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Anthony Bialy's avatar

My household had a Spuds MacKenzie stuffed animal. That charming dog really was a pop culture phenomenon.

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Retroist's avatar

I had a shirt and poster, but not a stuffed Spuds. Would have loved that!

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Mark Edward Randall's avatar

Honey Tree Evil Eye has to be the greatest pet name of all time.

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Retroist's avatar

I like that they jumped to using Evie and not Honey to shorten it.

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Mark Edward Randall's avatar

I agree!

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J.Q. Graziano's avatar

That Spuds commercial is great - and thanks for finding that Blue Monday retro-Casio-remix - It's the coolest thing I've listened to all month!

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Max Power's avatar

I was in middle school during the Spuds Mackenzie campaign, and our school made a big announcement that we'd be sent home if we wore Spuds shirts, since there was a policy prohibiting kids from wearing alcohol or tobacco ads.

Regarding the pronouns, Evie (the dog) was a she, Spuds (the character) was a he. It's like Louie Anderson playing Christine Baskets :-)

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Retroist's avatar

I have heard about school doing that. I had a Spuds shirt that I wore a little too often, probably. My school was lax on some things, so never got sent home.

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Johnny F's avatar

Fun Spuds info!

Stopping the ad campaign because the character is overshadowing the product? Does this happen often? Is it actually a bad thing?

You inform us that Spuds was a female dog, then refer to her as “he” in a later paragraph? Oops.

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Retroist's avatar

Yeah, I think I got confused when trying to write about it because the actor is female, but the character is male?

Also thought it was weird that they would say that about "overshadowing the product." It would seem like a gift to have a character so popular.

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