How can toilet paper manufacturers use babies as spokespersons for their product when in all reality, babies don’t even use toilet paper. Why must they stick a scary baby’s head on every package?
Sometimes people changing babies’ diapers use tp to assist in the cleanup task.
Also for the same reason the put fluffy kittens and other cute animals there – they want the association with something soft.
well, obviously it’s for the ‘softness’ that a baby represents, but i seriously have a problem with it. it just seems so contradicting for a baby to represent something like this. also, those babies are always so creepy and i get this wierd feeling that there is baby in the toilet paper…baby oils perhaps.
Thankfully, you now have the iconoclastic people at Charmin who are now running TV ads with cartoon bears pooping in the woods behind bushes and enjoying Charmin afterwards. Even more surprisingly is the notable use of the color brown in the ads. Probably first TP ad to freely admit TP’s most common use… Past ads seemed to suggest that TP most common use was to rub it against your cheek and sigh contentedly.
However, the icon on the Charmin package is still a baby, last I checked…
you’re absolutely right. what has advertising and marketing come to by personifying bears and suggesting that they take the time to wipe thier asses. it’s false advertisement, i tell you. they should show real people, taking real sh*ts and sighing with relief because the TP is gentle enough for a double wipe and won’t rub your ass raw. that’s the kind of TP i want to by, not something a bear would use if he had the sense to wipe.
I don’t WANT to see ads that are that specific about what TP is used for. I know damn well what it’s for. I don’t want to hear about it, especially from cartoon bears! I refuse to buy Charmin now, and any brand for which the commercials discuss how clean their TP makes you. Ewwwwwww! I consider this sort of thing TMI, at least on broadcast TV.
I don’t remember which brand it is, but I’ve recently seen some commercials for toilet paper where the camera focuses on people’s butts while doing various activities such as running, swimming, ballet dancing, etc. I’d say this comes pretty close to advertising the product’s intended use.
There was also a commercial where a roll of toilet paper is rolling and unraveling itself as it rolls over a pair of white underpants laying flat. The ad said something to the effect of “it helps to keep your whites ‘white’.”
Why do we need TP ads? I go to the store, I buy whatever is on sale. End of story.
exactly. TP is a neccessity, like salt. you don’t need to wast money on adds for that. and come to think of it, i remember that add showing people’s butts and it made me cringe to know that they had been doing their business right before the activity it showed them doing. there should be no ads…tp is tp.
i also don’t like to think that there are tiny people quilting the Quilted charmin. thats like slave labor when there are machines that do that quicker. i guess the marketing for TP is narrow that advertisments have to be creative. and on that, there are a whole line of products that don’t need to be advertised like tampons, yeast infection medicine, valtrex…
IIRC sandpaper is graded by its grit number, and I don’t remember which way the scale runs. Whether a lower number has more or fewer grains per square inch.
In any case, based on some of the paper in restrooms in filling stations and the like, I’d like to see a grit rating on the stuff I buy.
For the same reason we need ads for sanitary napkins, ads that mention “diarrhea” and other subjects that were not included in commericals, many years ago. It is one of the costs of “freedom of speech”.
However, it seems to me that it must be some sort of phobia that causes someone to get up-tight about baby pictures on toilet paper.
Why exactly does it matter that they use babies? Why in the world would anyone consider that an issue?
it’s an issue because i am baffled at why a baby should represent TP. it isn’t for babies. i know, i know, babies are soft, but why does TP even need a spokesperson (or spokesbaby for that matter). it just seems rediculous to me. and maybe there is a phobia…those babies are scary. any naked baby is just wrong, let alone one that’s hugging on a roll of TP.
Because babies are dirty and gross. TP is supposed to make something not dirty and gross. Thats like puting a picture of a burn victim on a bottle of sun-screen.
finally, someone who sees what i am talking about.
lol… like the gerber baby food incident… I read somewhere that in certain countries, they put pictures of the ingredients on the label, in addition or in lieu of the ingredients list… no one wanted to buy gerber baby food.
Also, what does a lumberjack have to do with paper towels?
Ads for toilet paper are needed because there are different brands of toilet paper. Sure, you’re not going to stop buying toilet paper, but the Charmin company wants to make sure that you buy Charmin toilet paper specifically, not just the cheap store brand.
And they put babies on the logo, because most folks don’t think of babies as dirty and gross. Most people think of babies as cute and soft. Whether they actually are is irrelevant. After all, snakes are clean and dry, but do you really think that they’d sell a lot of toilet paper if they put snakes on the label?
Does the bear shit in the woods? Is the Pope Polish?
…where have I heard this before…