Spongmonkeys, R.I.P.

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With the demise of the Quiznos/Martin Agency relationship, we are mourning the loveable, bug-eyed, misshapen, guitar-playing, moon-loving, rat-like Spongmonkeys.

It remains a bit of a mystery how Martin sold through a national campaign starring these disturbing little Joel Veich creations. In an entertaining column in Slate last winter, Seth Stevenson hinted at some of the confusion among viewers as to what the hell these things were. Stevenson wrote: “In your mail to me, you’ve called them: gerbils with birth defects; Mr.

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