SEA MONKEYS!!

[misstia]

Who didn't see this ad as a kid (if you're that old) and want these?? You can teach them tricks!! Like a pack of friendly trained seals!

From Women's Day March 1973

Comments

[sunshinesarah.livejournal.com]

I had sea monkeys for a long time when I was a kid. Then my mother killed them by dropping their container. :(

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

“Caricatures shown not intended to depict Artemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_monkeys).”

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Those ads terrified me as a child. I always thought those little creatures were going to crawl out of the bowl at night and do nefarious things whilst I was sleeping.

[inkdot.livejournal.com]

Aww, I loved my Sea Monkeys, gross as they turned out to be. ♥

[silverstah.livejournal.com]

I wanted sea monkeys so very badly. *sigh*

[reid.livejournal.com]

i bought sea monkeys like a month ago and they are already dead. i took care of them hardcore like the instructions said! the box said they were guaranteed to live 2 years. i doubt that shit

[grab-that-dough.livejournal.com]

I remember this exact ad. lol

[salenelle.livejournal.com]

Boy, did I yearn for a family of sea-monkeys. They re just brine shrimp, right? GAWD, did I want these as a kid. my own family, in a bowl, for me to watch... what a trip!

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Heh, I remember seeing those ads. I was quite the aquarist as a kid, feeding my fish brine shrimp on a weekly basis. It wasn’t till my dad said that Sea Monkeys were brine shrimp that I made the connection. “Man,” I thought, “those kids who bought them must have totally felt ripped off!”

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

The strip Sam & Max had a page of "Did You Know...?" factoids. My favorite showed Max (the scary rabbit-thing) freaking out over the information that Sea Monkeys are not primates!!

[kitschin-witch.livejournal.com]

Ah, I think that was the exact ad that I saw and have them. My mom took one look at them proclaimed them to be 'just brine shrimp', to which I said, "Shut up, they are Sea Monkeys!"