What strikes me about all these commercials — this runs a little under eight minutes, by the way — is that I don't want any of them and didn't when I was 11, as I was when this film was made. The Mouse Trap Game looks like it might have been fun to play ... once. Other than that, there's something kinda condescending about the toys and the way they're being sold ...He got Mouse Trap right.
And the robot chimp? You know that the instant Mom turns out the light & closes the door, it will be coming for you, shuffling inexorably across the carpet, little plastic derby in its creepy ape hand, demanding much more than your change.
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I think the kicker in this series of commercials is the bit with Dick Tracy's two racial stereotype sidekicks.
Telebision Editor Sez:
We're lucky we were deprived of the almighty tube until about 1964. We could have turned out worse (Hard to believe?) had we been regularly exposed to stuff like Tracy's stereotypical toadies.
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