watch it: 1960s IHOP commercial
Holy crap:
please subscribe at $1 per month... cheap!
(and eliminate forever ads like the one that used to be here)
(and eliminate forever ads like the one that used to be here)
As Margaret at Jezebel puts it: “IHOP Serves Up Pancakes With A Side Of Acid.”
I’ve always thought there was something a little... creepy... about IHOP. Perhaps I have subsconscious memories of hearing this commercial in utero.
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posted by bronxbee (Thu Mar 11 10, 11:18PM)
agreed! this was like an IHOP commercial designed and directed by Stephen King! all it needed was a creepy clown serving the pancakes... oh wait! it *was* a creepy clown... and the human voice! so... soothing... so enticing... so syrupy! i'll never enter an IHOP again... all of which still look like they were designed in the 60s "international retro future" style.
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posted by Tonio Kruger (Fri Mar 12 10, 3:07AM)
It's the official restaurant of Alvin and the Chipmunks...if not the inspiration for Brownsville Station's "Martian Boogie"...
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posted by David Cornelius (Fri Mar 12 10, 3:14AM)
I didn't know the Silver Shamrock people did IHOP ads.
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posted by Tonio Kruger (Fri Mar 12 10, 3:16AM)
For those of you who don't remember "The Martian Boogie."
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posted by Der Bruno Stroszek (Fri Mar 12 10, 6:43AM)
When I saw MaryAnn's "Holy crap", I assumed the commercial would be outrageously sexist, or racist, or show some sort of outrageously dated attitude. After watching the clip, I almost wish that was it. That was terrifying.
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posted by Anne-Kari (Fri Mar 12 10, 10:42PM)
That was just.. just....
**shudder**
And the thing is, when I was a kid there were not IHOPs anywhere near me, but my love of pancakes made me think that it must be a little slice of heaven.
A whole 'HOUSE' dedicated to PANCAKES? What else could be so freaking awesome!?!?!
Yeah, then I moved to California and finally actually ate at an IHOP. What a letdown...
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posted by Brian (Sat Mar 13 10, 12:11AM)
I think Almost Famous gives us all the insight we need here:
"I'M ON DRUGS!!"
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