Does anyone remember that commercial (for the United Negro College Fund IIRC) about 30 years ago with Godfrey Cambridge in the early 70’s where he’s trying to tap dance and doing a terrible job, then they throw him a football and he drops it like a hot potato, and then he misses a easy basketball pass, the end shot is him wearing a business suit and carrying a briefcase out the shot with the tagline not to judge people by their color or have re-determined expectations for them.
PIMF re-determined = pre-determined
His race doesn’t matter… That just isn’t an issue. It could be anyone from any race up there MAKING AN ASS OUT OF HIMSELF!
The guy is annoying as hell, though.
You mean they have a name for that? I thought she was having a seizure.
Well, kids born after the heyday of Soul Train can be excused for not knowing about poppin’ and lockin’ ,which was a popular dance move in the early 70s. In fact there was even a dance group called The Lockers, one of whom, Fred Berry, gained wider recognition as Rerun on the 70s TV hit, What’s Happenin’?.
(Yeah, I’m down. 
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Oh, I remember that from the 70’s, and it was cool. I didn’t realize that was what the girl on the Mitsubishi ad was trying to do, since she did it so poorly.
You guys are cracking me up over here because I seriously thought I was the only one who hated that Best Buy commercial with a passion. Every time is comes on I have to leave the room or change the channel because if I am forced to hear that moron say “Spiderman” one more time I’m going to start seizing worse than the crazy chick in the Mitsubishi commercial.
But the half-naked dancing guy in the KMart commercials is HOT! I absolutely drool over him…
Funny, I find that Best Buy commercial hilarious. I mean…he’s upside-down!
Well, I wasn’t offended, gobear; the OP just triggered the memory of that commercial. It was contending that the Best Buy guy had set race relations back by acting “like a freaky idiot for no reason whatsoever.” The Kmart guy simply came to mind as another contender in the field. I don’t believe I’ve seen the Gap ad you refer to, but if the guy is spazzing around like a maroon, I wouldn’t care what color his skin was. He’d still look like a maroon.
( biggirl may want to bear Kmart Man’s future children, but she might want to give some thought to the prospect of something like him boogeying in her womb for months on end. Those babies are going to kick.)
Its rants like this that set back race relations.
If anyone is a tool its you sir.
What the hell does race have to do with anything in this add.
For Peace sake
Stop that ~
What exactly ‘sets race relations back’? Or, is it just the fact that they casted a black guy as a idiot?
Please don’t try and make some kind of racial mistreatment issue out of a silly commercial.
I kind of like that commercial. I derive a great amount of amusement by constantly asking my wife, “What’s crackin’, baby!”.
You are a fucking dumbass.
Amen!!! And personally, I think he’s kind of cute. I love geekboys. I think it’s really adorable the way they get all excited about games and techno stuff, and the little boy in them comes out. And that guy is a quintessential geekboy, black, white or purple.
I think the underwear guy is cute too.
PS.
It seems that the girls in this thread (unless I am misunderstanding username’s genders), for the most part LIKE both the best buy guy and the jockey guy, while the men don’t (in fact that’s an understatement, the men are FURIOUS at these two guys for “acting like dopes”).
No point, I just thought it was a bit interesting.
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I have a dream… that people in commercials will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the stupidity of their behavior.
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Nah, I’m a man, and I don’t mind that ad at all. It’s not the greatest ad ever, but it certainly doesn’t make me furious. And in fact, far from thinking them racist, I applaud the company for casting black people in roles other than the stereotypical break-dancing, malt-liquor-drinking, basketball playing, hip-hop-listening charicatures that you see most of the time. An ad I thought was actually very funny was the one where the announcer says “like to play with things?”, and they show a black man in business attire running around turning on all the automatic faucets in the men’s room. Why does the white guy have to be the geek all the time, and the black guy has to be “cool” or “tough”? THAT’s the stereotype, and Best Buy is breaking away from it. Good for them.
You know why he’s spastic?
He had some Best Buy drone push an extended warranty on him for abut ten minutes.
It seems to get it’s message accross to me well. It’s the same thing Circuit City is doing (guy goes crazy running away from his wife into the store). The message is that big electronic superstores are like toystores for male adults. When they go into one they turn into a kid again (thus the spiderman guy jumping around like he’s 10).
I guess its a good thing Best Buy was not using Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for the demo. I can imagine his high pitched voice now:
Hey Tommy, carjack that car and run over everyone you see.
Yeah, go Tommy, shoot those shoppers in the mall.
Tommy! you get the hooker, then beat her with a baseball bat when she gets out of your car and get your money back!!