1976 ABC Funshine Saturday Morning Commercial Break

[100muddmudd]

Yup

[AarHan3]

Whatever happened to Jabberjaw??

[3zy]

@AarHan3 He took on Harvey Birdman as his lawyer and his career just fell apart after that.

[johnnytheC]

I'm surprised how fat the man in the PO commercial is- as if it were nowadays!

[67nairb]

Do you suppose that lion, crocodile and tiger wanted to eat the mouse or his Cheetohs.

[67nairb]

Commercials breaks like this make me time sick and wish I could go back to my childhood in the 70s.

[Attila709]

@67nairb I know exactly how you feel. How wonderful to be 8 years old again and not have any worries.

[67nairb]

@Attila709 It would be great if there really was a time machine and we take a vacation back in time, anytime. Maybe that will happen, anything is possible. But it'll probably not happen in our lifetime.

[Attila709]

@67nairb You never know, technology is making large leaps faster and faster. But to be honest, I would only go back in time if I knew then what I know now. There were a lot of horrible years I would never want to repeat.

[67nairb]

@Attila709 Well the 1970s wasn't all that great a decade: there were gas shotages, car lines at the gas pump, there was Watergate, the fall of Saigon, the genocide in Cambodia, terrorism, Jonestown. Not the best of times. But isn't that to be said about all decades; it was the best of times it was the worst of times? Anyway the 70s didn't seem bad to me when watching cartoons every Saturday and after school. When your an 8 year old kid world events don't mean a thing.

[Attila709]

@67nairb If you want to look at it that way, then every day is a bad one. Many people all around the world are losing a friend or family member they love.Things weren't always fantastic about being a kid. I grew up in a bad neighborhood the Bronx. It was really dirty and dangerous. I went to a catholic school were nuns would routinely beat kids. But all in all, the good times sure made up for the bad one. It's amazing how much joy a child can get out of the most simplest of things.

[67nairb]

@Attila709 I'm sorry if you were routinely beaten by nuns. That must have been horrible. The worst I got from a nun was a spank.

[67nairb]

@67nairb However I think looking back the 70s was a better time for Saturday morning tv and a better time to be a kid in general. There weren't that many tv stations back then to start with. Sometimes having a wide variety of anything isn't good.

Was my discussion of bad world events in the 1970s inappropriate in this conversation? About Watergate, Vietnam, gas shortages and stuff? I'm a big history buff and I thought I'd just add those pieces of information.

[67nairb]

Thanks for the memories man. The quality of these tv commercial are great considereing the fact they're over 35 years old. I do remember watching the Funshine Saturday Clown way back in 76.

[67nairb]

Alan Swift is the voice of Cheezan in the Cheetos commercial.

[67nairb]

@67nairb The Cheetos mouse apeared in a number of commercials in the 1970s; including a commercial in which he was Cheezy Rider. His name a parody of the movie EASY RIDER and Cheezy Rider played motorcyclist in this commercial. Does anyone remember that commercial?

[Raretelevisiondvds]

I have this Block of Saturday Morning Cartoons from 1976 with commercials,email me for info.

[Attila709]

That's so cool to see the Funshine Saturday Clown again. Love to see the 74 sneak preview special that introduced him. Thanks!

[yerkeskid]

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