That Angels O’er My Shoulder Thing is So Early ’90s

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Okay. If safe sex were as sexy as this burnout MTV-style Planned Parenthood ad wants to make it, why is the safe sex guardian angel so detestably unsexable? And who’s the other one – frigid buzzkill angel? Way to go, guys.

The spot’s called Angel and it’s the result of a Spy Post, kaboom productions and Hoi Polloi mash-up. They call it “irreverent.” We call it “10 years ago.”

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