May 16, 2001

Instances in which I have been accused of reading too much into TV:

2. Candy

I watching TV and in doing so, saw a commercial for a particular chocolate bar 
(that's Canadian for "candy bar" for you Merkins) in which the narrator was asking such important questions as "Does your 
 hunger have a name? Does it have a fashion? Does it have a political affiliation?" At this point of the voice over, there is an image of a blond young man holding a megaphone dressed in military fashion, most notably a brown shirt

"Omigod!" I yell, "they're using Nazis to sell candy!"

Bonus Aside:
On the marketing of Candy

I have come to conclusion that marketers deliberately advertise candy to children as if it was some sort of illicit drug.

I first made this hypothesis after watching one too many "Jolly Ranger" advertisements. You know the one: two teenagers are driving a convertible through a desert and one pops a "candy" into the other's mouth and then suddenly large apparitions of giant fruit appear on the landscape which they both marvel at in slack jaw fashion.

The clincher was an ad for some type of hot cinnamon candy (Cinnaburst?) that contained the image of a teacher who claimed that the candy was too exciting to allow in her class while holding a ziploc plastic baggie of the candy.

Can there be a clearer correlation between drugs and candy?


 
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