Old advertisement for Evel Knievel's popsicles
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"Little Billy liked to chew on the plastic popsicle mold."
The kid only looks that way because he knows if the shoot doesn't go well he's going to get his arm broken with a baseball bat.
Are those popsicles? they look more like lollipops.
TOTALLY disturbing. Because those fins at the bottom will melt off before you can eat that far down.
I didn't know it was possible for a 12-year-old to have eyes that crazy. Somebody get him a Thorazine.
Oh great, we're all going to be on a watch list now, aren't we? Hope no one was planning a career working with kids.
This kid grew up to be that guy who was never NOT tripping. I'm sure most of you knew him.
I bet they were disappointing. And why is the kid eating the mold?
I vaguely remember these (or something very similar around that same time) and I recall it being almost impossible to get the finished product out of the mold. Oh, and I'm not the kid in that pic.
wow, i either had this, knew someone who had it, or saw it at a yard sale and coveted it. you don't forget that kid's face.
and, yeah, it does look like he's enjoying the mold.
The kid looks almost exactly like Brendon Urie from that band Panic at the Disco.
This is bad on so many levels. The slightly cross-eyed, insane look on the kid's face? The fellatio themed popsicle? The other mold that looks like a piece of raw meat? Evel is Evil.
That kid is proof that ventriloquist dummies and humans can have viable offspring.
That is, by far and away, the most penis-like frozen treat I've ever seen. Between the "wings" and the fleshlike color - as well as a suggestion of noncircumcision - all I can wonder is what the hell the marketers were thinking.
"Kids! Let Evel jump YOUR Snake River Canyon! It's action-tastic!"
Dear god, what's wrong with him? Someone call and old priest and a young priest.
Like Jimi with the plaster-casters.
I was thinking maybe little Noel Gallagher. Would explain a lot.
If this ad were made today, instead of a deranged-looking boy it would feature a teenage girl in a bikini sitting by the side of the pool running her tounge up and down the "shaft." This is a scary ad, but it still makes me miss the old days when even a penis-shaped Popsicle wasn't intentionally hypersexualized
Probably would have sold more popsicle molds with that add too.
Is this kid somehow related to Juliette Lewis?
"There's a very fine line between being scared and concerned. Since I don't like to say I'm scared, I say I'm concerned. But, you know what? I really might be a little bit scared. Yes?"
Um, can you tell me a bit about the mechanisms on your bike?
"Well, it's a skycycle actually, honey. It's not a bike. A skycycle. There are only two skycycles in the whole world and I own them both. I had three, but the third one is in the bottom of the Snake River Canyon."
Evel Knievel retired in Clearwater, Fla. and was on an oxygen tank which he received from the company I used to work for. He calls me one day and says "Son I was at the grocery store and some S.O.B stole my tank. I am heading to the strip club in an hour so what are you going to do for me?" It was the first time I had spoken to him and I told him I remembered all the stunts he used to do and was an honor to speak with him "Well, I hope you got something out of it" was his reply. True story.
I was a wee lad at this time, but I remember vaguely, re-hashed in detail from "Paradox Press"'s "Big Book of the 70s" they had a thing called "The Popsicle Twins". Two cute teenage girls licking Popsicle and people freaking out over phallic imagery...
Those were all over TV, though. This was just a print ad and things were more tolerant then.
Remember the classic "Aurora Models"...
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive/monsterscenes/index.html
That, from what I've read, got the "Religious Right" to team up with "N.O.W." in protesting for the first and only time ever. I wanted those kits, but didn't dare ask my parents. And, frankly, I'd probably have been disappointed if I got them.
But, as Freud said: "Sometimes a Cigar is just a cigar"...
In a list of unusually great comments, my favorite is snig's (# 7). Hard to imagine any time that this ad would have gotten the go-ahead, but that's true of most ads...more so the farther back you go.
Also see: Evel Knievel electric toothbrush:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonknutson/2048940649/
Lyric to TV ad: "Every morning and every night, and after every meal / brushing teeth's a real BLAST with Evel Knievel.
Evel was huge when I was in gradeschool. Posters, lunchboxes, buttons, cards, ties, stained-glass windows. The whole shmeer. He was the first superstar I remember remembering, with the possible exception of the Partridge Family. But they didn't ride rockets. So they definitely took back seat.
I just wanna ride my motorcickle.