Everyone loves ice cream when that summer heat hits, and one of my favorites growing up was the push-up popsicles. These were exactly what they sounded like. The popsicles were encased in tubes that you pushed on so you could get more. Even today, these popsicles remain popular, but one of the more interesting variants on them came in 1990 with push-ups based on The Flintstones.
Below is a commercial for the popsicles, which came in several flavors and characters (Like with the earlier Flintstones vitamins, though, Betty was nowhere to be seen). And, like every commercial aimed at kids in 1990, much of it is told through a rap. While I must admit I don't get much out of seeing Fred and Barney doing so, it's never not amusing to see how new trends and the passage of time can lead many of the classic cartoon characters to evolve, sometimes in strange ways.
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ReplyDeleteAm I the only who had remembering these pops when it came out? I thought involving classic cartoon characters to rap or hip-hop back in the day weren't that bad or shoddy, unless compared to what it came to them later by been barely recognizable and all drawn at wonky and flat. Like says "Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs" for example. At least, they were on-model which it was perhaps to me a good thing.
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