Watch this strange laundry detergent commercial parodying Star Trek (1969)

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/29/watch-this-strange-laundry-det.html

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That’s Trekki Gold right there.

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“i’ll be watching”

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Zachary Quinto looks pretty good for 1969!

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It probably incorporates Borg technology that will result is her family’s socks being lost in the mycelial network.

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Nope. You won’t suck me into watching that. To this very day I refuse to buy Tide because of their incredibly irritating ads from the '60’s. I thinnk the theory was to annoy the viewer mightily and then they might remember the name in the store but forget the annoyance. It did NOT work that way.

Captain - that’s all the cleaning power I can give ye…

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“Hot, warm, cool, cold. And everything in between.

SCIENCE!

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That is one sexy Vulcan right there. I bet all the wives rushed out to buy Cheer immediately. Just sayin’.

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“Wait’ll you see my kids tomorrow!”

“Madam, I am from the future, I have already seen your kids tomorrow.”

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Vulcansplaining :roll_eyes:

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That was strange. Commercial moms kiss pretty weird.

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With that haircut it’s not a Vulcan… it’s a Romulan! It’s a trap! IT’S A TRAP! Stop doing laundry!!!

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“The load is unbalancing… I cannae make it spin any faster”

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Wouldn’t swear to it but I think the pitchman was in a Star Trek episode.

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I don’t care how sexy a Vulcan is, I still couldn’t picture myself in a relationship with someone who is only in the mood once every seven years.

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Nice to see a company not afraid to break out the portmanteaus. These days they won’t even call S’More Oreos S’mOreos.

Clearly what we see here is an intervention in the timeline – for without sufficiently clean clothes, one of those young innocents would have otherwise grown up to establish a military dictatorship the likes of which the world had never seen! Or something.

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“If I spin her any faster, she’ll fly apart, Captain.”

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Obviously the work of Cutler, Gleason, and Chaough.