Comments on: Video: The banned Blue Jays ad

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By: smellthecoffee

smellthecoffee — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:35:22 +0000

I grew up in a world where there were pillow-fights. I’m scarred for life by this video.

By: Highrise

Highrise — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:54:40 +0000

That ad was Hilarious. The TV has no problem showing drug commercial after drug commercial..esp viagra ones..and they yank this one?

I was playing it and my 2 yr old was watching it and she started to laugh and said *again*. lol.

By: Texyank

Texyank — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:39:10 +0000

That was a funny commercial. . .
And those kids had a blast.

The PC police can screw-up anything , and just stroll on
over to the next aisle to do it again.

By: Buckleyite

Buckleyite — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:16:26 +0000

I’m surprised that they still permit sports up there in the Great White Waste of Time; in competition, there are inevitable winners and losers, and the latter may tragically experience sadness or injury to self-esteem. Has anyone watched a Blue Jays game lately? Do they still keep score?

By: Hening

Hening — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:05:54 +0000

Last thing we need is a Black dad and his sons having fun together. Could mean lots of seats in the next election.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:46:34 +0000

I teach middle school, that was the stuff teacher fantasies are made of.

By: 52Ranger

52Ranger — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:19:42 +0000

Look close, private regulatory people . . . The kid didn’t get hit hard enough to go anywhere, and Frank Thomas had a grin on that told me he was about to crack up on camera.

The kid made it look pretty good. Not a bad backfall for someone that age.

By: SnakeintheGrass

SnakeintheGrass — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:47:08 +0000

That was great. I laughed so hard I scared my dog!

It should be two lesbian moms pillow fighting…

Nethicus on April 10, 2007 at 10:18 AM

Greatest commercial of all time.

By: Wander

Wander — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:21:05 +0000

A riot!

If you can’t tell that it’s acting, you should not be allowed to stay up after 9 PM.

Psssst — Television is MAKE BELIEVE!

By: kevcad

kevcad — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:49:51 +0000

What’s the matter? The little punk-assed runt got back up, didn’t he?

As the late Chick Hearn would say, “No harm, no foul, no ambulance”.

By: zenstudent57

zenstudent57 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:49:31 +0000

And here I was thinking, “Hey, look! A father figure!” Maybe it’s that implication that was offensive…

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By: ReubenJCogburn

ReubenJCogburn — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:47:22 +0000

They talked about that ad getting banned last week on RedEye. I think the ad’s hilarious. The Thought Police obviously need to get down out of their ivory tower more often and encounter some real people. Have these PC nitwits never heard of slapstick, or do they just have no sense of humor at all?

By: drjohn

drjohn — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:40:54 +0000

Figures.

I thought it was pretty funny. :-)

By: csdeven

csdeven — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:31:03 +0000

What is the fear here? Are adults who see Frank as a role model are going to start hitting their kids with pillows?

The loons are in charge of the nut house in canada.

By: Neo

Neo — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:55:40 +0000

The ad obviously reinforces the stereotype that black men are hot headed and resort to physical violence to settle disputes.

It is also unrealistic in that 75-80% of black children are born to unwed mothers with no adult male present at all. It should have been the child’s grandmother smacking the child, duh.

By: doginblack

doginblack — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:15:31 +0000

PC is the end of freedom

By: taznar

taznar — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:10:29 +0000

Having an athlete (shocked and aghast!), a male athlete, roughhousing with his children is…

Next thing you know they’ll be getting upset about little boys playing with little plastic soldiers…

By: Josephine

Josephine — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:01:31 +0000

I’ve seen some of the other ads and they all have the same theme. Out of nowhere, a man does something, but he totally overdoes it and then it turns out he’s a baseball player. I think the ads are funny (I usually hate ads and almost always mute them).

The first time I saw the one in which a man at a wedding suddenly leaps forward, catches a bridal bouquet and throws it — hard — at a bride, I was shocked (the bride didn’t look happy about being hit) until I saw the tagline and got the joke.

This one with the kids is the same. It’s shocking until the kid gets up and says “Wow” and then you would read the tagline, “So-and-so, pitcher/whatever, Toronto Blue Jays”. Then, the next time you see it, you’re primed and can fully appreciate the joke.

I wonder if it was pulled because it’s a black man hitting a kid. Did they worry that black people would complain? (It’s a white man who hits a white bride with her bouquet; did they deem that to be less politically sensitive?)

Unless there’s a private regulatory body for “is it funny or is it ain’t”.

By: amerpundit

amerpundit — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:56:05 +0000

JetBoy

Thinking the same thing.

I saw nothing wrong with the ad (other than the banister). It’s funny, and doesn’t hurt anyone.

By: Bill C

Bill C — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:53:35 +0000

Good to know Big Frank still has it. BTW, if he was really swinging for the fences that kid would have been embedded in the wall.

By: asc85

asc85 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:38:43 +0000

Ridiculous.

Much ado over nothing.

I guess the private regulatory body that banned this has to justify their existence in some way.

By: Lonevoice

Lonevoice — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:37:57 +0000

OK, that ad was FUNNY!

“Private Regulatory body?

Sheesh!

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:36:03 +0000

That bannister doesn’t look too sturdy…

I agree. You’d think he could afford a well constructed house :P

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:35:24 +0000

I have the strangest desire to pummel a kid into oblivion now.