Kevin's Watch

I threatened to do it -- and here it is! Yay, I'm *not* crazy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUnqrZI4qE

I remember that!!!

I've been quoting it for years to the kids. I'm sure they thought I was making it up. Needless to say, I've sent them the link...

What is the little boy saying? "its a _ _ _?"

"It's a horse!"

aliantha wrote:"It's a horse!"

ohhhhh I thought it was something else .....whore (in the bathtub) Thought it was some kind of spoof of an old commercial. Anything is possible on youtube.

No no.
That is the actual Mr. Bubble commercial!

Menolly wrote:No no.
That is the actual Mr. Bubble commercial!

I am kind of ignorant of television BST (before star trek)

Do you know I never saw a television until I was 14! It was not allowed in the house. I had to do some serious begging to see James T. Kirk.

Whoa.

And I thought I was deprived going without color until I left for college in 1978.

Let me tell you...

We watched the annual showing of The Wizard of Oz on NBC every year until it reverted back to CBS. And I loved it. But it wasn't until I saw the scene of Dorothy opening the farm house's door on to Munchkinland in the theater when I saw the first That's Entertainment that I understood the power of the shift from monochrome to technicolor in that film. Prior to that, I had no idea that happened. The entire film was always black and white for me...

Menolly wrote:The entire film was always black and white for me...

Me too.

The only color TV in the house was in my brother's room. Have I told this story here yet? I don't think so. Okay, anyhow, so my brother, who is 10 years older than me, had a part-time job at a TV store downtown when he was in high school. One day a customer brought in this big ol' console color TV set, and the shop owner told my brother that if he could get it running, he could have it for free. So he did. And instead of being a nice person and putting it out in the living room for all of us in the family to enjoy, the jerkface put it in his room and wouldn't let anybody else watch it.

For reasons too tedious to mention here, there was a window between his room and the family room, which he would often keep open. My parents had shoved an old armchair under that window. Sometimes I would sit in that chair on my knees and watch Saturday morning cartoons in color through the window -- until he would catch me and chase me off....

aliantha wrote:

Menolly wrote:The entire film was always black and white for me...

Me too.

The only color TV in the house was in my brother's room. Have I told this story here yet? I don't think so. Okay, anyhow, so my brother, who is 10 years older than me, had a part-time job at a TV store downtown when he was in high school. One day a customer brought in this big ol' console color TV set, and the shop owner told my brother that if he could get it running, he could have it for free. So he did. And instead of being a nice person and putting it out in the living room for all of us in the family to enjoy, the jerkface put it in his room and wouldn't let anybody else watch it.

For reasons too tedious to mention here, there was a window between his room and the family room, which he would often keep open. My parents had shoved an old armchair under that window. Sometimes I would sit in that chair on my knees and watch Saturday morning cartoons in color through the window -- until he would catch me and chase me off....

Didn't watch the youtube vid, I'm just responding to this. Jerkface indeed, ali. Makes me appreciate all the more how generous my older sister was towards me.

Thanks, MM. Need I say that not much has changed?

Okay, that was too much of a downer. Let's see...

Oh! So I can't decide what my favorite part of the ad is. It's either when Grandma gets on the phone and yells, "Operator! There's a man in the bathtub!" (I'd forgotten that she hangs up the receiver on the coat tree ) or when she towels dry the bath toy.

I think my favorite part is when Hubert says:

"Madame, how do you do..."
While waggling his soapy eyebrows with the hat on.