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.
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.
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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.
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]
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?"
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...
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!
woah, I feel young. I don't know what that stuff is!
btw, found you from Back In Skinny Jeans. HI!
OMG there is ANOTHER Mind-Sticker commercial!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVyDYqsEK0
The man is way creepy - if anyone stared at me like that while I bounced balls around the tennis court, I'd call the FBI ASAP.
I'm sorry, Leslie. I just can't watch another one. Not even for you. Will NO ONE think of the children?!?!
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!!
