When you get right down to it, it's just a really stupid commercial. There's this guy in yellow shorts speed walking along (we can't tell if he's swishing more than necessary or not) and then Mr. T bursts through some houses in a jeep and starts shooting him with snickers bars and says this, "Speed walking. I pity you fool. You a disgrace to the man race. It's time to run like a real man." What kinda jibba jabba is that? We pity the fool who's forced to shoot people with snickers bars for money. That is not comedy and not acting.
Is it offensive to gay people? Personally, we don't really ever like to hear the words "real man" (unless it's associated with sexy role play or something.) But even further, it seems very offensive to speed walkers, which is, after all, an Olympic sport.
Anyhow the ad was only shown in the UK, where it didn't even ruffle a feather, but on this side of the pond, people got the knickers in a twist and the ad's been shelved by Mars.
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Slipstream wrote:
Mr. T is the man and pulling the ad is stupid! I mean what year do we live in, last time I checked it was 2008 for pity sake.
I just downloaded Mr. T’s voice from Navtones.com for my GPS and I love it. But my question is, am I meant to get offended every time I make a wrong turn and he calls me a fool or something? On that note, I also go Kim Cattrall from Navtones, can I claim she is sexually harassing me when she says, “Lets just pull over and get in the backseat, thats bigger enough for us two, or maybe three”?
The Snickers ad is just an ad and with them pulling it, it’s probably getting more attention than it would have if it just came out. (Pun)
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