A childhood belief about adverts

In the U.S. there is this very long-running commercial for a bathroom cleaner with 'scrubbing bubbles.' In the commercial, the bubbles were these little round things with eyes and scrub brushes for moustaches. I always thought that if you poured out this particular brand your tub would fill with these little characters. A friend of mine (who grew up in another part of the country) believed the EXACT same thing, and neither sets of our parents would buy it for us so we could try. They always bought Comet. We're in our 30s now and still marvel at those little bubbles with faces.