Nasty Vegetation…
It’s one thing to be made as a child to eat your vegetables. It’s entirely different when vegetation appears to want to eat you!
Plant or plant-like monsters are relatively rare in science fiction, with notable exceptions such as The Thing, The Triffids, and Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. Some plant-creatures can even be heroic and self-sacrificing, such as Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Not so are the allergen creatures featured in recent Flonase commercials. One gargantuan thing emerges directly from the Earth in a park, causing pandemonium among the park-goers. It’s a lawn monster, not to be confused with a lawn mower, and the thing roars and spews pollen, dander, and other debris, equipped with a fearsome set of teeth. The featured guy is not perturbed, however, calmly continuing to eat his ice cream. Such spectacles are just part of the passing parade for him, ’cause he’s had his Flonase…
In another commercial, a flower-monster is terrorizing a city, spewing massive amounts of pollen and roaring while city dwellers take to their heels. I must confess that I’ve always wanted to be an extra in scenes such as this, totally losing it and running terrified away from Godzilla or something similar while screaming! Here again, a lady is totally nonplussed, calmly reading a book while the floral monster makes mayhem. She even sticks a flower in her hair…take that, allergies!
Allergies don’t have to be scary, you see, if you use Flonase…and just to be safe, eat your veggies and spray your weeds before they eat you! 🦊
April 12, 2021 at 3:28 am
Just as the Chthuloid figure from UNDERWATER resembled a daikaiju from the Showa-era of Toho Studios’ monster flicks, so, too, does that CGI plant resemble Biollante (from the Heisei era of Godzilla films).
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April 12, 2021 at 7:23 pm
Art imitating art, if we would call it that… 😉
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April 13, 2021 at 12:59 pm
Why not? 🙂
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April 22, 2021 at 2:47 am
Speaking of daikaiju, GODZILLA VS. KONG more than lived up to the hype. If you haven’t see it, yet, you really should. 🙂
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April 27, 2021 at 4:12 pm
I will, but may wait until it’s on one of my premium networks… 😉
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