Merrie Melodies.
Products parodied in Lights Fantastic:
* Underwood typewriters as "Understood"
* Four Roses whiskey as "Four Noses"
* Lucky Strike cigarettes, in the horse shoe sign with the Speed Riggs auctioneer spiel made famous on radio advertisements.
* Chase and Sanbourn coffee as "Face and Sunburn." The "It's Dated" gag refers to a then-hot innovation about the dating and freshness of the coffee.
* Maxwell House coffee as "Stucco House" with its "Good to the Last Drop" motto
* Planters peanuts, seen both as the dancing Mr. Peanut and in the live action footage of New York City's Times Square
* Carnation tinned milk as "Darnation," with the contented cows tagline
* Old Dutch cleanser
Two references I have yet to identify with certainty are the cod liver oil gag and the hieroglyphic animated billboard, also seen in A Hare Grows in Manhattan (Freleng, 1947). The billboard may possibly refer to Ramses II Cigarettes.
--E.O. Costello, Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion
* Underwood typewriters as "Understood"
* Four Roses whiskey as "Four Noses"
* Lucky Strike cigarettes, in the horse shoe sign with the Speed Riggs auctioneer spiel made famous on radio advertisements.
* Chase and Sanbourn coffee as "Face and Sunburn." The "It's Dated" gag refers to a then-hot innovation about the dating and freshness of the coffee.
* Maxwell House coffee as "Stucco House" with its "Good to the Last Drop" motto
* Planters peanuts, seen both as the dancing Mr. Peanut and in the live action footage of New York City's Times Square
* Carnation tinned milk as "Darnation," with the contented cows tagline
* Old Dutch cleanser
Two references I have yet to identify with certainty are the cod liver oil gag and the hieroglyphic animated billboard, also seen in A Hare Grows in Manhattan (Freleng, 1947). The billboard may possibly refer to Ramses II Cigarettes.
--E.O. Costello, Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion
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