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    Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame

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    Image of schlegs84 schlegs84
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    Does anyone else cry at this commercial? Not that I do....
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    Image of scandalouskiki scandalouskiki
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    I used to know the Gordita anthem by heart. I'm not sure how to feel about that now.
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    scandalouskiki was starred scandalouskiki was unstarred
    Image of veronykah veronykah
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    When I saw the title I thought "they BETTER include Spuds!"
    I mean, I am biased I have a bull terrier. I've never seen that one, I laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes.
    I would love to find out who came up with the Spuds concept because despite being over 20 years old people STILL remember it. I hear "Spuds!" at least once a day when I walk my dog.
    My dog in action...
    Vimeo has the audio, youtube disabled it..
    Getting Home is Exciting! from gwen calavera on Vimeo.
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    Image of rhymeswithfeather rhymeswithfeather
    07/23/09

    @veronykah: Soooo cute!
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    rhymeswithfeather was starred rhymeswithfeather was unstarred
    Image of DuckDuckGoose DuckDuckGoose
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    I can't read!
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    labeled promoted this comment DuckDuckGoose was starred DuckDuckGoose was unstarred
    Image of labeled labeled
    07/23/09

    @DuckDuckGoose: Crap. I will now torment my family with "I SMELLL BACOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN!" indefinitely.
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    Image of scandalouskiki scandalouskiki
    07/23/09

    @DuckDuckGoose: Only one thing smells like bacon and that's BACON!
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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    Why is that man telling me to go to my Studebaker dealership tomorrow?? Mr. Ed obviously is so pumped for that power steering he should be telling me to run over there today.
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    Image of edna electro edna electro
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    i kind of want to steal this actor dog... but only if that's his real singing voice.
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    heatherwritesstuff promoted this comment edna electro was starred edna electro was unstarred
    Image of rhymeswithfeather rhymeswithfeather
    07/23/09

    @edna electro: I know someone who worked at the agency behind this. She said the dog was a total diva.

    Brilliant commercial.
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    Image of Highsmith Highsmith
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    Gidget has the kind of gravitas Meryl Streep can only dream of.
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    BabyJane promoted this comment Highsmith was starred Highsmith was unstarred
    Image of eadubbs eadubbs
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    If only you had done this 6 months ago. When I went to new employee orientation, the AFLAC guy's question was the about the first duck commercial. I could have won an AFLAC duck (stuffed, of course)
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    BabyJane promoted this comment eadubbs was starred eadubbs was unstarred
    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    07/23/09

    @eadubbs: You were robbed!
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    BabyJane was starred BabyJane was unstarred
    Image of hfree hfree
    07/23/09

    @eadubbs: I have one of those ducks. You squeeze it and it goes "Aflac. Aflac. AFFFLLLAAAACCCKKK!" I use it to scare my officemate.
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    Image of eadubbs eadubbs
    07/23/09

    @BabyJane: Life is all about timing.

    I suppose the end of the story is that my boss did end up getting one, which we threw away because it kept making us sneeze. And it, you know, was very obnoxious
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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    07/23/09

    @eadubbs: for some reason, Aflack came to my highschool years ago (I still have no idea why). They had a giant Aflack duck I wanted to steal, but I was only able to get a little one that said "Aflack. Aflack. AFLAAAAACKKKKK" (aha I guess they haven't changed it, hfree) when you squeezed it. I would leave it in people's lockers.
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    Image of EsmereldaFitzmonster EsmereldaFitzmonster
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    I had a few of the Gidget stuffed toys from Taco Bell that talked-- my dog LOVED them, so all you'd hear in our house was growling and then "Viva Gorditas" in this weird echoey voice. Ah, the memories.
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    Image of Margaret Margaret
    07/23/09

    @EsmereldaFitzmonster: I had them too! I've got to dig them out and send Gidget off with a "viva gorditas" chorus... and some gorditas.
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    Margaret was starred Margaret was unstarred
    Image of hatepaperdoll hatepaperdoll
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    Let's have a moment for the unsung (irony!) star of this classic ad. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow...
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    hatepaperdoll was starred hatepaperdoll was unstarred
    Image of Margaret Margaret
    07/23/09

    @hatepaperdoll: I couldn't find the one that goes, "I want chicken, I want liver, Meow Mix Meow Mix please deliver." I think I heard it on the Simpsons or something and I've always considered it the definitive version.
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    Margaret was starred Margaret was unstarred
    Image of hatepaperdoll hatepaperdoll
    07/23/09

    @Margaret: I remember that too. According to Wikipedia it's from "Austin Powers".
    The Simpson's quote is Homer's inner thoughts (I know you can read MY mind too, boy: Meow, meow, meow, meow).

