Dr. McKenzie's Menthoids - TV commercial (1968)

[RedHotRushes]

You know whats creepy...they turn your urine blue. No shit.

[RedHotRushes]

I found some of these in nan's medicine draw...

[Sheri451]

Did he say he took those for Brekkie?

[JBofBrisbane]

McKenzie's Menthoids - M-E-T-H-O-N

M-E-H-N-T

Ohh, B-E-X, BEX!

[Conniptions886]

@JBofBrisbane  - The Mavis Bramston Show did a sketch along those lines, where he kept mis-spelling the name...

[pyrofella]

Good God - where on earth did you find this old chesnut?

[mylillambs]

Bahaha so funny to hear that again... thanks for posting that.

[al06bert]

Great stuff! Thought I would never see this ad again.

[fjbutch]

Me too ..

[HARRY53AUSM]

and there was either Bex, or Vincents,

if all else failed. haha

[BirgitMunro]

Oh thank you - have dreamed all my life of seeing this again. They had another ad with him prodding the naked back of a woman (v daring) with his glasses, in a mock surgery, while enunciating "backache, rheumatic or muscular pain" in a perfect Scots accent. What the hell was in Menthoids - seemed to cure everything? With that & Andrews Little Liver Pills we Baby Boomers should have been disease free for life.

[tubeie07]

LOVE IT! I still say the slogan, and no one understands it - oh well :(

[Minordian]

so do i - oh the obscurity!!

great post - thank you for this classic.

[heine71]

Who is Dr. McKenzie?

[Conniptions886]

I don't think there actually was one - just there to give the product more appeal / make it seem more likely to work miracles for the sick; the "Trust me, I'm a doctor" thing...

[BirgitMunro]

It's like actors wearing white coats & filming on laboratory like sets to convince us their products are "scientific". And I think people trusted the Scots in an earlier Anglo-Aussie society.