Advertising Standards in America really Suck...

Lex · Post by **Lex** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:06 pm

For your approval:

As advertised:

Reality:

What?

James Bond · Post by **James Bond** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:52 pm

I don't get it.

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:53 pm

Never had sea monkies, you uncultured fuck?

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:52 pm

please, please tell me you dint cut up yer Captian Jubilee comic book to send away for sea monkeys!

I always thought the female looking one was vaguely hot, but then I didn't get out much as a kid. Maybe it was the skin color, suggesting that these things were NEKKID!

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Lex · Post by **Lex** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:50 am

I am debating getting a new Sea Monkey set; it being part of the American Dream, I'm pretty sure I was the only kid in Britain who had them for a while.

Anyhoo, the site is listing all sorts of cool junk; right now, it's a toss up between:

http://www.sea-monkeys.com/html/shoponl ... magic.html

Which has a lovely castle, and would look darling with the Magic Gems floating around their heads, or

http://www.sea-monkeys.com/html/shoponl ... _mars.html

Because it's MARS. I dunno.

But I do still like the executive set:

http://www.sea-monkeys.com/html/shoponl ... il_ex.html

Yes.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 10:33 am

The Sea Monkey experience doesn't really work unless you're able to enslave the monkeys, kill the men, and then ravage the female sea monkeys, what with there being no male sea monkeys to save them.

Of course, it helps if they look like little humans like they do in the ads. Only they don't. So it always seemed kind of pointless.

But yeah. In America, cigarettes and sea monkey distributors are pretty much allowed to say whatever the hell they want to say.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 4:52 pm

Something about SeaMonkeys MARS is too kitsch to not immediately purchase. It's kinda like seeing a sign for Walt Disney's HARLEM, or whatnot.

Lex · Post by **Lex** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 3:01 am

Yes, okay, See Monkey's on MARS it is. But the executive set woud look sooo good on my desk :(.