Chrysler’s gag ads back online—for now

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We just noticed this morning that a kerfuffle broke out last week over some apparently never-meant-to-be-seen Chrysler ads that somehow got uploaded to YouTube. (Yeah, like that never happens.) Anyway, it seems that during the shoot for the new Chrysler online campaign, which is a takeoff on those old “Folgers switch” ads, in which consumers’ coffee was secretly replaced with Folgers, the cast and crew shot some joke ads containing profanity and jokey sexual innuendo.

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