Charmin Thinks Twice About Its 'Asgard' Joke, Even Though Twitter Loved It

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First, Charmin cracks the Internet up with its potty humor. Then it wipes its Twitter clean.

On Friday, the toilet-paper brand squeezed out a triumphant movie-related pun—"We've always been an #Asgardian"—along with the image of a cartoon bear wearing a winged-helmet and brandishing TP as though it were Thor's hammer. The titular character of Thor: The Dark World, which opened in theaters that very day, hails from Asgard, and Asgard sounds like "ass guard," so most commenters were bowled over by the pithy poop-culture tie-in.

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