by Shawn Robare | Feb 14, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Considering the most recent episode of the Saturday Supercast deals with not only girl’s cartoons from the 1980s, but specifically Strawberry Shortcake, I thought this would be a great time to share this Bettry Crocker branded flatware advertisement from 1982…...
by Shawn Robare | Feb 12, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This week’s League assignment is sort of Valentine’s centric. Brain asked us to write a stream-of-consciousness piece about what we love. I love a lot of stuff, and it’s not all equally (obviously), but in an attempt to go completely from the hip...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 31, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
So the themes for the past few weeks of League assignments have been pretty broad, and this week is no exception. Brian opened the theme of this week up to the League members and by popular demand the assignment is all about Pirates! By and large pirates...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 14, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
It’s been forever and a day since I contributed to the League, so with the new year in full swing, let’s get back up on that horse! That cliché actually leads into this week’s League topic as well, Cowboys. It seems as if the stars...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 8, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
From time to time I find myself flipping through 30 year-old issues of various Mom magazines looking for inspiration and cool ads to scan for the site. Over the past couple years I kept running across a series of ads for Kellogg’s Honey & Nut Corn...
by Shawn Robare | Jan 1, 2013 | Branded in the 80s, Read
“[There are] …so many shows out there that are pushing or peddling products, you know, hocking something or other. Pretty much to make a cartoon nowadays you have to have a video game and a plush toy to go with it. That was the […] beauty of “You...
