You know, I like to think I’ve got pretty good recall of all the various things I was exposed to during my childhood, especially the pop-cultural stuff, but even I have forgotten a lot of the truly weird crap that was floating around in the 1970s. Consider, for example, this animated musical tribute to our nation’s 1976 Bicentennial:
I think my favorite bit is the cornucopia spewing forth hamburgers, hot dogs, and console television sets. That’s America in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Thanks to this video, there were more stoner patriots in 1976 than at any other time in history. Now that’s niche marketing!