“Mr. Bucket”: Teabagging & Inadvertant Innudendos in Advertising. Some Copywriter Must Have Been Channeling Last Night’s Experience at the Stonewall

Posted in Gay, Bizarre, Humor, WTF?, Sex and Advertising on December 18, 2007

For those of you unfamiliar with “teabagging”, this involves the sexual practice of act of a man placing his testicles, specifically the scrotum, in the mouth or face of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion. Which of course resembles dipping a tea bag in and out of a cup of tea. Teabagging was made popular in the John Waters film “Pecker” but it was also inadvertantly advertised through the Milton Bradley product “Mr. Bucket”, a children’s game feauturing a character named Mr. Bucket who “eats balls” until they pop out of his mouth.

The jingle for Mr. Bucket has become infamous in some circles for its unintentionally innuendous lyrics, coupled to a relatively cheerful tune as well as the arguably poor choice of words used by the announcer (which may be mistaken for teabagging), which may have been a factor in the toy’s discontinuation. The jingle however, has became a cult favorite among fans of the advertisement due to its innuendous lyrics. This may have caused the re-release.[citation needed]

That’s right, I’m Mr. Bucket!
I’m Mr. Bucket, toss your balls in my top
I’m Mr. Bucket, out of my mouth they will pop
I’m Mr. Bucket!
We’re all gonna run!
I’m Mr. Bucket! Buckets of fun!

Announcer: The game’s Mr. Bucket! The first to get their balls into Mr. Bucket wins! But look out, ’cause the balls will pop out of his mouth!

I’m Mr. Bucket, balls pop into my mouth
I’m Mr. Bucket, a ball is what I’m about
I’m Mr. Bucket!
We’re all gonna run!
I’m Mr. Bucket! Buckets of fun!

Kid: I win, I win!

Buckets of fun!

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