Cough drops and paint-by-numbers oil paints: a winning combination!

Would you trust that painter up there in the upper left-hand corner, the one that looks like he doubles as a magician/leering pedophile? If so, this set of oil paints might be for you.

Several questions: One, don’t oil paints usually come in tubes? Doesn’t that appear to be a tray of watercolors down at the bottom of the ad? You know, the kind that kids rapidly turn into a jumbled black inky mess? And what are the odds that those Smith Brothers Cough Drops were laced with hard liquor? Pretty good, right? They certainly have an old-timey hint of White Cloverine salve about them.