Actually, TV spent billions on psychologists to study exactly how to make us remember a commercial. One was to make it completely stupid, another to repeat it ad nauseam.
What is tragic is remembering what you did 5 minutes ago, but not remembering what was going on 20 years ago. My children tell me they did activities with me that I don’t remember. Now I wish I had kept a journal and taken more pictures.
A card send to me by my oldest friend…‘growing old is like being continually punished for a crime you did not commit.’ Yeah. and now I’m gonna have cigarette jingles running around my head all day! Hey! I thought torture was illegal!
MAD magazine had an article in the late sixties (“Inventions We’d Like to See”, I think it was) of mostly Rube Goldberg-like devices for things like an unwieldy device for picking up dog poo from sidewalks before you stepped in it and the like; but one was actually useful, and consisted of instructions on how to cut into the speak wires on your TV set and install a wire with a toggle switch on the end to turn the sound off and on and was labeled as a “Commercial Killer”.I don’t remember too many of the commercial jingles after that.
I can remember on the Flintstones, the waitress’ song when Fred and Barney opened a drive in diner, the commercial that Ann Marie had to have dubbed for her on That Girl, and most of Gilligan’s Island musical adaptation of Hamlet (to the tunes from the opera Carmen). It’s been decades, but I remember. Also, a parody we sang as kids:
Winston tastes bad,Like the one I just had.No Filter, no flavor,Just used toilet paper.
For those who are older, this is a good strip, knowing how we feel, and, let’s face it, more realistic than most of them, although we all love them all!
“Hey get your cold beer. Hey get your Ballantine!” “Hey Mabel, Black Label.” Yeah, those tunes are stuck in my mind even 50 years later.And I don’t drink.
BE THIS GUY almost 11 years ago
This strip is called “Calvin & Hobbes,” not “Boring Married Couple.”
watmiwori almost 11 years ago
I know the feeling.
coomback almost 11 years ago
hate it when that happens
8)
rentier almost 11 years ago
Ja, ja, when you get older, remembering will be harder. I write a shoppinglist for not forgetting what I want to buy!!
favm almost 11 years ago
Happens all the time
artybee almost 11 years ago
Children cause Alzheimer’s in adults.
Bob. almost 11 years ago
wcorvi almost 11 years ago
Actually, TV spent billions on psychologists to study exactly how to make us remember a commercial. One was to make it completely stupid, another to repeat it ad nauseam.
2252895 almost 11 years ago
Hoorah Hawks.
Linda Pearson almost 11 years ago
Ive been asking myself the same thing LOL!
pelican47 almost 11 years ago
LSMFT
watmiwori almost 11 years ago
“Does your cigarette taste different lately?” [naughty postcardof dog doing #1 on a tobacco plant]
Olddog1 almost 11 years ago
Re: forgetting.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/
thirdguy almost 11 years ago
Either Calvin has the day off, or he is in his room getting into absolutely NO trouble!
mytly4 almost 11 years ago
C’mon, Calvin’s Dad – you’re way to young to be worrying about forgetting stuff.
Chris Kenworthy almost 11 years ago
because the jingle is catchier and more memorable ;)
LtPowers almost 11 years ago
One of the few dated C&H strips. Today you’d have to be over 60 to remember a cigarette jingle.
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member almost 11 years ago
repetition, repetition, repetition,
jrankin1959 almost 11 years ago
I remember an ad for a stupid toy called “Six Finger” from the early 60s – top that!
Herb Thiel Premium Member almost 11 years ago
“More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.”
“Taste me, taste me, come on and taste me.”
“Should a gentleman offer a lady a Tiparillo?”
