Here's old advert for some kind of male body powder called Mandom starring Charles Bronson that just won't quit making me laugh.
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Here's old advert for some kind of male body powder called Mandom starring Charles Bronson that just won't quit making me laugh.
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too funny....the gunshot sound effects make it--it looks like an SNL skit!
Mandom - The scent will shoot you dead.
Between this and the Ska Church band I'm getting a nasty 70's hangover. No wonder everyone was on drugs back then. Sheeeeee-it.
I think advertising was easier when people were on drugs...chicken and egg--did you need the drugs to deal with the world, or was the world like that because everyone was on drugs?
(minus me--I was 6 when the 70s ended)
This must be from the mid 60's. I swear the doorman is Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion from the wizard of oz. but he died in '67. All in all a pretty crazy ass commercial though.
I would say it's ridiculous, but charles bronson is not a man to be trifled with and i don't want him tracking me down and killing me in my sleep...
And yes, i know he's dead, but Charles Bronson wouldn't let a lil ol' thing like death stop him from killing you.
Pablo. Excellent points. I chastise Mr Bronson not, the video quality of that era though, damn!
Hahahahah... Bronson was a badass when Norris was still on diaper. But I'm not afraid. He won't come down here to haunt me.
But I can't stop thinking about how gay he looked when he eased the tie's knot. God damn... wish I didn't see it. Well, he was mostly gay the whole advertise.
That's where his death wish came from. He was pursuing the agency guys who ran this ad.
This is way too weird... Just last week I was having dinner with a senior executive of Mandom Corporation Japan and had casually asked him how much Bronson cost as a talent for the ad.
He remarked that it was in the millions (U.S. Dollars) and that the company literally bet its entire fortune on Bronson for the tv commercial.
TCALSS, the ad worked and Mandom is today Japan's no.1 men's cosmetic company.
I've got to go with Sarcastic One's drug theory. I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if my man kept EIGHT bottles of Mandom. I'm also trying to imagine my reaction to him coming home and flinging his shirt off like a castmember from "Fame", and showering himself with Mandom for SIXTEEN SECONDS without getting his funky ass in the shower!...after coming home from a lounge bar of some sort. ewww.
Wow, vintage 1970s Japandering -- great find, Baierman.
I almost spit coffee on my screen when he chooses his favorite pipe from his pipe caddy (when did Manly Men stop having those, by the way?), then whips his shirt off with the flourish of...well, I think CLC nailed it with "Fame castmember." And good God, he only puts about a quart of that stuff all over himself...no wonder he has to buy it 15 bottles at a time.
I wonder if Mandom was created to compete with Hai Karate or what...
Jeem, haven't you read the Rules of YBNBY?
#1 - Thou shall not drink or eat while reading the posts.
I wasted a keyboard weeks ago... and I realized that hot coffee coming through the nose aches... a lot!
Jeem - did you notice that all the pipes were the same?
...and of course every man, once his shirt comes off, flexes 100% of the time...
Rules, schmules, Leonardo! Rules are for people without pipe caddies and mustaches.
Good eye, CLC, that's pretty funny.
That Mandom is good stuff.
I keep it in my truck, my office desk, and yes I have at least 8 spare bottles at home.
I think you people are underestimating the power of Mandom.
The scent is something of a combination that smells like Burnt hair, bacon, latex, and Salmon.
I don't know why it works, I just know it does.
99.4 % of Chicks go for a guy, even an ugly guy who wears mandom.
It is also a proven fact that Mandom attracts 92% of hetero Argentenian dudes, so be careful.
The really weird thing is there's no woman in the whole thing. He's gettin himself all ready for something special tonight, but it seems it just might be Mr. Hand. I half expected him to whip it out and start in on himself.
Well Chris, when you're wearing Mandom, you just can't help yourself.
Mandom: For men who shoot blanks...
Yeah, 99.4% of chicks go for a guy wearing Mandom, but 99.999% of chicks don't go for a guy that flings his shirt off like he's auditioning for "Cats" and then sprinkles it on for 16 seconds.
Unless, of course, that man is Charles Bronson, who's pirouette was developed during World War II as a back-up in case the A-Bomb didn't do the trick.
Doorman was Percy Heldon, best remembered as the drunk Santa in Miracle on 34th Street. This was his last role.
That behind closed doors/spraying himself down moment seemed like a wanking off metaphor.
Wear Mandom for the ultimate night of Handom!
Nice Mikey.
Mandom is for lovers.
Mandom. For men who love smoking pipe.