Milton Bradley Mystery Date 1960's TV Commercial

[Soulforge00]

The girl's face at 0:24 is terrifying.

[beckysamson]

is this cliff richard singing?

[edudesigns]

I think I like the 'dud' too!

[jazzteddywank]

I would do the dud, lol!

[CoachDave1957]

Yup. Santa Clause. lol

[MyCheesebrain]

If you came here because of "The Santa Clause."

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

I wonder what Milton Bradley games that the girls aged 6-14 had to resort to playing after the deletion of the Mystery Date Game in 1978? I know in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they would've played either Heart Throb or Electronic Dream Phone.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

Was the Mystery Date game discontinued by Milton Bradley in 1978 (the year of the rectangle-less "MB Key to Fun" logo)?

[jflan92]

Imagine their faces when the door is opened...to find a fat baldy guy old enough to be a dad!!

[yonkidog]

orgasm at 0:17



[funyun2]

AND YOU

[TheLadyjazzy1]

I loved that game. Got it for christmas when I was about 10. Miss the good old days!!

[citizenterryk]

always thought the "dream" guy looked like Ted Bundy.........

[Rollman1]

What no date with a Gangsta Rapper from Comton

[TheAquadonna]

Now a days is not called mystery date, its called stalkers in the personal columns. I mean look its the 1960's and pre horny teen gitrls just shy of thier first periods are getting all hot and bothered playing a game where the match up 12 yr olds with pre college guys. Gee Mattel its really swell, no wonder we had the sexual revolution in the late 1960's. The Dud guy is president of Chase Manhattan bank now.

[stolenbmx4eva]

we have to do this ad 4 our musical and im the annoncer has any1 got any tips 4 me thankx!!

[txvoltaire]

I saw a color version of this commercial in the 70's and thought it was hilarious! The thought of those guys with those young girls was ludicrous to me (of course now it's illegal).

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@txvoltaire

I'd love to see that one, too. If anyone knows where I can see that one now, please let me know.

[Glambert345]

The dud was the cutest.

[TheCRB1960]

Yes

[LarsGunblade]

I don't know. There might be something wrong with 13-year-olds wanting to date college-age guys. Seeing this commercial reminds us all exactly WHY the sexual revolution took place!

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

I wonder if a TV commercial existed for the early '70s version of this game?

[marnew08]

i live mystery date lol

[Caveman6666x]

It's great how the supposed 'prize' is a huge faggot.

[altfactor]

Mystery Date could be adapted as a TV game show in which a group of single gals could move along a huge studio-sized board, and when they get to the door, they choose numbers to indicate which guy they'd date. One would be a "dud", an actor working for the show.

If you don't wind up with the "dud", you get to go out on a date with the one behind the door when you select the numebr of the guy.

There can also be rounds where guys get to pick gals who come to the door.

[cochranexyz]

Now it's mystery stalker.

[Stereolabdream]

Those "dates" look at least 10 years older than those girls....where's Chris Hansen and the Catch a Predator team?! lol

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@Stereolabdream

And the average girl in this ad was born between January and September 1, 1955.

[zacefron4455]

Actually, The dud is Ms. Darbus (the Drama Teacher from Walt Disney's own version of Mystery Date which had High School Musical characters from the 2006 Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name) and she is about to send you to detention! yikes! but getting Gabriella, Sharpay, Kelsi and Taylor ready because Troy, Chad, Ryan and Zeke are going to show up behind the red locker door.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@zacefron4455

Had the original version of the game not been dropped by Milton Bradley circa 1976, who knows, there may have been a "Beverly Hills, 90210" edition (or a "Saved by the Bell" edition) of MDG in the early-mid 1990s.

[isk8andilikeit]

The dud is the only straight one

[Ulysses61]

The dud IS the best looking!

[HighPriestofLemuria]

Not only would the dud be the hot one, but the others would turn out to be what they then called "confirmed bachelors", or as we now know them, gays.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

psychotronix

[gopherscout]

Wow! I remember this commercial & I even had the Mystery Date game! Thanks for posting

[pbanta62]

...and that dud grew up to be Bill Gates. Serves you right you shallow teen snot for passing him up!

[InteriorCommando]

So why didn't men in the 1950's buy their wives watches for christmas and anniversaries? Because the stove had a clock!!

Ta ta da da da...

[citizenterryk]

@InteriorCommando take my wife, please!!!....

[InvaderPPG]

0:23 o_o

[kotraquin]

really #CUTE and she cums @ 0:15

[petmycatwiththose]

@kotraquin HA HAAAA, Whats wrong with you man...LMFAO...

