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‘How are they going to drink?’ Ellen DeGeneres confused by ‘crazy’ ad of PH cola brand

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/news/01/23/ellen.jpg"/><figcaption>Ellen DeGeneres reacts to the viral ad of RC Cola featuring a mother with a soda bottle for a head. <em>YouTube: TheEllenShow</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — A local ad of a soda brand featuring a mother with a soda bottle for a head has made it to US television — and viewers there are weirded out, too.</p><p>The ad from RC Cola was featured in the most recent episode of “The Ellen Show,” in a segment called, “What’s Going to Happen Next in This Crazy Commercial?”.</p><p>In the game, DeGeneres and the show’s in-house DJ, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, try to predict the ending of an ad, given three options shown midway.</p><p>RC Cola’s ad was one of four shown in the segment.</p><p>DeGeneres and tWitch both picked the option which predicts that the mother will “take off [her] scarf and parachute out the window.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9zrExsQpQhU?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>“I was wondering how they were going to drink it, and that’s how,” a visibly confused DeGeneres said.</p><p>Addressing her audience, the host jested, “God, well if you haven’t started drinking already, then now is the time.”</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/11/30/20/from-the-makers-of-the-viral-rc-cola-ad-these-equally-goofy-commercials">From the makers of the viral RC Cola ad, these equally goofy commercials</a></li></ul><p>The RC Cola ad, titled “Nyahahakbkxjbcjhishdishlsab@!!!! Basta RC Cola!”, was released in November 2020 and quickly went viral due its odd imagery of the mother and child with complementing “body parts” of a self-replenishing soda bottle and four cups.</p><p>The success of the commercial spawned a follow-up, this time featuring band mates with body parts that dispense ice, and, of course, the branded soda.</p>

<p>A local ad of a soda brand featuring a mother with a soda bottle for a head has made it to US television — and viewers there are weirded out, too.</p>

A local ad of a soda brand featuring a mother with a soda bottle for a head has made it to US television — and viewers there are weirded out, too.