P&G: Pampers Disposable Diapers, 1960s-1970s
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| ♪ [Ragtime Music Plays] ♪ | 0:01 | |
| - | [W.C. Fields-like Narrator] Ah, yes, the good old days, | 0:04 |
| bathtub formula, | 0:05 | |
| the flashy Stutz Bearcart | 0:07 | |
| and everyone was doing the Wet Bottom Rag. | 0:10 | |
| Wet cloth diapers, | 0:13 | |
| that's what did it. | 0:15 | |
| Kept your bottom wet. | 0:16 | |
| Kept you moving around. | 0:17 | |
| Ah, yes, I remember it well. | 0:19 | |
| And then...the end of an era. | 0:21 | |
| The day they invented Pampers | 0:27 | |
| and started making wet bottoms drier. | 0:29 | |
| Pampers | 0:31 | |
| put in a special stay-dry lining. | 0:33 | |
| Moisture goes through it, and it is kept down below. | 0:35 | |
| So next to a baby's bottom, | 0:38 | |
| the lining stays drier. | 0:40 | |
| Baby stays dry. | 0:42 | |
| Outside it's waterproof. | 0:43 | |
| No plastic pants. | 0:45 | |
| Progress, my little chickadees. | 0:47 | |
| Progress! | 0:49 | |
| A new era is upon us, my friends. | 0:52 | |
| I give you Pampers! | 0:54 |
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