Seriously. These commercials ran in virtually every TV show with the chance of an adult watching for decades.
Some of these commercials were captured and made it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brim+commercial (search query link).
My generation began conflating the words, and today's generations never had a real chance to learn we were making that mistake. So now it's no longer a mistake, just evidence of the language evolving.