Epic Win: Mentos Wet Paint Commercial
As you guys can probably tell, I’m a sucker for great jingles. Mentos’s “The Freshmaker” campaign had among the best of catchy commercial songs. Forget the fact that adding more wet paint to his suit only makes it look worse. He’s eating Mentos: the pacemaker widowmaker haymaker freshmaker.
More people who overcome small wardrobe-related inconveniences by eating mints after the jump.
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Problem: My dress tore.
Answer: Tear it some more. With Mentos.
Problem: My heel broke.
Answer. Break your heels some more. With Mentos.
Problem: My car is parked in.
Answer: Seduce four hunky men. With Mentos.
This one is especially odd.
Problem: There’s a car in my way.
Answer: Walk around it. Enter the car and scare the crap out of the driver.
Sara said:
Anyone else notice that’s Meredith Monroe – “Andie” from Dawson’s Creek – in the first one?
I did.
Because I’m THAT cool.
FilthyGrandeur said:
that last one was so awesome. and by awesome i mean totally creepy and unnecessary.
love mentos!
I like strawberry mentos the best.
…And if I were the owner of that car in the last one, I’d use my massive dinosaur of a car phone to call the cops… But then I’d also have my doors locked…
So tearing your dress to hooker-length for what’s obviously a semi-formal affair, and ensuring that the hipster doofus at the table approves of your new and improved flats, are proof that eating chewy mint candy is the thing to do? Sheesh.
I like how in the car moving one the guy sees those 4 walking walls and starts nervously tugging on his tie.
Is it just me or is he NOT ACTUALLY EATING THEM?
mentos loves blonde white women.
that last one was so awesome. and by awesome i mean totally creepy and unnecessary.
Anyone else notice that’s Meredith Monroe – “Andie” from Dawson’s Creek – in the first one?
I did.
Because I’m THAT cool.
COOLEST song ever!!!!!!!!
I remember when it was (pointing at dawson’s creek) ‘Hey! isn’t that the girl from the Mentos ™ commercial?’
One time, a classmate of mine made a Demento’s – The Deathmaker! commercial. It was something awful.
I hope I’m not the only one to remember the Foo Fighters’ “Big Me”
I personally like Big Me better than the commercials.
Mentos: da Freschenflagen!
The Foo Fighters did their own version, go check it out (I forgot which song, it’s from a while ago).
Mentos should make a commercial with this format:
Problem: Dude at the table next to you is being a d-bag.
Answer: Plop your Mentos in his Diet Coke.
I had a stuffed dog I named Mentos because I loved these commercials so freakin’ much. …I didn’t say I was a popular child.
Blast from the ass
Janene Garofalo used to do a bit in her stand-up comedy routine:
“Here’s my impression of someone watching a Mentos commercial:
What the f–k — are these people German or something?”
My favorite part is people see the dress ripping, guy rolling on painted bench, douche passing through car, chick breaking heels, and think “oh my god, you’re crazy!” The person then pops a Mentos and the other people are like, “nope, not crazy afterall, they just like chewy mints.”
I guess I just don’t get it.
Oooh, look, a squirrel!
Probably the best thing to ever come out of the Netherlands.
This was talked about in VH1’s “I Love The 90’s”. They were making fun of this, lol. “40 Year Old Virgin” anyone? “What’s this?” “Mentos – they’re the freshmaker”. “Yeah – right”. LOL.
Cinnamon Mentos. I love them so much, I think they have crack in them.
So much to love about the Mentos ads.
Notice how everyone wins? In fact, everyone would qualify as an EPIC WIN, were it not for the fact that they are a bit camp.
Or to quote wikipedia, “These unusual behaviors are typically witnessed by nearby, sometimes antagonistic characters, and a roll of Mentos is boisterously displayed by the commercial’s respective protagonist to the observer as an explanation for their actions.” And they were apparently all filmed in South Africa.
Important point: the idea comes to the “protagonist” _before_ they pop a Mentos, then they have another to celebrate. I say this especially for the haters who think that the Dutch promote drug use.
And the Foo Fighters song was “Big Me” filmed in Sydney.
where would we be without wiki?
Loved the commercials. Hated the mints.
Is it just me, or did that last one make the Mentos seem like a threat?
(If that were in my city the blonde douche would’ve slit the driver’s throat with a shank then continued on out the other door)
shank is verb – he would have shanked him with a shiv
Not the best candy in the world but they go well with diet coke.
I remember those commercials. I miss the cheesy commercials days!
why is the ending part in czech xD ??
He’s not making it worse, he’s making it pinstriped!
What’s so funny to me is that as a kid, when that wet paint one played, I remember being so impressed with his new pinstriping. Now I watch it and it’s horrible! LOL
that’s because clothes were just that ugly in the 80’s – that giant pinstriping didn’t even look out of place… i remember how freakin’ cool that dude was. srsly.
It’s funny when you realize the showing Mentos at the end of the commercials represents flipping the bird.
in the first ad… Mentos what???!!!
ibibishca pipisibonky MENTOS!… Translation: In Soviet Russia You Freshen Mentos.