Picture this: A mom and her small daughter are playing in the snow. They are laughing and throwing snowballs and having a fantastic time. The mom stops for a moment to stand next to the snowman they have built, and the daughter, who is all of five years old, says “look mommy, you’re twins!” The wah-wah music of doom starts up, and suddenly the mom realizes “ZOMG! I was so busy enjoying my life that I forgot to hate myself and I caught TEH FATZ and now I look like a snowman! I am sure that’s what my tiny daughter meant and the resemblance she observed has nothing to do with the long puffy coat and red scarf and hat I am wearing jus like the snowman’s!”
So OF COURSE, the HEALTHY thing to do is eat lots of overprocessed food for the next two weeks! Don’t worry, if you get too hungry, you can drink some water with artificial flavor and processed protein powder for a snack!
This message brought to you today by Special K, proud sponsor of eating disorders everywhere.
I’ve noticed that Wal-Mart is carrying the whole line of Special K diet products now (along with the whole SlimFast line) and they are prominently featured on end-caps with those awful video screens that turn on with the frakking commercials when you walk by them. It’s not bad enough that we’re bombarded with this crap on TV/billboards and in magazines, now they have to add it to stores where we shop. I swear, from now on, I’ll be taking my CD player and headphones with me so I don’t have to listen to their commercials.
Oh man I hate the Special K ads we have here too – they’re a summer version though.
Basically tkae the 2 Week Challenge (eat Special K for breakfast every day for 2 weeks) and you will have lost enough weight to cut your one-piece bathers up into a bikini…
I’m sorry, what?!
haha, yeah I love how the woman is only a size 4, 6 tops….guess she needs to fit back into her size 0 clothes. You know I wonder what these actresses think who are in these diet ads and are like a size 4, they are probably just happy to get a job but still….. in fact, I wonder what any human being at any size thinks of themselves when they are in these diet ads a la lap band lady who can’t go to Paris unless she loses 150 pounds since apparently the Eiffel Tower security discrimates against “fatties”
I especially, especially despise this commercial because it takes something sweet (as sweet as a commercial can be, I guess) and turns it into a slap in the face.
Having fun with your daughter? Fuck that, you fat cow!
It’s such a deliberate dig–you’re never safe. You always have to worry.
“Having fun with your daughter? Fuck that, you fat cow!”
That made me laugh and become sad all at the same time.
You are awesome! That is that.
Having fun with your daughter? Fuck that, you fat cow!
THIS. I saw the same commercial at my in-laws’ over the holidays, and I nearly shouted at the television.
Be conventionally beautiful, thin, energetic (and of course, a mom) and you still don’t get to feel good about yourself, because your daughter (!) could mistake you for a snowman, and we all know how FAT snowmen are.
UGH. I have no words. At least no more that aren’t mindless cursing.
oh no, it’s a series! so far i’ve only seen the one where the women is bending over NEAR THE FIREPLACE in a robe that looks IDENTICAL TO A SANTA SUIT, and the little girl is like “Santa!”
well, no shit.
if you wear a santa suit–no matter what size you are–you will resemble santa to small children. heck, if i wear a tie or striped t-shirt to they daycare i work at the kids think i look like a member of Greenday.
Special K’s marketing department are maybe the most irritating people on the planet. I thought nothing could be more patronizing than those stupid commercials with the woman in the wrap dress who never eats anything other than a bowl of special k and is then praised in the office by her “fabulous!” officemates, but clearly they’ve sunk to new idiotic lows.
Ah…..Special K. Loaded with High Fructose Corn Syrup, and now with mercury! That is special, indeed.
That commercial, and all of their advertising is so annoying! Whoever does their marketing should be canned! Imagine, wearing a huge puffy coat and not looking big!? So stupid. They always show normal looking, and even thin women, NEEDING to lose weight! I hate their advertising!!!!!!!!!! What a great way to tell women and girls that they are fat when they’re not. Who the hell approves this marketing campaign must be so ridiculously ignorant!