A&W Root Beer puts pants on ‘polarizing' mascot bear Rooty after M&Ms 'pauses' spokescandies

Fox Business ^ | January 24, 2023 8:18pm EST | Bradford Betz

[Olog-hai]

Rooty the Great Root Bear, the mascot of A&W Restaurants for 60 years, will hence forth be wearing denim jeans.

In a Twitter post, the company suggested that Rooty’s lack of pants was “polarizing.”

“America, let’s talk. Since 1963, Rooty the Great Root Bear has been our beloved spokesbear. We knew people would notice because he’s literally a 6-foot tall bear wearing an orange sweater,” the company said. “But now we get it – even a mascot’s lack of pants can be polarizing.”

Moving forward, Rooty will wear be wearing jeans. The company said Rooty will still remain the company’s official “spokesbear” despite the update. …

[NorthMountain]

America, let’s talk

No. FU.

[Hatteras]

Helloooo clean bottom!

[Hatteras]

Casper couldn’t be reached for comment...

[Vision]

The effect of young (clueless, childish, likely woke) women in marketing departments.

[Vision]

Women child marketing depts.

[GreenHornet]

For a while, I decided to pattern my wardrobe after a number of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, wearing only a vest, a crumpled hat, and sometimes a bow tie. It was very comfortable, but then the neighbors started complaining....

[Fido969]

Is this the Bee?

[Chickensoup]

Probably would have worked better for you if you were furry.

[Fido969]

“polarizing”?

What, some Facebook idiot started a clickbait thread?

[raccoonradio]

All in the Family—Edith is going through
menopause. Archie tries to calm her down by talking about their upcoming trip to Disney World

Archie:Yeah lookit this brochure here, they got an all bear band.
Edith: A NAKED band at Disney World??

Archie explains, no, it’s like brown bears, grizzly bears. Edith tells him to Stifle.
She says she wants to visit relatives in Scranton instead.

(C’mon, man...)

[raccoonradio]

TV cartoon We Bare Bears—nudity, OMG.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

They’d have been better off not announcing it and just let it happen.

[P.O.E.]

[Fresh Wind]

Casper wears a white sheet.

That’s racist!

[KarlInOhio]

Just so long as Disney doesn’t try to put pants on Winnie the Pooh.

[grobdriver]

Bunch of nekkid bears running around! Outrage!!

[Hatteras]

[Hatteras]

"Just so long as Disney doesn’t try to put pants on Winnie the Pooh."

They're working on it...

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[4yearlurker]

I really feel like buying me some root beer now! I haven't felt like this since Barnum's took the animals out of their cage on the front of the box.

[butlerweave]

The Cartoon Woke have a hate for cartoons