Feewinghurt looms for gum haters (Bubble Gum Weekend)

I found this legendary commersh on YouTube 2 years ago and blogged about it on MySpace.

But YouPube yanked it because it hurt someone's pwecious widdle feewings. The very moment someone complains about a video on YouTube, it's gone - no matter how ridiculous their complaint is.

Maybe the person who complained doesn't know how to blow bubbles, so they think nobody else should be allowed to see bubble gum.

So here's the story about this ad...

Ever since I was very young - maybe 4 or 5 - I swore up and down that Bubble Yum had ads at the time featuring a monkey puppet. Everyone said it was just a figment of my imagination - until 30 years later when the miracle of YouTube finally proved I was right:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk5rnRAAwFg

The puppet in that 1976 commersh was known as Flavor Fiend. It's hard to tell it's even a monkey, though that was the impression I got from other ads with this character. Flavor Fiend actually resembled an orange Cookie Monster.

This ad also featured Flavor Fiend bubbling.

The gum-hating thought guardians are going to be furious that this commersh has reappeared on YouTube! It took them so much work to cry the last time it was posted, and now all that effort has gone to waste! All that work, wastage bastage!

Even better, this copy of the ad is in better condition than the one that was pulled, so some of the missing frames have been restored. It appears to have been taped off what was then WOKR-TV, the Already Been Chewed affiliate in Rochester, New York.

So even people in Rochester, New York, know of bubble gum's hilarious existence!