Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Arabic Chocolate Milk by mightyfilm on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Now there's a few things that get me about this ad.

*The tiny, sentient drink boxes that exist without ANY explanation that Olive and Swee'Pea are completely okay with. Why?

*The fact that Olive Oyl calls it "the healthy drink." I looked it up. It's various flavored milk products, obviously sweetened with unhealthy sugar or corn sweeteners.

*Bluto/Brutus somehow needing Olive and Swee'Pea out of the way to grab one of the, again, sentient milks because somehow he's not allowed to have them... ONLY for Popeye to basically give them away to everyone in celebration of clobbering Bluto/Brutus for daring to want one. I mean, if he's giving the damn things away WHY would he be so defensive about giving them to Blutus?

*This is a commercial for a product for another country, sure, but what's with the speaking stilted English?

*And what the hell does Popeye have to do with milk? I know he's pushed everything from Chunky Soup to instant oatmeal, to say the least of the chicken franchise named after a DIFFERENT Popeye that they licensed him out for in the 70's and 80's. But seriously. A line of chocolate and berry flavored milk. Any cartoon character could have been licensed for that.