You ever see something on TV so repulsive you know you'll have nightmares about it forever? Like those dramatic close-ups of Randy Johnson pitching against the Yankees in the 1995 playoffs. Or that Chyna and X-Pac sex tape.
Well, they have nothing on Digger the dermatophyte, star of a Lamisil commercial that illustrates, in barf-bag-alert animation, the spread of foot fungus.
I saw this spot for the first time on my recent Colorado ski trip and didn't mind so much that I couldn't sleep well. No sleep, no nightmares, no cartoonish dermaphrodyes, defined as "various fungi that can cause parasitic skin infections." Something I did not know, nor ever cared to.
Slate reviewed the commercial two years ago, so I guess it's been around awhile. If you're in the mood to see this spiky gremlin peel back an infected toenail and rip apart the exposed surface with countless friends, the article has some video links that still work.
Not everyone hates Digger. In fact, he's cited with being a hero of this MySpace dude. And some reviewers on RateItAll give him five stars, but not the person who describes him as resembling "a napkin full of warm, newly blown boogers." Which sounds like dinner at the home of Sgt. Vinnie Schtulman, of Police Academy 2 fame.
Today's Web Finds:
• BinkyBoodle's Photos on Flickr — If you're into hot college chicks kissing, grabbing each other's boobs and showing leg at formals, you might enjoy these shots. Oh, did I mention grabbing each other's boobs?
• The Tits, Ass, and Cuteness Test — This quiz determines, via your favored images, whether you're a breast man, ass man, whatever. I scored "Skinny and Sexy: 44% Big Breasts, 36% Big Ass, and 48% Cute!" WTF? Do I like 'em 52% ugly or something?
• Washington Post: Parkinson's Drug Link to Gambling Probed — And here I thought the people shaking next to me in Atlantic City were crack whores. How fucked up is this news?
• Light Pen Promises to Clear Up Acne Fastest — Jesus, do today's kids get all the breaks or what? Not only are they downloading term papers, having sex with their teachers and MySpacing hotties all over the country (by saying they're 22 and in some Bay Area band, when they're really 15 and sleep with their stuffed Herbie Husker), they won't even suffer the indignity of wiping those smelly Oxi pads on their faces.
• Gawker Stalker's Google Map — Readers' recent celeb sightings now pinpointed on a map of Manhattan. Moby is still very little and bald? No way!
• You Tube: Remix of Syracuse's 2006 Big East Tourney Run — Would be much better with actual video and not a series of images, but us Orange alums will take what we can get. Good song selection. Back-to-back BE champs, bitches.
• Forbes: The 20 Most Important Tools Ever — Featuring the knife, scale, eyeglassess and more. Oddly, no props for John Rocker or Ryan Leaf.
• How Stella Strapped Her Dick On — The latest in porn-title parodies. (Found on College Humor)
• Man Severs Own Penis, Throws it at Officers — Remember when severed-penis stories were considered unusual? Now there's no many, it's hard to be impressed anymore. Throw your penis at an officer? Yawn. Get back to me when you eat it.
Oh man, be glad you were spared seeing the Lamisil commercial for as long as you were. Every time that thing comes on, almost everyone who is in the room will duck their heads under pillows, blankets, couch cushions, shirts, basically whatever can keep the sight of that little moster thing lifting up the toenail like it's a car hood from their eyes. The effect seems universal, so why is it still airing? My toenails ache just thinking about it.
Posted by kabsy77 at March 21, 2006 4:48 PM