Downy Remakes Mean Joe Green Spot With Amy Sedaris

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Said to air during pre-game, this Grey-created Downy commercial is a remake of the classic 1980 Mean Joe Green Coke commercial created by McCann-Erickson. This time around the kid is replaced by Amy Sedaris who offers Mean Joe some Downy Unstopables. Begrugingly, Mean Joe accepts and tosses his shirt to Amy. But Amy reacts a bit differently than the boy did in the original

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