Makers of the Steam Dream Cleaning machine have come under question following a re-releasing of one of their advertisements.
In the questioned commercial, an actress plays a housewife bogged down with having to clean the entire house using nothing more than hot water. Taking the Steam Dream Machine Cleaning device into the shower of the bathroom to further demonstrate the range of application of the appliance, she begins working on the grout between tiles of the shower. As she moves the machine higher a smeared brown patch is shown between the two taps.
Which brings forth the possibility of the frustration and distaste of someone on the mocked up house set. What is no doubt an overnight turd stain manages to have climbed pretty high and far out of the normal realm of the ceramic bowl or failing that, a horizontal surface.
Cleaning up other people's shit has never translated so literally. Or visually.
Written on Friday, 15 August 2003