Where is my Gnome?
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Where is my Gnome? was a series of viral marketing ads used by Travelocity in early 2004. The ads consisted of a man named "Bill" looking for his garden gnome. On January 3, the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe had these ads on their publication.
After TV ads voiced by Harry Enfield were screened nationally on United States networks, and on a website whereismygnome.com, many readers considered it to be a prank of the Garden Gnome Liberation Front.
The original idea was the travelling gnome prank.
The gnome remains in the commercials; however, he is no longer held against his will, but now works as "The Roaming Gnome: Denouncer of Travel Myths." In these commercials he discusses two myths, one where the gnome states that Travelocity's services are able to "denounce" the myth, and the other where the gnome ends up causing a mess. In one such commercial, he visits the Bermuda Triangle to see if things really do disappear there, denouncing the myth even as objects disappear behind him until he himself also vanishes midsentence.
In 2006, a major promotion involved 20 Travelocity gnomes carefully hidden throughout the 4.5-acre atrium of Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla. During the resort's Best of Florida Christmas promotion, guests were encouraged to find the gnomes to win an Alaskan cruise.
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