snickers-related stories
Posted Aug 7th 2008 5:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Commercials, Reality-Free
And now, a post about busting balls.
Oh, come on, get your mind out of the gutter! I'm talking, of course, about the strategy board game from Mego in the 70s. The game was called
Ball Buster, and the object of the game was (and I'm not kidding) "to bust your opponents balls." Take a look at the video of the commercial after the jump. It wouldn't be so funny if the announcer wasn't trying to sound all sleazy and knowing ("and for adults, it's
exciting"). The wink by the mom at the end doesn't help either. I can picture the cast of
Swingtown playing this.
Continue reading Brought To You By ... - VIDEOS
Posted Nov 22nd 2007 5:01PM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, TV Squad Lists, WGA Strike
I'm pretty sure that this TV Squad assignment -- make a list of all the things you're thankful for in television -- is going to get me in trouble with my family. See, I've only got so much introspection to spare and I've pretty much used up November's allotment making this list. When my wife asks me to give her one thing I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving, she'll probably be expecting me to say "all the love I receive from my family" or something else suitably goopy. When I say, "I'm really thankful for how good
House has been this season," I'm going to get a carving knife plunged into my eye-socket.
But I knew the risks when I signed up to be a television blogger. As my blogging mentor
Hyman Roth once told me, "This is the business we have chosen, Jay." My list after the jump...
Continue reading What Jay is thankful for
Posted May 5th 2007 11:01AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Video, Commercials, Web, Celebrities
I thought I had seen everything Mr. T has done, but this commercial is completely new to me. You should skip to the bottom of this post and watch it, then come back here for my analyzation. Okay, then.
So, the commercial starts off with a soccer game, and one player overplaying his injury a little too much. We cut to a scene of Mr. T driving a tank toward the soccer field. He smashes two cars along the way: did those cars have people in them? Mr. T does not care. Mr. T has bigger things on his mind: big, nutty chocolaty things.
Continue reading Mr. T, a tank and Snickers - VIDEO
Posted Feb 7th 2007 11:32AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Commercials, Web, Super Bowl
Remember that potentially homophobic
Snickers ad that aired during the Super Bowl? The one where two guys are so enamored with a candy bar that they start eating it from opposite ends,
Lady and the Tramp-style, and wind up accidentally kissing? They're so concerned that they just kissed that they decide to do something really macho to affirm their heterosexuality, so they start pulling out their chest hair. Because that's apparently what straight men do all the time.
Anyway, now that you're up to date, you won't be seeing that commercial on television anymore. Snickers
got complaints from the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Apparently they thought the ad was homophobic. Who knew, I thought it was just anti-gay. Oh, right.
Continue reading Snickers pulls Super Bowl ad in response to complaints
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