Charmin Squeezers Of The 1960s... Fetish Culture?

Just as he could always be counted on to scold shoppers out of squeezing the Charmin, 

Mister Whipple could also be counted on to be caught red-handed in that very same illicit act.

 "Mister Whipple!" the mortified housewives would cry in a chorus of exasperation.

It seems the squeakiest wheel is indeed always the one that wants to get greased the most.  

If Moustache Daddy Whipple were around today, he'd probably be running an internet fetish 

community for squeezably soft toilet tissue enthusiasts.  They'd probably call themselves Charmies.

1969 Commercial Stills: Maureen Arthur For Cheer Detergent

Here we see noted film actress Maureen Arthur (no stranger to the odd TV cameo or, as it turns out, even odder commercial) bringing her specific brand of perkiness to an ad for Cheer Detergent.  In a performance which registers somewhere between Kristin Chenoweth and Amy Sedaris on The Plucky Imp Scale, Miss Arthur plays a suburban Mom who is lamenting the less-than-vibrant tones of her children's school togs.  Frustrated and bereft of a solution, she is visited by an extraterrestrial bearing an uncanny resemblance to the vulcan Spock from the 1960s television enterprise known as Star Trek.  Through the magic of what passes for special effects in 1969, a box of All-Temp-a-Cheer materializes in a ribbon of flashing lights set upon a bed of otherworldly moog trills and (as so frequently happens) a cute white lady from the 'burbs has all of her domestic problems solved by a tall, imposing alien creature with fierce brows.

1960s Commercial Stills: The Flintstones For Winston Cigarettes

That's was ONE surefire way to make sure the kids started smoking ASAP.

A few short years later, these very same cartoon characters were selling vitamins...  Go figure.

1960s Milk Commercial Stills: Energy, Wow! Vitality, Yeah!

I'm gonna guess that the casting call for this ad went something like...

WANTED: 

Four fresh-faced punters... Two gadfly gals and two dandy dudes.

We're scoping for the charm and electricity of The Mamas & The Papas with 

clean cut looks that could get you work as an extra in an episode of That Girl. 

 Previous modern dance training a plus, but let's keep it clean.

1960s Commercial Stills: Quisp Saves The Universe

This alien propellerhead knows how to get things done.

Not only did he knit a rogue ball of outer space yarn into a giant necktie 

so its loose strings wouldn't jam up that pesky rush hour space traffic, 

he actually had time to stop and eat a bowl of Quisp along the way.