Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agoIt's been over 20 years since that Sunny Delight commercial and I still have no idea what "purple stuff" is.message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up174
arrow-up174message-squareIt's been over 20 years since that Sunny Delight commercial and I still have no idea what "purple stuff" is.Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days agoThe word “over” is doing some heavy lifting here. That commercial came out in the 70s. It’s closer to 50 years ago. Dave Chappelle was joking about it in the 90s.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·edit-25 days agoIt came out in 1991. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ddM-FpiMg I’m not sure where you got the idea that the commercial was from the 70s.
minus-squareWindex007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-25 days agoSometime after 2000 BCE, the question of what the ambiguous reference to “purple stuff” referred to became a shared cultural flashpoint.
The word “over” is doing some heavy lifting here. That commercial came out in the 70s. It’s closer to 50 years ago. Dave Chappelle was joking about it in the 90s.
It came out in 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ddM-FpiMg
I’m not sure where you got the idea that the commercial was from the 70s.
Sometime after 2000 BCE, the question of what the ambiguous reference to “purple stuff” referred to became a shared cultural flashpoint.