"Thanks! I Needed That!"

[Victor Steinbok]

  The dates are not specific, but here are a couple of Skin Bracer
commercials from "the early 70s", one involving John Goodman (in his
slim days).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB8ucoNek2g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1prd0Dpfytw&NR=1

This one's from 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR9VJHaNztg

It does not have the slap yet.

And here's one from 1986 that still has the phrase, but not the slap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86A5jqKgAg

     VS-)

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org