A Marketing Dad's Dream

Nothing makes a father more proud than when he helps create a cartoon tooth to market a dental insurance plan and then that tooth gets made into a mascot and a burping 8-bit video and some real videos...and then his kids actually think it's cool.

Hallucinations of an Enormous Tooth

We did two days of shooting for the Toothy commercials. On the second day, I bought lunch for the crew lunch at my work's cafeteria. It only caused a little commotion having a giant tooth going through the salad bar line, but it really did a number on the guy making the sandwiches.

Toothy can't talk, of course. So I would say, "Toothy, do you want ham?"

He shakes his head.

"Turkey?"

Nod.

"Pickles?"

He holds ups two of his four fingers.

(It took us about five minutes to order one stupid sandwich this way.)

At one point, the sandwich guy looks at Toothy, and then looks at me and says, "Uh, you're seeing this too, right? I have made decisions in my life that would make seeing a giant, talking tooth a little bit trippy. I'm kind of freaking out right now."

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Do me a solid and watch some of these videos:

The New Guy
The Phone Call
The Stalker
The Vending Machine
The Psychiatrist

In Desperate Need of Some Help (And, Yes, I'm Crying Wolf)

It's nice when you have a job that is willing to take advantage of your extensive mascot-handling experience. I've had many crazy experiences since becoming the owner of Toothy, the giant tooth, that I'll share soon.

Until then, I need you to watch (or at least click on) the videos below so I can win a marketing competition at work. (And, in so doing, destroy my idiot friend Kaleb.)

So click, pretty please.

The New Guy
The Phone Call
The Stalker
The Vending Machine
The Psychiatrist