[demztaters]

Look, an early version of Chat Roulette only minus the penises!

[ace69er]

Shame, it didnt even come with a dildo for the girls to practice on!! LOL!

[PizzaDinosaur]

The dud is here wearing his dad's fat pants to take you out for a whirlwind evening of eating 'shrooms in his beater and seeing a 4 hour jam band show!

[markisboss]

I just read about this commercial in Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader! - I remember a comedian did a spoof of this commercial in his act a while back

[passadonut]

ya he is!! lol

[summyb]

Oh how I love the dud. I think they left off an "e" at the end. :)

[Sociopathics]

...How is this a game?

You open the little door and a new picture shows up. "Weeeee....."

[Laceykat66]

@Sociopathics Try doing a little research before condemning Socio.

It was an actual game with a board and everything.

[Sociopathics]

@Laceykat66 Still doesn't seem like that great of a game, hate to break it to you.

[buffysissy]

Everyone I know always loved the "dud"!

[claudiall]

OK, but how does the picture behind the door change? Like, what's its mechanism, I mean.

[Laceykat66]

@claudiall It was a 486 sub-micro processor with 64 mb RAM and a helical operating system.

Either that, or the door knob had a tab and you had to turn it three times before you opened the door. The cards with the "dates" could also have been indexed so the tab would only allow one picture to be "on top."

[muismumbo]

A pretty close to mint version of this game just sold on eBay for $159.50. The search for Mr. Right continues!

[femininityplus]

I played this game when I was a young girl. We loved the "dream" dates...the "dud" was not desirable. Now fast forward to 2010---just about all guys look like the dud, treat girls with disrespect...what have we done to our young people? And the girls nowadays...they dress so provocatively...sometimes one has to wonder what prostitutes wear now that distinguishes them from the regular girls. And the language the girls use! We are on a long slog to cultural destruction. Bork was right.

[verbusen]

Where are the black guy dates? LOL.

[shmuli9]

@verbusen Oh come on. EVERYONE knows that black men didn't exist in the 1960s... :-)

[CatapultYourMom]

@verbusen The black guys are in the Mystery Pimp game.

[logcabnnut]

@CatapultYourMom

And black guys are f*cking all of these very same white b*tches TODAY while u white boys are still "standing there like cardboard figures"...

[ridgerunner721601]

@logcabnnut Probably a lot of white trash fooling around with black boys back then too. They just kept it hidden. Until recently, women didn't want it known if they were attracted to monkeys.

[Rollman1]

@logcabnnut What can we do ? they are making all the money to day

[verbusen]

@CatapultYourMom LOL, good one!

[Juliaflo]

@verbusen This was back in the 1960's before Richard and Mildred Loving helped to strike down those remaining statutes against interracial marriage.

I saw this very commercial back in the day; don't try figuing out my age, LOLOLOLOL.

[verbusen]

@Juliaflo 70? ok ok 92?

[Juliaflo]

@verbusen No; I am not that old, and I did not say exactly where I was when I saw it, LOLOLOLOLOL.

Have a safe holiday weekend.

[VirginSuicide77]

I always thought the beach date was the hottest!

[junkie4vids]

Nowadays, they would throw in a lesbian selection behind one of the doors...

[crackerHero]

this "girl slutafie" project started in the 1980s by the media my mom is an example and every other teen girl who lived in the 80s

[PlaygroundsWillLaugh]

@crackerHero You kiss your mother with that mouth?

[crackerHero]

@PlaygroundsWillLaugh well unlike you im not turned on by my fucking mom or ever will be so git some morals you hoochie loving prick

[underwaterwoman30]

Nothing like playing on the uncontrolled crushes of pre-pubescent teen girls who turn out to be post teen teasers.

[link000000]

Now a days this game would be called Mystery date rape...-_-

[bpentium]

Wow, things have really changed. Girls that age are getting pregnant now.

[stalag58]

@bpentium only the Mexican and black ones

[stalag58]

how come they did not have a black mystery date ? open the door and he standing there with a crack pipe lol

[trumprosie]

@stalag58 ...."Black Mystery Date-CRACK PIPE"...Uh HuH!!!....Where's The BrownTeeth Stinking Funky Ugly Crystal Meth Smoking Murderous German Nazi...... Plotting Their Next MASS Jew Annihilation

[stalag58]

@trumprosie Hes sitting here looking at Mystery Date lol

[link000000]

@trumprosie you forgot communist...

[4thCHANNEL]

@trumprosie or the white trash...or wife beater for that matter.

