LG probably didn’t mean to call their customers Muppets with their ad for the GM730 smartphone. In fact, they almost certainly meant to imply that their new phone is so easy to use, even a puppet can manage it. But for some reason, it’s the idea that people who buy this phone are Muppets that sticks in my mind.
Who doesn’t love a Zip drive? With their sweet 100MB of magnetic memory, they used to save my arse back in the day. (My Performa 6400 even had an internal Zip drive.) And who doesn’t love a marionette? With their beady eyes and history of horror-film animation, they touch the heart of any child from 1 to 100, sometimes with a knife. Put the two together, and what do you get?
