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Halloweendex
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Styled as a cleaning-spray commercial, the spot opens with a mother sending her son Billy out trick-or-treating, only to find his ghost sheet smeared with chocolate because it has no mouth hole. An announcer introduces Halloweendex, which does not remove stains at all but buries them under a gush of fake blood, and the mother drenches the costume to the boy's delight. The pitch then shows the spray hiding messes on sports gear, a family dog and a prom dress, before the mother, out with her shopping cart, accuses a bloodied man on the sidewalk of covering a stain, and he explains that he actually fell out of a window.
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I forgot it doesn't have a mouth hole.
And you'll be covered by so much blood, no one will even notice the stain.
Halloweendex. It's the spray of the dead.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Mother
All right, Billy, time to go trick-or-treating.
- 00:02
Ah!
- 00:03
Mother
Aw, you got chocolate all over your ghost costume.
- 00:06
Boy in Ghost Costume
I forgot it doesn't have a mouth hole.
- 00:09
Halloweendex Announcer
Don't let candy stains scare you, because now there's Halloween Dex, a fast and easy way to get rid of unsightly smudges. Just spray it on. And you'll be covered by so much blood, no one will even notice the stain.
- 00:24
Boy in Ghost Costume ?
Cool. It works.
- 00:26
Halloweendex Announcer
And Halloween Dex isn't just for Halloween stains. Use it to get out, smudges on sports equipment, peanut butter off your dog, even onion dip off your prom dress. So if you want a trick that's also a treat, pick up Halloween Dex.
- 00:44
Mother
You can't fool me. You're covering a stain.
- 00:47
Man Who Fell Out of a Window
Uh, no, actually. I fell out of a window.
- 00:50
Mother
Oh, well, you've got a little dirt there as well.
- 00:54
Halloweendex Announcer
Halloween Dex. It's the spray of the dead.
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