Have you seen that Metamucil ad with the big orange blob rolling around the park? The announcer says it “gels to trap and remove some waste.” But then we see it rolling over a bench and through the grass, and it steals a child’s kite, and then near the end, it rolls over a picnic table, and we can clearly see that it has stolen someone’s Ray Ban sunglasses (!). Oh, I suppose it’s going to claim that it thought the sunglasses were waste? Yeah, right! I’m on to this thieving blob!
Now look, those sunglasses are expensive, and showing us this scenario in the ad is obviously so that when the Metamucil we buy steals our sunglasses, we’ll already be used to the idea, or at least they can claim that we can’t say weren’t aware that Metamucil steals things like sunglasses, and so we can’t sue them over it. Plus, I’ll bet it eats people too, like monster from the movie The Blob! (Oh, the humanity!) Well, at least we can’t say they didn’t warn us by showing us this monstrous alien blob at work. But they probably fed it a bunch of people before they shot the commercial so it wouldn’t eat anyone onscreen, and we wouldn’t suspect until it’s too late!
(Just kidding: it probably just steals things like sunglasses and iPhones and car keys and credit cards and money and such. Hey, maybe it steals this stuff when we’re all asleep, and it rolls back to corporate headquarters and drops all the loot off there before returning back to our houses to steal the stuff we replace the lost ones with! A-ha: I knew it! {Okay, just kidding: It doesn’t. Or does it?})
Here’s the criminal citrus constipation-curing creature commercial:
