OK, so a couple of weeks ago, I gave you Brad Pitt’s quote where he was sniffing at commercials that air during children’s cartoons:
“The kids don’t ask for big gifts for the reason that they don’t see a lot of the American cartoon television, which is packed with all those manipulative commercials for big toys that look so fantastic.”
But then Seriously? OMG! WTF! went and made my day by digging up this freaking awesome Pringles ad from the early ’90s that — with all the surf boards and roller blades and boomboxes — is definitely aimed at getting youths to buy more chips in a can. Recognize those pectorals? If you’ve seen Fight Club, you should.
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He din’t have kids back them.
No he didn’t. but why do commercials if you are against the concept. He and Jolie have both been in Japaneese commericals within the past 2 years and they did have kids then.
I see the point being made, but seriously, if he were a porn star, we’d all be creeped out and calling the authorities if he were showing his kids his movies. I look at it that way. They are making a living. If they owned a brewery it wouldn’t mean that getting the kids drunk was okay with them, right?
This is almost too easy, Holly – if I had a dollar for every time a celebrity decried the excesses of consumerism from their private plane or while shifting the Maserati into third, I’d be a very rich MC Mom.
Mr. Pitt may indeed be correct that his kids “don’t ask for big gifts” but I’m willing to bet that there was more under the Jolie-Pitt Christmas tree than, you know, hand-knit sweaters from Salvadoran peasants and thank-you letters from charity organizations.
What a dork! I don’t care how rich, and famous he became. He deserves all the ridicule he can get for that. Dork. That’s a funny word isn’t it?
Dork is a funny word:
Origination as whalers’ occupational slang for the penis of a whale (oosik), and by transfer became an anatomical insult.
It’s appropriate for Brad Pitt. He is also a douche. It would be a better world if he and Angie Jo just holed up in their gazillion dollar French Chateau and dropped out of public site. You know how she’s going to quit the rat race so she can raise her children? I hope that doesn’t interfere with the next two movies she is filming.
Right on, McMom!!
and from Michael Chriton, on the subject of celebrity hypocrisy, for your reading pleasure: http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/TranscriptContainer/GlobalWarming-edited version 031407.pdf
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“I would like to suggest a few symbolic actions that right—might really mean something. One of them, which is very simple, 99% of the American population doesn’t care, is ban private jets. Nobody needs to fly in them, ban them now. And, and in addition, [APPLAUSE] “Let’s have the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), the Sierra Club and Greenpeace make it a rule that all of their members, cannot fly on private jets. They must get their houses off the [electrical] grid. They must live in the way that they’re telling everyone else to live. And if they won’t do that, why should we? And why should we take them seriously? [APPLAUSE]”
“I suddenly think about my friends, you know, getting on their private jets. And I think, well, you know, maybe they have the right idea. Maybe all that we have to do is mouth a few platitudes, show a good, expression of concern on our faces, buy a Prius, drive it around for a while and give it to the maid, attend a few fundraisers and you’re done. Because, actually, all anybody really wants to do is talk about it.”
“I mean, haven’t we actually raised temperatures so much that we, as stewards of the planet, have to act? These are the questions that friends of mine ask as they are getting on board their private jets to fly to their second and third homes. [LAUGHTER]”
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“You’re a real whale penis!”
Nope it’s just not the same.
Basically he wasn’t rich back then and now he is. Do as I say not as I do or used to do has been the Mantra of all the rich and famous.
“The kids don’t ask for big gifts…”
Big is a relative term.
A child-scale Porsche or a diamond studded yo-yo aren’t really extravagant when viewed as a percentage of Brad’s income.
Big to him would be the kid asking for a yacht.
Funny, you don’t see many schooners advertized on Nickelodeon.
I repeat the story about the Jolie-Pitt daughter–the one adopted from Ethiopia–carting around an expensive designer purse that matched her Mommy’s. Cartoon Network doesn’t advertise it bags either.
Hollyweirdo champagne socialists say “Commercialism is bad unless I participate in it!”
The reason that the kids don’t ask for big gifts is because they are given big gifts. I have stated this before so excuse me for being a broken record – http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/09/07/angelina-zahara-matching-bags/comment-page-4/ shows Ang with Zahara, sporting matching Valentino handbags. Yeah, maybe the store gave Z the mini bag because she is Angelina Jolie’s kid. Great, fine, whatever. It’s amazing what kids won’t ask for when most things are given to them.
^^Right…every day is Christmas for the Brangelina Bunch.