VIDEO: Robert Downey Jr. is One Delicious Peanut
Hey, look: As promised, here's the new Planters commercial featuring Robert Downey Jr. as first-ever voice of company mascot Mr. Peanut. It speaks for itself -- quite the hip-ironic counterpoint to the stodgy Planters campaigns of yore, though by all accounts it's better than the original, Seth Rogen-voiced, "Planters: We've Got Your Nuts" pitch abandoned months ago.
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Not even close to approaching the awkwardness of years ago that was Sam Elliot as the voice of "Stringer", the Tampax mascot.
The NYT article about this commercial was a riot yesterday. It explained "Benson", Mr. Peanut's "friend", does not live with Mr. Peanut.
I guess the moral of this story is "Don't turn your back on a Nutcracker with impulse control issues."
Uh... not really a pleasant nor entertaining commercial but I did get the whole Nutcracker thing, though. That's the only scene I liked - and it's not even that enjoyable.
Sort of camp and sleazy, when you get down to it