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Catherine O'Hara for Dristan 1979

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Uploaded by on Aug 15, 2009

the brilliant Catherine O'Hara of SCTV suffers the sniffles in this 1979 commercial for Dristan pain reliever

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  • Sorry, but are you sure this is 1979? I was watching SCTV 77-78, so wouldn't this have predated that? Just wondering....

  • @AdamqK This clip is definitely from a 1979 television broadcast but it could have been made a year (or even two) earlier. SCTV was an extremely low-budget show (especially during its first few years) so any side jobs that came for its actors I'm sure provided a welcome bit of additional income.

  • Weird ending. I suppose that "ASA" was a generally understood anachronism in those days? I don't know what the hell they were talking about.

  • ASA means Acetlsalicylic Acid - it's a pain reliever & anti-inflammatory. Aspirin is a trademarked name for this, which is why they simply refer to it as ASA.

  • @robatsea2009 Is that because it was sold in Canada? I don't ever remember anyone using ASA, here in the states. Of course, I wasn't paying attention to commercials in 1979.  Even ones with Catherine O'Hara.

  • @kyokogodai Aspirin, Bufferin, Anacin....these common brands are all ASA. If you've ever seen any advertisements for these or know anyone who's taken them then they were using ASA.

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  • When the second woman walked into the shot, for a second there I thought it was Andrea Martin!!!

  • I've noticed that the depiction of ordinary people at home was much more realistic in the 70's than it is now.

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  • @kyokogodai Yes. Bayer trademarked the name "Aspirin" in Canada, so the generic form is called "ASA."

  • @loyaldude10 Even here, you can see the comedienne in her; at the beginning when she goes "wooo", and when she squeaks "wha?"

  • DARKIES!!!

  • I remember that add. When she says... 'hmmhmm, alot' and spins the cap. I totaly remember that.

  • @rn8393 Me too.

  • Catherine has natural beauty, and was a brilliant actress. Could be the beautiful babe, or a zany ditz.

  • @robatsea2009 Okay, fair enough. It's just a bit like seeing Andrea Martin in Black Christmas. Weird.

  • After knowing her moves now these many years, the look on her face at the end of the commercial shows she is holding in a feeling of condescension having to say the last line.

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