Parade of the disgusting ad icons

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Heads up, yellow toe fungus spokes-yuck: There’s a new kid in town, and his name is Mr. Mucus.

In what appears to be a candidate for the most disgusting ad icon ever to slime the televisions of America, Mucinex, an expectorant (oh do we have to go into this?) made by Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, launches a whole $22 million campaign today around the revolting little green man, who will soon be appearing in many more media than most of us would ever want him to.

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