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December 22, 2008
How to do gingerbread man violence humorously
I wrote last week about the horrible Glade commercial where the woman bites the head off a gingerbread man who was going to spill the secret about her air freshener. I've seen it several times since, and it is still highly disturbing.
In fact, there is an addition to it now, where the homicidal housewife retreats to another room. Later, when she returns, she offers a plate of gingerbread cookies to her house guests. Every single gingerbread man has had his head bitten off! What the fuck, Glade? This is pure ginger-cide... Genocide. Something. And to make it even worse, the gingerbread man sounds exactly like how I imagine Tiny Tim would have sounded. Again, great job, Glade.
This makes me thankful that at least one ad agency knows how to treat this subject. I love this AT&T/Cingular commercial, starring the voices of Steve Buscemi and Norm MacDonald.
Do you see what they did there? No decapitation. No gingerbread men were harmed. Only gingerbread houses... I've never lived in a gingerbread house, but I would wager that most gingerbread men would take losing a chunk of their house rather than losing their heads. Just a guess.entry no. 1266
Posted at December 22, 2008 10:38 PM