tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post774168058517414230..comments2024-03-16T05:34:13.675-07:00Comments on The Commercial Curmudgeon: Miller Lite: It wasn't funny when Fonzie did this, it sure as hell isn't funny 30 years laterJohn F Jamelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18351383534436377360noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-3500233931767951912010-02-11T19:57:00.582-08:002010-02-11T19:57:00.582-08:00I've got that episode on VHS- Contino wears hi...I've got that episode on VHS- Contino wears his belt so high, Joel and the bots do a musical skit about it. Very tight t-shirts, too.<br /><br />I miss MST3K-- I was just watching Rifftrax on YouTube, which is the closest thing available nowadays.John F Jamelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18351383534436377360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-21049463149744440182010-02-11T19:53:05.536-08:002010-02-11T19:53:05.536-08:00Could you imagine the roles being reversed? Inste...Could you imagine the roles being reversed? Instead of slobby guy, we get a tubby girl with bad hair, no makeup and unshaven legs and pits. Honestly, she'd be portrayed as a monster who'd instantly turn into a pariah.<br /><br />I was just noticing the trend of hobo chic after watching the MST3k episode Daddy-O, with Dick Contino's sky high pants, and was thinking about what was considered attractive and acceptable in the decades since. After all, men typically wore their pants higher in the 50s. (Although still not as high as Contino)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773146889646506710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-39048652264553798562010-02-11T18:04:10.720-08:002010-02-11T18:04:10.720-08:00Me neither, Charles. Commercials show us guys in ...Me neither, Charles. Commercials show us guys in their forties walking around with untucked shirts, unkempt hair, and stubble, who don't seem to understand why they aren't being taken seriously by their kids, who seem to care more about their appearance than dad does.<br /><br />The worst commercials are the ones where guys are out with good looking women who are dressed to the nines, with makeup and lipstick and brushed hair- and the guy looks like he rolled out of bed fully clothed five minutes before heading out to pick her up, and is recovering from a very late night of drinking. I just don't get it.John F Jamelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18351383534436377360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-3812373994705343052010-02-11T17:59:21.085-08:002010-02-11T17:59:21.085-08:00I think if I took a woman out who subsequently ask...I think if I took a woman out who subsequently asked me a question about my beer hanging over a cliff, I'd "lose" her phone number and write her off as certifiable. I have no idea why even the morons who write beer ads thought this was a good premise.<br /><br />But I'm responding more to what I call "hobo chic," or, the prevalance of guys who can't manage to take care of basic hygiene like shaving regularly or even combing their hair.<br /><br />I call it "hobo chic" because from my experience, prior to the grunge period of the early/mid 90s when this look became hot, anyone who looked like that would have been mistaken for a homeless man. They'd look like they smelled not like Axe body spray but ass.<br /><br />And the truly strange thing is that this look isn't limited to the 20-something slackers who populate most commercials. Some of the guys in commercials who don't shave regularly and walk around with uncombed hair that looks to have been styled with a butcher's knife are actually Dads with teenage children, a mortgage and a house worth more than half a million. They put more care into how their lawn looks than how they look.<br /><br />I too can't wait for this look to pass on.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773146889646506710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-26689311455749286122010-01-25T04:24:48.400-08:002010-01-25T04:24:48.400-08:00In the previous Miller Lite commercial, the 13-yea...In the previous Miller Lite commercial, the 13-year old girl walks off in a huff because her boyfriend won't keep playing her "if I was hanging off a cliff and you could only save me or your---" game. In this one, the twentysomething woman is shown that her boyfriend is so shallow, so commitment-centric, so emotionally stunted that he can't utter the word "love" in reference to her- and she just sits there. I'd like to meet the people who write these ads. They'd make some psychiatrist an interesting case study.John F Jamelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18351383534436377360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662171249638416805.post-17398400738116163082010-01-24T23:24:51.917-08:002010-01-24T23:24:51.917-08:00Note to cute girl: A guy who drinks Miller Lite is...Note to cute girl: A guy who drinks Miller Lite isn't a catch.Czaeranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04459169043090638940noreply@blogger.com