Electric Slide
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I'm surprised this topic hasn't come up, because I would have to say this is the worst commercial I have seen on TV in my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO7b5mACOA4
The Capital One commercials were pretty bad with the insanely retarded dad who took the family on poorly thought out trips (riding in a box car, or on a crop duster plane, landing on a tribal island) because the his credit card had black-out dates. The Gatorade G commercial with the black power fists was terrible, but at least it got pulled.
But this one I think is the worst because the commercial portrays these actors as if they were a real couple that just happened to walk into the store with cameras following them. They give them real sounding names, and they act as if they're just normal people looking at computers. Of all the millions of same-race couples there would be the choose from, the odds that they would end up with a white female-black male couple is just ridiculous.
The problem is that the directors of this ad choose the racial dynamics, and it wasn't pure coincidence as if "those were the best actors we could choose from." I'm sure when they casted for the roles, they were very specific with who they wanted. I have read somewhere that for many castings now, they want males that are not obviously white, to exclusivly minority. The only time they pick white males, who make up probably 90% of potential male actors, is when race isn't specified.
Just everything about this is just the lowest of the low, fortunately I haven't seen this ad on TV for about 2 weeks. I know these things can reappear, but lets hope they put this one to rest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO7b5mACOA4
The Capital One commercials were pretty bad with the insanely retarded dad who took the family on poorly thought out trips (riding in a box car, or on a crop duster plane, landing on a tribal island) because the his credit card had black-out dates. The Gatorade G commercial with the black power fists was terrible, but at least it got pulled.
But this one I think is the worst because the commercial portrays these actors as if they were a real couple that just happened to walk into the store with cameras following them. They give them real sounding names, and they act as if they're just normal people looking at computers. Of all the millions of same-race couples there would be the choose from, the odds that they would end up with a white female-black male couple is just ridiculous.
The problem is that the directors of this ad choose the racial dynamics, and it wasn't pure coincidence as if "those were the best actors we could choose from." I'm sure when they casted for the roles, they were very specific with who they wanted. I have read somewhere that for many castings now, they want males that are not obviously white, to exclusivly minority. The only time they pick white males, who make up probably 90% of potential male actors, is when race isn't specified.
Just everything about this is just the lowest of the low, fortunately I haven't seen this ad on TV for about 2 weeks. I know these things can reappear, but lets hope they put this one to rest.