Does a bear s**t in the woods?
I have always been freaked out by this toilet paper campaign.These toilet bears, as everyone who watches TV is aware, tend to gleefully scroll off wads of this premium rump-wiping product from nearby tree branches before skipping off to do their business in the brush. Something you may not know, however, unless you frequent cynical corporate web sites for personal care products, is that each bear allegedly has its own quirk. Leonard, for example, is "known for the cha-cha Charmin butt-wiggle dance," whereas Molly "dislikes finding an empty Charmin roll." Whatever happened to that dude who simply went around squeezing four-packs of TP during commercial breaks in the Six Million Dollar Man when we were kids?
Not to be outdone, Northern has busted out with its own animated ass-cleansing mascots (asscots?), The Quilters: Marcy, Sally, and Laverne. You can waste even more time on this site than on Charmin's meet the bears, as each Quilter features an excruciatingly slow and irrelevant flash animation allowing you to randomly turn on lamps in their homes.
How this sells TP, I cannot say.

7 Comments:
love "asscot"!!!
Perhaps the Quilted Northern Quilters and the Charmin Bears can team up to help erradicate the, er, brown residue left by the Fudgems.
I have never seen these commercials. I guess they have different tv stations in Washington. Ha ha just kidding.
Nup sure brought up a good point. Mom
Did you notice that Sally has a degree from the University of Fiber Technology? Go UFT!!! And if I know my fake university asscots (and I think I do), UFT's is Brandy Muffin, the "regular" girl (muffin). "P! O! O! P! I! N! G!! AND WHAT DOES THAT SPELL..." you get the point.
I know the creators of that website probably meant for it to be fiber, as in cloth, as in quilting, but let's face it - they wouldn't exactly stand to lose if we added a little more fiber to our diets, would they?
It's kind of disturbing yet comforting to know the corporate world is actually willing to pay someone to create these campaigns. They've probably researched this, and found out that humans subconsciously want a huggable *asscot* or smiling maternal figure to stand by encouragingly when we're wiping. And maybe turn on a lamp if we need to see better?
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I can’t wait to meet the Bears at the next stop of the Potty Palooza.
http://www.charmin.com/en_us/pages/offers_ploza.shtml
oops...the full link is
http://www.charmin.com/
en_us/pages/offers_ploza.shtml
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