Saturday, August 9, 2008

Today's Video Link

Here's a commercial for Soaky Toys, which were very big back in the early sixties. A Soaky Toy was a bottle full of bubble bath...and the bottle was in the shape of a cartoon character so after you used up the contents, you could play with it or make it into a bank or something. All the kids I knew who collected them just bought them and poured out the bubble bath.

The most interesting thing about Soaky Toys was that they released them two at a time and so did commercials that teamed characters from different proprietors. Some time ago, I linked to this one that featured Donald Duck and Porky Pig. Today, we have the immortal meeting between Dick Tracy and Muskie the Muskrat. Muskie was a character on the Deputy Dawg cartoon show.

Everett Sloane did the voice of Dick Tracy. Dayton Allen was Muskie. This was not Dick Tracy's finest hour.

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