I’m offended by their implication that i turn into a little child when i enter an electronics store. anyone who knows me knows i am always a little child, and i need not their prodding to run around like an idiot!
But is a beer better than a spastic black man in a Best Buy commercial?
I have enjoyed her act a lot more since I noticed that she’s not wearing a bra.
:o
Oh, no.
I’ve just set boob relations back decades, haven’t I?
Can I get a “CanvasShoes, how you doin’?” from the congregation?
I don’t hate the Best Buy “Yeah Spiderman!” ad. I don’t think it’s racist. No, I look at it, and I shake my head, thinking that this guy is lucky to have been chosen for a high-rotation national advertising campaign; that’s a pretty good paycheck. I feel bad for all the other actors who weren’t chosen. That must have been one humiliating fucking audition. “No! Jump around more! More excited! He’s your hero! You’re swinging on a web! Do the monkey dance! Now squeal like a pig! Okay, next.”
I live for the three quarters of a second in which this fact is obvious. I’m gonna give myself eyestrain.
Oh, I don’ know. I might actually watch the commercial now, instead of diving for the remote…
That Mistsubishi woman is a boob.
psssssssssst “geekboys” are MUCH much better lovers too!!
The Dave Chapelle version is awesome, and in the outtakes, you see a boob!
Not to be the lone dissenting voice in the wilderness here, but I think, that I can kind of understand where the OP is coming from. I recall that when I first saw the commercial, my first reaction was that the actor was behaving in a stereotypically “Black” way, and that I was a little surprised.
My take on cultural perception is that there is a stereotype that black men are more, for lack of a better way to put it, loud or at least verbally exuberant. In this way, I can see how the commercial could be feeding on that.
Let me ask you guys this: assume for a moment that the actor in this commercial were magically replaced with a white guy in Dockers and a polo shirt, but that the voice, movements and speech cadence were all the same. Would this seem seamless to you, or would something seem a little off?
Three words:
Ralph Lauren commercial.
They have a different BB commercial with an Asian kid playing a Football video game who ends up dancing in the store. I don’t recall if there is a white guy acting goofy commercial.
Not in the least. I can think of a dozen bygone soap, food, etc commercials in which white men have acted just as foolish.
For that matter think “Revenge of the Nerds”. I know, I know, a movie, not a commercial, but still.
I didn’t for a minute think anything remotely resembling “typical goofy black guy” when I saw the commercial. My overwhelming first thought was “aaaaaaaww, how adorable”. I honestly DO have a soft spot for the geeky types of the world.
In fact, as another poster said earlier in this thread, this guy, and the guy in the underwear ads, seem to be the complete opposite of the “stereotypical black guy,” at least as is imagined by American society. In other words, the baggy-clothed rapper tough guy, or the equally tough-guy pimp type, or the “my baby-daddies” that one sees on the Springer show etc.
And that (sorry in advance, hehe) is a GOOD thing!!!
I kind of see what you’re saying, but I just don’t get that impression when I see the ad. He does kind of drop ending consonants, i.e. “Spidah Man - savin’ the day”, but it doesn’t feel to me like a deliberate racist charicature at all - it just seems like the way the guy talks. I would imagine that if he had over enunciated (like Eddie Murphy does when he imitates white people), that would have offended people as well. I’m pretty sure they have done similar ads with people of different races; I think they’re just trying to be egalitarian.
If that ad is racist, how would you have done it so as not to be racist? I can’t think of another way:
Only use white people? - racist
Use a black person who sounds “white”? - still racist
Use a black person who is more subdued in his behavior? - misses the whole point of the commercial.
Sure guys, point well taken. I haven’t really seen a huge variety of these commercials, so I am not really fit to judge. For the most part, although the OP was a tab over the top, I just wanted to point out that his point of view was not without plausibility.
[SNL] “I’m Carson Daly and I’m a massive tool.”[/SNL]
I thought that I was the only one in the world who watched that episode. LOL
Yes, booby girl freakin’ out in the front seat of the car always brought back that "hurlin’ " feelin’ that I swore I lost after the whole Joe Boxer commercial. :dubious:
<wishing I had Comedy Central>