The entire commercial is hilariously weird. I don’t think Heart primarily used coffee to keep themselves going when mixing their album.

But seriously, who got Vonnegut to agree to be in a commercial for anything?

  • Flying SquidOP
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    59 months ago

    I do not, but I do know that there’s a “coffee achiever” line in Weird Al’s Dare to Be Stupid, which is how I tracked this down. And then saw Vonnegut and was like WTF? And then thought WTF about this entire commercial. Did America even need to be sold on coffee?

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      I’m not so old I can say anything about the 80s, but in my experience people did not drink anywhere near as much coffee before Starbucks took off. Seattle was considered weird for after-morning coffee consumption, and even wake up drink was more often tea.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        59 months ago

        I am that old. I was born in 1977. Every single restaurant served coffee in the 80s. McDonalds did too, hence the famous coffee lawsuit. It was ubiquitous.

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          Remember the dumbass commercials with ‘hidden cameras’ and ‘we replaced your coffee with instant coffee and you loved it’? I remember even as a kid thinking who the hell is dumb enough to make a commercial about this.