Was this in Alexandria, by any chance?
I thought it was because the kids had scraps of TP stuck to their bottoms.
There’s a McDonald’s in Tacoma with a Chihuly sculpture hanging inside. Let’s see the Twin Cities top that.
Tacoma, Washington, is Dale Chihuly’s hometown. People who say it’s Seattle are wrong.
On Earth, that would be a little under 4,000 miles away from your starting point. It just takes you longer to get there.
The cold loneliness of space only starts about 62 miles away. Mind you, if you aren’t still moving away at that point, you will soon be heating up rapidly again.
This current Facebook ad is no “I’d hit it”, but it’s pretty cringe.
All of the Charmin commercials with the bears are weird.
I suppose if one had a poop fetish, going into the TP biz, or the TP-advertising biz, would be sort of a natural.
What’s so cringe about it?
The Charmin Bears sort of evolved out of a one-shot ad, which was literally based on the term “does a bear shit in the woods?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgxFgYKveg
Even stranger, now, there are three different “bear families,” which are used for different types of ads, though most of the ads focus on the last two:
- The brown bears are used for general advertising for the Charmin brand (which there is not a lot of)
- The blue bears advertise Charmin Ultra Soft (with ads focusing on the benefit of super-soft TP for sensitive heinies)
- The red bears advertise Charmin Ultra Strong (with ads focusing on the need for TP that won’t fall apart when you use it)
The attempt at hip lingo, man.
I’ve always thought those bears were creepy, and also that they were different colors, but never realized that each color family was pushing a slightly different product. From the very start, though, those commercials made me think of the joke of the bear and rabbit walking through the woods…
Literally, that is!
I wonder if the soft weak woke bears being blue and the big manly strong bears being red is an accident / coincidence, a subtle attempt to subliminally sell along partisan lines, or a blatant attempt to suck up to RW sensibilities.
Sometimes a red bear is just a red bear.
Never seen a red bear, but I have seen pink elephants!
Speaking of Charming, does anyone remember Mr. Whipple and his squeezing fetish?
I actually MET Mr. Whipple! He was the next door neighbor to a co-worker’s bride, and apparently he and his wife were like a second set of grandparents to the bride and her sisters. During the bride’s speech, she introduced them as family friends (by their real names, not Mr. and Mrs. Whipple), and Mr. Whipple got up, went to the mike, and delivered about 10 minutes of impromptu stand-up, most of which was about the bride and her family. It was hilarious, made even more funny when we learned that it was completely unplanned. He really seemed like a nice guy IRL.
Primarily Essentials these days, AFAIK.
I mean, if your goal is to advertise toilet paper, there aren’t really any good options. Weird is probably about the best you can hope for.