Comments on: The Infamous Sears 1975 Peek-a-Boo Catalog Controversey

By: Dumpy

Dumpy — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:16:32 +0000

I was a teenager should it to my older sister and mother they could not stop laughing

By: Sossity

Sossity — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:15:34 +0000

My mom actually showed me the ad, since all her friends were talking about it. I was a teen…but it sure looked like "little brick" was peeking out to me. Also I was mortified that my mother thought it was such a riot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:15:40 +0000

I found one of the catalogs in 1977 after hearing about it. I sold it to a Ephemera collector back then for $10.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:55:01 +0000

I WISH I could see some Mantooth meat, these adds made me the man I am today no doubt.

By: Alphacentaurian

Alphacentaurian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:34:25 +0000

I agree with Jimmy… that thing has been put there in the 70s equivalent of photoshopping it; airbrushing, I guess. That, or it's an optical illusion, an accidental coincidence.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:49:00 +0000

if that thing hanging out at the bottom of his boxers is supposed to be the tip of his penis then that dude is hung!! Why is he working for sears when he could be bigger than Johnny Wadd, literally and figuratively! I’ve never heard of a guy so long he hung out the leg-holes of his boxers, so either that’s a printer error or some smart-ass catalog editor got high and put it in there for fun.

By: Arkonbey

Arkonbey — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:22:00 +0000

well, that's what they get for making him pull his boxers up to his navel!

makes me think of the old American Bandstand appearance of Abba, where one of the girls skirt was very short and she was going commando.

By: agentmorris

agentmorris — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:13:00 +0000

My sister has this very catalog and it is a VERY SUBTLE “thing” (pun intended).

Also of note in this catalog is a celebrity model sighting—Buck Roger’s Erin Gray. She shows up a number of times in the catalog.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:54:00 +0000

Are you sure it’s not supposed to be the guy on the right!?

By: Lady Jaye

Lady Jaye — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:28:00 +0000

I don’t see it either… Maybe it’s just not so shocking today. 😛

Still not as obvious as the dog wang image from the Ikea catalog from a year or two ago…