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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Return (Even Though I Never Knew He Left)

This settles it.  We - as in the U. S. of A. - need to take our tea drinking more seriously.  Then we can have spokesmen -animals -stuffed animals like the PG Tips Monkey. 

As best I can tell, PG Tips (which I still find to be a funny name for a tea company) first used chimpanzees, ala  Lancelot Link, in commercials back in the 70's.  Later, they developed a sock monkey to be their mascot.

Search YouTube for "PG Tips Monkey", and you'll find some of his commercials.  Thanks in part to a legal dispute, he apparently went on hiatus.  This clip, is appropriately named, "The Return".



In typical British fashion (no pun intended), he's even been known to don a dress and wig. 



3 comments:

  1. I don't know...I find him a little creepy.

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  2. I'm glad you told me he was a monkey--I thought a frog in the first video--guess the rain threw me off!

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