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Flashback: Weird Folgers Commercial

GiggleSugar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:00:00 -0800

If a great commercial could be considered a work of art, then the following Folgers ad from a couple years ago is a masterpiece. This ad depicts exhausted people in a land of gray who wake up to the sight and sound of singing freaks in yellow spandex. And then there's the tagline, "Wake up, you sleepy head/You can sleep when you are dead"? Deep, man, deep.

Flashback: Effed Up '50s Folgers Ad

GiggleSugar — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Back in the '50s, well-intentioned housewives were scolded and shunned for pouring their husbands distasteful cups of coffee. In a day and age when the worth of a woman was judged solely on her beauty and homemaking skills, a bad cup of java warranted a good amount of verbal abuse. If Folgers was the secret weapon to fend off a hubby's ungrateful rebuke, no wonder they came to call it "the best part of waking up." In a perfect world, "the best part of waking up" would've been this lady hurling the hot cup of coffee at her husband. With a little creamer to boot. (For more sexist fun with Folgers, click here.)

Dish! What Would You Say to Harvey If You Could?

GiggleSugar — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:00:00 -0700

Harvey here is lucky I don't have a time machine that can catapult me forty years backwards in time to hit him upside his douchebag head. In this vintage Folger's ad, Harvey lets his wife have it for making him a sub-par cup of coffee, comparing her coffee-making skills - unfavorably - to the ladies back at the office. What would you say to Harvey if you could?

Flashback: Housewives & Folgers Coffee

GiggleSugar — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:00:00 -0700

Instant coffee that "tastes as good as fresh-perked"? I'm not buying it. Just as I'm not buying the fact that housewives of the 1950s really sat around worrying about ways to improve the taste of their husband's coffee. If that were the case, then why buy "instant" (as opposed to fresh brewed) coffee in the first place? Cuz frankly, those women didn't have the time to put up with this bullsh*t. That's why.

Best Commercial of 2006?

GiggleSugar — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:43:58 -0800

Or perhaps the most deranged? In this Folgers commercial, exhausted people in a land of gray wake up to the sight and sound of singing freaks in yellow spandex. Look, we knew caffeine was a drug--but is Folgers now spiking their coffee with ecstasy and acid, too? Seriously, though, is there a better tagline than "Wake up, you sleepy head/You can sleep when you are dead"? I think not.