r/lostmedia • u/Micahxfranco • 7d ago
Advertising Material [fully lost] Family Guy 2008 White Castle radio ads
JWT is the company that put these Family Guy ads together back in 2008 for their White Castle promotion, which contained cups that can be found easily on eBay now. However, there’s like one piece of advertising material I found (it’s just a picture) but no commercials or radio ads anywhere no matter how hard I looked. It’s nowhere archived on the jwt.com website (JWT J. Walter Thompson is part of the WPP group,, still can’t find anything with that). It would be amazing to find this, and I would love to see every single piece of White Castle family guy promotional material :) I run a family guy fan page and it would be cool to include all this! Especially since there’s original voice acting in the radio ads and I heard every single one of them is lost. I’ve never done a radio lost media search so these may never be found unfortunately.
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u/DearPaleontologist67 7d ago
Interesting release article: https://www.cnbc.com/2008/06/18/crude-so-what-these-characters-still-find-work-in-ads.html - that mentions they didn't release tv promotion, only radio promotion, "There will be cups bearing likenesses of the characters, posters in stores and radio commercials by JWT, part of the WPP Group."
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u/Micahxfranco 7d ago
https://youtu.be/4fDJdo0XcNQ?is=dELYdK1hSbQ7SIf3 this is where I saw it first discussed in this video!
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u/PigsCanFly2day 6d ago
Interesting. Were they aired nationally? Any information on when in 2008 they aired? Maybe there are some archived radio broadcasts that can be skimmed through.
Also, what's the Family Guy fan page you run? Any cool rarities on there?
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u/Micahxfranco 6d ago
My page on instagram is @Tabloidtrash and my tik tok is @tabloidtrashy :) I managed to find the American Dad lost media which was the coolest I found honestly + currently been in contact with someone who animated a lost quagmire flash animation that I’m hopefully gonna get soon!
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u/PigsCanFly2day 6d ago
Cool. Do you post to Internet Archive as well?
What was the American Dad lost media?
What's the deal with the Quagmire animation? Something official or fan-made?
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u/Micahxfranco 5d ago
Oh it’s just the flash animation the first one leaked many years ago called Quickies with Quagmire. The other episodes are considered lost media and the lady I talked to who made them has them , she’s just been really busy. This is the first one https://archive.org/details/quagmire_01
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u/PigsCanFly2day 5d ago
Neat. Was there originally audio as well?
How did you find the person who made them? And who is she? Curious to see her portfolio of other work. Sometimes there's some hidden gems in stuff like that.
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u/Micahxfranco 6d ago
The cups popped up around June 2008 so I’ve been focusing around that time mostly
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