Dr. Spock Says Buy Cheer Laundry Detergent
I love old ads, and when they include a Star Trek reference, they’re hard to resist. When I stumbled across the television commercial below from 1969 featuring a Dr. Spock lookalike hyping Cheer laundry detergent, I laughed out loud. No doubt this would be a copyright lawsuit in the making today.
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Definitely would have been a lawsuit. I’m surprised back then that it flew. I kept waiting for the homemaker to get the “vulcan” nerve pinch, but it never happened. Oh well, you can’t have everything in life. Live long and prosper.