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"I&amp;amp;#8217;m a sucker for anything with a catchy ad campaign. ShamWow? I own &amp;amp;#8217;em. ThighMaster? Yup, one of those, too. Rosetta Stone language-learning software? Roomba? Model In a Bottle? Yes, yes, and yes. Oh, man. This pig was so much cooler in the commercial. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m not going to lie: The Roomba is freaking awesome. (As is the Pilates Power Gym! Seriously!) But I&amp;amp;#8217;ve signed on for a bunch of products that were less awesome than their ads might lead you to believe. As ads often do. Case in point: Does anyone remember that gymnastics Barbie commercial from the &amp;amp;#8217;90s that was pulled from TV (on grounds of false advertising&amp;amp;#8212;read a little bit about it here) because it made Barbie look like she was running, flipping, and walking the balance beam on her own? I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t find the full commercial in English, but you can catch a few frames of supernatural Barbie in the beginning of this Czech ad. Well, like Barbie can&amp;amp;#8217;t boogie on her own, the Banzai Alligator Pool can&amp;amp;#8217;t accommodate a party of five, as indicated on its box. (See Exhibit A.) Exhibit A While some parents would let this fly, dad of two Brennan Donnellan decided to teach his kids that false advertising isn&amp;amp;#8217;t cool. So he wrote a blog post, took some photographs, and shot a video in order to log his complaints with the company. Some might say it&amp;amp;#8217;s a little extreme for a $30 kiddie pool, but I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s pretty awesome. False advertising is illegal, after all. Are you guys suckers for catchy advertisements? (Squeeze, squeeze your way to shapely hips and thighs!) Have you ever bought junk because you were duped by a misleading ad? (Late-night infomercial shoppers, speak up!) And have you ever called a company out for pushing a bogus product? Still feel like shopping? Read these first: Great News for Fans of Online Shopping 10 Purchases to Think Twice About Before Swiping Your Credit (or Debit!) Card Shop Sales-Tax Free For a Few Days This Month My Guilty Pleasure: Virtual Window Shopping Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Add us to your Google homepage via The Consumerist Photo 1: iStock. Photo 2 and video: Courtesy of Brennan Donnellan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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