Peanut Butter and Chocolate: The Food of Nerds
Posted by Michael Pinto on Feb 16, 2009 in Television |
I hadn’t realized just how geek focused the early advertising for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups was until I came across these two spots: The first advert above is from 1980 and has a bit of a Star Wars feeling to it, while 1982 commercial below is inspired by the first generation of home videogames.
Speaking of nerds I had no idea that the original commercial that launched the brand featured Donny Most who would go on play Ralph Malph on Happy Days: