Frank Zappa's old cough-drops commercial

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You'd think advertising would be the last thing to come to mind after putting on a Frank Zappa album, but this old Luden's Cough Drop ad from the 1960s proves otherwise. Zappa supplied the soundtrack, which sounds like someone hyperventilating into a kazoo, and he apparently then got the animator to film 14 hours of footage for his direct-to-video movie Uncle Meat. I'm not sure who got the better end of that deal, because one might not exist.

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