Friday, October 1, 2021

Bitter gum face! (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Let's reflect back on some TV commercials circa 1997!

You may remember the Keystone beer commercials in which the cooltagonist would display "bitter beer face." Well, this is a commercial from that same era for Extra sugarless gum in which a woman seems to have "bitter gum face"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj8ph5snX0I

Here's a synopsis of that commersh in case you're afraid an exploding cigar will pop out of your computer screen. A woman is standing on a rocky beach with other tourists - in order to see a whale jump out of the sea, a once-in-a-lifetime event. She crams a stick of the competitor's gum - you could tell it's Trident - into her mouth.

But the gum is so nasty that she needs another piece after just a few seconds. The look on her face is like the "bitter beer face" in the Keystone ads. So she starts pawing around in her bag for another stick. Just then, the whale pops up - and she misses it!

She waited her whole life to see the whale, and inferior gum caused her to miss it!

On the boat on the way back, she sulks because she missed the whale!

But nobody bubbled.

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