Strange thread title, I know. But I don’t know how else to describe it. And I’m certainly not the genius who dreamed the ad up.
Picture Frank, a rather corpulent gentleman, standing by his grill. He picks up a Ballpark Smoky Frank using a pair of tongs, takes a BIG bite, chews slowly, and moans seductively.
He then says to the camera, “I like 'em girthy!” :eek:
Does this make anybody want to buy hot dogs? It makes me want to press my fingers into my ears and run screaming from the room.
Aren’t Ballpark Franks the ones that “plump when you cook them?”
:eek:
Sounds like you have issues.
No, not me.
Otto, trust me, this thing has to be seen to be believed.
Frankly (heh!), that interpretation hadn’t even occured to me. I thought the guy just liked nice fat franks. And ‘girthy’ is an odd-sounding word, especially when repeated several times.
Does this mean I don’t have issues?
I kinda of thought it was a self-effacing joke. But I may be reading way to much into it. It’s kind of blue-collar, six-pack manly-man grilling over fire ad campaign. Which is also an enviroment where homosexuaity is traditionally fairly taboo. So they just threw an over-the-top homoerotic reference as a joke to admit that “yeah, we know what you’re thinking. After all, it is a wiener that plumps”
I must have issues. LOL. I thought the same thing too. It’d be even better with a lady cook or played after an Enzyte commerical. 
Heh. You’ve reminded me of a Dr Pepper commercial I saw a long time ago. It had the usual cheesy dancing and singing “Be a Pepper” crap, but then at one point a line of guys with their legs spread and facing away from the camera all bent over. Yes, a line of men’s asses in the camera for a moment, and they weren’t playing football.
I’m a girl so I didn’t run screaming from the room, I just thought, “Hmmm, that was gay.”
I prefer homoeroticism in my commercials to some other wierd things I’ve seen. Like the one for some brand of kids toys, with the little girl in the long flowing skirt spinning around in a garden setting. The skirt flashed up and she wasn’t wearing any underclothes! WTF? I hope it was just some sort of mistake that she flashed the crack of her ass, and not some weird creepy thing they snuck in on purpose. That was just wrong.
Oh and then there was the Met Life insurance commercial with the little girl sitting on a tree stump or root or something with a woman next to her, playing her mother I suppose. The woman leaned over and the lttle girl puckered up, and she kissed her. And just when you think, aww, that’s cute, she did it again. And again, and again, and again. By the end of the thirty seconds I was seriously pissed. What the hell was that about? Why was this woman kissing this little girl over and over again? That was the whole commercial, and it was just totally wrong.
So yeah, give me a grown man lusting after hot dogs any day, just keep that other wierd shit off my TV.
I most certainly don’t “have issues” and the girthy commercial weirded me out a bit too. It’s definitely strange and has to be seen to be believed.