Archive for June 27th, 2009

27
Jun
09

Startling commercials

The first is truly awful, the Carl’s Junior Bikini Burger.  Not just a piece of meat:  (not sure if this is going to work, but hopefully this is how it goes

Really?  She’s giving up everything to have that body, but keeping her messy drippy burger, which she’s going to eat on a beach?  Likely story.    I can’t see this ad appealing to any woman, anywhere, though I don’t think that’s Carl’s intended audience.  Truly tasteless commercial, but at least it shows a woman actually enjoying food, even though she’s sacrificing every other part of her life to enjoy this absolutely not diet food.

Speaking of diet food, I can’t find the other ad, but it’s a twist on that Yoplait ad:

but a role reversal, where the man is on the phone complaining about his weight, and how he can’t eat anything, except blah blah blah, and this time it’s the woman looking in the fridge, calling him on his deceit.  It’s just as annoying as the first one, but it’s very strange to hear a man talking that way.

Happy Pride weekend!