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Disturbing trend I just don't get


1.Mr. and Mrs. Potato head eat potato chips (and it's their secret, sweetie!)
2.The piece of cereal that eats everyone else, over and over again.

Cannibalism doesn't make me all that hungry. Not sure who thought this was a good idea.

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Oh no!

Must have missed that awful, horrid trash
Thanks for the alert

Bad enough they keep slipping in
that horrid, fugly progressive trainwreck

Right
Cannibalism has no place in civilised countries
Bad enough they have it in heathen terrorist places
no place for that on TV!

♪ Not even Mad Scientists
get it right every time

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I've noticed this trend as well.
Koolaid is getting fairly close with their new ad.
Koolaid Man: "People get freaked out when you drink from your own head"
Not to mention his line is: "I'm just like everyone else, I put my pants on ONE leg at a time" BUT he doesn't. When he chooses his color BOTH legs change at the same time. Yes, it's nit picking but it bugs me..

Side note:
These dancing/talking/cannibal cereal commercials make me wonder how many young children are playing with their food or refusing to eat it, expecting it to come alive..



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Merriam-Webster defines "sick" (humor) as...

4b: highly distasteful, macabre, sadistic

... so I guess it's a matter of taste. Although I am not a big fan of the "Hannibal" TV series,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/combined

I can appreciate the good acting, special effects, set design, scripts, artistic closeups of questionable cuisine, etc. on the show and therefore I suppose I'm guilty by association for thinking that the concept of cannibalism is just so bizarre that it can be entertaining in a "sick" kind of way. I do watch it occasionally.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head can eat all the chips they want. It's fine with me as long as they are discrete about it.

"Talk amongst yourselves." ~ Linda Richman

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I guess I'm weird, I like the cereal and Potato-Head commercials.



"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"

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2.The piece of cereal that eats everyone else, over and over again. - cmfalf
He could be a cereal killer.

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Since Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead are made of plastic and only slightly resemble actual potatoes I don't see what the problem is with the characters eating potato products. It would be like people eating gingerbread men cookies. Ok, slightly creepy but nothing more.


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The original Mr. Potatohead was a real potato. I can understand where the OP is coming from.

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I get what you're saying also. Lots of creepy ads lately. The M&M's commercials with their fear of being eaten? Shudder. On one of them, it seems like they edited the ending because it used to have the M&M screaming in horror at the end.

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