Saturday, October 25, 2008

There it went...Freshen-Up... (Bubble Gum Weekend)

It has long been customary in some circles for one to warn, "Here it comes," before passing gas. The bunker blast is usually followed by, "There it went."

That tradition brings even more humor to this already uproarious Freshen-Up gum commercial from 1982:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oWF2bSZjGM

Freshen-Up is known for the liquid center in each piece of gum and for its miniature road atlas offer of long ago. People have been known to bubble with it.

Some have called that ad suggestive, but it's questionable whether it was intended to be, for it aired 24/7.

This commersh is ridiculously dramatic though, as the actress slowly places the piece of gum in her mouth. As that was the '80s, when gum was practically the national religion, you'd think she'd be so enthused that she'd shovel the whole pack of gum in her mouth as quickly as possible.

But nobody in the ad bubbled.

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