    Also, you can buy a clock that plays the jingle every hour. God bless us, everyone.
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    Edited by hatepaperdoll at 07/23/09 4:38 PM hatepaperdoll was starred hatepaperdoll was unstarred
    Image of Margaret Margaret
    07/23/09

    @hatepaperdoll: Ah, thank you! That's been driving me nuts all afternoon.
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    Margaret was starred Margaret was unstarred
    Image of Catpain Blackudder Catpain Blackudder
    07/23/09

    @hatepaperdoll: I have been searching for just the right thing to send my best friend (we only send screwed-up presents). Hearts!
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    hatepaperdoll promoted this comment Catpain Blackudder was starred Catpain Blackudder was unstarred
    Image of casi nadie (loves MCC forever) casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    Wow, the Viva Gordita ad is really problematic. I'm sure I didn't notice as a kid, when it came out, but now I can't not analyze the things about it that piss me off.

    Most of this ad is simply references to Cuba and Argentina (draping red over everything = communisim, extreme veneration of a leader speaking from a window = Eva Perón reference). Both of those are issues because 1) they are a caricature of complicated history that most people in the US don't understand and 2) they are lumping together very different parts of Latin America under the umbrella of pseudo-Mexican food. Mexico has never had a communist leader, and while some people argue that the 70-year reign of the PRI represents a dictatorship, it was certainly nothing akin to the charismatic populist leadership of Castro or Perón (or today, Chavez) that is imitated in the commercial.

    I'm not expecting a commercial about cheap fast food to educate the United States about the rest of the world, but that commercial is more than bordering on racism. When things like that are acceptable, are considered funny, is there any wonder that there's so much ignorance and so many stereotypes about Latin Americans abounding in the United States?
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    Image of Margaret Margaret
    07/23/09

    @casi nadie (é o português de Curly Crown): I believe the reason they stopped running those ads in 2000 was that too many people complained that they were racist. Just don't blame poor Gidget - she was only reading her lines!
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    Edited by Margaret at 07/23/09 4:35 PM Margaret was starred Margaret was unstarred
    Image of ThePiratesFan ThePiratesFan
    07/23/09

    @casi nadie (é o português de Curly Crown): So.....Tu no quieres Taco Bell?
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    heatherwritesstuff promoted this comment ThePiratesFan was starred ThePiratesFan was unstarred
    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    that woman in the stanley steemer commercial is yelling as if the dog is dragging her child's bloody, severed hand across the carpet. i mean come ON.
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    rednrowdy was starred rednrowdy was unstarred
    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    07/23/09

    @rednrowdy: Exactly. That voice should be reserved for evacuating burning buildings and getting people out of the way of oncoming cars.
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    BabyJane was starred BabyJane was unstarred
    Image of MissTicklebritches MissTicklebritches
    07/23/09

    @rednrowdy: I know! Everyone knows that dogs and cats scoot to scratch their bums.
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    Image of meloukhia meloukhia
    07/23/09

    @rednrowdy: I had assumed that the dog was scooting on the carpet because of impacted anal glands, which, you know, if I had to choose between carpeting smeared with bloody hand juice and the ooze from impacted anal glands...bring on the bloody hand. I'm just sayin'.
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    heatherwritesstuff promoted this comment meloukhia was starred meloukhia was unstarred
    Image of rhymeswithfeather rhymeswithfeather
    07/23/09

    @meloukhia: LOL My cat had leaking anal glands back in the day. I'm with you.
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    Image of hortense hortense
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    I STILL think of Morris whenever I see an orange cat.
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    hortense was starred hortense was unstarred
    Image of LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    Let's not forget the Budweiser donkey!

    Oh, damn--I can't get it to post!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmsr7PAhWU
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    Edited by LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman at 07/23/09 4:16 PM LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman was starred LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman was unstarred
    Image of MissTicklebritches MissTicklebritches
    07/23/09

    @LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: and the Budweiser frogs!
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    MissTicklebritches was starred MissTicklebritches was unstarred
    Image of EkaterinaBallerina EkaterinaBallerina
    07/23/09

    In reply to Animals In Advertising: A Hall Of Fame
    I can't watch those Pedigree commercials anymore. Or the ones that Sarah McLachlan does. They make me cry uncontrollably. Put the face of a forlorn dog in my face and I just breakdown. And then I find my former-shelter dog and hug her.
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