I understand, dad.
pencilkid6 almost 11 years ago
D’oh THOSE SEA HAWKS!!!!
suzleigh almost 11 years ago
What is tragic is remembering what you did 5 minutes ago, but not remembering what was going on 20 years ago. My children tell me they did activities with me that I don’t remember. Now I wish I had kept a journal and taken more pictures.
hill2209 almost 11 years ago
CRS (Can’t remember stuff).
rshive almost 11 years ago
My wife tells me to make a list. That at least lets me forget the stuff all at once.
dwagon55 almost 11 years ago
I was going to write something, but I forgot what it was.
witewater almost 11 years ago
Thanks to youTube, we can still get those jingles stuck in our head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apD9_hLxqE0
westny77 almost 11 years ago
Dad dude it happens. You have a lot on your mind.
westny77 almost 11 years ago
Seven minute cigarette taste longer.. That was catchy.
dputhoff almost 11 years ago
Welcome to my world, Calvin’s dad.
IgFan2 almost 11 years ago
True, true! lol
kittenpah almost 11 years ago
This is technically referred to as a “Problem with the Hereafter”. Walk in to a room and can’t remember what you’re here after.
magicwalnut almost 11 years ago
A card send to me by my oldest friend…‘growing old is like being continually punished for a crime you did not commit.’ Yeah. and now I’m gonna have cigarette jingles running around my head all day! Hey! I thought torture was illegal!
Lecherous almost 11 years ago
Here is my list in the morning: First the pants, THEN the shoes.
ant almost 11 years ago
Dang marketing!
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr almost 11 years ago
MAD magazine had an article in the late sixties (“Inventions We’d Like to See”, I think it was) of mostly Rube Goldberg-like devices for things like an unwieldy device for picking up dog poo from sidewalks before you stepped in it and the like; but one was actually useful, and consisted of instructions on how to cut into the speak wires on your TV set and install a wire with a toggle switch on the end to turn the sound off and on and was labeled as a “Commercial Killer”.I don’t remember too many of the commercial jingles after that.
dflak almost 11 years ago
My short term memory is so bad that if I ever get Alzheimer’s, nobody would notice.
Now what are we talking about?
joegeethree almost 11 years ago
I don’t know, but I think the mom is kinda hot.
JR6019 almost 11 years ago
I can remember on the Flintstones, the waitress’ song when Fred and Barney opened a drive in diner, the commercial that Ann Marie had to have dubbed for her on That Girl, and most of Gilligan’s Island musical adaptation of Hamlet (to the tunes from the opera Carmen). It’s been decades, but I remember. Also, a parody we sang as kids:
Winston tastes bad,Like the one I just had.No Filter, no flavor,Just used toilet paper.
Pokemax almost 11 years ago
isn’t Calvin’s father a bit too young for this to happen. It started with me after 70 …..
Hobbes1000 almost 11 years ago
Absolute classic Calvin and Hobbes today- this is one of Watterson’s very best!
Maybe the strip should be called Calvin, Hobbes and Calvin’s Dad though…
AwelCruiz almost 11 years ago
This comic was originally published in 1994. Were cigarette ads with jingles still running in 1969?
GPdancer almost 11 years ago
For those who are older, this is a good strip, knowing how we feel, and, let’s face it, more realistic than most of them, although we all love them all!
Number Three almost 11 years ago
That happens to me… All the time.
Well, Some of the time.
xxx
rentier almost 11 years ago
Perhaps I forget my English!
Radical-Knight almost 11 years ago
… I had this brilliant comment to make, but after reading some of the other posts, I forget what it was. Nutz!
wiatr almost 11 years ago
“Hey get your cold beer. Hey get your Ballantine!” “Hey Mabel, Black Label.” Yeah, those tunes are stuck in my mind even 50 years later.And I don’t drink.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member almost 11 years ago
And this cartoon is already 20 years old!
bbolivas almost 11 years ago
It gets worse over time, hang on.
watmiwori almost 11 years ago
Philosophy doesn’t answer questions. It justraises more…. And most of them are unanswer-able anyway.
countoftowergrove almost 11 years ago
Because “Winston tastes good, like (cha-cha) YOUR cigarette should!”