Watched Castle today.
Jan. 17th, 2012 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyAn appallingly absurd commercial came on.
Basically, two coworkers are on a plane. One is drinking water with Crystal Light, to help lose weight for bikini season. (I would think that plain water, with no calories, would work better than Crystal Light with 5 calories, but that's beside the point.) Her coworker points out that they live in Chicago and work long hours, and aren't going to be near a beach anytime soon.
Cue the plane wreck. And now Mr. Hot Guy wants her to help him fetch stuff from the water, and she's going to have to show off her awesome body!!! OMG!
Now, we can sit and list everything that's wrong with this commercial, but really, what stands out to me is this: She is on a desert island. Unless there's a lot of easily recognized fresh fruit and easily caught fish there, I'm thinking that pretty soon she's going to regret all that skimping and calorie counting she engaged in.
Remember, in the event of a desert island, unless you all engage in predatory cannibalism odds are that the fatter people will last the longest!
Basically, two coworkers are on a plane. One is drinking water with Crystal Light, to help lose weight for bikini season. (I would think that plain water, with no calories, would work better than Crystal Light with 5 calories, but that's beside the point.) Her coworker points out that they live in Chicago and work long hours, and aren't going to be near a beach anytime soon.
Cue the plane wreck. And now Mr. Hot Guy wants her to help him fetch stuff from the water, and she's going to have to show off her awesome body!!! OMG!
Now, we can sit and list everything that's wrong with this commercial, but really, what stands out to me is this: She is on a desert island. Unless there's a lot of easily recognized fresh fruit and easily caught fish there, I'm thinking that pretty soon she's going to regret all that skimping and calorie counting she engaged in.
Remember, in the event of a desert island, unless you all engage in predatory cannibalism odds are that the fatter people will last the longest!
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Date: 2012-01-17 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 11:09 pm (UTC)Ha.
Date: 2012-01-17 01:15 pm (UTC)By contrast, my father's family are all skinny as rails when they're young (some get fat as they get older, some don't). My stepbrother used to literally eat twice as much as the rest of the family and remained, well, skinny as a rail. (Eating half as much as he did, I was still chunky even as a teenager.)
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Date: 2012-01-17 05:45 pm (UTC)Pale Chicago chicks who bare their unprotected skin to the tropical sun are going to regret it within a matter of hours, and there'll be no canoodling with Mr. Hot Guy then. If they weren't expecting to be on a beach, they probably didn't pack any sunscreen.
They won't be there long enough to turn cannibal, or even long enough to deplete the local shellfish colonies. C'mon, this is the 21st century, and it's a commercial flight, not Amelia Earhardt in a home-made ultralite - they've got GPS, they will have sent a Mayday as they were going down; the Coast Guard will be there before dark.
People in television commercials are always so surreal.
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Date: 2012-01-17 05:54 pm (UTC)Not even if one of them is a real jerk?
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Date: 2012-01-17 06:08 pm (UTC)Anyway, with that much bait, surely one could catch tastier fare.
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Date: 2012-01-17 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 06:29 pm (UTC)Chickie better hope Ms. Claw didn't survive the crash, or she really is going to get wet, and not in that good way.
"The Beagle has landed...."