TGIF commercial on ABC Family channel. Gunslinger says the specific show this bit is from is called “Louis.” The joke goes roughly as follows:
Latinos sometimes paint their houses in somewhat unorthodox ways. I have seen pink with green trim, blue with yellow, etc.
I heard that “joke” on Sirius Comedy the other day, and I didn’t get it either, but the (presumably) Latino audience sure seemed to think it was funny. I thought it was part of a Paul Rodriguez act, but IMNRC.
Yeah, but wouldn’t that just make them Victorians?
If that’s the point of the joke, then it’s not funny to me. And I can’t believe somebody thought that was hilarious enough to be the high point of the show, worthy of display on the TGIF ads and meant to make viewers think “Ha! That is a funny show! I must watch this show!”
Must be a really crappy show if that’s the best bit they could come up with.
I have definitely heard that Luis sucks big rocks. If that’s the best example they can come up with (and they ALWAYS put the funniest lines in the commercials) then the buzz would appear to be true…
Yeah, I could see Luis Guzman in a gritty drama, a dark humored edgy show like the late grat and underappreciated The Jobor yet another L&O spinoff, but a “family sitcom”? That’s like when Alfred Molina or Gabriel Byrne tried sitcoms a few years ago. Just wrong and a waste of talented actors, even if they were just looking for a steady paycheck or more normal working hours.
The ads I saw for Luis, didn’t wow me at all. If I gran at the commercials before the show even airs it’s a bad sign.
Department of Picking Nits Report:
Luis is a show on Fox. The only show on ABC that features a Hispanic is The George Lopez Show. I am unsure which of the shows the joke comes from.
That “joke” was from The George Lopez Show, and I don’t get it either. White with blue trim doesn’t sound very unusual, or particularly Latin, to me.
Well, it is TGIF. Not exactly high points in TV history.
I know in San Antonio, there has been a bit of a row between “preservationists” and people who like their houses on the colorful side, but that’s all I know about it. Some from there people try to make it into a ethnic spat (coughSandra Cisneroscough). My town is roughly 85% Hispanic, and I associate the brightly colored houses with the old and poor parts of town. Most Hispanic’s houses here look pretty much like everyone else’s - outside at least.
I think it simply boils down to people with less tend to accentuate what they have.
George Lopez, that’s right. I heard the show again the other night, but I must’ve tuned in after the “joke”.
He has some decent material, though… I wonder why they didn’t use it instead?