Orbit Gives Adulterous Mouths a Good Washing

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Salty prose can only say so much. Sometimes you have to shuffle the cards a little, keep ’em guessing, pull out some mild-mannered nonsense dressed up like fighting words and observe: a bemused, uncertain audience becomes your oyster.

Because that’s kind of what happened to us when we watched this Orbit ad.

Energy BBDO, Chicago put together The Affair to show even the most scuzz-tacular situation can be relegated back to sterility with Orbit gum.

We’re itching to run outside and call somebody a Hoboken, just at random, while shaking a fist in righteous indignation. Throwing a shoe might be kind of awesome too, but we’ll see where the feelings take us.

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Steve Hall

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