Excellence in Advertising: Polaroid Video Cassette Cleaner

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      Before God invented Netflix and PVRs, you had to sit through a battery of commercials every time you turned on the idiot box. Most of them made you wonder why the hell Philo Taylor Farnsworth didn’t also invent something to block out commercials. Like Netflix or PVRs.

      But occasionally, a television ad struck gold to where you’d sit through a seven-hour Cannon marathon to see it again. And now, thanks to the magic of YouTube (which we can thank God for inventing) you can relive the magic at the touch of a mouse. Here’s today’s nomination for Excellence in Advertising.

      Hard as this might be to believe in 2015, there once was a world without the Internet. Al Gore hadn't invented PVRs, and Netflix was something that sounded like a sci-fi film. That meant you either never left the house during prime time or accepted the fact you wouldn't be able to talk about Night Stalker reruns Monday around the water cooler. 

      Then someone came up with something called a VCR, which was pretty much the greatest thing this side of the first-edition idiot box. The only downside? That would be that sometimes the heads got dirtier than Marilyn Chambers in Behind the Green Door

      Luckily someone invented a thing for that as you'll see in the below video starring a slumming-it-for-a-paycheque Vincent Price. 

      Happy Halloween everybody.  

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