Dr Pepper "Dr. Love"

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For the sake of future archaeologists, let’s hope this Dr Pepper Cherry spot via Deutsch/LA isn’t the only artifact of our civilization to remain extant a millennium from now. They’d be hard-pressed to decode a culture in which a man with a bizarrely painted face told people to trust him because “I’m a doctor.” For those of you whose pop-cultural literacy doesn’t extend to nicknames for members of the band Kiss, it seems that vocalist/bassist Gene Simmons – the star of this spot — is known as “Dr.

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