Goodbye consumers!

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The Hollywood Animation Archive offers this compilation of the brilliant 1950s Piels commercials by Terrytoons with Bob & Ray. Guns, suicide, sex--these adult cartoons selling beer would never play today. Which is a shame, because that rambunctious line-crossing is part of what makes them such an effective satire of advertising itself.

Below: a somewhat more tame example on Youtube:

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lateefx Author Profile Page said:

Absolutely brilliant catch. We're so extreme in being Politically/Socially Correct - that we may be establishing an entirely new 'incorrectness' by putting the blinders on to realities of modern society.

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