what the hell is that in the new ricola commercial?

ok so the new ricola commercials have a guy in leiderhosen with that horn thing, a cute blonde girl, and a guy wearing a fuzzy gray costume. What the hell is he supposed to be? I thought maybe he was supposed to be an Alp, but he doesn’t really look like a mountain. I’m confused and it’s really bothering me.

Is this another ANAWFOS night?

Check the ad here:
http://www.ricolausa.com/welcome/index.html

I do think it is a mountain (Alp) besides how he looks, the layout of the characters at the last frame, is a crude representation of earlier commercials; with the real Alps in the background.

It’s not just an Alp, it is the quintessential Alp; The Matterhorn. The costume clearly has that overhanging Peak on top.

I could have SWORN I saw this thread blocked about a minuite ago. I even opened it to see why it had been blocked, and couldn’t figure out why. Wierd.

There’s an unintentional duplicate of this thread that was locked. That’s what you saw.

ok so i guess he is the matterhorn… he just looks like an angular banana to me… cause you don’t get a good view of his lower half. at least not in the commercial where the guy gets hit in the head with a tv.

Strangely cheerful Swiss people following Dr. Tesla, taunting him: “Neeeee-co-la! Neeeee-co-la!” Tesla flees, throwing sparks, fearing the worst.

Ya’ know, I used to seriously thing I spent too much time plugged in to the 'net, but seeing folks who can sling around acronyms longer than, say “WTF” or “IIRC” reminds me that I’m not such a low-life geek after all!

(humming into the sunset).

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In Switzerland, the home of Ricola and half the Matterhorn, an Alp is a high mountain pasture (Think Heidi and Goat Peter), not a peak.

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I had a sneaking feeling that was the case, but decided to just run with the imagery seawothey and GIGObuster started.

Sure (What is an alp?). But in Switzerland, the languages are German, French, Italian and Romansh, whereas this thread is in English, and in English, alp means mountain.

We probably should change that.

Ahh! NOW it makes sence!