Originally published at: This bizarre cough syrup TV commercial was pulled from the air in 1989 | Boing Boing
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Yeah, we were all still reeling from the trauma of Large Marge.
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Still one of the scariest scenes in any movie!
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Did you really have to bring her up…?
Shudder
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I saw UHF before I saw Pee Wee. Phylo freaked me out.
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Jim Carey wasn’t available?
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Looks like Wallace and Grommit animation.
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That’s an impressively done mix of stop-animation and live action footage!
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Right? The transition from live to animated is cleaner than either of the examples above. Really impressive.
Totally would have fucked me up.
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Oh, it’s not the speed really so much, I just wish I hadn’t drunk all that cough syrup this morning.
John Winger
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Thinking the exact same things!
Also, it had a bit of Wallace and Grommit vibes with the mouth.
I warned my kid about it and she was underwhelmed 
I think we hyped it up too much. Oh well, better than scarred for life.
I still don’t like the short, but way too long and real torture scene in The Last Starfigther.
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Probably just that kids today are tougher than we were…
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He was hoping to get a part in a Peter Gabriel music video, but never quite made it.
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Here’s some fresh trauma, then:
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That’s where this thread is going, huh? OK then…
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The active ingredient in Delsym is dextromethorphan, a dissociative hallucinogen, so there’s some truth in advertising there.
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They did a series of those ads. The animator was the amazing Hall Train, who now works on live event stuff, mostly making full scale dinosaurs.
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I thought this commercial was fabulously clever!
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