# Snuggle Bear Reveals His True Colors
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 18, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327 "2002-04-18T15:38:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/1 "2002-04-18T15:38:41Z")
I think most of us can agree that Snuggle is the very embodiment of all that is evil. Well, last night I saw a new Snuggle Fabric Softener commercial in which his mask of adorability cracks.
That likeable hedgehog peeks out from a pile of laundry and promises a housewife to fill her house with snuggly softness, in his agreeable Brooklyn accent. The housewife dismisses him snottily: “Who are you? Get out of my house!” The poor hedgehog snuffles off, demoralized.
THEN we see Snuggle, lurking hideously on a high shelf, LAUGHING evilly at the hedgehog’s dismay. Snuggle then launches himself off the shelf and floats down at us like something out of Nosferatu—at this point I screamed and changed the channel.
Anyone else see this, or did my doctor give me the wrong prescription again?
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### Author:  [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/2 "2002-04-18T15:51:14Z")
Note to self: Find out what **Eve’s** taking, stock up.
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### Author:  [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/3 "2002-04-18T15:51:27Z")
Clip! We demand a clip!
Eve, I would pay money to see that. I’d pay even more to see Winnie, Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore dismembering Snuggle and eating his stuffing, but I’ll take what I can get.
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### Author:  [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/4 "2002-04-18T15:55:24Z")
I think it’s unfair, myself. The hedgehog was channeling Engelbert Humperdink at the time.
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/5 "2002-04-18T16:04:43Z")
OMG, yes! I saw it last night, too, and instantly sided with the hedgehog against Snuggle Bear’s Evil Empire.
And I bet when he took that dive down off the shelf, he landed right on the poor little Brooklyn hedgehog and porked him in the ass. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/6 "2002-04-18T16:08:18Z")
More reminders of Snuggle’s evil:
“WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, of Greenwich, Conn., is voluntarily recalling about 4 million plush Snuggle® bears. The eyes and noses of these bears can come off, posing a choking hazard to young children.”
And this site, from a woman who agrees:
[http://www.exquisitedeadguy.50megs.com/snuggle.html](http://www.exquisitedeadguy.50megs.com/snuggle.html)
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/7 "2002-04-18T16:09:48Z")
Auntie Em—I am SO glad you saw it, too . . .
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/8 "2002-04-18T16:15:27Z")
Saw it. Was dismayed. I always liked that cute little bear. Then they used the first commerciel wiht the (hedgehog? I thought it was a porcupine) That guy was adorible.
And then … last night. We see Snuggle Bear leering down on the dispondent little fellow and chortling with derisive glee. Almost broke my heart.
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### Author:  [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/9 "2002-04-18T16:33:42Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Eve \*
> \*\*Auntie Em—I am SO glad you saw it, too . . . \*\*
Maybe we’re just on the same meds (or lack thereof)…
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### Author:  [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/10 "2002-04-18T16:45:10Z")
Well then, that makes three of us. I saw it the other night. And I felt sorry for the hedgehog.
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### Author:  [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/11 "2002-04-18T16:56:17Z")
Long live the hedgehog.
😃
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/12 "2002-04-18T18:08:14Z")
This is why TV frightens me.
I used to have one of those Snuggle stuffed bears. I have thankfully since ridden my household of that evil little animal.
:: shudder ::
Thankfully I have not seen this commercial. I shall try to avoid it.
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### Author:  [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/13 "2002-04-18T18:08:34Z")
God, I just hate that little bear.
Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em.
If Snuggles was a person, he’d be an anal retentive gossipy snob of the first degree. You know, one of those people that is all smerky smiley to your face and then blam, eviscerates the minute your back is turned.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/14 "2002-04-18T18:17:40Z")
I saw it at lunchtime. Normally, I ignore commercials, but since I had read this thread in the morning, I watched it.
\*\* Stands on soap box \*\* Fabric Softner is evil I tell’s ya! Evil!
Better to add some white vinegar to the rinse cycle.
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### Author:  [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/15 "2002-04-18T18:19:43Z")
It’s a porcupine.
And I love the porcupine. Especially when he says “I’m snuggawy sawwft!”
Snuggle Bear is the Anti-Christ’s cousin. Not the total embodiment of evil, but right up there with it in some twisted inbred kind of way.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/16 "2002-04-18T18:53:18Z")
I saw it, too, and all I’m on at the moment is Allegra. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/17 "2002-04-18T19:15:52Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by auntie em \*
> \*\*OMG, yes! I saw it last night, too, and instantly sided with the hedgehog against Snuggle Bear’s Evil Empire.
>
> And I bet when he took that dive down off the shelf, he landed right on the poor little Brooklyn hedgehog and porked him in the ass. :eek: \*\*
Well, fortunately all of us Pratchett fans know that the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
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### Author:  [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/18 "2002-04-18T19:43:26Z")
I prefer the 'dillo myself…
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/19 "2002-04-18T21:24:31Z")
Yes I saw it. Snuggle is apparently King of the World. What was that ad where he was being chased by a tank that was blowing off pieces of him? Oh yeah…
[BATTLETANX VS. SNUGGLES](http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/HyruleCity/News.html)
> [@](#):
>
> Perhaps you’ve seen one of the funniest N64 commercials ever… it starts off with a little bear who resembles Snuggles singing when a tank crashes in on him. The bear runs, and you see glimpses of him on fire and with one arm missing. Eventually the tank runs over him, while “Snuggles” caughs up some cotton and says “BattleTanx”.
[http://www.xent.com/nov99/0072.html](http://www.xent.com/nov99/0072.html)
[The original commercial](http://n64media.ign.com/media/news/video/btcommercial.mov)
[We can rebuild him](http://n64media.ign.com/media/news/video/6million.mov)
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snuggle-bear-reveals-his-true-colors/104327/20 "2002-04-18T21:36:17Z")
You can’t blame Snuggles for being pissed, I hear years of exposure to softener left him unable to perform as a man.
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