Tootsie Pop Commercial
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007My father’s hobby was entering contests and sweepstakes. He entered a lot of them and as a result won a lot of things as well, including a six wheel all-terrain vehicle that I, damn it, was too small to drive, and a dirt bike that, again, I was too small to drive.
During my childhood, my father encouraged myself and my siblings to do coloring contests, as well. At ten years old, I won an all-expenses paid trip for four to Disney World in Orlando as a result of one of those coloring contests. Seriously. The contest was the "How Many Licks?" contest, used to promote the Tootsie Pop lollipop, the one that has Tootsie Roll in the middle.
I think I won the contest because I was very creative with the notion of coloring between the lines; let’s just say I added a lot of decoration between the lines. This is the Tootsie Pop commercial that was running at the time: