As advertising stars, monkeys never get old

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Publicis’s current Garnier Fructis campaign is amusing, but the ad below, with the dandruff-eating monkey, doesn’t go nearly far enough. Am I alone in waiting for the little furry fiend to gnaw off the big flaky fiend’s ears and eat them? And possibly his brains as well? Now that would be a Cannes winner. See two more spots from the series after the jump.
  Despite the complaints of hairless animal-rights liberals, non-human primates (real, animatronic or otherwise) rarely fail to please in advertising, and 2010 has been a banner year for them:
  • Dog and monkey maintain long-distance friendship via PCs, befoul keyboards with drool, shedding, beastly excretions.

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