Cleanup on Aisle 9

Drunk golfers! Boozy George Clooney! Canadian bootleggers! Design briefs! And WTF does any of this have to do with iced tea? Join Jesse & John as they discuss the finer points of packaging design for specialty spirits...

0:47 Brief briefs are best
2:30 Seagram's twisted history
3:24 Boozy George Clooney
4:30 Canadian bootlegger blues
7:20 Sweet tea bottom-shelfer
9:15 "I dare you to taste it"
13:49 The Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
15:33 The slow decline in design
17:04 Enter the lawyers...
18:54 Equity, shmequity
20:54 The big-ass jug
22:03 Your little design baby
25:38 Bad 80's design & worse!

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Which is better, fries or tots? What happens when teenagers burn their meat? And where did tater tots even come from? Join salty designers Jesse & John as they get crispy on some super spuds, including the brand-new McDonald's packaging & Ore-Ida's potato innovations. And what does that name even mean? It's all here, so grab some ketchup & dig in!

00:26 Stopping by McD’s for free sh*t
02:06 Out with the old, in with the new
03:28 Sidebar: road trippin’ & side-taskin’
06:54 Simple, iconic new packaging
08:23 Used packaging for sale  for real!
09:22 Localized pain: translate this
10:51 Lockdown learning with Duolingo
13:35 The inventor of the tater tot
14:35 Potato history w/the crazy Grigg bro’s
16:25 Re-enacting the birth of the tater tot
18:05 It’s not great if you have to explain it
20:30 Ore-Ida packaging: cleanup!
22:31 Jesse's secret love of tractors
23:57 Spud demographics & “safe” design
26:30 The big Ore-Ida cleanup!

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How did PBR go from zero to hero? What's the key to authenticity? And what's the worst PBR tattoo ever? Learn all this & more as John & Jesse crack the can on this iconic beer!

1:03 My dad was the original hipster
2:05 A short & bittersweet history of PBR
4:24 Pabst peaks & peters out
5:19 Dennis Hopper says f*** that s***!
6:55 The Hipster Age
7:58 Grassroots marketing with secret swag
10:00 Alex Whip-it-good & f*** Kid Rock
11:14 Good redesign, bad extensions
14:10 6-pack, 99-pack, even a 1776-pack!
15:20 The craft category explodes
18:20 PBR's iconic look
19:54 Terrible tattoos
23:42 A high-speed chase!

Our theme tune "Cold Beat" is by Serge Quadrado licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Can you get high from eating really old Pez? Why did E.T. love Reese's Pieces so much? Where  did the idea for Pixy Stix come from? What's the deal with selling candy cigarettes to kids? Which are the most loved — and most hated — candies in the world? It's all here... John & Jesse dig into some killer candies with sometimes not-so-killer packaging, just in time for Halloween. Boo!

1:15 Target candy cigarettes & other bad ideas
2:43 PEZ: John finds some PEZ from 1976 and...
4:09 Pixy Stix, Fun Dip, Bottle Caps: packaged fun
6:00 Snickers: the super-candy gets a super-graphic
6:59 100 Grand: not so grand any more — cleanup!
8:38 Boston Baked Beans: wicked terrible design.
10:23 The most hated Halloween candies: #10 to #5
12:48 Reese's Pieces: E.T. made 'em out-of-this-world
14:05 Missed opportunity: Charlie Sheen wax off
15:28 The first really scary movie I ever saw was...
18:29 The most hated Halloween candies: #4 to #1
21:34 Kids' top 10 favorite Halloween candies
22:33 Hershey's: an all-time classic, future-forward
25:53 Jesse's pub-crawl Halloween costume hijinx
27:49 Big League Chew: more tobacco-themed gum
28:54 And the next big kid's candy sensation will be...

You can also see all these packages over on our YouTube page. And, as promised... click here for the Kitty Litter Cake recipe!

Our theme tune "Cold Beat" is by Serge Quadrado licensed under CC BY 2.0

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