Update: The confusion in the comments brought to my attention that I embedded the wrong commercial. See! I’m not crazy! Just incompetent.
Enjoy the corrected post:
At least that’s the message I’m taking from this Utah Tourism advertisement featuring anthropomorphized snowflakes (found here):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78RZ-UgIMrM[/youtube]
Comments 14
dg — November 11, 2008
not sure i follow. care to elaborate?
Eoin — November 11, 2008
I am not sure what you mean? What I get from this is that men invariably overestimate how much fun they can have at parties.
David — November 11, 2008
So if you see two guys in a club asking where the women are, they are gay? You disappoint me Lisa.
Abby — November 11, 2008
Jeez, David, isn't that a bit harsh? Maybe Lisa was making a snarky joke that you didn't get.
Gwen Sharp, PhD — November 11, 2008
I think Lisa was reading it as the guys being uncomfortable with (or afraid of) women--that is, pretending to be interested in them, but really not.
I read it as men not actually being able to get girls to talk to them, but that's just me.
David — November 11, 2008
Maybe...
Dara — November 11, 2008
I don't get that at all...I get that they're shy straight guys without the nerve to approach women, but happy to have so many around them anyway.
anon — November 11, 2008
I don't get this either. I think I share Dara's read.
yikes — November 11, 2008
Makes me have to paraphrase Cannibal: the Musical.
"I've only ever been to Salt Lake City, and the women there are so..."
"Mormon."
withoutscene — November 11, 2008
What I did notice is that it was two jolly fat (or at least chubby-faced) guys, initially made me feel like they were going for the awkward/"can't get women" angle. Maybe it was the techno and the rainbow lights that read gay on top of their awkwardness, I duno.
Watching it over again, what I do enjoy is the awkwardness and the outburst of dialogue...which pitted against the music does actually feel slightly reminiscent of the dialogue in the Planet Unicorn videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJD1ura7G4
Gwen — November 11, 2008
That makes a lot more sense now :)
Dubi — November 12, 2008
(which just goes to show that if you strain yourself enough, you can justify that criticism on pretty much *anything*, regardless of what it actually contains. sometimes, things are just what they are, not what your overzealous readings of them say they are).
yikes — November 12, 2008
It just seems that (in both commercials) they're trying to show that snowflakes are bumbling dorks. Which makes NO sense to me as a tourism draw, but doesn't seem to have a hidden agenda, either. I agree with Dubi's parenthetical comment above.
withoutscene — November 12, 2008
Well, I'm pretty sure commenters would not have "tried to see" the gay in that other commercial had there not been the comment about it.