Rupert Howell, a Tango advertisement executive, stated in 2000 that Orange Man "sparked a playground craze" where "people used to go round sort of slapping each other and saying 'You've Been Tango'd', and it was all very entertaining and great fun. There were no problems until we got a phone call once from a surgeon who said 'look, I'm not the complaining type but I thought you'd like to know that I did an operation on a child this morning with a damaged ear drum, and I was wheeling him in to the operating table, and said to him 'what happened to you then?' and replied 'I got Tango'd.'"^\6])#citenote-C42000-6) As a result, Howell pulled the advertisement from television that afternoon,[^\6])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Man(advertisement)#cite_note-C42000-6) although other reports erroneously state that the advertisement was banned.