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Talking Pest
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The advertisement features a representative of the creature or item the product is supposed to wipe out. The Talking Pest will start by bragging about how well things are going for it. Then the product is used. Sometimes the pest is evicted, and bitterly complains as it is leaving. Sometimes it is killed, and viewers get to hear its last scream. Sometimes the Talking Pest is cute. On occasion, it is the basis of merchandising. The logic behind it is to convince viewers that the various insects and maladies out there are making them miserable not as a by-product of them doing what they naturally do, but rather because they just love to piss people off. See, it brings them joy to munch on your wall studs and give you athlete's foot, so you have buy the advertised product and give 'em their due punishment!*As opposed to just efficiently getting rid of them, we mean; no one's defending termites or athlete's foot here Of course, this can result in Fridge Logic when you realize that showing the graphic death of an insect is more disturbing when the insect is anthropomorphized so much that it has an apparent human intellect and speaking ability. Contrast Product as Superhero (the advertising Mascot for a product or brand is a Super Hero), the character who usually kills the Talking Pests during the ad. Compare Peeve Goblins (beings that exist to inconvenience people), which may sometimes play a similar role in advertising as well. Sub-Trope of Parasites Are Evil (parasites, especially parasitoids, portrayed as unambiguously evil) and, sometimes, of Mascot. See also Let's Meet the Meat (food is anthropomorphized; moral dilemmas ensue). Compare and contrast Talking Poo (a piece of poo who can talk and walk). |
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Awful Hospital: Dr. Phage is a giant talking bacteriophage virus with a huge ego and an obsession with tacky bow ties. Maggie and Magatha are maggots. Staph is a bacterium. |
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The Backyardigans: The Wormen in "What's Bugging You". | |
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The Upside Down Show: In the original concept of the show, the Schmuzzies were this. The pest aspect was pretty much dropped from the final show. | |
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TV Funhouse: It parodies Raid ads by means of an "Attack" insecticide. It takes it to its horrible conclusion—The roaches have a whole human-esque society, loving family relationships, even religion, and yet you're encouraged to inflict horrible, uncaring death upon them. | |
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