Not for nothing but that ad with the guy talking his Sansa-Stark-Looking daughter through cooking a pasta dish so her date is a success is way more shitty than the Peloton ad.
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His comedy is pretty life-affirming and he doesn’t seem to harp on stuff like liberal hypocrisy like say Bill Burr - who is definitely deplorable adjacent.
Also Gaffigan is super Catholic and probably actually believes it’s a grave insult to say someone might be in hell.
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The Peloton ad isn’t that bad, it got picked on by the whole Internet who decided what it really meant, how is the video phone ad worse?
A few reasons:
-she was confident enough in her cooking abilities to attempt DUCK, a move I, a seasoned veteran, would not pull, on what we can only assume is a first in-her-apartment date…yet once it goes sideways she is totally helpless and doesn’t even know what’s in her pantry?
-Dad-to-the-rescue waxes nostalgic about the dish he’s teaching Sansa to make, remarking that Sansa’s mother Cat Stark made that for him…but “of course she burned it!” Way to stomp on Mom’s grave, assholes
-Dad has bailed her out, date saved! Penis imminent! But Dad doesn’t even get to know the guy’s name? She hangs up on him after he saved her dating life??? What a bitch
Anyway I hate it and won’t have it in my house
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Perhaps we don’t need to use our symbol shovels so extensively on short form filmed advertising…
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Ok Boomer…
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Are we using the shovel the same way we might use one to bash a suffering animal to put it out of its misery? I don’t know how to use metaphorical shovels. Maybe an enlightened millennial can explain it to me.
I miss the 70’s so much.
Edit: And my white elephant gift next year is going to be a can of FDS.
I could be misremembering here, but I don’t believe she ever refers to the sex of her date. We can see the date’s name is Sam, so I choose to think she is seeing a woman and hasn’t come out to her dad yet.
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I think it might be a bit presumptuous to be assigning pronouns when we know so little about the characters.
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My version is non-canon, of course.
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I’ve been scolded for improper pronoun usage, so I try to be more, yaknow, “woke” now. Thanks for the clarification.
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When Dad asks “What’s his name?” it is established that she’s bout to penis, nerdz.
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A “symbol shovel” is what we used to analyze modern literature the first time I went to college in the late 1980’s. In this context, commenting on an imaginative interpretation of a commercial, it is meant to point out the over-analysis of a meaningless advertisement. It is a symbolic tool suited to digging for the hidden themes in literature not for harming animals.
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Eat a bag of dicks please.
https://twitter.com/lt4kicks/status/1207821127436910593
Weird world we live in when a former NFL kicker is tweeting at Kim Kardashian and Jared Kushner for leniency on a family member convicted of moving a literal ton of weed.
@youtube, you show me another trailer for Cats and I’m not hate clicking on any more Joe Rogan clips
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