However, it seems that the Italians are the last folks it's okay to blatantly stereotype. Case in point: Olive Garden ads.
"There's two things my family loves: talking and eating!" And then it shows about thirty Italians laughing and passing around pasta to Uncle Luigi, who just became a citizen though he speaks no English. The family is straight out of central casting.
Am I alone in noticing this?
― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Mrs. Lee:My husband, some hot shot. Here's his ancient Chinese secret. Calgon. Calgon's two water softeners soften wash waters so detergents clean better, In hardest water, Calgon helps detergents get laundry up to 30% cleaner. [yelling] We need more Calgon!Customer: [to Mr. Lee] Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh?
Announcer:Calgon helps detergents get laundry up to 30% cleaner.
― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)
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― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)
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― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)
A VERY positive stereotype, with the blind opera guy bellowing in the background.
― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm struggling to think whats not true about this, based on 95% of men I've dated or shared a flat with. Seriously! Besides, arent those kind of ads (not that I agree with making men seem STUPID neccesarily) just redressing 30 years of dumb vacant happy housewife chugging valium and handing hubby pipe and slippers.
Go on, start yelling at me ;)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)
but it's also true that a lot of women don't, as well.
Negative stereotypes suck ass.
― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)
(apt xpost)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)
It started with a close-up of a scrawny man, brown-headed and bearded, sitting in a brick apartment with a window behind him depicting a snowy city landscape. In the background, you can hear cars honking their horns. In front of him, a pitiful hot dog is put on a plate. He follows the mustard being squirted on with his hungry eyes.
ANNOUNCER: In Chicago, they eat Oscar Meyer...
Cut to a large and sweaty red-faced Richard Jewell type dude outside on a sunny day with a picnic behind him on the lush grass. He's trying to put an oversized plump and juicy hot dog down his throat, making slurpy noises all the while.
ANNOUNCER: But in The South, we eat BRYAN.
These ads ran during the eighties, and even as a kid, I was uncomfortable with them. Nevermind such weird things as a stereotypical Jew-lookin' fella eating a hot dog, but also things like an announcer boasting that in the South, we eat someone named Bryan.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Aunt Gemima and Uncle Ben should hook up.
― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Replacing such nice chubby male folks such as Bibendium, The A&W Great Root Bear and Grimace.I point you to The Inactivist on a side note.
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)
Agree totally. I was just pissing in the river so to speak anyway :) Ad stereotypes really grate. I guess an example I can relate to is the ads americans were subjected to in the 80s for "come visit australia" (or was it just sydney?) with Paul bleedin' Hogan saying he'd "chuck another shrimp on the barbie for ya".
WE DONT CALL THEM SHRIMPS, THEYRE PRAWNS. We also dont all live the jolly tanned fit outdoor on the harbour Sydney lifestyle - in fact only the very wealthy do. So like, raaarrr and so on.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)
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― andy, Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.eyetide.com/images/ec/4009.jpg
― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/images/quotes/wiggum.gif
http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2002/0328/photo/randyquaid_i.jpg
― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)
http://tulsatvmemories.com/imag2001/popeye.jpg
"I'm one tough gazookas that hates all palookas that ain't on the up and square. I biffs 'em and buffs 'em and always out-roughs 'em and none of 'em gets nowhere. So keep good behavior, it's your one lifesaver, with Popeye the Sailor Man!"
― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― i yam what i yam (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)
BANACEK is a Boston-based Polish/American freelance insurance investigator whom insurance companies turn to when their own investigations have failed. This doesn't exactly endear him to big shot insurance executive types, since calling in Banacek meant they hadn't done their jobs. And the more tight-assed and pompous the executives are, the more Banacek delights in rubbing their faces in it. But his track record's so good they have to put up with him. Banacek specializes in solving "impossible crimes", recovering such missing loot as an armored car or a professional football player who disappeared during a game. Urbane, suave, cocky, Banacek has a taste for the fine things in life, and an affinity for Polish proverbs. He lives in the ritzy Beacon Hill area, and is chauffered around town in his limo by his driver, Jay. Among his close friends is Felix Mulholland, owner of Mulholland's Rare Books & Prints, who often ends up doing research for Banacek. In the second season, Carlie Kirkland (Christine Belford), an insurance agent, was added for love interest. But, in her own way, Carlie was as infuriating as Banacek, and their rivalry definitely heated up the relationship.
talk about POSITIVE stereotyping!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)
I think you're over-generalizing here.
