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Saturday, March 4th, 2006 -- J. DoeMaybe I just don’t have the finesse to appreciate finer, original advertisements, but today I saw one on TV that pretty much revulsed me.
In the cafeteria I was eating lunch at lunchtime. All of a sudden I turned to the TV set to hear a pretty lady on the TV say she had a stuffed nose and chest congestion and didn’t feel like doing anything. She was too congested. Out of nowhere popped up a little green warty blob character with eyes, legs arms and a mouth. He suggested to her that she try a product of his aimed at reducing mucous in the upper respiratory area.
Now, I’ve heard of Batman, and Superman, and yes, Spiderman too, but Snotman? How disgusting. What brilliant marketing agent sneezed into a tissue and decided that he had a great character spokesman for his product anyway? Che schiffo!
I was getting more nauseous by the millisecond when that same lady shows up dancing in her backyard saying that since taking that medicine she feels great. Her problems are ending and mine are just starting.
What a wonderful advertisement. NOT
I don’t think I’ll be buying that product.
my old favorite was the one for a laxative that showed people dancing around on a beach while james brown’s “i feel good” played. i guess it is quite appropriate…
Did they really call him Snot-man? Ewww … tasteless indeed.
Actually the commercial branded him Mr. Mucus. Snotman is what he looked like to me.Even as Mr. Mucus though it was a pretty gross sight.
Snotman equals billions!!! And that’s their goal…That’s what you get in the states these days, over marketing the latest drug. IT’s all a ploy to just get you sicker and for the phamaceutical industry to take your money all the way laughing to the bank. Now if they only went to the root cause of the sitiuation in the first place, you wouldn’t have people wondering how to get rid of such symptoms… But you won’t find that info in the US, its censored..
the commercial worked.
and U R passing it, and its image on to the rest of us who HAVEN’T been subjected to it… like me, who lives in israel and who (up until now) had been spared this image.
question is, when U R next hit with, ahem, nasal congestion will U think of their product?
:-)
Dry Bones
Israel’s Political Comic Strip Since 1973
Yaakov,
Maybe I’ll think of it when I see it in the medication aisle, but I doubt very highly that i will buy it.
Did the advert work? We’re all talking about Snotman but does anyone remember the name of the product?
hey j.doe, i’ll only let you know about an opening if you post somethin’ soon…we all need a little buzzuro in out lives