Comment by dspillett

If you were around and paying for media at the time, good have seen it before films at the cinema and as a pre-menu sting (sometimes unskippable) on some DVDs. One of those examples where paying customers were the only ones irritated by such a measure.

It certainly had wide audience awareness in its intended form, which is why the many comedy interpretations (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg probably being the most famous) came into being and worked so well.