Posted 5:05 PM by Gene

WFMU has posted a promotional "blooper" for Richardson-Vicks salespeople from Johnny and Ed (it appears in several forms on the Web -- note, naughty language) which further confirms our notion that MadAve's sugar daddies burn money on television so they can put one over on their subordinates and their customers. I'm guessing someone got a hold of it because it was presented to the Vicks folks as is, therefore it wasn't a blooper. The makers of NyQuil probably couldn't get over their luck; they must have laughed long and loud at Johnny making fun of their product's name -- hey, they're laughing with us. The outfit's now owned by Moon 'n' Stars (which has lately been criticized for selling Vicks VapoRub for use with infants), and while it may be too PC to do anything like it we're sure that desire to zing the public hasn't gone away.

By the way, we didn't find it at all funny. Aside from the fact we usually don't collapse to the floor in a heap laughing over dirty words seventeen years have come between us and Johnny, and they haven't aged him well.

And in light of something like this and the fact anything can be shown on TV these days, it wouldn't astound me to learn the Ed Ames stunt was staged.

Classy hed and URL, Kliph. Is that your real name?