Coalition to Stop Dancing-Dog Ads

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Please join me and the CSdoubleDA in this. I have just seen a Kibbles'n'Bits commercial with a collie doing the cabbage patch, and while I know someone here will say "that sounds GRATE" just trust me: it isn't. It's a perversion of all the good computers can do for society to use them to make pets dance or pull "comically" confused expressions in ads, and this collie (which also does the running man and something very much like the tootsie roll -- I know, that sounds wonderful, whatever) is so horrifying as to almost rival that dipping-sauce ad where the people eat everything in the house and then look at the dog and then the dog makes a face and looks at the cat and then the cat runs off (although with that ad there's also the probably unintentional subtext that they're going to eat the pets next, which is admittedly great).

So. Please reassure me that I'm not alone in this. Voice your dissent. If you disagree with me about this there's a good chance I will cry.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 12 June 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I just need the basic world-makes-sense confirmation that I'm not the only one who's appalled by these things.

nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 12 June 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen it and I'm appalled by the very idea, if that helps.

Matt (Matt), Thursday, 12 June 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.choppersbar.com/bsr/glowcat.gif

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

This not only happens to pets, but their frequent partners in crime: babies.

You are of course right. I have never had an urge to make nabisco cry.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It seems to be bourne of some unspoken desire of ad execs to make every living thing as infantilized as a cartoon character.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I just saw the ad, Nabisco. Borderline pervy.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 June 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The ad is an abomination.

James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)


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