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Only Half-Proudly Presents:
RED-3-5.TXT aka
"Them Damn Mentos! 2: A Quick Follow-Up"
by: Black Francis
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While flipping through the December 1st edition of the Philadelphia Daily
News, I came across a small article located next to the nights tv highlights
that really suprised me. It was about Mentos commercials. I found this odd
because about three or four days earlier, I had just finished my ReD article
about the same subject, and I thought would serve as a nice follow-up to
RED-003, my article on Mentos commercials, for more than one reason. Not only
did it deal with the mystifying Mentos commercials, but it deals with us
computer geeks and such computer-geekesque topics like America Online and the
Internet. Here it is:
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Manic for Mentos!
Apparently we're not the only viewers who are scratching our foreheads
trying to understand those surreal commercials for Mentos, the mint candy
chews.
On America Online, a bulletin board has been created for anyone intereted
in venting about the vexing Dutch ads. None of them makes any sense,
particularly the commercial that features a teen-ager pretending he's a
mannequin in order to escape from a middle-aged woman.
About 250 Internet surfers have asked one another why the lady is chasing
the kid; have pointed out a guest star on "Baywatch" <Baywatch? These people
really give us a bad name> held up a pack of Mentos so that the label was
prominently displayed; and have even theorized that there is a connection
between "The X-Files," possibly that the disc-shaped Euro-sweets were really
UFOs.
We think the on-line user who calls him or herself Djani <bahaha> put it
best put it best by suggesting that Mentos is an abbreviation for More Extra-
Terrestrial Nerds Talk on Saturdays.
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