversial thing u couldn't put ne thin like naked in the showers or 2 people sleeping in the same bed they wouldn't even show the bathroom

[dlpunkprincess87]

lol at 34 shes wearing a bra in the shower

lollllll

[Ron2Weasley]

lmao

[spacitydrummer4JC]

Does anyone have any braincells left?

[ilovemayo123]

go watch Flavor of Love and then do some math problems. You'll be set

[WonderfullyTragicXx]

lol I never knew shampoo back then came in face cream-like containers!

[TINKamikaze]

Who in the hell washes their hair in an evening gown? 1950's women, I guess. Now get back in the kitchen, or no missionary sex tonight! >8o

Was that a sample size, or did they just package the stuff in small shoe polish cans so you'd have to re-up like a crack fiend?

[smurfswacker]

Having lived through part of this period I can tell you they really packaged shampoo this way. Bigger than shoe polish size...wider and taller glass jars. The shampoos were creme consistency. The last one packaged like this was Head & Shoulders, I think. You want to see something really weird-looking, check out the old cream deodorants in jars.

[SnDFrostey]

Hello! I have dandruff!

[magicminion]

He makes such weird faces when he is washing his hair...

[Daxflaem]

how the hell does he have dandruff?

[hebneh]

With all the grease he uses on his hair, how can anyone tell he has dandruff in the first place?

[rasputin63]

"Dorky-looking"?  he's gorgeous!

[TupeloMsBoy]

"This shampoo is the best in prevented dandruff and keeping that hair smooth. And even though I sound like I am talking into a tin can, I guarantee you it works"

[LaMortadella]

That chump wouldn't have made me want to buy this product. So many commercials around this time were like this.

[yoyodudess93]

lol, my dad used to ask for her mam to buy him this, because he saw the advert on tv when he was young! (he had really bad dandruff, lol) They were too poor though, so they could barely afford the cheapest shampoo!!

[themaltesebippy]

Was that lady washing her hair in a nightgown? Thanks for posting this classic!

[FerretMIke]

This was the era of Vitalis and Odell hair trainer, a toxic substance that used to turm my poor hair into a stiff crust of a combed out hair helmet with a dorky wave in the front.

Anyone bringing back hair products from this era would be doing a criminal act. ;-D

[hwwhwh]

I get scared thinking about putting anything on my hair or skin anytime before say, 2005. back in those days they just whacked about 5 zillion chemicals and additives to creams and stuff and sold it without knowing about cancer scares. They will probably look back on present days and wonder why we so naive to use our common sprays and creams and stuff.

[smurfswacker]

You're right, many additives in those old preparations were questionable at best. It's not so different now, just more closely watched. Like additive fads--back in the early 50s there was a chlorophyll fad. Everything had chlorophyll in it, from toothpaste and shampoo to (no lie!) a line of women's panties. Probably not dangerous, but did underwear really need help with photosynthesis?

[bongomanfromdalou]

Believe it or not, Enden was the number one dandruff shampoo in America from the time it was introduced in 1957 to 1963...the year before Procter and Gamble introduced a blue cream shampoo called "Head and Shoulders" on "Gilligan's Island." After that, Enden came to its...dare I say it..."end?"

[smurfswacker]

I had no idea! As a kid I had terrible dandruff problems and was an early user of "Head and Shoulders" (wonder if it was doctor-approved for children). For years it had a strong medicinal smell, though they finally changed it.

[RichHartley1970]

I do remember that period, about 1971 when it still came in concentrate form in a plastic tube. I can still remember how really unpleasant it smelled. Then about 1978? They made a big big deal about how they changed the formula (sort of a: "We've changed it! We swear we really really have!" desperate appeal). It then smelled much better than it did before.

[nicehandsfeet11]

lol.. ok

[RoyFive]

Now we know what Darth Vader was doing in the '50s.

[neo214]

LOL stupidcatdog! I think their audio just sucked though, or it got messed up in translation.

[smurfswacker]

It's a little of both, I think. I've heard other commercials from the period with that echo-y voiceover. I think they just liked the effect.

[neo214]

Why does it echo like that?

[stupidcatdog]

cause its in the 50s ooooooooohhhhhhhhh ahhhhh scary

[tater513]

what do i say now??? YOURE STILL A DORK!!