{"id":331829,"date":"2010-02-17T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20120a8ad5507970b"},"modified":"2010-02-17T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:45:13","slug":"klondike-bars-worth-untold-amounts-of-embarrassment-and-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331829","title":{"rendered":"Klondike bars worth untold amounts of embarrassment and pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"265\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 8px; float: right;\" width=\"320\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jwpBNEg7wgE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jwpBNEg7wgE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This ad from Unilever for its Klondike bars, shown during yesterday&#8217;s Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, definitely reminded us of Steve Carrell and his waxing scene in <em>The 40 Year Old Virgin<\/em>. Building on its &quot;What would you do-o-o, for a Klondike bar jingle,&quot; the packaged-goods maker launched this ad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2009\/06\/you-can-do-a-whole-lot-more-for-a-klondike-bar-in-new-campaign.html\" >among others<\/a>, in 2009, showing a man going through waxing extremes to celebrate the Klondike bar&#8217;s &quot;thicker, more chocolately shell.&quot; The spot, which elicited giggles from yesterday&#8217;s gathering of analysts, marketers, investors and press, shows the guy first getting a chest wax (while eating a regular Klondike bar), and then attempting a, uh, bikini wax, upon learning his favorite ice-cream brand just got chocolatier. What will he have to do if the Klondike becomes triple chocolatier? Full-body wax? We cringe just thinking of it! <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Elaine Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ad from Unilever for its Klondike bars, shown during yesterday&#8217;s Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, definitely reminded us of Steve Carrell and his waxing scene in The 40 Year Old Virgin. Building on its &quot;What would you do-o-o, for a Klondike bar jingle,&quot; the packaged-goods maker launched this ad, among others, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}