# From goddess to filth skank in 2 commercials. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739 "2012-03-25T04:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/21 "2012-03-26T06:31:31Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Anyone else mildly offput by calling an actress a “filth skank” because you don’t like a role she played? We are, after all, talking about a real person. Titles are often simplifications. In the actual text, it’s clear that he merely thinks she looks skanky because she’s near Charlie Sheen. > [@Chronos](#): > > OK, I haven’t been following the Charlie Sheen thing closely enough to get any skank-by-association from him, but even aside from that, she’s still not nearly as hot in the second commercial as in the first. Maybe it’s just because she gets so little screen time, or because she doesn’t speak (like most romance languages, Italian is sexy). Pretty sure it’s the clothes and attitude. She’s a seductress in the first one, and she looks like one. In the second, she’s that girl you’d never have a chance with. Heck, if not for this thread, I wouldn’t have even noticed they were the same person (especially since so many Hollywood beauties look alike). ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/22 "2012-03-26T06:39:36Z")
Meh, she does nothing for me, in either commercial. She looks too “hard”. Though I don’t think she seems particularly “skanky” in either one. ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/23 "2012-03-26T14:57:12Z")
The second commercial made me want to punch that smug jackass in the kidney. If anything I now negatively associate Fiat with that dickhole and no longer want to own one. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/24 "2012-03-26T15:10:37Z")
Why did Fiat hire a crackhead to sell their car? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/25 "2012-03-26T15:11:16Z")
“From goddess to filth skank in 2 commercials.” Beating the record previously held by Lindsay Lohan. > [@DJ\_Motorbike](#): > > The second commercial made me want to punch that smug jackass in the kidney. If anything I now negatively associate Fiat with that dickhole and no longer want to own one. Whoever is doing the advertising for Fiat in the U.S. doesn’t seem to know what they want. There were the Jennifer Lopez commercials, there was one at a drive-in movie, one with two guys and a baby, the Super Bowl one, and now there’s one with Charlie Sheen. Apparently they’re targeting the car at the urban, retro, family, seductive, douchebag segment of the market. Admittedly, it has been under-served until now. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/26 "2012-03-26T23:23:11Z")
Seems like the old Madonna/Whore dichotomy is alive and well in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/27 "2012-03-26T23:42:09Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > Why did Fiat hire a crackhead to sell their car? Is that how he’s making money now, doing commercials? He’s also in a Direct TV commercial (and I laughed out loud at that one!). He looks extremely worn out and skeevy, but the ending shot is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/28 "2012-03-27T00:04:47Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Not Italian. Romanian. When in Rome, do as the Romanians do. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/29 "2012-03-27T00:46:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “From goddess to filth skank in 2 commercials.” Beating the record previously held by Lindsay Lohan. > > Whoever is doing the advertising for Fiat in the U.S. doesn’t seem to know what they want. There were the Jennifer Lopez commercials, there was one at a drive-in movie, one with two guys and a baby, the Super Bowl one, and now there’s one with Charlie Sheen. Apparently they’re targeting the car at the urban, retro, family, seductive, douchebag segment of the market. Admittedly, it has been under-served until now. More like they’re trying to say the car is good for all those five different segments. And hey, Porsche and BMW need competition in the horny and douche segments :p:D May I say in any case the car is damn cute. And I would not kick Catrinel Menghia out of my back seat for eating crackers, or hanging on Charlie Sheen’s arm… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/30 "2012-03-27T03:00:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Seems like the old Madonna/Whore dichotomy is alive and well in the OP. I don’t think anyone got the impression she was virginal in that first segment. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/31 "2012-03-27T03:44:11Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > May I say in any case the car is damn cute. And I would not kick Catrinel Menghia out of my back seat for eating crackers, or hanging on Charlie Sheen’s arm… Ehh, the car doesn’t do it for me in the slightest. When I first saw it (in the ad with Jennifer Lopez), I thought it looked like a wart with wheels. Now, with the Abarth set-up, it looks like a tricked-out wart with wheels. 😃 Catrinel, OTOH…ohhh, **man**. She causes my blood to carbonate. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/32 "2012-03-28T08:57:53Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Don’t care. Right, so either you weren’t aware or are indeed very, very stupid. Or both. Heard and understood. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/33 "2012-03-28T13:39:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t think anyone got the impression she was virginal in that first segment. The “coffee foam” on her chest made me gasp/laugh the first time I saw the ad. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/34 "2012-03-28T14:27:21Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Right, so either you weren’t aware or are indeed very, very stupid. Or both. > > Heard and understood. Excellent. Then we won’t have to interact again. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739/35 "2012-03-28T17:43:06Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Right, so either you weren’t aware or are indeed very, very stupid. Or both. > > Heard and understood. Don’t insult other posters unless you’re in The BBQ Pit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-goddess-to-filth-skank-in-2-commercials/616739.md?page=1)