Here’s a dandy reel of deeply offensive television commercials from the 1970s. There’s loads of chauvinism, sexual harassment, mockery of Native Americans to go around, and cameos made by convicted rapist Bill Cosby and convicted murderer O.J. Simpson do not help matters. The female stockings commercials would make Benny Hill wince and the final ad, for Virginia Slims, uses feminism as a way to sell cigarettes which may indeed be a prescient look into the future, when cigarette ads are once again allowed on select cable channels. For my money, though, it’s the coffee commercials that ring the bell–do you remember when coffee was dark granules that came in a can and that you dumped into hot water? For that matter, do you remember Mrs. Olsen? This reel makes me wonder which commercials from our present day will look preposterous in the future. The short odds are on the Ozempic and Wegovny ads which, once the miracle drugs are discovered to be hugely toxic and the cause of much suffering and disease, will be laugh riots. My guess is that the discovery of the poisons happens in the next two years with the class action suit getting into full swing at the end of the current Presidential administration…just in time for all drug regulation to be a thing of the past.