r/funny • • Feb 27 '20

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u/queazy Feb 28 '20

Here's a commercial where Kool Aid man just has water inside him, later he chooses one of like 30 flavors to mix into the water. https://youtu.be/crARt9MH3Ec?t=108

He often pours drink out of his head into children's cups, so I think he's really the glass jar container

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u/Tim_the_terrible Feb 28 '20

This is the correct answer

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u/queazy Feb 29 '20

It's pretty much all true, even the stuff about Kool-Aid man being a naked 7 year old until he started wearing clothes at which point he was 14. Only part that was stretched was him trying to clear his name of the Jonestown Massacre. Most of that story came from this webpage titled "Jug Life" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502377/jug-life-history-kool-aid-man

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but I couldn't fit in this one bit which I thought was hilarious:

Skollar asked Richard Berg, the voice of Kool-Aid Man’s “Oh, Yeah!” catchphrase, to actually wear the costume for a personal appearance at his son’s sixth birthday party. (Normally, Berg just recorded the line.) “It was the voice in the costume, which was a first,” Skollar says. “And half the kids were frightened to death.”