What kind of car wash is this?
| Windows Media link to the :30 commercial, which will pop in a new window. 1.5 MB. |
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| While you’re down there change my oil |
Earlier we talked about the dangers of eating a hamburger while trying to wash your car. Apparently nobody was paying attention during that lecture.
This isn’t really as bad as I hoped it might be. It’s not new territory for Carl’s Jr. / Hardee’s either, as the restaurant chain will down right call you a pansy if you don’t want to pack eight pounds of ground sirloin and cheese into your gut. Oh and an extra side of large curly fries please.
Mm curly fries. Wait where am I? Oh right. My big beef with this commercial (get it? It’s a pun because hamburgers are made of beef!) is that the sexuality presented isn’t ironic or humorous, or otherwise justified by any other artistic motive or convention. The advertising industry insider who called it “pornographic” was right in the respect that this is sexuality for the sake of sexuality. Maybe to make this justified, Paris could have volunteered to work in a church charity car wash and then somehow her clothes are ripped off and then things gets all out of control and sexy. You could have then showed exactly everything that was in the commercial and it would have some kind of intelligent context.
But it could also always be worse. Now go eat a hamburger!
| Windows Media link to the :30 commercial, which will pop in a new window. 1.5 MB. |
Comment // May 25th, 2005 // 5:07 pm
Dan “Lucasfilms” Lucas has provided me with this link ( http://www.spicyparis.com/paris.html ) to more information than you could even want on the Paris ad. There is a longer version of the video on there.
Comment // June 1st, 2005 // 2:02 am
I’M SO HUNGRY NOW,
This commercial may seem to sexy for some and some it wont even matter. Paris took away from the burger. I want those buns, and that lettuce so I can feel healthy and sexy.
Comment // June 1st, 2005 // 4:40 am
This last comment is a A Clockwork Orange-esque example as to why the media should not confuse the American people with sexual and food images at the same time.
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Comment // June 29th, 2005 // 2:46 pm
i think that this commmercial is lammmmmme!
Comment // June 29th, 2005 // 3:22 pm
ASHLEYYYY ROCKSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment // December 16th, 2005 // 11:31 pm
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Comment // December 16th, 2005 // 11:32 pm
I’m so much cooler then her!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment // November 25th, 2006 // 3:22 pm
I am sure she had some put this up for her She is very vain. www.top10celebs.com
Comment // November 29th, 2006 // 7:34 am
The Pic of Paris is awsome buddy … discussing commercials is a great place to be in…
Lisa
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www.thegreatestvitaminintheworld.com
Comment // August 4th, 2007 // 9:44 pm
6rdu, I bet you are cooler than Paris:-) Listen up people. We have become a country of fat-cat, pampered, lazy, lard-asses who have trouble coming up with one intelligent thought or doing one meaningful thing throughout the day.
At some level, it’s refreshing to see someone with a super body instead of the majority of fat asses that over-populate our country. Sure Paris is seductive in this commercial, but how many of you lard-butt women out there who are 40 to 80 pounds overweight or more don’t wish with everything in you that you looked as good as Paris? Do you ever place yourself in the equation why your husbands don’t want to have sex with you? Simply put, who wants to have sex with a waterbed? Go kick ass Paris while I go out to get one of those hamburgers!