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Reviewer:mstamper - - April 14, 2008 Subject: The first cigarette marketed to oafs These are (unintentionally) the funniest cigarette commercials in the collection. The show starts with Mr. Spud (a hulking, unpleasant figure) singing the Spud theme song, which sounds a lot like "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, won't you please put a penny in the old man's hat". It's infectious though; you'll find yourself humming it for days. The pitch is crude and uncouth ("lissen to me lady, lissen to me bud..."); it's designed more to insult than motivate. We then see "a football player" endorse Spud by writing (in inexplicably feminine handwriting) that Spud freshens the taste "something wonderful". Finally, in the most hilarious commercial of all, a hypnotist orders the viewer to try Spud NOW! Watch this and try to imagine Marlon Brando smoking Spud. No self respecting person would have been seen with a Spud pack. Who bought this?
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