Wrapped in plastic!

Mitch O'Connell presents a small gallery of plastic-wrapped pipsqueaks.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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CastanhasDoPara

Babies come in cellophane? I always thought…
JeepMcMuddy

I don’t understand, I thought coming in plastic was supposed to prevent these things?
Brainspore

“Better living through chemistry” helps explain the thought process of whoever thought up that campaign. I’m guessing LSD.

Also: kid #3 in that second image is flipping off the serial baby suffocator.
- Editz
  
  In advertising, you just can’t go wrong with babies or monkeys. I see this a lot at the local level where the retailer insists on putting their grandchildren into their cheap TV ad, no matter how much it doesn’t make sense.
  - Brainspore
    
    In advertising, you just can’t go wrong with babies or monkeys.
    
    That’s what I thought too, but the Forest Lawn Mortuary people sure shot down my pitch for a billboard campaign pretty quick.
Stonewalker

Maybe this is why they have to put those idiot-warnings all over everything that has plastic.
http://twitter.com/petdance Andy Lester

Professional infants. Closed bags. Do not attempt.
Mister44

See – this is why we are all going to hell. We used to ENCOURAGE the idiots to take themselves out of the gene pool. Now we coddle them with warning stickers on ever bit of plastic.
scatterfingers

So there must have been a time when people were expected to be non-idiots!

Hmmmm.
- ChicagoD
  
  And it apparently did not work. That’s the really depressing part.
Richard Billings

Cellophane is not actually plastic…it’s made from paper but you still can’t breath though it
Palefire

I hope they poked holes in those.
- Dan Woods
  
  I assume you mean the cellophane bags, not the babies…
- Guest
  
  I think the point of these ads was to demonstrate how permeable cellophane could be as compared to plastic wrap. Although, I think they exaggerated the point, somewhat.
tempbot

Fortunately those babies were all orphans owned by the ad agency.
cjhowareya

Baby Sally Draper?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham

Dexter approves.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

Baby Laura Palmer!
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Wilkinson/729709687 Jeff Wilkinson
  
  “a body. dead. wrapped in plastic.”
Paul Renault

If, as per the The Fugs, you use Saran Wrap, there’s no baby to deliver….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyX-jVnmN6s
Finnagain

I can almost never find whole baby at my supermarket these days. It’s all just pieces, and baby factory floor scrapings.
adonai

I’m presuming the stork’s name is Bob…
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Sanders/100000011989161 Robert Sanders
  
  That’s what they call me for short, however you can call me ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Wilkinson/729709687 Jeff Wilkinson

if it hadn’t been babies, i would have dug up something from “Ruby: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe”…
pjcamp

What a fantastic idea!

Nasty little bastards.

Do I see a baby smoking a pipe?
http://www.sriplaw.com/ Joel Rothman

“Gee, Madge, how do you keep your baby so fresh and clean?”

“Well, Linda, I rely on Cellophane from DuPont to keep my baby fresh. But clean? !Well, you’re soaking in it!”

“Dishwashing liquid?!?”

“Relax…it’s Palmolive!”
Nicole

This reminds me of my first time in NYC during a rainstorm — all of the strollers have these heavy clear plastic covers that zip the kids in against rain and cold. Eerie.
folkclarinet

Whenever I see something like this I feel short of breath. In my work as a retail “professional” at a “bookstore” when I have to put a stuffed animal in a plastic bag I have a little pang of regret…
Frank Diekman

My girlfriend recently got a household cleaning manual from the early 50′s. It has advice like “Bug problem? Just spray DDT everywhere!”
- Mister44
  
  DDT saved millions of lives in the tropics.
Adrian

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benher

“She’s dead, Harry. Wrapped in plastic.”
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EAIGSVD4AEQZA27NIJDH65ZS6E On a Mission for God

Good God, what is that? An OVEN BAG?
Hanglyman

While it’s easy to unfairly make fun of past generations for stuff that only seems obvious in hindsight, this one seems totally justified. I refuse to believe that people didn’t know how BREATHING worked 60 years ago.
francoisroux

The world saw a spike in infant deaths right after these ads were released… Vintage, but very irresponsible kind of advertising. This must have been before the days where you could get your ass sued for just about any and everything…
- robcat2075
  
  A spike? The whole world? What source makes that statement?
- mark zero
  
  [citation needed]
Kibo

Of course, by the time the stork reaches its destination, that bag is going to contain a baby floating in a gallon of that blue liquid babies always used to excrete in old commercials.
butlucy

“You see so many good things [before you stop breathing] in Du Pont Cellophane.”
MDwebguy

I was on a crowded airline flight, a few years ago, and after sitting on the taxiway for about 35 minutes, the cabin became warm and an infant baby began screaming at the top of his/her lungs. This went on for a few minutes and the atmosphere grew a bit tense, until someone in the rear of the cabin shouted, “Would somebody please give that child a dry cleaning bag to play with?”

Everybody cracked up in spite of themselves and that broke the tension. I still smile whenever I think about the moment.
http://profiles.google.com/substancemcgravitas Substance McGravitas

You’re the topYou’re Mahatma GandhiYou’re the topYou’re Napoleon BrandyYou’re the purple lightOf a summer night in SpainYou’re the National GalleryYou’re Crosby’s salaryYou’re cellophane