I suspect it would ruin this if I told you what it wasn’t about, but that would presume I know what you suspect it’s about. Although I’ll bet you do.
So: what are they selling?
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Cigarettes, always good for digestion and stimulating appetite.
Rolaids. Poor lad always has an upset stomach… can’t imagine why.
Perhaps they need a divorce – from Coffee!
Ah, smooth smoking Laramies!
He’s married to Joan Crawford?
Hmmmm … hubby needs something to stimulate the appetite. My bet is on tomato juice!
Remember the Anacin commercials (or whatever headache remedy they were pushing): “MUST you repeat EVERYTHING I say????” “I’d RATHER do it MYSELF!!!!”
I am curious. Is there a reason why my two comments were deleted? If I am Persona non-Grata I would appreciate knowing why.
Ok. Now one comment is back albeit in a different place (#40 vs. #36). WTF?
My guess: Laxatives.
Reminds me of the TV commercials where someone would blow up and then voiceover “sure you have a headache, you’re tense, irritable, but don’t take it out on” whomever got blown up at. What was that for? Bayer? Excedrin? Anacin? Geritol? Whatever it was, it worked great, cause the next scene always had the blower-upper smiling and congenial again.
Wifey’s face looks like she’s been bobbing for French fries. Combine that with her full-on crabbiness, and it’s no wonder Hubby’s appetite went south.
All-Bran cereal.
It’s an ad for Clearasil, to clean up Joan’s raging case of acne that’s put him off his feed.
raf: Tramadol. take two and zone.
I think the kitchen needs re-decorating, the dull atmosphere just doesn’t stimulate the appetite. Linoleum? Curtains? Paint? Fiestaware?
Is it an ad for headache powders? Because Joan looks likes she’s about to go upside his head with that skillet.
Some sort of early anti-psychotic?
Hubby lost his appetite? Lacks that amatory impulse in the summer? Do the neighborhood cats come yowling around and relatives suggest a massive dose of baking soda, or at least to leave a few dozen filets of lutefisk in the trash to explain that odor? Perhaps you need air conditioning!
Bob
Yeesch! Purple Possum Meat? I bet Postum had a deep purple hue when you brewed it. Now I know what ground cereal beverage means. (They don’t always hang from tree limbs by their tails). Heh!
Hubby forgot to pick up a bottle of Lydia Pinkham’s Herbal Medicine. “A baby in every bottle…”
I think Joan simply doesn’t feel “fresh.”
And has turned homicidal.
I’ve noticed the comments are really getting askew. It was something to do with Quote, Reply, Go to Comments, and Comments (#) and how darn popular this blog is!
He is clearly constipated. He’s afraid to tell his wife about it, because she’ll put a kitchen knife through his throat.
I’m betting Crisco, not enough lard is being used in the meals.
Milady’s bun, among other things, is too tightly wound. A looser hairdo, affixed with Aquanet, will make a new woman of her.
She definitely has a Mr. Coffee Nerves vibe going, but the dialogue implies that he’s the one with the problem. Could it be advertising a “Regrettable Food” like Jel-A-Meal, that can make any food ooze smoothly down the gullet?
Look at the face of the husband… look at those eyes. I’d bet anything it’s the Postum ad artist doing the work, whatever the product. And didn’t the ads talk about coffee reducing appetite somewhere?
Guy’s got a wine glass in front of him. I’m betting liquor plays a big part in his getting through each day with Mazie McShrew for a wife.
This isn’t an ad at all!!! This is a single storyboard panel for the “I Married Joan” pilot! I heard the producers couldn’t cast the part of Joan without the male leads walking off the set during rehearsal. In time they decide that an “idyllic” family lifestyle would be easier to portray. Years later a FOX exec would dig up these old panels and create “Married with Children”.
To solve this, we have to think like an advertiser. A woman throwing out her pots and pans is a violation of the law of nature, which means there must be some newly discovered, higher law of nature that only her husband found about. And as far as I know, there was only one new law of nature discovered after World War II: television.
My guess is the husband drove home from work, stopped at a bar for a beer, and watched part of the baseball game on that new Gloriously Clear ElectroVision television set. Now that’s all he can think about.
It’s an ad for castor oil used to relieve his constipation and her pms.
Irritable Bear expects Lance Lawson will show up any minute.
I’ve got it!!!! Brunswick bowling balls!!!!
No I haven’t…
It’s SO obvious. She has poisoned him and he’s not dying fast enough to suit her. That’s part of why she’s berserk, the other part is pretending she actually is upset that he’s not eating (more poision).