Monday, September 14, 2009

MTV Video Music Awards

So yesterday, I was forced to watch the MTV video music awards with my girlfriend. During the nonsense, I began noticing the commercials. Not only did they have nothing to do with music, television, or music videos, they were marketing fast food to the American youth. The one that stuck in my mind because it played every commercial break was the Taco Bell commercial.

In this commercial we have Evander Holyfield at the counter of a Taco Bell, and he orders some new crap challupa super shell crap, but he orders TWO of them! To which the astonished Taco Bell cashier says "but Mr. Holyfield one of these challupatacosupremes is enough for even a man of YOUR size!" This is when Holyfield steps to the side and informs the cashier that Mama Holyfield (who is Holyfield in a gray wig and a dress) needs one too, and they are not both for him.

The first time it was funny, however after the 3rd and 4th times it quickly got old. The media is selling junk food to youth utilizing false advertisement that Holyfield, a professional boxer, would ever eat there. Also, however comedic it was intended to be, they make it seem as though Taco Bell is a good place to take your mother for lunch.

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