Flat Eric

Flat Eric is a yellow bear -like doll with long arms and legs, by Jim Henson's " Creature Shop " ( among other Muppets, Fraggle Rock ) was developed for commercials of the American jeans brand Levi's.

The French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux aka musician Mr. Oizo had the idea for the figure and the corresponding title Flat Beat, who was able to place Europe in the top ten of the charts in 1999. In Germany, the single reached # 1 on the chart, spending eleven weeks in the top 10 in the music video for Flat Beat is Flat Eric to see in the executive chair of an office, among other things, the "smoking" a hotdog. In the commercials he is together with his driver Fishing in California go.

From 2001 to 2003, the doll appeared repeatedly in the British comedy series The Office; In 2004, she was seen with David Soul in a TV commercial for a British automobile magazine.

On 24 June 2011 came out his new album Beats flat, almost exactly 12 years after his first track.

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