That’s the weird thing I find about the whole KoolAid man thing … I remember seeing those commercials as a kid in the 80s here in Canada and then it died down in the early 90s. Then it began reappearing again once in a while but not often … but at that point, everyone, everywhere had seen the image and knew what it meant. Since about the early 2000s, I’ve never watched cable TV or regular broadcast TV and I work really hard to avoid watching commercials of any kind, even back then. I would always just put the TV on mute and walk to the kitchen while the commercials were on or watch a program, DVD, download or show that had no commercials at all. So I’ve never seen a KoolAid commercial on regular programming for over 30 years and it surprises me that people still know the reference. Now I think it’s just a meme and not that many people know where it originally came from.
That’s the weird thing I find about the whole KoolAid man thing … I remember seeing those commercials as a kid in the 80s here in Canada and then it died down in the early 90s. Then it began reappearing again once in a while but not often … but at that point, everyone, everywhere had seen the image and knew what it meant. Since about the early 2000s, I’ve never watched cable TV or regular broadcast TV and I work really hard to avoid watching commercials of any kind, even back then. I would always just put the TV on mute and walk to the kitchen while the commercials were on or watch a program, DVD, download or show that had no commercials at all. So I’ve never seen a KoolAid commercial on regular programming for over 30 years and it surprises me that people still know the reference. Now I think it’s just a meme and not that many people know where it originally came from.
It was all over 90s Saturday morning cartoons.
Now we’re adults.
We remember our childhoods.