1970 Spray 'n Wash commercial with Betty White

[HorrorAssStab]

so weird seeing her as a brunette 0_0

[OfficiallyZaZa]

So Blanche Wasn't Lying About Her Dying Her HAIR!!!!!!!!

[softfishy]

Betty makes anything interesting

[bettysbarrels]

YOU USE THAT SPRAY AND WASH, BETTY!!!! WHOOO

[nanlisa]

She's 89 now. She'll be 90 in January. 

[nanlisa]

I wonder if she used this on Allen Ludden's clothes.

[williebobd]

Now this is cool. I just love Betty.

[BeAsTm0aD]

Man that works pretty good, I think I'll go and buy it right nn... waaaaait, this is a 1970's commercial. Damn she's good.

[OurLordLennon]

Those were the days.......

[dramaticguy]

Its the Happy Homemaker lol 

[MissGreenAgain]

This was a few years before Betty officially was the Happy Homemaker. Actually, 1970 might have been the last year that she was a brunette!

[JudgeJulieLit]

@MissGreenAgain Right-o! This real commercial may have been Betty's inadvertent audition that got her the role of "Happy Homemaker" Sue Ann Nivens on the slightly-later-'70s Mary Tyler Moore Show ... where Betty spoofed this persona by laying the Know It All syrupy (yet sometimes snide) patronizing smugness on with a trowel! Great comic gifts.

[MissGreenAgain]

@bongomanfromdalou LOL only Universal Pictures has gone through more owners.

[TheXJthatCould]

back when women actually DID laundry!

[islamstillsucksallah]

Today Spray 'n Wash is 'Resolve'.

[bongomanfromdalou]

Wow! I remember this commercial! Neat to see it again (I know I used Spray N Wash for years before SCJohnson came out with Shout!) Unfortunately, Spray N Wash is no more; Texize was purchased by Morton-Norwich International; Dow Chemical Company bought Spray N Wash in the 1980's, but spun off its oven cleaner, "scrubbing bubbles," and fantastik along with Spray and Wash to SCJohnson. Johnson sold that line to Reckitt Benckiser--which recently absorbed Spray N Wash into its Resolve line.

[sodapop380]

Wow now shes 88 and shes still walking and acting!Here shes only like 48!

[NSAshow]

they recalled this

[Jiltedin2007]

I always loved "The Happy Homemaker"!

[MattTheSaiyan]

They should do a DVD release with stuff like Betty White bloopers, outtakes, episodes of shows like "Password", commercials like this, home movies, stuff like that.

[cutie4u61288]

@MattTheSaiyan I agree! I would lovee to see that

[rmorte62]

@realplayer20j It was the leg without spray n wash. Pat attention to Betty!!

[Channing089]

haha. anyone else notice the knees of the pants are dirty? ol young betty musta been out in the mud with mr. white

[softwater88]

I love how thin, and brunette she is ! ! Now, she's like 85 still working. Go on girrrlll ! !

[HoneyLissaBee]

She just turned 88!

[cutie4u61288]

@softwater88 shes 88 now!

[Jiltedin2007]

I've always loved The Happy Homemaker!

RIP: Allen Ludden

[Jiltedin2007]

I am just trying Spray and Wash for the very first time today, with the Power of Resolve. And I have to say, that the product is purely awesome!  Leave it to "The Happy Homemaker" to promote a product as excellent as Spray and Wash.

[cutie4u61288]

@Jiltedin2007 spray and wash actually does work haha my mom uses it all the time

[kaseykahne4ever]

that was so funny

[mthivier]

Aside from it being a kick to see Betty White, it's interesting to note how "straight" commercials played it back then.  Nowadays, they have to be gimmickey or (ostensibly) comical or overtly sexual or beat-you-over-the head obnoxious, but back then, they just talked about the product. This commercial consisted of Betty simply demonstrating how Spray and Wash worked.

[pekoe]

I know ..no urban hip hop.. just straight forward

[brthdan]

Agree with the both of you! What happened to straight forward info on a product....with some nice easy jazz music in the background?

Now it's all rap/rock with flashing lights coupled with tons of camera panning, and at the end of the commercial (if you haven't gone into a seizure) you wonder WTH they were trying to selling?

[1979lincolncoupe]

@mthivier you gotta admit though, the snickers one where she gets tackled is hilarious

[SalvadorLosAngeles]

@mthivier I totally agree. Just tell tell me about the freakin product. You don't have to entertain me.