Freakiest. Commercial. Ever!

This ridiculously eerie and completely nonsensical Tab diet soda commercial may be from the 1970s, but the batshit insanity of it all remains intact, 30+ years later. Watch it with the lights on and the doors locked because the spine-chilling songstress and her disturbing, Red-Rum-type lyrics ("be a mind-stickerrrr") will have you crying for Mommy.

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PS Thanks to jezebel.com - without you, I never would have stumbled across this blast from the saccharine-fueled past. I also would be able to sleep in peace tonight but hey - you win some, you lose some.

January 25, 2008 at 05:42pm | Permalink | Comments (9)

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Is it bad that that commercial sent me on a trip down memory lane? Every so often when I was a little kid, my grandpa and I would walk to the town pub and he would order us each a Tab. I remember feeling like SUCH a grown-up on those special outings.

That sense of nostalgia aside, that ad is seriously disturbing (yet I cannot stop watching it, LOL)! Shape with Tab...if only, ha!

Furthermore, these days even the vaguest hint of Splenda gives me a headache; I shudder at the thought of what a full can of old-school Tab would do to me. I guess I won't be a mind-sticker any time soon.

Posted by rebecca on January 25 at 07:13pm

Thank you. That 'mindsticker' theme will haunt my dreams tonight.

And I love encouraging women to drink TaB because "he wants you to have a good shape". That's fabulous. *rolls eyes* Because of course the only reason we would take care of ourselves is so a man will find us attractive. What other reason is there? [please note my sarcasm]

Posted by Emme on January 25 at 10:36pm

She: "Hey, honey, I decided to stop pouring caramel-flavored saccharin down my throat and love and accept myself just as I am."
He: ... "Who the hell ARE you?"

Posted by Despina on January 26 at 03:36pm

Rebecca - I'm like you! Splenda gives me killer headaches. Hate the stuff.

Despina - You made me laugh so hard I snorted Tab out my nose:)

Ah, Leslie - you made my WHOLE night with this. There I was, reading boring election propoganda and -wham- I was returned to a simpler time. A time when all that mattered was twirling through meadows and leading my husband upstairs...

Posted by charlotte on January 26 at 10:42pm

omg omg omg...leslie i am so confused...i want to be frightened, but part of me cant stop watching it lol...god there is soooo much to be torn apart in this freakish 30 sec. spot. YIKES!

Posted by erin on January 27 at 09:41pm

woah, I feel young. I don't know what that stuff is!

btw, found you from Back In Skinny Jeans. HI!

Posted by kyle on January 27 at 11:51pm

I'm sorry, Leslie. I just can't watch another one. Not even for you. Will NO ONE think of the children?!?!

Posted by charlotte on January 28 at 06:50pm

My dance teacher in grade school used to LAWAYS have a can of Tab on her desk. She did have a fabulous "shape," but my gosh, at what cost?!

PS Welcome, Kyle!!

Posted by Leslie on January 28 at 07:49pm

I love encouraging women to drink TaB because "he wants you to have a good shape".

Posted by Steve on September 28 at 12:08am

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