The entire commercial is hilariously weird. I don’t think Heart primarily used coffee to keep themselves going when mixing their album.

But seriously, who got Vonnegut to agree to be in a commercial for anything?

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    I don’t think Heart primarily used coffee to keep themselves going when mixing their album.

    Even the way they drink coffee in the clip screams “massive quantities of cocaine”

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      The only reason for them to drink coffee is that they ran out of cocaine and are waiting for more cocaine to arrive.

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    Vonnegut wasn’t a Too Good For This recluse like Pynchon or Salinger or whoever, and the content of his books made him fairly well insulated against charges of being a sellout; they probably offered him a bunch of money and he shrugged and said sure.

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      It was the sellout part that surprised me. I just wouldn’t ever expect him to advertise anything. But I suppose as cynical as he was, he just took the money and agreed.

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    Does anyone remember a SNL parody of this commercial? I remember them using the same ELO song but can’t remember anything else about it.

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      I do not, but I do know that there’s a “coffee achiever” line in Weird Al’s Dare to Be Stupid, which is how I tracked this down. And then saw Vonnegut and was like WTF? And then thought WTF about this entire commercial. Did America even need to be sold on coffee?

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        I’m not so old I can say anything about the 80s, but in my experience people did not drink anywhere near as much coffee before Starbucks took off. Seattle was considered weird for after-morning coffee consumption, and even wake up drink was more often tea.

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          I am that old. I was born in 1977. Every single restaurant served coffee in the 80s. McDonalds did too, hence the famous coffee lawsuit. It was ubiquitous.

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            Remember the dumbass commercials with ‘hidden cameras’ and ‘we replaced your coffee with instant coffee and you loved it’? I remember even as a kid thinking who the hell is dumb enough to make a commercial about this.

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    OMG get your fucking drinks off the $20,000 mixing desk FFS!!