Every fat man has a thin man inside waiting to feed you noodles
You know, we always talk about how fat girls are objectified in the media, but we tend to forget about every beer commercial featuring the fat friend who is also the loser friend or how the easiest way for a filmmaker to show that the protagonist’s best friend is true to the end and also will not be a serious rival for any potential love interests? Make him a chunky guy. Case in point: Hurley on Lost. We know that Hurley is honest and loyal and we totally believe that every guy on the island trusts him implicitly. Why? Because he’s fat, that’s why. He can hide nothing, because he’s already wearing his weakness on the outside.
But what they don’t realize is that every fat man has a secret. And that secret?
I can’t WAIT to see what you’re going to say in the comments about this.
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Well, it (the commercial) kinda bugged me at first… but then there’s that whole “i don’t speak thai, so i have no idea what’s actually being said” thing. I’m real hesitant to pass judgment on something from a culture i am not familiar with, and in a language i don’t know.
I imagine if it aired here and they were talking about the Magic Noodoos of Weight Loss (guaranteed to solve all woes, pay off your debts, find your long lost love, water your garden and do the dishes for you – at the low, low cost of your mortal soul)… then i might get ticked about it.
But as it stands, it falls merely into the “um, quoi?” category.
I hope those are whole-grain noodles :)
Too bad this is pretty much like every single diet aid/weight loss pill ad in America right now, with fat unhappy folk jiggling around all over the place until a magic metabolic pill unlocks the real them, freeing them from their prison of fat.
What’s really interesting is that this is a food ad and not a weight loss ad.
I think what’s distressing to me is that the man seems bashful and unsure while the girl seems happy with who he is…then he gives her the “key to his heart” which opens him to being a skinny guy who acts way to smarmy!
But, I don’t understand Thai either….
I would love to come up with an set of “alternate” English subtitles for that commercial…
GIRL (upon seeing newly skinny GUY): Wait! But what about your Sumo wrestling career?
GUY: Screw that. I’m shallow! And now it’s your turn to be fat! Eat these noodles! Eat them!
GIRL: Wow, you’re a dick, but these noodles sure are good!
Did anyone else think the first guy was hotter than the second (interior) guy!
That commercial was just too ridiculous to be offensive.
When I saw it I just couldn’t help but laughing!! hehe
I’d like to see what a male has to say about it, though!
haha that was funny wendy! now its your turn to be fat, eat them!
I have to agree with leebee, that commercial was too funny, I couldn’t stop laughing.
You know who I think is a chunky guy but also is extremely sexy, phillip seymour hoffman..
She started off with a guy, she ends up with a guy AND some noodles, RESULT!
I’m far from offended, but have you read the label on those noodle bowl things? It’s insane! I actually appreciated the commercial, it could have been selling anything. But then I didn’t associate the product with weight loss either. Hm…oh well!~
Phillip seymour hoffman is not what I would call “chunky.” He is, however, what I would call “sexy.”
Keyholes! Another one of our wacky diseases for the fat-haters to add to their list! Get fat, and you automatically grow… keyholes in your back! AMAZING!
Any information on your sources though?