So there we were, in our family room, watching the NHL playoffs (GO DUCKS!), when this commercial came on. We were talking through it, because it’s a commercial, but then I heard this:
PUT IT IN ME, SCOTT.
Wha…???
So I rewound and watched it again and here, folks, is what I saw.
I’m all for naughtiness and innuendo, and I’m no prude, but is it just me, or is this way over the top about ten different ways?
Discuss!
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Filed under: Old enough to know better Tagged: | commercial, innuendo, Quizno's, suggestive
This is a family blog, so I just erased like three straight replies and will just say “no comment”.
Put it in me, Scott. Heh.
Nope, no problem with it whatsoever.
This commercial is a bit racier. In fact, they had to change the name of the female character when it aired during American Idol. Check it out. http://shrinkify.com/q5m
Have an awesome day!
-E
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OMG, that one’s hilarious E! Everyone go watch it – it’s a link to a Minute Maid commercial on YouTube.
I have no sound or ability to play video on my dinosaur of a computer, but based on what you’ve written I’d say that’s a bit much, unless it was an advertisement on Cinemax or some place where you’d expect it.
What is wrong with me that I can’t go out and buy some speakers and hook them up? Or get a new computer?
CBW, if I have time later I will post the transcript. It’s racy! To be clear, I’m not offended by it personally, but I kinda can’t believe it got through the filters. It’s way more over the top than any fleeting F-bomb that might sneak through.
Hmmm, I didn’t think it was bad at all. The innuendo will be lost on kids but was pretty funny to me. The funniest part was those first few seconds when Scott says, “Uh uh, that burned” and looks down at …. I also liked where the oven told him to “say it sexy.” :-)
The Minute Maid commercial is hilarious! So I can’t see shrinkify.com links (stupid work filters), I did a search on YouTube and found two of them with slightly different endings. They both were good but the one with the “Sister Mary Catherine” ending was my favorite (http://tinyurl.com/MinuteMaidBoost-1 — yes, they let thru tinyurl.com, corporate IT rules are always crazy).
Oh yeah, the beginning, the end, the whole thing is funny! The innuendo will be lost on your wee tots, maybe, but not my teen/tween.
Thanks for the extra link to that commercial – too funny!
OMG…this is B-A-D!!
Just another commercial that will make me uncomfortable, while watching sports with my kids! Heck…it’s gotten so that they no longer snicker about Viagra or “male enhancement” commercials. They have been de-sensitized ( excuse the pun).
Although, I must say I am so glad to have the holidays over…that male enhancement commerical about the “chubby Santa”, had them rolling on the floor. All of three of them “got” that one…..
OOOOFF **slapping forehead**
Totally homoerotic!
I KNOW, RIGHT???
The Minute Maid one is clevah!
That’s the part I find a bit unsettling. Maybe if the oven was female. I am all for hetero-erotic… so I apologize for my blatant double standard. Yet I know there’s a Quizno’s at the end of the block and now I’m thinking about their damn four-dollar sandwich.
Yeah, I agree, a female voice would have resonated better with me as well — but then it might have been more blatant and less innuendo? The male voice made it a little less certain what was being implied (at least for 90% of the population).
I thought the sandwich idea sounded great, myself — $4 for a footlong toasted skinny sandwich. They used to be a 10-minute walk from our house, but that location went out of business….
Oh Jack, it was barly innuendo with the male-male thing, I thought. Meaning, to me it was pretty obvious what the subtext was. I guess you’ll have to find another Quizno’s where the guy can put it into the oven!!!!
As long as they “make it sexy”, I’m there!
Even I was taken aback. And it takes a lot;)