I’m Irish. I hate corn beef and cabbage, I hate green beer, and I hate green vomit in my goddamned city streets. But in honor of my dear departed grandmother’s birthday today, and to all the faithfully departed, here are some shitty St. Patrick’s Day cartoons. Don’t enjoy!
1. The Very First Ever Lucky Charms Commercial: animated by Peanut’s Bill Melendez. Why in the hell do they bother trotting out each individual marshmallow and announcing “pink hearts, green clovers!” on a black and white TV?!?!?
It’s interesting that “Lucky” endures to this day, but this mascot never did. Hmm….
Alright you mick bastards, follow the rainbow for even more!
2. Mission: Impossawhatthefuck—this video makes me feel sick, and a little weird. But it has a great message about stealing. I choose to steal their video for this page.
3. Don’t Watch This—Seriously. Just don’t. Not even high.
4. I…don’t know what to say: I just don’t know. “A four leaf clover shaped lock”? When you’re “Sobre”? “I’ll be waiting with wine what will you be waiting with?” Maybe looking for St. Patrick’s Day cartoons was a bad idea. Now I’m just filled with hate. That’s it! I’m belligerent and filled with hate! I knew I’d find the Spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, after all! God hate you, every one!
I always thought they trotted out the colors specifically for the benefit of those with black-and-white TVs. I have a lot of old commercials on tape, and they did that an awful lot, even more blatantly.
“…and its new yellow color!” As if that were a selling point.
Comment by Jeff Sparkman — March 17, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
Too bad Frito Bandito didn’t stand the test of time.
“An eraser that erases ANYTHING you draw?! What sorcery is this?!”
Comment by Friginator — March 17, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
Man, you people are pretty hard on the early days of television.. it was a simpler time. People back then had actual imaginations. If a cereal commercial advertised ‘yellow moons’, you took it on faith that the moons were in fact yellow.
Now-a-days, computer-generated lizards sell you car insurance.. so are we really better off?
Comment by Toonz — March 17, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
LOL at Friginator. “From the depths of black magic hell…the eraser!”
Comment by Chris Ward — March 17, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
You know what I like about being Irish-American?
Not caring about our raging stereotype as alcoholic, fist-fighting midgets.
Comment by Brendan McGinley — March 25, 2009 @ 9:32 pm
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Comment by Hwvdevzb — May 8, 2009 @ 3:53 am