The earliest movie/fast food tie-in I can recall from my youth was a whole promo thing McDonald’s had with The Muppets’ Movie. This had to be around 1980 or ‘81. They were giving away drinking glasses (actually made of glass, not plastic) with scenes from the movie depicted on them. Of course, Star Wars had to have had a lot of product tie-ins and merch stuff with fast food places, department store commercials, etc. but I can’t really remember them. And then E.T. hit and the marketing tie-ins were huge.

Honestly, I had never heard of “Turning Green” until seeing this clip.

GhoulishCop,

That whole “Timmy The Drunk” thing cracked me up as well. The lady in the commercial just says it all in a matter-of-fact manner. LOL! “Hey kids, be all your favorite superheroes for Halloween. And guess what? You can also be an alcoholic!”

Goldie,

I love looking at the old prices too. Anytime I watch a movie from the last ten or fifteen years, if it has street scenes in it, then I like looking for gas station signage. I try to see if I can spot the old price per gallon.

Rich