I love chain breakfast places. On my totem pole of diners that I go to when hungover, fucked up, or after a concert, IHOP comes in 3rd (behind Perkins and Denny's). After seeing this very unsettling ad from the late 60's, I may have to drop the HOP off my list (NOTE: Watch at your own risk).
Whoa. Not only is the creepy balloon family scary enough for Wes Carpenter to make a series of lackluster films around, they have to go and add THAT SONG! It's like Alvin and those Chipmunks hit the nitrous and recorded this bad boy while channeling Alister Crowley.
And the food! That salad looks like something my mom made on one of her heath food kicks in the 80s. The meatballs look plastic. Strangely though, the Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity looks almost as you get it in the restaurant. And what the fuck is with that weird chicken dish the little girl gets?
After forays into the ad game like this, it boggles the mind that the International House of Pancakes is still around today.
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The Rooty Tooty Fresh N Fruity reminds me of the last time we were in Chicago and Nate was ordering that, but was too embarrassed to say the name...
I actully saw a commercial for IHOP where they joked about how no one would say that when they ordered it...and the waitress was kinda cute in the ad.
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