# I want teeth like a cartoon beaver ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989 "2003-02-23T17:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/1 "2003-02-23T17:21:15Z")
At least thats what a popular toothpaste company seems to think anyway. Have you seen this utterly ridiculous commercial ? Two people (real humans) are walking by a stream (an actual stream) when they come upon a **giant cartoon beaver**. . . with huge white teeth ! “Wow whats your secret ?” the woman wonders aloud. Then the completely fictional mammal with the ink colored teeth proceeds to pontificate on the glories of said toothpaste. WTF ?? Is this honestly supposed to make me run out and buy this product ? Who desires “Tony Robbins White” colored giant cartoon teeth ? Why market an adult item with a kiddie spokesperson - or you know, spokes. . . beaver. Somebody is smokin’ crack. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/2 "2003-02-23T17:36:52Z")
Don’t dis’ the Colgate Herbal toothpaste ad. It contains tea tree oil, sage oil, clove bud oil and myrrh! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/3 "2003-02-23T18:58:47Z")
_Real_ beavers have _orange_ teeth. I _do not **want** _ orange teeth! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/4 "2003-02-23T20:33:13Z")
Oh, come on. You never heard of Ipana? It’s great that Bucky Beaver’s working again after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/5 "2003-02-23T20:42:22Z")
I was thinking Ipana myself when I read the OP. Come on, he’s a well-known spokesbeaver. If toothpaste works for him, then it’ll work for you! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/6 "2003-02-24T00:04:56Z")
I had noticed this thread title and wonder WTF? But I didn’t open it. Then today I saw the ad of which you speak and thought “A-HA! _this_ must be the subject of that thread.” This commerical made me consider doing violence against my television. I didn’t. I don’t want to miss the new season of _Queer as Folk_. But I sure **thought** about it. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/7 "2003-02-24T00:35:33Z")
I saw that commercial and agree it’s stupid. The first thing I’m going to say when I run across a talking cartoon beaver in the woods is _not_ “How’d you get your teeth so white?” ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/8 "2003-02-24T01:51:00Z")
My very first thoughts: _Brush-a brush-a brush-a, with the new Ipana_ and other Pink Lady related references ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/9 "2003-02-24T03:54:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > **I was thinking Ipana myself when I read the OP. Come on, he’s a well-known spokesbeaver.** [butthead]Heh-heh, heh-heh…he said _spokesbeaver_[/butthead] ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-teeth-like-a-cartoon-beaver/156989/10 "2003-02-25T00:29:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*Don’t dis’ the Colgate Herbal toothpaste ad. It contains tea tree oil, sage oil, clove bud oil and myrrh! \*\* Good grief! We might as well ignore all the progress made in recent oral hygene history and just start chewing bark again. Hmmmm - chewing bark. Well at least that would explain the beaver.