I'm guessing that the ads were similar overseas
my biggest disappointment was my first disappointment. My first realisation that people would lie to me to get my money.

I was four years old. I used to get 20 cents (australian) to buy a bag of mixed lollies from the corner shop each week.

The corner shop got bought out by a petrol chain called "Esso". I used to ask my parents if it was pronounced "ee-ess-ess-oh" and they said "no, it's ess-oh". This confused me a bit because there were two missing letters from their name but whatever. I digress.

They didn't sell mixed lollies anymore. I didn't care. In three weeks I'd have 55 cents, which meant one thing: I could afford a cadbury's crunchie bar.

long story short: My clothes didn't change into a blue-screen image of a windsurfer. They didn't get a bunch of crazy neon scribbles all over them. THE COLOUR OF MY DAY WAS NOT CHANGED.
( gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 15:10, 4 replies)

Eh?

I don't think we got that advert in blighty...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 15:30, closed)

let's just say that cadbury crunchie offered to change the colour of my day
and that I was sorely disappointed. Three weeks of no lollies as a four year old disappointed.
( gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 15:33, closed)

HAHAHA
I just checked youtube for the hell of it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_UM7EIk00
( gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 15:37, closed)

In case you haven't found out since
The name comes from Standard Oil. Hence Ess-Oh, Esso.

Yes, it doesn't make much sense. But it's just a brand name.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 21:41, closed)