@CerebralEntrophy All I know is that the bug sprays used to work when I was a kid. The spray companies used to compete to make their product more deadly than their competitors because that's what people would buy. When we were kids everyone in the neighborhood had a can of bug spray usually a different brand. We would spray bugs to see which was most effective. A spider never lived more than 2 seconds around here after it was sprayed. Now they don't even die after spraying.
@CerebralEntrophy Yeah, bub, I miss products that worked. We are current infested with Chinese stink bugs, lady bugs, gypsy moths, mosquitos, ticks and several others. None of these bugs were around when I was a kid and you could by insecticides that worked. The diseases carried by these pests are probably far worse then any danger from effective pest control measures. You can't buy those things any more, only watered down versions. Idiot.
Back when I was a kid in the late 1960's the bug spray people competed to see who could make the most deadly spray, I remember Raid and Black Flag, but there were several others also. They ALL worked better that the bug stuff now, I sprayed a stinkbug with bug spray the other day and it didn't even die. I miss Chlorodane, DDT and others you could buy :(
@NanaNarcotic Yes Raid's been tormenting my poor bugs both in real life and the cartoons for 63 years! I'd give anything to go back to when they only had the sprays 'til about 1980. Since then they've had roach traps, foggers and fumigators, sterilizing baits, etc! The sprays and baits get worse by the year. Many of my bugs real or cartoon who were tough/well hidden enough to laugh at the sprays are finding themselves and their unborn dead at the hands of these new deadlier products.
@6motion6 It's redundant but when I commented about what's the alternative my late father commented that some stuff kills them but does it very slowly.
@6motion6 The logo I think is to encourage people to buy it since it gives the impression that Raid is absolutely deadly to bugs. So do the stories that these ads tell with the bugs losing to the Raid EVERY TIME no matter how smart, sneaky, well hidden, tough, or fast the bugs might be. Those stories plus the kills bugs dead line and some of the other companies lines like "D-Con is dead end for bugs" actually made me feel sorry and be afraid for bugs as a child.
@6motion6 Yes I E-mailed S.C. Johnson 5 times asking them to check out my site about their ads (Raid Bug Drama in flickr/groups), but I guess they're too busy making money to pay attention to sentimental stuff. In my 20's I put my touching stuff into reality protecting roaches in tanks during a fumigation. But the exterminator found them and destroyed them all on me. So I experienced a real-life version of a devastating Raid commercial. Check out my site if you like anybody.
These ads were first seen around 1960; the announcer is Bob LeMond. Animated commercials were more sophisticated (and better produced) in the late '50s than a decade before [see Sid Glenar's 1949-'50 "Pabst Blue Ribbon" ads for an example].
lol I'm surprised the bugs weren't portrayed by nazis.
koolinturn 4 months ago
@CerebralEntrophy Good point.!
6motion6 4 months ago
@CerebralEntrophy All I know is that the bug sprays used to work when I was a kid. The spray companies used to compete to make their product more deadly than their competitors because that's what people would buy. When we were kids everyone in the neighborhood had a can of bug spray usually a different brand. We would spray bugs to see which was most effective. A spider never lived more than 2 seconds around here after it was sprayed. Now they don't even die after spraying.
clintonearlwalker 4 months ago
@CerebralEntrophy Yeah, bub, I miss products that worked. We are current infested with Chinese stink bugs, lady bugs, gypsy moths, mosquitos, ticks and several others. None of these bugs were around when I was a kid and you could by insecticides that worked. The diseases carried by these pests are probably far worse then any danger from effective pest control measures. You can't buy those things any more, only watered down versions. Idiot.
clintonearlwalker 4 months ago
Back when I was a kid in the late 1960's the bug spray people competed to see who could make the most deadly spray, I remember Raid and Black Flag, but there were several others also. They ALL worked better that the bug stuff now, I sprayed a stinkbug with bug spray the other day and it didn't even die. I miss Chlorodane, DDT and others you could buy :(
clintonearlwalker 5 months ago
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makes your house smell like shit
hypVideo 6 months ago
I NEVER KNEW RAID WAS SO OLD! XD
NanaNarcotic 9 months ago
@NanaNarcotic Yes Raid's been tormenting my poor bugs both in real life and the cartoons for 63 years! I'd give anything to go back to when they only had the sprays 'til about 1980. Since then they've had roach traps, foggers and fumigators, sterilizing baits, etc! The sprays and baits get worse by the year. Many of my bugs real or cartoon who were tough/well hidden enough to laugh at the sprays are finding themselves and their unborn dead at the hands of these new deadlier products.
pierre72ify 9 months ago
Bug spray is nerve gas colloidally suspended in light petroleum distillate. ;])
buzzclick500 10 months ago
late 50's,maybe even 1960's...not 1948
gplito 11 months ago
I thought Raid wasn't sold until 1956
qwertasdcfghjklmo24z 1 year ago
George Carlin quote: "If Janitor In A Drum made a douche nobody would buy it, man. It would be like . . . Raid feminine hygiene spray."
elc1960 1 year ago
The statement "kills them dead" is redundant. Perhaps the writer of this ad was accidentally sprayed w/Raid and consequently suffered brain. damage.
6motion6 2 years ago 7
@6motion6 It's redundant but when I commented about what's the alternative my late father commented that some stuff kills them but does it very slowly.
sneakers55 1 year ago
@6motion6 The logo I think is to encourage people to buy it since it gives the impression that Raid is absolutely deadly to bugs. So do the stories that these ads tell with the bugs losing to the Raid EVERY TIME no matter how smart, sneaky, well hidden, tough, or fast the bugs might be. Those stories plus the kills bugs dead line and some of the other companies lines like "D-Con is dead end for bugs" actually made me feel sorry and be afraid for bugs as a child.
pierre72ify 9 months ago
@pierre72ify That's a touching story-you should tell it to the company that makes Raid. What a fine product!
6motion6 9 months ago
@6motion6 Yes I E-mailed S.C. Johnson 5 times asking them to check out my site about their ads (Raid Bug Drama in flickr/groups), but I guess they're too busy making money to pay attention to sentimental stuff. In my 20's I put my touching stuff into reality protecting roaches in tanks during a fumigation. But the exterminator found them and destroyed them all on me. So I experienced a real-life version of a devastating Raid commercial. Check out my site if you like anybody.
pierre72ify 9 months ago
how in God's name did you get "1948" You musta had a little sprayed on YOO, too!!
8unclewayne8 2 years ago
Tracks them down like RADAR!
doinblow 2 years ago
Being it was advertised as "new" this commercial must have been made in 1956 the year Raid was first on the market.
congomanandumbla 3 years ago
These ads were first seen around 1960; the announcer is Bob LeMond. Animated commercials were more sophisticated (and better produced) in the late '50s than a decade before [see Sid Glenar's 1949-'50 "Pabst Blue Ribbon" ads for an example].
fromthesidelines 3 years ago 6
looks more like a commercial from the 60's to me.
Chibikeet 3 years ago
Raid it kills them dead.
Tkscz 3 years ago 3
The year 1948 is incorrect, this was made in the early 1960s.
ratpackvips 3 years ago 2
RAAAAAAAAAIDDDD!!!!
But the bugs are so cute! lol
tvpirate05 4 years ago
Yes and they all get decent burials in the vid !
johnh23 3 years ago
raid is still the best.
kirbyman1kanden7pf 4 years ago
RAIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDD
mrcole92 4 years ago
xD RAID
yeahcristyeah 5 years ago
Raid discovery por johnsons wax xD
yeahcristyeah 5 years ago
RAID!
finetip 5 years ago