Classic Kool-Aid commercial, featuring the Monkees

[5inthehole]

You know a music group is near the end of their rope when their doing Tv add for commercial items like kool-Aid. Whatever they were paid it wasn't enough to make them look like fools, which they do here. No wonder Peter Tork quite. It's kind of a shame, after all those snappy tunes, The Monkees would crawl to this level. Just pitiful...

[LanDi2006]

I'm here because of T.V. Tropes! lol..

[hecate55]

Notice that Peter Tork wanted nothing to do with the group? When I saw them at the Pacific Colesium (no spell check - so SUE me!!) in Vancouver in 1969, it was only Mike, Mickey & Davie. The Buddy Miles Experience, the anti-Viet Nam folks handed out flyers outside before the concert began. I was 14, my sister Colleen was 13 and it was the first thing we went to see alone, without our parents hanging around.

[magicalgirl]

I got the end and was totally waiting for Micky to pour that trophy of Kool-Aid (though it was probably empty) all over Davy. Anybody else?

[ricadrew]

It's hard to believe we used to have to ADD sugar to things, lol

[snipermaniac27]

OH - YEAH!!

[sneezepal]

The Monkees were always cool, even when pushing Kool-Aid.

[IwillKillYourCereal]

hopefully Davy's hair didn't light on fire like that unfortunate MJ pepsi incedent :/

I remember seeing a kool-aid commercial with the Monkeys and bugs bunny on a DVD once. I think it was from 1969.

[AdamsApple1963]

Lol!

[boycraz2]

mention sugar alot

[MonkeeBrett]

Yay!! Old fashion sugar and the Monkees!

[CubicalGirl]

LOL yes whenever my friends and I are bored we make kool aid too!!

[gbj11]

I believe this is the last time Mike Nesmith appeared with the Monkees.

So it's kinda historic.

[NukeIt2Bdone]

He's been in a couple of tours and recordings since then

[ardalsgirl]

Lol Micky is hilarios in these Kool-Aid commercials. :p

[acidtones1]

Where's Bugs Bunny?

I guess he taught them enough about "making friends" with Kool Aid.

[supersharan]

So...basically Kool-Aid is a drug that made young men go around and do stupid stuf like ride around in little go-karts with stupid grins singing "GET FRESH WITH KOOL AID!"

[XPatty0X]

it says get "friends with kool-aid" not get fresh

[smittykins]

"Let's make new sugar-sweetened Kool-Aid with the sugar already in it!"

Redundant, much?

[bully129]

lol. the 70's man, the whole decade was redundant.

[cloud39]

Actually, prior to this time you had to add a cup of sugar to the mix. This was one of the roll out commercials introducing pre-sweetened Kool Aid.

[Monkeefan4life]

I didn't catch that...funny. Who writes that stuff? HaHaHa!!!

I love Micky!

[thelowmax]

Yeah. They were redundant... the way they said it twice.

[inwoodliver]

Davy does what he does best! SMILE

[charliebrownhead]

I love that opening line.  Mickey sounds like he's coked up...

[FOSEEBOY]

So...THATS what the KOOL AID ACID test was.......

[iejnag]

Anyone else notice that these are the helmets/ outfits Davy and Micky are wearing on the back of the Changes album cover?

[RSG2006]

Neato. Until now I'd only ever seen this commercial in black and white, and I'd never seen the very end with Micky talking.

[PrincessBlack]

Poor guys. It was almost over....you can tell. I mean imagine how they must have felt!!

[cloud39]

Great!!! I was in this commercial. It was filmed at Belmont Park in San Diego in Feb. of 1970. The park is gone but the roller coaster is still there. I just remember drinking warm watery Kool Aid for two days while it was filmed. Oh... I think Peter Tork had left the group by then and was not in the commercial...Thanks for posting!!

[MarshmallowFire]

Cool. What are the odds?

[drummerbraves]

Sadly, Mike left the group a month later, and only Micky and Davy were the only ones left when they did the album "Changes" which came out in the summer of 1970.

[smittykins]

@drummerbraves There was an industry joke at the time that after whoever left next, the remaining member would continue as "the Monkee."

[james2529]

this is exactly the kind of bizarre-ness they parody now

[geriko2k]

Michael Nesmith is missing.

[RSG2006]

Michael Nesmith isn't missing...he's the first one who speaks in the clip, and you see shots of him here and there all throughout. It's Peter Tork who's missing.

[krushvelvet67]

This ad speaks to me. It says: WE NEED MONEY!!!!

[SarahIgnite]

Nah man, it screams "CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS!!!"

[krushvelvet67]

I hear ya...LOL!!! Here I am acting like I wouldn't have taken the money:-)

[SarahIgnite]

I feel for Mike Nesmith though! He's too cool for this guff! :D

[krushvelvet67]

My thoughts exactly, this is more of a Mickey thing, I think Davey might be too cool for this and that's saying a lot!!!

[SarahIgnite]

Micky handles the schmooze well... the man's a consummate professional. ^-^

Davey barely gets a line! Must be his turn to be the 'strong silent type'!