[4thCHANNEL]

@stalag58 sorry, but Crack wasnt even around then!! LOL and WHITE ppl buy smoke crack too..actually they smoke more crack,cuz the young whiteys just use there parents money,so they actually have easier access! but the goodnpart is...they buy it from blacks, so they get to see whitey deteriorate and die a slow death! just fact.

[stalag58]

@4thCHANNEL Well you have no photo on your profile what kind of Mystery Date are you ????? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA fucken negrows you crack me up

[MissSunshine5884]

hahaha my mom just showed me this commercial, it was a game she had when she was younger and it's so different from anything we have now :)

[grofys]

later, one of the dreams is found to have a makeshift graveyard of human skulls under his porch.

[elc1960]

Damn! I hate how TV always objectfies men as sex objects! Is that all women think we men are good for? I hate walking down the street and hearing women make comments about "Hey Babe! Is that a pickle in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" Or "How about if I sit on your lap and we'll talk about the first thing to pop up?" Come on men! Rise up against your oppressors!

[Psyprass]

I like how they all talk at the end but to nobody in particular.

[jef5150]

@Psyprass yep back in the good'ole days people ACTUALLY talked to each other,And our kids werent fat from sitting in front of a computor they went outside and played!

[ClassicTVMan81]

Where are all these girls now? How much for the girls?

[ClassicTVMan81]

As one of these people who wish the masculine take on this game was still available, I wonder what themes the MDG would've had in the 1980s.

[Sheri451]

I think my cousin had this game when I was little, she is five years older than me.

[RandiSierra]

So sweet!

[doodlechick118]

Just for you, and you, and you .... Not you :|

x

[luridplanet]

I hid my head in embarrassment whenever this came on, with my sisters laughing at me heheh

[natedoggcata]

If this game was made today the girls would be slutting it up and the good dates would all be skinny shirtless dudes with chiseled bodies and the duds would be fat slobs.

[dfszczepan]

LOVE IT!!!! My most favorite game ever! Brings back so many fond memories. Thanks so much for posting! BTW I always loved the DREAMBOAT!

[zipKINGofROCK]

or...a DUD?

[waltonmt]

I felt the dud thing would suffice. Apparently my ex wife felt otherwise.

[marycorl]

I always LOVED the poindexter....still want to marry him!

[ArizonaDelRio]

Didn't somebody have to put the date behind the door? How did that work?

[KarenBee09]

Love it !!

[partygirl209]

i'ver heard of this game!! is it good?!?!?

[CheezyChewbacca]

you know your gay when your caught playing mystery date....

[Ptowngansta17]

@CheezyChewbacca LOL!

[oppfighter]

@CheezyChewbacca Shut UP! It was raining out and I had nothing else to do. It was either mystery date, or the barbie. I went with the mystery. Thats not gay...........maybe

[hellonewman114]

the song reminds me of fleet foxes

[LILMISSCHRISS158]

pure magic :)

[mjfollo]

The version they make today replaced the "dud"with a "nerd" who has taped glasses and a pocket protector! In the 1970s, I actually married the Dud! 15 years later I married the Nerd! Can't seem to get away from that end of the game!!!!!

[Vampima11]

THEY ARE ALL ON STEROIDS

[LadySierraSays]

I kept getting the dud , I think the other Girls rigged it soo they would'nt get him , soo I always did , then I finaly caught on to it when I turned 35ish , LOL !!!! and Ironically I was actually married to a real life Dud for 10 yrs. , did those other girls I played with know something I did'nt ? Hmm ???

[wolfmyth007]

I always wondered what this was, ever since I first heard it mentioned in The Santa Clause when I was seven...it's basically a early version of 'dream date'...the game with the phone..

[kirkmach32]

So you see, in the old days everyone was stereotyped. Not just the crybaby, so-called "minorities." Everyone had equally good and bad chances in life, and everyone faced equal likelihood to become a "dream" or a "dud." And like so many of these posts suppose, many of both dreams and duds turned out differently later on. Moral: nothing is as it seems, don't count your chickens before they've hatched, and all's well that ends well.

[fiamike]

@kirkmach32 Yeah, everything was pretty equal, wasn't it?

[MrRedFredSaid]

@kirkmach - what?

[jojoboy329]

I cant believe I found this old commercial. I remember as a small boy sitting in front of the T.V. listening to this man's voice as though it was a lulu by. Later to learn that he was crooning as a singer. Wow I haven't heard this in 40 plus years!!

[bananasketch]

Gotta love the (s)dud!

[torgo123456789]

The dud is a rebel. He plays by his own rules......

[Mitube]

I remember when they used to make fun of this game on "The Simpsons"

[saml760]

Mystery Date would make a great reality show,wouldn't it? by the wat,you could probably get Mystery Date at ebay for about $200

[mrslunz]

The dud would be the hot one today!

