{"id":139,"date":"2005-06-03T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:25:38","slug":"yet-more-tv-ruminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Yet More TV Ruminations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this picture. It&#8217;s a screen-capture from a television ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tictac.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tic Tacs<\/a>, the ubiquitous one-and-a-half-calorie breath mint in a severely rattly dispenser. (Sorry about the picture quality.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/tic-tac.jpg\" alt=\"Tic Tac Girl\" border=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Take a look at her eyes. That&#8217;s not some sort of video artifact; the ad&#8217;s creators used CG to give her square pupils.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m sure that they had their reasons. Perhaps square pupils tested higher than round in targeted demographic groups. Personally, a waif-like blonde cookie with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/Futurama\/\" target=\"_blank\">Futurama<\/a>-style robot pupils doesn&#8217;t ripen my persimmons, but then again, I prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altoids.com\/index.aspx?area=about\" target=\"_blank\">Altoids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the only thing that rhomboid pupils really remind me of is&#8230;.a goat.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that was the point; not only do the wierd eyes make you look twice, but their caprine appearance ties into the breath mint theme quite nicely. Perhaps the viewer is supposed to think, &#8220;Wow, she&#8217;s cute, but she probably has goat breath. Thank goodness for Tic Tacs!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I watch too much television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this picture. It&#8217;s a screen-capture from a television ad for Tic Tacs, the ubiquitous one-and-a-half-calorie breath mint in a severely rattly dispenser. (Sorry about the picture quality.) Take a look at her eyes. That&#8217;s not some sort of video artifact; the ad&#8217;s creators used CG to give her square pupils. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}