Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Drop Dead Dollar Tree

One of the items I left out of my top ten reasons to shop at dollar tree was their bug spray.   Drop Dead bug spray is not, as it's name would imply, meant to actually kill bugs.   It just kinds of stuns them long enough, for you to get them with a fly swatter.

After spraying a bug and watching it fly around the room for the next ten minutes, as if it were stumbling home from a kegger, I always envision the advertisement for this stuff.  Our competitors may kill them dead but we just get them high enough for you to actually finish them off.  The scene would have a bunch of cartoon bugs sitting around a basement saying, 'Who brought the Drop Dead, now the party can really start.”.  The bugs would then philosophize about flying and stare at the pretty colors of the flowers.   The commercial ends with a flyswatter crashing down on one of the bugs and the rest of them laughing hysterically, “Dude, that is so gonna hurt in the morning.”.



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