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)
(xpost)
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)
"Finally, as promised last week, a few words about the differencesbetween three media pieces that have gotten heavy raps of recent times: "Amos 'n Andy," Laura Schlessinger's broadcast offerings and the D.W. Griffith landmark film _The Birth of a Nation_. Or, if you will, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, in that order."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BlacklistedTalkRadio/message/2490?source=1
― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 8 January 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)
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― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)
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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.layouth.com/images/Robot.jpg
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 9 January 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80v5Wueed10
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:03 (sixteen years ago)
feelin the need to shave right now tbh, but I don't have any shaving cream? any suggestions?
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:04 (sixteen years ago)
buy some shaving cream
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:05 (sixteen years ago)
(i can't shave without using cream, so that's genuine advice)
haha here I admit that I have about as much ability to grow facial hair as a chia pet has the ability to grow genuine Kentucky bluegrass
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:07 (sixteen years ago)
but if I did need shaving cream, I know what I'd reach for first....
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:08 (sixteen years ago)
I can't remember what kind of hot dog it was. I'll just use Bryan and Oscar Meyer as the example thought the commercial may have been for another type of hot dog.It started with a close-up of a scrawny man, brown-headed and bearded, sitting in a brick apartment with a window behind him depicting a snowy city landscape. In the background, you can hear cars honking their horns. In front of him, a pitiful hot dog is put on a plate. He follows the mustard being squirted on with his hungry eyes.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, January 7, 2004 6:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It only took 13 years, but I FINALLY FOUND THIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF5Tk-nqWuk
― pplains, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:19 (eight years ago)
Gotta say based on your description I didn't expect the Richard Jewell guy to be so, how shall I say, prissy with his mustard.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:23 (eight years ago)
amazing
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:26 (eight years ago)
Wow! Like those big city Jews would be eating non-kosher trash dogs anyway.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 13 March 2017 21:33 (eight years ago)
Totally had forgotten about the malnourished Shelly Duvall kid at the beginning.
About the only other Minneapolis/Buffalo connection I could make is Replacements/Goo Goo Dolls or something.
― pplains, Monday, 13 March 2017 21:42 (eight years ago)
do yankees / did yankees ever make commercials about how DOWN SOUTH YOU CAN'T GET THESE PICKLES Y'KNOW
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:16 (eight years ago)
"oh no sir, our cheese is not available in the former confederacy, but it's nice of you to ask"
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 00:17 (eight years ago)
Scrawny Opie kid in overalls trying to get his mouth around a pickle.
But in Hartsford, Connecticut...
Prescott Q. Winklevoss VI wipes down silver fork with gherkin on end of it.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:24 (eight years ago)
People in Alabama think beer comes in a can. But up here in Sam Adams country we know it's better from a bottle.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:28 (eight years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/HGNAReS.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:36 (eight years ago)
haha yeah i was gonna say the "get a rope" Pace Picante Sauce ad is basically the form that the Bryan's Hot Dog ad is clumsily groping towards with its goofus-and-gallant stereotype scenes.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 01:55 (eight years ago)
Ben & Jerry's paying for a man to stand in front of a camera and shout "This ice cream is from DALLAS TEXAS?!?" in a Western New England English accent
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:33 (eight years ago)
"get a rope..." I mean, Yankees. Didn't all of your snack food commercials contain lynching humor too?
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:48 (eight years ago)
I actually know this - the exact spot where the snow ends is just south of Eldon, Mo. on Hwy 54.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsrzzP0Bkro
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:51 (eight years ago)
guess the city (weather patterns)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 02:57 (eight years ago)