SooperGoop (1975)

Creator: A/V Geeks 16mm Films

Description: The film features a humorous take on advertising, particularly focused on a fictional cereal called "Super Goop." The animated protagonist, Rodney Weatherbottom, showcases the manipulative strategies used in TV commercials to persuade children to buy sugary cereals. He emphasizes the importance of appealing packaging and enticing messages that promise strength and popularity, despite the product's lack of actual nutritional value. The narrative satirizes the advertising industry’s tactics to create demand for unnecessary products among young audiences. Keywords advertising, cereal, Super Goop, TV commercials, manipulation, children, nutrition, humor, marketing, satire

Transcription

[Music] super oh Neato but it has a special prize in it and it helps you go big and strong what makes you think so because it tells you on television please Mom please Mom please uh when will you ever learn you have just witnessed the power of a great actor me I Rodney weather botam am a great actor because I can make you want something that you didn't want before my latest greatest starring role is in behalf of this uh delicious cereal I am an actor in television commercials want to see [Music] oh super goop super goop get your sweetest super goop eat it up and loop the loop sweeter super duper goop oh super goop super goop how I love my super goop loop the loop doop sweeter super goop get your sweeter super goop it's fun oh rather good performance don't you think h oh ah if you only knew how we work to bring you this um magnificent new cereal we start with this cereal which is not so good because the factory has taken most of the food values out and then I put in lots and lots of sugar yeah then it's extremely necessary to put back in a little of the food Valu that the factory has taken out the advertising has got to say how big how strong how nourishment it to make the kitties so H yeah delicious Rodney hey Rodney oh yes sir yes sir where is it where is it you're holding up production oh right here sir right here uh just let me oh a box oh put it in no one's going to buy a cereal in a little box like that what's the matter with you oh yes sir yes sir uh how about this Chief H not enough [Applause] cereal that's better lots of air big box makes kids think they get getting more for that money all right yes sir very important now the test the test the test oh yes sir the test oh the test yes oh the test oh let me give you the test oh here's the test delicious great more sugar than anything on the market going to wipe out the competition make a fortune congratulations kid don't just stand there get out Market that product great idea make a fortune tons of d hey baby can't use you but but but cheapers Mr oh golly Mister out or I'll call the cat oh golly Mr goodie here kitty kitty kitty mice Dreadful Little Creatures Rodney weather bottom Charlie how goes it old boy same as stuff buy a little sell a lot you know there you are a new cereal you and I are going to make a TV commercial yumy you don't think all that Sugar might cause an epidemic an epidemic of tooth decay nonsense kitties will gobble it as long as as they have a tooth left in their heads all right what do we call it something that'll make him want to buy it super something super goo [Music] fastic super goop make a fortune can't you hear those kitties now please mommy buy me some super goop huh we'll make everybody in the country want something they wouldn't touch if it weren't for our TV commercial okay now let's see kids buy anything a superhero tells them to I've got it suppose you play Super Cat all right watch this he's what cornered the world supply of super coup Chief this means that children no longer can have their delicious nutritious super sweet super GOP we can't let him get away with that Chief right chief [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what do you think H not bad not bad but let's see if we can make kids really want this stuff want it huh let's say you're a kid watching TV now kids want a lot of things right I mean they want to be popular huh GE yeah I want people to like me right eat super goop and people will like you I mean what else do you want huh I want to grow fast and you want to be stronger than the other kids oh and I want to be smarter all you have to do is eat super goop and you can be all those things really no dummy we just tell kids that oh and then they'll ask their mothers to buy the stuff and we all get rich rodo now let me just think the perfect TV commercial watch this one eat super goop it gives you energy it makes you grow big big big think we're overdoing it a little Rodney kids don't actually grow faster because they eat this really don't they no we just say they do oh so we can't show them growing that fast I mean it would be dishonest well then how about [Applause] this can I play nah you want to use my my scuba diving outfit nah want to play with my rocket that I got for my birthday [Music] nah oh please please Gerald C can I have some of your super goop please please huh oh please we're getting there pal eat super goop and you'll be popular the Envy of every kid on on the Block gee you're lucky eating super goop every day got to get in something about muscles and eating super goop makes you so strong and we've got to have a prize in the package a prize false teeth [Laughter] H with that Sugar they'll need him boy and there's got to be music so it'll sound exciting right and don't forget it's sweet right and it'll end this [Music] way oh super goop super goop get your sweeter super goop eat it up and loop the loop sweeter super duper goop oh super goop super goop how I love my super goop Loop the loopop do sweeter super goop get your sweeter super goop it's fun fantastic I can hear it now no Isabelle you may not mommy please please buy me some super good po mommy [Laughter] please come on kids you're going to be late for school mom there's a new cereal out oh no no more new cereals and it's called eat them sweet them not until you finish the super goop and the other six kinds I got for you oh Mom don't you want us to grow big and strong and we get a prize come on come on off to school if you get it for us now we'll be the first ones to have it come on come on off to school they' have just seen my very latest TV commercial watch your TV sets folks for my great performance selling eat him sweet him also I do a magnificent job of selling cupcakes vitamins and toys don't forget kids I can make you want things you don't need and never even heard of before [Laughter] [Music] a [Applause] [Music]

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