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Spell Remittance, Capital L-B-C! Have you seen that LBC TV commercial?

Well, if not yet sorry but you can’t watch it anymore since it was already pulled out by LBC.

Admittedly, I also laughed when I first saw the commercial, I thought it was cute and funny but seriously it was not.

In the commercial Edu Manzon is the Spelling Bee Host asking a grade school student to spell REMITTANCE, The student, after pausing and remembering how his mother receives money remitted to her by their father abroad through an LBC branch, answers, “Remittance: Capital L-B-C,” and Manzano acknowledges with a “Tumpak!”.

Thankfully, in response to the letter received by LBC Express Inc. from DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus asking for the immediate pullout of the said TV commercial as it may give students bad spelling habits, the company immediately ordered its advertising agency to stop airing the controversial commercial featuring a grade school spelling bee parody.