Sunday, March 30, 2008

CCTV II: The drool factor episode (a): The Hokum menace


This is also known as the-rake-your-libido-up-to-extreme-heights-so-you-wanna-run-screaming -out-of-your-house-and-buy-that-damned-product-to-bring-it-to-a-climax.

A few examples to exemplify the above.
Breath mints. Now I do agree that breath mints are sometimes needed to attract the opposite sex. but in these ads...breath mints only bring the sex.

The cos seem to believe their target is the urban male youth. What about older males, who ned a shot of garlic morning, noon and night, what about the toddlers who eat everything in sight, what about women, old people; they need no breath mints. Oh wait...I get it...their libido does not go into overdrive every time they gaze at the opposite sex. FYI have you ever been woken by your dog in the morning when he wants to fertilize the trees outside? I keep a supply of tic tacs by my bedside to avoid being gassed to death. But no...its only the colts who deserve the white stuff.

1. Fresh mint: This has to be the ad that destroys the cerebral cortex and replaces it with bubblegum. In the ad is this peeping tom who runs around doing the most bizarre things in an attempt to scope out women, and gets belted each time and everytime. Sometimes he falls of high ladders, vehicles ram into him and he falls into creeks with boulders. The ends up in a hospital where he eats a fresh mint and viola! Rakhi Savant (the pin-up girl for nasbandi) strips from a doc coat to some green hellish looking thing and purses her lips like she licked 14 lemons, while sucking on cottage-cheese. The guy recovers...so go eat fresh mint. The only connection between the mint and all the above nonsense is that the mint is green and so is nasbandi's hellish costume.

2. I forget the name of this product, but it has to do with the weather changing every time this dweeb opens and closes his box of breath mints. In the end some woman sitting yards away from him walks towards him, they hitch up and end up in divorce soon.

3. Wrigley's chewing gum. This takes the cake, mousse, souffle and pickle. Another guy roams around eating mint and catching women falling trees, planes, oxen, goats, buildings and what not.

Now im thinking fine, mints get you women. But what if the woman has bad breath? None of the ads show women even needing mint. Women like the smell of mint from guys, but don't need it themselves.

The funny bit of this minty series is that the objective is completely lost. Whats the point of parading hapless fellows in an endeavor to get women and it is mint that helps you.

Heres an equation that could help. mint = kill bad breath = helps cover smoking, meat and garlic = immature impotency.
I liked the polo ads. beta sweater peheno. it made no sense, but i like the accent and voice. One will always remember the ad. As for chlormint the green stuff now just reminds me of the nasbandi dame

2 comments:

Ridhi said...

lol.

that was a good read. :)

- shit! forgot the word for stink in kannada. tell no?

defaulter's blog said...

Polo...mint with a Hole...hyuk hyuk