Snickers Commercial 1972 - Gladiators

[loltube100]

i rember mars bars

[BrokenAeroVT]

Hail Caesar, all this blood is making me hungry, pass me a Snickers bar!

[zimmtube]

I acquired these 16MM commercials because I use to sweep the floors at a TV station in the early 70's. One day, I crossed paths with a guy who was heading to the dumpster with a box of commercials. He asked me if I wanted them. I said, "sure" and then carried them around for 30 years before I decided to share them here. That's the whole story, take it or leave it.

[BrokenAeroVT]

@zimmtube Thanks for preserving these commercials! Takes me back.

[lambchopxoxo]

@zimmtube wow great story!

[MrDeCorey]

I love Snickers I bet they tasted better back then.

[guy101401]

@MrDeCorey why would it, that makes absolutly no sense

[raddchick57]

i want to taste that peanut munch.

[guy101401]

@raddchick57 then get offutube and go buy 1

[raddchick57]

@guy101401 do they actually still sell them?

[guy101401]

@raddchick57 yeah its called a snickers bar

[raddchick57]

@guy101401 Lol not the peanut munch.

[SheriffTankStoner]

@guy101401 And it Britain it was once called 'Marathon' before the changed it to Snickers.

[92Alexander19]

@raddchick57 wanna taste my peanut PUNCH?!

[gablober]

Where do u get old commercials like this? And how???

[redshiftexperiment]

I am pretty sure you buy the 16 mm film. A lot of people have the old 16 mm projector and then they collect old television shows and commercials (sold at flea markets and the like) that can only be viewed this way. I was considering buying a projector and starting to collect myself but I have no room in my house as is!

[gablober]

LoL thanks.

[deejay820]

I want a snickers peanut munch! why'd i have to be born in the 80's it's not fair :-( although the 80's were kickass!

[143AC]

Does anyone know the name of the actor..who

played the peanut vendor in this classic Snickers

tv plug?

[mwp62]

My guess is Barney Phillips, who was "Haley the Bar Tender", in the Twilight Zone episode, "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?".

[melman74b]

I remember a commercial that went something like "No Matter How You Slice It, Snickers Always Comes Up Peanuts" and they would rapidly slice up the bar really fast and backtrack the film and bring it back whole again. Anybody else remember that one?

[BrickstarRunner]

DANG! This commercial makes me wish I wasnt elergric to peanuts!

[mwp62]

elergic?

[BrickstarRunner]

yea. Elergic to peanuts, so i'm elergic to snickers. My wind pipe gets swelled up and I have a hard time breathing mwp62

[mwp62]

Sorry, I did not mean to come across sarcastic. I thought you were just being funny by spelling allergic, "elergic" no harm meant... They just made a big break through recently in the treatment of peanut allergies - the study was recently done at Duke University Medical Center and Arkansas Children's Hospital, it's pretty interesting. I Googled it. Best to you.

[pluto1111777]

when did marathon become snickers? did they both exist together for a time? its just tehr are ads on here for marathons made after this one lol

[SheriffTankStoner]

@pluto1111777 Yeah, the Snickers name was used in the US at the same time the Marathon name was used in the UK.

[OzaiFan]

Ah, the Emperor gave a thumbs up. That means the Gladiators get to live.

[ColyTom]

Yummy!

[mm3861]

Notice that they never did quite explain what "noogut" was? It was later discovered that "noogut" was solidified squirrel snot!

[gammaron]

Nougat = a confection of nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste

(Merriam-Webster dictionary)

[brendaleake]

does anyone remember the snicker's commercial (maybe it was milky way but i am sure it was snickers) from maybe 1974? a guy is doing his homework and his friends come in w/a candy bar w/a candle stuck in it singing happy birthday and he laughs and exclaims "oh you guys are too much!"

[ItalianQue]

I remember that commercial....they cut each guy a piece of that candy bar like a birthday cake...WOW that must have been 1972 or 73.

[TriviaGeek463]

@brendaleake Yes....I'm geeky like that, LOL! Not sure of the exact year but that sounds about right :)

[winsonkoh]

wow this brings back memories~

[Chub4ChubsRule]

wow, can that color fade anymore then it has?

[ColyTom]

Lmao!

[Windmacht]

Cool