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What does it mean?
Hedberg jokes about the marketing of children's vitamins and imagines eating a cartoon character to get healthy.
In plain terms
He makes fun of vitamins by imagining eating a cartoon man instead of pills.
What can you take from it?
Marketing often relies on childish appeals rather than substance.

Where it applies

  • product review
  • comedy writing
  • marketing analysis

Putting it to work

  • critique advertising
  • write comedy

Questions to consider

  • Why do we accept childish marketing?
  • What makes a product desirable?

Another view

This relies on knowing the specific cartoon reference.

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