Yes, it's true - there is a National Beer Lovers' Day (9/7), so here are ads (print and animated) sellin' suds for National Beer Lovers' Day.
Enjoy a quaff or three with the accordion-wielding Miss Rheingold of 1956!
And guzzle some pints of Blatz Beer with film noir tough guy Dan Duryea!
How shall we celebrate National Beer Lovers' Day? With green beer?
No, we'll celebrate with a slew of classic animated beer ads, invariably seen directly after consuming highly hopped and headache-inducing 9.5% alcohol green ales!
The terrific writer Mike Kazaleh has beat all of us reprobates at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog to the Hefeweizen punch (and subsequent hangover) by writing several outstanding Cartoon Research pieces on animated commercials for malty, hoppy brews - including Pilsner Pranks - More Spots with Beer and Hops & Spots!.
Alas, many of these great animated ads posted in Mike Kazaleh's articles back in 2014 have since been taken down. We shall attempt to re-construct Mr. Kazaleh's cornucopia of clever cartoon commercials as follows, starting with Gene Dietch TV spots featuring Bob & Ray!
Stag Beer starring Mr. Magoo
In closing, we at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog enthusistically salute the talented creators of these animated ads, as well as the splendid voice work by comedy aces Jim Backus, Mike Nichols & Elaine May and Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding. Love the Piels Brothers ads and the Nichols & May commercials for Jax and Narragansett Beers.
Also extend a big time Raymond Griffith top hat tip to Mike Kazaleh, the excellent writer/animation historian and suggest checking out his tres cool YouTube channel.
2 comments:
Mike is terrific. And so are the designs in these beer spots.
The beer spots are some of the best examples of "Cartoon Modern" I have ever seen - and, as a big fan of Bob & Ray, love those Piels Beer commercials. Mike has posted lesser known animation from UPA on his YouTube channel and also provided splendid commentary tracks for various classic cartoons on DVD/Blu-ray.
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