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There's plenty of dopey drug-related wordplay on the Web today surrounding Michael Phelps' debut as a Subway pitchman. I'd rather not add to that and bring anybody down. Sure, I could ask what the creatives at ad shop MMB were smoking when they decided to pair swimmer and power-eater Phelps with slimmer everyman Jared Fogle. I could note that the split-screen opening and choice of Sly and the Family Stone on the soundtrack are overtly wink-wink trippy — but, hey, it's Subway's prerogative to roll its own commercial as it sees fit.
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