The scattershot musings of a Los Angeles appellate attorney and devotee of popular culture
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Selling Bubble Bath -- and Scarring Childhood Psyches
Mark Evanier's blog recently featured this bubble bath commercial from the early sixties. I don't know what's more disturbing: Dick Tracy appearing naked in a kid's commercial; Tracy using his two-way wrist TV while in the bath; Tracy using the two-way TV to sing a duet with the egg-stealing muskrat from DEPUTY DAWG; or Tracy doing all this after surviving a car crash in which he's ejected through the front windshield of his police cruiser and into a tree.
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