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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Comments (12)
wait, does she pick the grapes? i thought she just dehydrated them...
1 of 12 | Posted by jash
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Posted on March 20, 2006 11:45 AM
Yes, exactly...she sucks the life right out of them. I think the Sun-Maid company is dead on with this latest incarnation.
2 of 12 | Posted by trickydick
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Posted on March 20, 2006 12:44 PM
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.
3 of 12 | Posted by Leah3t
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Posted on March 20, 2006 12:51 PM
She picks grapes. If you got to the website, there's a big picture of her picking them.
4 of 12 | Posted by B-Side
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Posted on March 20, 2006 12:58 PM
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.
5 of 12 | Posted by trickydick
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Posted on March 20, 2006 1:28 PM
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
6 of 12 | Posted by Leah3t
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Posted on March 20, 2006 2:35 PM
next in line is the Saint Paulie girl. Oh no!
7 of 12 | Posted by dredge
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Posted on March 21, 2006 9:23 AM
wow..that cgi looks so..lifelike!All the sun maids I know wear a tight white spandex top from Express.
8 of 12 | Posted by dredge
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Posted on March 21, 2006 9:26 AM
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!
9 of 12 | Posted by J Unit
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Posted on March 21, 2006 9:57 AM
thanks for that link to saint paulie girl website..woah!! if SPG actually went CGI, i think it would call for armed resistance!
10 of 12 | Posted by dredge
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Posted on March 21, 2006 10:20 AM
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!!
11 of 12 | Posted by mcsquared65
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Posted on March 21, 2006 6:32 PM
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.
12 of 12 | Posted by cjames
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Posted on March 21, 2006 9:06 PM