TV Ads For Viva, Scott Paper Towels 'Disparaging' to Bounty

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It's OK to love the quilt. That's what the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus announced today after reviewing a complaint that Procter & Gamble made against Kimberly-Clark Corp.

P & G, which makes Bounty paper towels -- known as the "quicker picker-upper" -- was not happy with Kimberly-Clark's recent commercials for its Scott and Viva brand paper towels.

In the Viva commercial, people are shown staging an "intervention" for a woman who loves her some quilted paper towels. The quilted towels are bad and "towel-speak for air," says the commercial, which includes the standard wiping-up of liquid demonstration.

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