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Lock your doors and bar your windows, because the next advertisement you see could destroy your house and eat your family.

— Kent · The Simpsons

Painterly brick wall dissolving into small squares beside an old television against deep blue.
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The speaker delivers an exaggerated alarm, telling people to lock doors and bar windows because the next advertisement could wreck their house and devour their family. The absurd scale of the danger turns ordinary advertising into a monster, satirising both fear and marketing.

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