"Sunshine on a Stick"

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"Time for Timer was the collective title for a short series of public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in the early 1970s."
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MESSY, FROZEN, JUICE BRICKS

I love the fact that Timer thinks 12 orange juice cubes are a weeks supply of snacks. At 6 years old, I was so impatient that I never gave them the chance to freeze completely, and would scarf them down immediately!

My little sunshines on a stick where effected by global warming! I'd check on them every 2 minutes, and after checking on them 5 times, well, they seemed frozen enough to me.

I'd "carefully" remove the plastic wrap, which in-turn, would dislodge ALL of my "sticks", and after popping them out of the tray, I was left with 12 messy, partially frozen, ice juice cubes on a sticky dinner plate.

There was orange juice still sloshing around inside of them! After picking one up, the juice cube would collapse sending a trail of orange juice cascading down my arms that would pool up under my elbows and drip to the floor. "SPLASH!!!"

12 orange juice cubes didn't last for a week, they lasted 5 minutes! And as far as nutrition goes, I was lucky if I received even .0000002975% of my daily requirement of vitamin C from those messy, frozen, juice bricks!

But that was okay, because I was proud to have made a "healthy after school snack" for myself, thanks to some helpful advice from a weird little lemon-drop named, Timer.

I hope that you enjoy this treasured blast-from-the-past as much as I do.

Best wishes,
~ Hal R. Kane

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[krewgarr]

Pretty cool that he refers to pomegranate juice way back then. It was definitely not a known juice for households with children, and U.S. consumers were not widely aware of it until just a few years ago when the POM brand launched and then you saw it everywhere... Also, he shouldn't say frozen juice is a "snack". It's not solid food! This ad never tempted me at all when I was a kid.

[Hal R. Kane]

Well, you were way cooler than the rest of us as a child.

[Alan Bishop]

Who is the voice of Timer?

[Hal R. Kane]

Timer's voice was provided by actor Lennie Weinrib.

[Bryan Pierce]

This ad taught us that if you put plastic wrap in the freezer, it vanishes.

[Slap Stick]

Instead of a toothpick, I used my wiener. It was small enough to take the place of a toothpick. I don't believe in supporting the toothpick industry. But you can only do that once.

[screaminalleycat]

I always used tin foil. It held the toothpicks better.

[screaminalleycat]

OH crap! I was trying to pause it and hit the thumbs down button. I am so sorry. This is one of the best things out there. I loved this one and used to do it all the time.

[pennypay1]

Yep, I remember this was the first 'recipe' I ever made after seeing this on a Saturday morning. Mom thought these ads were great.

[bagofmashedupjackass]

I'm sure you're right. I hear that people with a "juice fetish" are even more rare than furries.

[BenjaminGessel]

Fairly certain that they meant that in an innocent way. Not 100% certain. But, this IS a PSA message, after all... (I'm cringing with disgust if the intent was less than honorable...) Oy...

[wrich1223]

Thanks for posting this! Brought back wonderful memories of Saturday mornings watching cartoons in my PJ's!

[ziweiyuan]

Do a search for the trippy 70's title "The Incredible, Indelible, Magical, Physical Mystery Trip."

[ziweiyuan]

Next time it rains I'll give this a shot.  Thanks, disturbing dancing testicle!

[RatBatSpiderCrab]

Anyone remembers the cartoon special where Timer and a couple of kids gets swallowed by their Dad and then it becomes a lesson about the inside of the human body? Been looking for that for years.It was an odd cartoon like the Yellow Submarine.