It seems that lovable fata*s-turned-skinny-white-guy Jared isn't cutting it anymore. He's tired, played out. Sooo 2006, as it were.
Without Jared, how is Subway supposed to sell sandwiches? By playing on people's deep seated fear of all things geeky, digital, and holy, of course!
The above commercial depicts some 7-year-old gamer as a lazy, compulsive eater playing some Pac-Man knockoff called Snakka, the point of which seems to be to eat as much junk food as possible. The character dies by getting stuck in an opening while trying to eat the bonus sundaes.
Cue the dialogue: "What kind of eating habits are your kids learning?" Real subtle, Subway. Not only does the commercial buy into the fat, lonely white guy gamer stereotype, but implies that children could somehow base their diet on a video game. I remember finding whole chickens in Wolfenstein, and I can assure you that if I ever find poultry laying around a dirty jail cell, I'd be on it like Anna Nicole on TrimSpa. Or not.
The one redeeming quality of the commerical is the clever use of Dantean imagery. Check it: just as the player makes that final push towards gluttony, he gets caught in the whole. He is physically and metaphorically weighed down by his gluttony, just like the Gluttons in the Third Circle of Dante's Inferno. That one's for you, Linde.
So, clever marketing ploy that soccer moms will get into, or cruel exploitation of little gamers with kinky afros?
And just like Bluexy.. if I wasn't busy scarfing down this snicker bar and this whole bag of Cheeto's I'd have something meaningful to say.
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Basically, they don't exercise (no, Wii Bowling does NOT count) and they eat shit food.
Just for the record though, Summa should kill Jared with a tire iron and steal his fucking gig as Head Sammich Ho.
Owt!
Actually, the kid in the commercial looks like he’s Hispanic.
because of mario, i digested mushrooms.
Same here. Started enjoying mushrooms.
Also, Quizno's.
So true. I'm fairly thin, and my friend and his roommate are skinny as hell and fairly hefty, respectively.
(commerical was funded by J.T.)
Its kind of hypocritical though because even subway can be bad for you. If you ordered a foot long sub with double meat, and double cheese and extra regular mayo then gave it to your kid to eat it would be just as bad as feeding them McDonalds or Burger King or other fast food. Subway CAN be healthy for you if you order your food sensibly and they do offer you many choices to help you do that but it all comes down to what you order. And I have noticed that subway is promoting the double meat and cheese options lately..
But seriously, Instead, keep watching TV until you lose all individual thought and are brainwashed to watch more TV and eat more Subway.
http://www.subway.com
What is that ugly thing? Freakin text filled, scrolling, uncolor cordnated, cluttered, worthless site. Okay, that is that.