Check out this video parody from Yahoo Sketchy starring Retta (and some other people who don’t warrant as much mention as RETTA), which mocks television ads geared towards ladies, to hilarious effect:
(I don’t know how to turn off auto-play, so a “more tag” will have to suffice)
It could only be better if they also discussed tampons while twirling in a meadow wearing white pants.
[via AV Club]
[cross-posted at ABLC]
OmerosPeanut
It’s funny, but can it be switched to not autoplay?
catperson
Is there a way to turn off the fucking autoplay?
Kilen
Ugh, an auto-play video on the front page, not hidden under the lede? Not appreciated.
jeffreyw
Ack! Auto play! Kill! Kill it!
Anoniminous
I got to 19 seconds before the video tripped my Hurl Now lever.
Kyle
Hahaha Weird Al….
Mornington Crescent
Uh oh. An autoplay video when I’m at work. I guess I’ll have to return tomorrow.
Just Some Fuckhead
lolz
Loved the Weird Al cameo at the end.
Amir Khalid
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I was sad when Weird Al got the Lasik surgery and shaved his moustache. He doesn’t look like Weird Al anymore.
MobiusKlein
@Amir Khalid: Weird Al disagrees with you on that.
Funkula
“Now I’m regular on both my period, and my butt-period!”
monkeyfister
Do PLEASE kill the auto-play.
PLEASE!!!!!
Eli Rabett
Too many damn carbs.
? Martin
I think tampons goes with rollerblading in the park with your poodle. Twirling in a meadow is douche ads, and white pants are for maxipad ads.
Imani Gandy (ABL)
@monkeyfister: i wish i knew how! i tried.
? Martin
Ok, this is awesome:
Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t go any lower, they find a way. Celebrating civil rights and the the inauguration of the president by fucking over the voters! Dying in a fire is too good for these bastards.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
I’m going away now and I will never reload this page again. Frikkin’ autoplay.
MikeJ
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: Noscript.
Culture of Truth
I want to try the peach.
Eric U.
i have a solution to autoplay and walmart ads at work: no sound. I mute the sound at home too, who knows when one of those porn sites might pop up something embarrassing
? Martin
@Eric U.:
Isn’t the whole point of porn sites to pop up something embarrassing?
Joel
@? Martin: Fucking hell. Jesus.
Joe Buck
Reminds me of the best thing the old Current TV (pre-Olbermann), Sarah Haskins:
http://current.com/shows/infomania/88941392_sarah-haskins-in-target-women-yogurt-edition.htm
Napoleon
Seriously, on this day this is what you have to post?
Pinkamena Panic
@Napoleon: Shut your pie-inhaler. Nobody is forcing you to be here or read this post.
Another Halocene Human
@Napoleon:
Plonk.
Jay in Oregon
@Another Halocene Human:
Wow, that takes me back.
Warren Terra
This is wildly off topic, but I’m thinking ABL might enjoy it:Michelle Obama rolls her eyes as Boehner makes some cheesy joke to the President.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Napoleon: I posted this vid on FB with the intro, “Welcome to Obama’s America, already in progress.”
Bam!–instant relevance.
I’m also, too, all about keeping the sound off at work. One never knows what some Flash or pop-up ad is going to start screaming about when taking a surfing break.
YellowJournalism
@Warren Terra: That was funnier than the yogurt parody.
(Like the yogurt parody but thought it went on too long.)
priscianusjr
I like this commercial. It’s post-everything. Everything, do you hear me? Kind of how I feel. I don’t even know what autoplay is, BTW.
Groucho48
This seems like something a right wing site would post to mock those silly, politically correct females with their silly female concerns.
Why is it posted here?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
It’s not women being mocked, it’s modern marketing/advertising that’s the target.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Also, too, having to explain the joke to someone who’s handle appears to be a nod to one of the 20th century’s great purveyors of irreverent wit is a tad – – odd.
Groucho48
It would have been moderately funny if it had been 30-60 seconds long, I suppose. Did anyone actually watch and enjoy the whole 3 minutes of it? In that amount of time, my namesake would have gone through 2 skits and a couple dozen ad libs.
And, mocking companies for their appealing to liberal women by making those liberal women seem like upper-class twits seems a tad counter-productive.
I don’t know. Just seems weird to me.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
A bit long, I agree, brevity being the soul of wit, as some guy said. ;o )
To me the tell is one of the actresses saying something fluffy about the group and appending it with, “according to TV.”
What I like about our side is we can generally laugh at a few send-ups if any happen by (“Maude” is one of my fave ’70s telly series).
Groucho48
I don’t want to make more of my objection than it is. I’ve seen plenty of jokes on or about liberals that I enjoy. But, mocking women’s desire for easy access to birth control just seems off-putting.
Ecks
Studly is right, it’s not mocking the women at all. It’s hanging a lampshade on a marketing ploy by advertisers that transparently try to be hip and relevant by carefully casting their commercials with women of each race who proceed to have inane conversations about yoghurt and birth control. It’s not particularly subtle or its humor (the opposite really), but it mocks something that is moderately mockable… so hey.