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by B-Side

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Last night, I saw this commercial for Sun-Maid raisins that really disturbed me. Some brilliant advertising firm thought it'd be an awesome idea to turn that little Sun-Maid woman into a vacant-eyed, CGI zombie. Why are companies doing this? First Toys 'R' Us turns Geoffrey the Giraffe into a CGI giraffe (instead of his old, cuddly incarnation), and now this? Before we know it, Tony the Tiger is going to go all Toy Story on us, and I don't even want to think about what sort of empty, lifeless transformation the Land O' Lakes woman will undergo.

Let me clarify that I have no sworn allegiances to the Sun-Maid lady. In fact, I really never thought much of her before. But way to drag the soul out of the poor woman. She's just trying to pick some grapes, for crying out loud!!


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Posted by B-Side on March 20, 2006 11:23 AM

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wait, does she pick the grapes? i thought she just dehydrated them...

Posted by: jash [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 20, 2006 11:45 AM(#1 of 12)

wait, does she pick the grapes? i thought she just dehydrated them...

Yes, exactly...she sucks the life right out of them. I think the Sun-Maid company is dead on with this latest incarnation.

Posted by: trickydick [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 20, 2006 12:44 PM(#2 of 12)

Has the sun maid always looked so much like the land o lakes girl? i'm partial to the swiss miss myself.

Along these cartoon people lines, has anyone noticed the V-8 cartoon man is a non green ripoff of the jolly green giant? He has the same exact hair. Green giant should sue.

Posted by: Leah3t [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 20, 2006 12:51 PM(#3 of 12)

She picks grapes. If you got to the website, there's a big picture of her picking them.

Posted by: B-Side [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 20, 2006 12:58 PM(#4 of 12)

Hm, ok. I guess my accolades for Sun-Maid marketing in choosing a night walking soulless woman as their representative based off of her seemingly unmatched and singular in focus life sucking abilities was off the mark. I stand corrected.

Posted by: trickydick [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 20, 2006 1:28 PM(#5 of 12)

okay so curiosity drove me to the website. wow the sunmaid has had a SEEEERIOUS nose job since her birth. and she must be doing more than those pilates they show her doing on the site because she's lost a good 50 pounds. only one thing gets you that much weight loss- tae bo and a diet of sun maid prunes.

the site is weirdly interesting. the first red bonnet is in the smithsonian!? what a national treasure!

http://www.sunmaid.com/about/sunmaid_girl

Posted by: Leah3t [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 20, 2006 2:35 PM(#6 of 12)

next in line is the Saint Paulie girl. Oh no!

Posted by: dredge [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 21, 2006 9:23 AM(#7 of 12)

wow..that cgi looks so..lifelike!All the sun maids I know wear a tight white spandex top from Express.

Posted by: dredge [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 21, 2006 9:26 AM(#8 of 12)

i next in line is the Saint Paulie girl. Oh no!

Hopefully the folks at St. Pauli Girl have better taste than to go cgi, especially since they have real-life models.

http://www.stpauligirl.com/girl.html

Next in line for blasphemy: Sun Maid ringtones!

Posted by: J Unit [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 21, 2006 9:57 AM(#9 of 12)

thanks for that link to saint paulie girl website..woah!! if SPG actually went CGI, i think it would call for armed resistance!

Posted by: dredge [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 21, 2006 10:20 AM(#10 of 12)

Thanks for this B-side, it cracked me up. But seriously, I am deeply angered by all things CGI. I've had a hard enough time accepting that all superhero/monster movies must be defaced in such a way (the original clay King Kong was better for God's sake!) but when they start in on an innocent hard-working lass like Little Miss Sun-Maid, I'm sorry I just want to PUKE like there's no tomorrow!!

Posted by: mcsquared65 [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 21, 2006 6:32 PM(#11 of 12)

I just saw this gawdawful waste of :30. Why do I get the feeling some 14 year old son of a raisin grower got a cgi program for his birthday and decided to make a commercial for his pops? Actually a 14 year old would have done a more professional job. It's like they digitized the animatronic Abe Lincoln from Disneyland, plopped a red bonnet on his head and put him in the middle of the ugliest grape field in California. And what's with the hair? The ear-to-ear mouth? The dead, shriveled grapes? The Thomas Kinkade-like sunset? Simply frightening.

Posted by: cjames [TypeKey Profile Page] | March 21, 2006 9:06 PM(#12 of 12)