Know what's sad? I don't think people have the attention span for a commercial like this anymore. They don't even mention the product until around the :45 mark.
Everything's wrong with that. People don't have an attention for movies, commercials, anything. I notice the difference even in my younger cousins, who are a decade older. They're yawning through movies I LOVED when I was a kid. They're growing up in the age of quick-cuts and digital effects, so it's boring for them.
No I think it is sad. I think it just shows that the corporations don't even have to try very hard. I think consumerism is accelerating and the average consumer is getting less and less aware. The advertising is now so much part of our lives that people forget they're even being manipulated. Look at most of the internet.
Does anyone remember ann old Seven Up commercial from sometimes in the early Seventies where this James Dean-type character is a ghost and looking in this "malt shop" where teenagers of the seventies are now sitting. And the ghost is saying something like "this is where me and Mary Lou" used to sit (as he stands next to a booth). And as he walks out of the malt shop in his leather jacket, you see his ghostly image get fainter as he walks down the street and 50s music plays.
Cool. Thanks for the info. I only have a vague memory of that commercial. I was beginning to think it was some false childhood memory that I might have confused with something else I'd seen on TV. I just did a google search on Mandy Patinkin. It sounds like he has overcame quite a few health issues.
The "O" in this commercial was used as a still for the cover of Mercury Rev's 3rd album "See You On The Other Side" (1995). If you are a fan of the group/project, this image and its source explains so much of what the bands sound has always been about. "Sudden Ray of Hope" on SYOTOS sounds inspired by the background music of the ad. I've been curious in seeing this animation for years, YouTube is amazing! Thanks for posting. Anymore (I think back-lit...) animation from the 70's?
Wow. Imagine that: a woman who is attractive AND looks like she eats food and has her real, original breasts.
issyvoo2 6 months ago
What about the one with the guy singing "It's delicious! It's delectable!" etc?
TammiWayKewl 11 months ago
@TammiWayKewl Yeah! That's the one I'm looking for too! I wonder if it's out there somewhere.
casestudyification 6 months ago
I feel...I feel.....High!
IAMPIZZAPASTA 1 year ago
O is the one that satifies you.. LOL !! get it?
JiggyMonster98 1 year ago
i luv 7up
cinna71 1 year ago
this commercial is sad, it looks like a horror movie sort ofcause of thte bad quilty and fucked up moon and stuff
HarleyStcool 1 year ago
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WTH?! Just weird. And creepy.
SizeSexy04 1 year ago
WTH?! Just weird. And creepy.
SizeSexy04 1 year ago
O as in "ho" represented with a woman and she is "the one who satisfies you, (womans voice) ahhhhhh"
hmmm I think this add had some sexual undertones
ExiledRogueStar 1 year ago
Wow, if you still this video at about 0:31 it's the front cover of the Mercury Rev album, "See You On The Other Side". How strange...
artrock101 2 years ago
this is what heaven would like if it was in vegas.
fascistamericadotnet 2 years ago 8
Know what's sad? I don't think people have the attention span for a commercial like this anymore. They don't even mention the product until around the :45 mark.
tygersflowerz 3 years ago
ok... that's NOT sad at all! It shows that we're finally waking up to corporate marketing techniques. What's wrong with that?
sllabnkcoc 3 years ago
Everything's wrong with that. People don't have an attention for movies, commercials, anything. I notice the difference even in my younger cousins, who are a decade older. They're yawning through movies I LOVED when I was a kid. They're growing up in the age of quick-cuts and digital effects, so it's boring for them.
tygersflowerz 3 years ago
This commercial was too long back then.
cochranexyz 3 years ago
No I think it is sad. I think it just shows that the corporations don't even have to try very hard. I think consumerism is accelerating and the average consumer is getting less and less aware. The advertising is now so much part of our lives that people forget they're even being manipulated. Look at most of the internet.
InsertName125 2 years ago
i turned it off before 0:07
crazyzach5 2 years ago
I loved that butterfly lady.She was in another 7up commercial.I was a little kid and I thought she was so pretty
3piper 3 years ago
Does anyone remember ann old Seven Up commercial from sometimes in the early Seventies where this James Dean-type character is a ghost and looking in this "malt shop" where teenagers of the seventies are now sitting. And the ghost is saying something like "this is where me and Mary Lou" used to sit (as he stands next to a booth). And as he walks out of the malt shop in his leather jacket, you see his ghostly image get fainter as he walks down the street and 50s music plays.
August8th1969 3 years ago
The commercial you're a-talkin' 'bout Mr. August, was singer/ actor Mandy Patinkin, playin' a character called "Teen Angel", if memory serves.....
Carvinter 3 years ago
Cool. Thanks for the info. I only have a vague memory of that commercial. I was beginning to think it was some false childhood memory that I might have confused with something else I'd seen on TV. I just did a google search on Mandy Patinkin. It sounds like he has overcame quite a few health issues.
August8th1969 3 years ago
And this was before CGI!
terrinoble 3 years ago
O looks like a wrap
whofarted 3 years ago
420-up is more like it....
tuttt99 3 years ago
A fresh can of 70's was just opened. Smell the rainbow!
KittySkyfish 3 years ago
stoners ad.
neoartifact 3 years ago
hey, be nice.. that might be my aunt
austinrjTFOD 3 years ago
This is horrible.
HelloMarco 3 years ago
wtf was that...
Rossfosheezy 4 years ago 5
Wow
hedrought 4 years ago
This defenitely IS the Robert Abel and Associates commercial. It was on their showreel from that time.
movingmagic1 4 years ago
Yet another great commercial from 70's.
ChristianWithNES 4 years ago
My mother used to give me 7-Up when I had stomach aches when I was a kid. I cannot tolerate a sip of it today without getting nauseous.
paktype 4 years ago
Bob Abel and Associates. This isn't "the" Abel 7up ad, but it's got some similar bits.
LazloNibble 5 years ago
The "O" in this commercial was used as a still for the cover of Mercury Rev's 3rd album "See You On The Other Side" (1995). If you are a fan of the group/project, this image and its source explains so much of what the bands sound has always been about. "Sudden Ray of Hope" on SYOTOS sounds inspired by the background music of the ad. I've been curious in seeing this animation for years, YouTube is amazing! Thanks for posting. Anymore (I think back-lit...) animation from the 70's?
espgodz 5 years ago
if thats 70's with plenty of animation there it seems it looks like anywhere from 76-1977
Promovisual 5 years ago
This commercial, and it's inane grammer, are obviously the repercussions of all the LSD that was going around in the 60s
EtreTocsin 5 years ago
What other 7up commercial, and where did u see it?
weatherbear 5 years ago
Like I said about the other 7up commercial i saw, Real Classy Graphics.
DGarcia879 5 years ago