RAID Fogger commercial

RAID Fogger commercial circa 1986. Recorded off KPRC-TV in Houston during "The Long Hot Summer".

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• RAID
• Fogger
• bug
• spray
• juice
• repellant
• promo
• commercial
• advertisement
• 80s
• 1980s

[007bondspy]

Raid keeps the flies off my sacred shits

[dnm728]

Cool!  I remember those RAID Bug Killer commercials. They invariably have some "tough guy" bugs that wind up getting sprayed and scream "RAID!?!?!?" and then POW! "RAID Kills Bugs Dead!"

[the06bug]

RAAAAAID?!?!?!?!?!



[pierre72ify]

@The31415927 What do those letters mean?!

[The31415927]

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF­FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT.....



[pierre72ify]

@shari04 I imagine you've used them already. Poor flies. Growing up watching these commercials gave me a VERY different outlook on bugs (see all my comments on page 1). I remember a couple times my landlord used the foggers on my roaches. Saw thousands on their backs afterward with antennae and legs wiggling, looking SO HELPLESS AND INNOCENT. So so sad!!

[pierre72ify]

@wawawis That's an insult. I could NEVER compare that disgusting piece of mucus to my Raid bugs. The Raid bugs would do some of the cutest things like pattering their feet, sticking their tongues out, hugging each other. Plus the terror I'd see the poor things go through sometimes when they realized Raid had them doomed. I guess the biggest difference is that bugs are living creatures with feelings and mucus is just body fluid. Plus mucus only gets evicted and my bugs would end up DEAD!

[pierre72ify]

@AaronBruceLadner Yes and though I didn't know who Dark was when I was growing up, he affected my thought life in a major way. Growing up seeing these adorable, fun loving bugs lose and get blown up all the time and Dark using pungant lines like:"Indoors or outdoors Raid hunts bugs down like radar and kills them dead!" and "Nobody does it deader!" turned me into a bug sympathizer. Not sure who I thought was meaner, the people using the Raid or Dark pronouncing their doom.

[pierre72ify]

Yeap, I was right. Just go ino flickr groups and type Raid Bug Drama in the search window.

[pierre72ify]

The person who made the comment below was myself, Pierre72ify. I have no idea how Lenzep got on their instead. Anway it was me. You can probably get on my group by going into flickr groups and clicking on Raid Bug Drama. That's the name of my site. If no luck, you can E-mail me for my link at the flipflop address I gave below. Every time I try to give my link here on Youtube, I comes up "Error, Try Again". Got to get some discussion going. One member so far.

[Lenzep5]

Would like to invite folks to check out my site about these commercials Raid Bug Drama. I have stories on characters Mugsy, Muffy, Pierre, Needles, general ad history and much more. Mugsy's commercial was out a year or two before this one and he was a real tough guy like these 3 bugs saying he wasn't afraid of nothin' til he accedentally created Raid from the word afraid. I'm not allowed to give my link on this site, but you can e-mail me for it at flipflopkid13021@yahoo.com