Here's an interesting commercial that takes a rough shot directly at Flintstones vitamins. This is Pac Man Vitamins, and is the first acting gig Fred Savage of Wonder Years fame ever had. He mentioned it on Johnny Carson, so naturally I had to look it up.
https://youtu.be/CGnyl7jNfgM
Vitamins
Re: Vitamins
A most sterling debut! I didn't even know sugar avoidance was a thing in '83. Interesting that kids (and adults) are still chowing it down 36 years later.
Re: Vitamins
Sure! Sugar makes things taste much better! Of course, there are many sugar alternatives nowadays that they didn't have back then.
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)