1990 Rat Fink Toy Commercial

I think I did a spit take the first time I saw this spot (Good thing I just happened to be recording Yogi Bear that day...) Some great animation of Ed Roth's monster characters!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Rat
• Fink
• 1990
• Ed
• Roth
• toys

[wsbtam]

These were some of the coolest toys ever! I still got ALL of em, and they work every bit as well as when they were new!!

RIP Big Daddy Roth..yer missed!!

[manlyflash]

This is honestly the scariest toy to have ever been invented. Please inform me if it is not.

[brnleague99]

@manlyflash Forgotten "Madballs" have we? *grin*

[JenChristison89]

R.I.p. Ed you are missed everyday

[AnimeNewsRadio101]

ah! i remember this one, when to my high school and saw painitng of big daddy himself and rat fink "he was from bell high school and i gald i was their!" and wonder how much those days cost?

[neovoltron25]

I used to have one of the toys, but sadly it broke. :(

[zoutput]

I was the copywriter who dreamed this spot up. To my knowledge it's the only time that Rat Fink ever spoke, so I got to give him the voice. It was a great experience working with Ed Roth. I still have notes from Ed during the animation process commenting on the progress, "fatten him up" as well as the original animation frames. My only copy exists on a decaying 3/4" video so I was excited to find this (at my 27 year olds request.)

[J5MARLON]

@Beechboy68 I remember this too and I'm 29 now

[Beechboy68]

hahaha I remember this!! Im 28 years old now...

[HCShannon]

Rat Fink here kind of reminds me of Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night, any chance he was voiced by Jim Cummings in this commerical?

[andypops100]

hot rods rock the world

[gorillazfan3]

i had the rat fink painted on the back of one of my denim jackets.......so awesome.