Yes, those little cartoon bears with toilet training issues are back in this new spot for Charmin! Here’s how it goes:
A little bear dresses up as a robot, but his mother isn’t fooled, since robots don’t generally have dingleberries. The bear’s mother points out the dingleberries to her robot, um, I mean, child, and lectures him about using the appropriate toilet paper for bears: Charmin Ultra Strong! Those other toilet papers are for humans, you see, so naturally they are disastrous on bare bear bottoms. But you know, if that little bear would simply wear pants, nobody would be able to tell about the “cling-ons”, and then he could use whatever crappy brand of toilet paper he wanted to! Or is that cheating? Maybe people can do that, but bears get hunted down and shot if they use the wrong toilet paper. I’m not up on this type of stuff because I don’t go hunting.
I don’t think we’re actually allowed to hunt bears anyway, are we? They probably know that, and that’s why they’ve been killing people in the national parks. They’re all: “Nyah, nyah! I can kill you and you can’t do anything about it!” Oh, the unintended consequences of environmentalism! We’ve got to get the environment before it gets us! That’s why the bears are stealing all of our toilet paper and using it anyway! And these ads show they’re teasing us about it! They’re just wagging their butts in front of the camera with bits of our toilet paper all over it to rub it in about how they can take it and there’s nothing we can do about it! And what's more, the bears are probably killing people to get revenge for the fact that the human toilet paper they steal gives them embarrassing dingleberries! They learned all of this from Yogi Bear, you know!
There’s some guy on the internet who writes a blog for Entertainment Weekly, and he complains and complains about these ads with the cartoon bears for Charmin. I think they’re cute, but I really fail to see how a bear can get toilet paper knots stuck all over his butt unless he’s just doing it to harass his mom, since he knows it drives her nuts. Or maybe the bears are just so spoiled by all the good toilet paper they steal from high-end hotels and such, when they accidentally steal the lame kind, it really creates problems for them. Anyway, what are they supposed to do for toilet paper: have a talking butt hole complain about the cheap stuff? Come on! The bears are cute. Besides, if they get fired, they’re just going to attack more people.
This ad was in Spanish on a Spanish-language channel here in SoCal. I can’t find it on YouTube, but it’s just like all the other animated Doris Day lens cartoon bears ads for Charmin.
Here’s that EW blog post (but just do a Google search for “Charmin Bears” to see tons of other abusive posts aimed at our furry friends):
