Thursday, April 18, 2013

Tana Twist (Joke) Ad

There's a product called Tena Bladder Control Pads, and the ads show older women dancing around doing a version of the Twist, demonstrating that no urine leaks out even if the wearer is dancing around while severely incontinent. Well, this so-called "Tena Twist" made me think of something else that is a bit arcane: Tana leaves and the tea brewed from them, which naturally bring horror movie mummies back to life to seek revenge and stuff on infidels who plunder the tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs for spoils and whatnot. And so naturally I thought the Tena Twist could become the Tana Twist for a silly joke ad for Tana leaf tea and the mummies who drink it. And so a couple of mummies, shown one at a time, could dance around doing the Twist in slow, lumbering movements while twisting Tana leaves into some drinking vessel with dry ice smoke creeping spookily over the edges, held by the vice-like grip of a mummy's bandage-wrapped hand. And once the mummies drink from their cup, they become much more agile and energetic in their dancing of the Twist, whereupon they stalk out into the night, with fog-billowing tea cup in hand, to hunt down and twist the necks of those guilty grave-despoilering archaeologists (!). And as the mummies twist the heads off of their abject, helpless prey, the song plays along mockingly, singing about the "Tana Twist": the Tana tea, the mobile mummies, the mummies' twisting of the victims' necks, and the resulting twisted countenance of the mummies' unlucky victims.