| “ | Can I at least smell your breath? | „ |
| ~ Homer (when Bart shows that he ate the butterfinger) |
Smell Your Breath (or as it was also called, Teasing Homer) is the 13th butterfinger commercial made by The Simpsons. It aired during the run of Season Ten.
Plot[]
The commercial opens up with what looks to be 2 Bart heads in front of the screen with a yellow background. The 2nd Bart head goes up & down 3 times. Homer is heard panting as this shot was going on, & every time he exhales, not only does the 2nd Bart head rise up, but the camera view and/or area shakes up & down. The camera zooms out to show that Homer's son Bart is actually on a branch of a tree lifting what looks to be a butterfinger bar treat up & down, and that's not a another Bart head there. The camera shot zooms out even more, showing that the tree Bart is on is a tree is the backyard of his home place (presumably the tree that his treehouse lays on), and he is actually rising his candy bat up & down to tease & tempt his father, Homer, as he, Homer, is trying to grab Bart's butterfinger and tries to jump multiple times to get it, but every time he jumps, Bart flinches it away from his hand-range, thus Homer can't grab it, and you can see him getting more and more tired as he does this, judging by his panting. The camera zooms back into a shot of Bart with his butterfinger bar, & takes a bite out of the edge of it. Then, a background showing a CGI/3D animated butterfinger shows up, with the label "BITE MY BUTTERFINGER!" directly right above the butterfinger, and Bart says the said label. The butterfinger wrapping scrolls over to the left somewhat, showing a little bit of the snack bar and part of it disappears, forming a bite. A TV announcer shouts out the phrase "From Nestle!". The TV shot featuring the 3D candy bar is over after that line of dialog was said and heard as we're back to a shot of reality, with us seeing Bart on his Branch chewing on his treat, as Homer (you can only see his upper body in this shot as he jumped up and down) was still trying to get his treat, but trips and falls over to the ground, and while Bart stops chewing, he wraps up his candy butterfinger wrapper, showing that the bar had been finished already by this point. Bart then used his left hand to lift this above his dad, still teasing him, & says "All gone, Homey!" in a rather unpolite, teasing tone, and drops the wrapper on his dad. We are moved into the shot of Homer, who is now defeated by his eldest kid, & he lets out a dissatisfied and disappointed "Oh!" & unenthusiastically asks him "Can I at least smell your breath?", which is the title for this commercial. The commercial then fades to pitch black and ends right here.
Trivia[]
- This commercial was aired on New Years' of the year 1999.
- This is the only commercial to showcase a yellow-colored sky. Right now, it is unknown why the animators did this, but 1 possibility is that they made the commercial's sky this way to match the theme of it being centered on the butterfinger snack, which it's 2 theme colors are brown and yellow.
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