A retro-futuristic Ray Bradbury helps sell prunes

1. Don Newbury
   August 25th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

   That commercial was done by Stan Freberg who also narrated it. He was responsible for some the greatest commercials from that era as well as being a wonderful humorist.

2. Tony LaRocca
   August 25th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

   Stan Freberg and Ray Bradbury - two of my favorite creative people - together. Who knew?

3. Juan Motaim
   August 25th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

   If you read Stan’s autobiography (”It Only Hurts When I Laugh”) he tells how he convinced Bradbury, who refused all commercial endorsements, to make this commercial.

4. seekshelter
   August 25th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

   ray bradbury is awesome… i just wish he was right about those tubes…

5. Lotta
   August 26th, 2008 at 7:01 am

   I can’t wait for my pneumatic tube to arrive!

6. Cat
   August 27th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

   I keep missing my chance to meet him. Ray Bradbury was the first science fiction author I read, and he has made me a loyal fan to the genre. Very funny commercial!

7. Jbot
   August 27th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

   that was funny he was (sadly) wrong about the tubes though

8. Chad Cloman
   August 29th, 2008 at 1:08 am

   But he was right about the wall-to-wall televisions…

9. earl
   August 30th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

   Little did they know then that in 2000 the California Prune Board would spend $10 million to market prunes as “dried plums”.

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