Friday, April 20, 2012

Tidy Cats Pine Tree Car Freshener Ad

Here we have a couple trying to enjoy an evening in together watching TV with their cats, but they keep getting rained-on by car fresheners! Then they show the couple from behind and with the camera angle pointing up at the ceiling, and we see that the whole ceiling is covered with those green pine-tree car-fresheners (!). (I guess Repo Man neglected to tell us that you’ll find one in every house too!) Well, this is not only a great ad for Tidy Cats cat litter, they could also slap an ad for tape on there at the end, where they say if you used Scotch-brand tape, these tree thingies would never rain down on you like this! So then you’d be doubly-protected against litter-box odor!

I love this ad, except for one thing: This is obviously a secret new front in the deadly “War on Christmas”! They’re smearing these Christmas tree-shaped deodorizers just because they look like Christmas trees! You know it’s true! Next it will be manger deodorizers they’ll slander: you’ll see! (But are there even any manger deodorizers? Well, maybe that’s a new business model: make stuff people will protest against, and get all the free advertising that comes with the protests! It can’t miss! Although a manger might not smell so good, so maybe find another kind of deodorizer that is guaranteed to spark protests? That’s the ticket!)

Here’s the car-freshening cat-litter commercial: