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NEW YORK At first, this spot for Clearasil Ultra-Treatment cream just seems to be another creepy play on the current obsessions with Cougars and/or MILFs. The awkwardness throbs as a teenage boy tries to make a pass at his friend’s mother. “So, Mrs. Kelly, how are things? Everything good?” the lad asks, in a perfect line reading that combines elements of Eddies Haskell and Munster and Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, as mom stands in the kitchen making dinner.
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