[karmadhyana]

@mrslunz I almost always got the 'dud', and didn't mind a bit; he WAS hot!

[Rollman1]

@karmadhyana But did he smell ?

[karmadhyana]

@Rollman1 I'm not sure--we were too poor to have the 'scratch 'n' sniff' version. But, I bet if he smelled like anything, it would have been Hai Karate.

[jetskidrummer]

I liked the slob guy best..

[problem49]

Richard Simmons' parents gave him this game one Christmas without realizing it was just for girls. I wonder if it affected him somehow?

[jess4metoo]

@problem49 I don't think so.

[beatlemacfab]

I remember this great commercial!!! My oldest sister had this game. I bought one in mint condition on Ebay!!!

[turbo1964]

the "dud" is the hottest one. always was, always will be.

[crowamonghens]

but the "Dud" will turn out to be the CEO of Apple or something.

[Jsuarez6]

Why does the "dud" look like a migrant farm worker?

[chrisman737]

Because that is the definition of "dud" from the standards of those times. But a migrant farm worker could be very attractive to some girls, I would think!

[Jsuarez6]

There was probably that one girl who played the game and secretly did see the "dud" as a rough, dark, strong, tall, attractive man. She then probably grew up to write those steamy romance novels. :)

[OldMrMemories]

Geez, I'm 50 yrs old and I immediately remembered the words to this song. What a geek I am. Actually,me and my brothers would be laughing back then cause we had a cousin who looked like the dud.

[alfieeeyes]

i don't get it?

[will2dmax]

You notice back then they didn't "slutafie" the girls they looked like regular girls and not 20 year old pole dancers.

[theavelfairy]

Um, that's because the target market of this game isn't 14-25 year old males. It's called common sense, unrelated to the year it was made.

[valentineshoney]

@will2dmax Yes, but it was the "regular" girls you had to watch out for! LOL ;)

[shanquilla562]

@will2dmax yea, but check out the caterpillar eyebrows on the first little girl, she probably already has a hairy bush

[CookieMonstahGirl]

Lmfao at 0:25

[TheMikester307]

Some of the girls in the commercial have probably had grandkids with their Mystery Date by now!

[broadwaygk32]

"You got the dud" "That looks like you pointdexter" (The Simpsons)

[TruiteCoquine]

There was another dud in the game named "Poindexter." When I think about it now, the dream guys are probably all fat drunks who won't mow the lawn, and the geek, Poindexter, is. . .Bill Gates.

[BJORT]

They stil make this?

[videogamelovergirl12]

the dud is hot.

[shadowman432]

ops 0:24

[shadowman432]

lol 0:26

[pinkysgrl]

Yeah, dud seemed hot and happening - he's probably the guy who would take you out for some dangerous fun. The "dream dates" seemed like the boring jerks your mom wanted you to date.

[jrwel14]

Remember this one. Do you have the old H-I-S jacket commercial?

[FranklyFred]

I love the DUD!

[WebkinzProductionz]

I remember this commerical -- the funniest part is the expressions on the girls' faces & how they sigh!

[jackiemickie]

There's guy who plays for the cubs named Milton Bradley.

[headley62]

These days, that "dud" would be considered a hunk.

My have times changed.

[headley62]

I think you have your board games confused old boy.

Your referring to the Milton Bradley board

game " Masterbate.

[2nicks]

The dud is hot...should have made him more nerdie!

[ineedanhero]

How old fashioned, girls actually wanting to date a good looking respectable guy!

Oh wait, that's normal.

[RavenMichaels]

Its pretty weird how upbeat and happy TV was, considering the stuff that was going on back then...

[turbo1964]

The "dud" is the hottest guy!

[Spoothead12]

"Milton Bradley makes the best games in the world." No. Parker Brothers do.

[chimpstop]

I actually watched some girls play this game...some time between 1967 and 1969

[sfbaygirl]

I like the guy going swimming ;)

[casillasink]

wtf!!

[coolgirl53090]

lol they made new one..i got it for xmas in like 3rd grade:P

its pretty amazing!

[josiesezlol]

0:18 came

[marksmail2]

Open the door, for your, ahhhh, Mystery Daaate.

[soccernita]

I remember watching this commercial as a little girl, and thinking there was maybe something wrong with me, because I thought the "dud" was way hotter (or whatever that equated to in my little girl brain) than the "dream". It is so funny to see it again after so many years. And kind of gratifying to read the previous posts, and see that I'm not the only one who preferred the dud over the young Republican.