Michael Jackson’s Hair Caught on Fire During 1984 Pepsi Commercial

In order to make this edit, I used the Pepsi commercial from 1984 as well as raw footage of the incident that was obtained by US Weekly in 2009. On the commercial’s sixth take, the pyrotechnics went off too early and the rest is history.

[brentamania]

Had to wear wigs ever since this happened

[MarquelCherry-oq]

No use S curl activator doing pepsi commercial or your hair Will catch fire by sparks ouch

[MJilysm]

So sad poor Michael😢never liked these fire things for this reason.

[Slime_VR]

This is why Coca-Cola better Pepsi betray

[kanardsavage]

Michael Jackson that will happen hair burn he 0:34 got caught 🔥🏥🚑🚓

[mosasaurbitez]

💀🤮 I’m sick of micheal Jackson having fire on his head

[kenlau]

Eddie Murphy made a skit out of this on SNL about how black entertainers tend to spontaneously combust on stage, like how The Trammps all once ignited while performing Disco Inferno.