(This suggestion provided by @cawhitworth, which, like his previous rubbish suggestion, also comes from Spaced.)
Bogling: Is this the new Tango?
This is almost as stupid as the RPG comparison thing. Are Boglins the new Tango? How are they even related? One (that’s Boglins) are a rubbery gargoyle like hand puppet from the late 1980s that come in a variety of designs but are all ugly. The other (by process of elimination, Tango) is a fizzy drink originally orange in flavour in the 1950s but later available in a range of other varieties.
At least Boglins came later, so I suppose, somehow, they could replace Tango in the nation’s conscience. Or as a passtime? Did people stop drinking Tango and fill Tango Drinking Time with Rubbish Puppet Time instead? I’m not even going to bother looking for evidence to back that up one way or the other and just go out on a limb and say no, no they did not.
Boglins theoretically could have “become the new Tango” when they originally came out, but they didn’t. In 1992 Tango was ubiquitous mainly due to the outlandish, for the time, adverts involving Tango Man and his penchant for slapping Tango drinkers. “You know when you’ve been Tango’d”, proclaimed the ads. Can anyone remember any such Boglin pervasiveness? Of course they can’t. Can anyone even remember the Boglin comeback campaign of 2000 when they were re-released? Nobody can, and yet Tango is still around.
At no point did, and I’d like to suggest based on this history that at no point will, Boglins supplant Tango in any way, shape or form. Are they they new Tango? No. Are you stupid?
Unless Bogling isn’t a misspelling of Boglins of course. And Tango is the dance called The Tango not the soft drink. Haha! What a mistake it would be for that to happen.
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