This has always confused me. Lingering Odors seems like the start of another commercial, but I just sort of ends right before where you'd expect the product to be announced. What's the deal?
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It was a spoof on a specific commercial for an air freshener or something that was going around back then. In the real commercial a woman's guests kept sniffing at "lingering odors" and saying polite, delicate things like "er... fish for dinner last night?" instead of coming out and saying something like "Jesus, did a cow shXt in here?" like a normal person who isn't in a TV commercial would. It's a gag about the general unrealistic forced politeness common to TV ads of the era.
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But that still doesn't answer my question. They were making fun of real commercials left and right, but in every other instance, there was a product! Where was the product in this one?
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In this instance the joke they were telling was about the people in those commercials, not the product. The punchline is delivered by the lady, and the movie moves on.
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I agree that it does seem a little out of place; every other commercial parody has an actual product, and this one seems designed to couple "feminine odors" with "household odors".
I wonder if perhaps the rest of the bit either didn't get shot, got cut (although I can't imagine why, considering the otherwise explicit nudity & sex) or got left out.
It's not spoofing the product! It's spoofing the way people act in those type of commercials! Could you get it any less???
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