"There's cottage cheese smarter than [my cat]; you just have to leave it out for a few days."
-- Katrushka

Mentos

OK, so. Most of you are familiar with those campy old-school Mentos commercials. Mentos is one of the few product I’ve bought specifically because I loved the commercials.

On YouTube, you can find plenty of parodies that hope to capturing a bit of the magic of the originals. And a handful are good. But many demonstrate a complete lack of understanding why the originals were so compelling.

One of the parodies had the protagonist’s car break down. His “Mentos resolution” was to take out a gun and carjack someone.

In another one, someone bumps into the protagonist in a school hallway, causing him to drop his books and papers. The resolution was…to take a metal rod and beat the offender to death. Yeah, man. Har, har.

July 12th, 2009 4 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Bad Ads

  1. poontos posted the following on 13 July 2009 at 5:18 pm.

    google “poontos”

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  2. Donnie posted the following on 15 July 2009 at 1:10 pm.

    Yeah, not that funny.

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  3. blunderprone posted the following on 16 July 2009 at 12:19 am.

    I but mentos to go with my diet coke.

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  4. Donnie posted the following on 17 July 2009 at 12:00 pm.

    Ha. There must be 5 million YouTube videos of putting Mentos in Diet Coke. Think the first couple were enough to get the point.

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