Gum Fighter wins another gum fight (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Bubble gum. I never chew the stuff myself nowadays. My jaw gets stiff and locks up chewing anything chewier than a booger these days, so why chew bubble gum?

Because it bips, that's why. Just joking. Even if it bips, chewing bubble gum would be hard work indeed.

But it comes so easy to the Gum Fighter - the guy in the Western-themed Hubba Bubba commercials.

Although the ads were set in the good ol' U.S. and A., and the Gum Fighter was played by an American actor, he appears in this commersh that reportedly aired in the U.K. in 1982:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlsFQgvouFc

In that ad, several people bubbled after being chased by Hubba Bubba highway robbers on horseback. Apparently, the Gum Fighter and his crew haul Hubba Bubba around by stagecoach, leaving them susceptible to robbery. Gum is highly coveted stuff, you know.

At the end of the ad, of course, the Gum Fighter emerged a hero, and the women all flocked to him!

This commercial seems almost the same as the American version except for the jingle at the end: In the U.K. version, the jingle seems to be sung in a British accent.

Damn. When are the villains going to learn their lesson that the Gum Fighter is unstoppable?