The corny PETA veggie sex Super Bowl ad that will never be |
Just to tell you how out of touch I was with what is happening outside of working offline, I had to be reminded that this coming Sunday is the Super Bowl. Sacrilege! This morning, though, I’m cracking up over the PETA veggie sex ad (YouTube video) that didn’t make the cut. Thanks Mike Doe for the chuckles.
Asparagus, broccoli … sexy? LOL. They’ve got to be kidding. I’m not sure what’s more funny though, the use of odd-shaped vegetables (hey, what wrong with the old phallic standbys? Cucumbers, carrots, you know) as sexual innuendo OR the fact that YouTube flashes the Warning: Adult Content message before you can visit and watch said video on their site.
Seriously, trying to make an event where grown men violently knock the crap out of each other family wholesome fun is a bit twisted. I can see baseball being more wholesome but even that sport has bench clearing brawls and violent collisions at the plate.
Violence ok, sex not ok, is that it? Time to grow up, NFL. All of us got here because of the latter and most as a result of being squeezed through our mother’s you know what. Having witnessed this first hand several times I’d say it’s a beautifully violent event and men have the easy part by a long shot in the birthing process.
Of course having sex with vegetables isn’t going to lead to any baby carrots. I’m just thinking from a practicality sense of women having sex with a head of broccoli. That’s going to get very messy – in a non-sexual, turn-off way. Little crumply shards of broccoli everywhere, eww. The vision is not working for me. At all.
The PETA commercial as comedy is funny but them trying to shove home, pardon the pun, some poorly veiled message that meat is bad and unsexy while vegetables are good and sexy puts PETA even more fringe than I already thought they were.
Now ladies don’t forget the next time you are on the vegetable aisle that PETA is counting on you to get very horny when see that pristine head of cauliflower. Don’t let them down. And disappoint the NFL at will. Go Cards!
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I don’t want to get too far off-topic, but you’ve raised an excellent point…
“Violence ok, sex not ok, is that it?”
Why is it that parents who think nothing of allowing their too-young kids to play gratuitously violent videogames, recoil so fiercely over the very thought of your impressionable children seeing a steamy romance scene on TV or in a movie? Why is it acceptable for little kids to blow a (virtual) Nazi henchman’s spleen out with ultra-realistic weaponry but the very suggestion of a woman’s bare breast stops them dead in their tracks? There’s something terribly, terribly wrong with that.
Forced to make a choice, I’d prefer just the opposite. I’m more at ease with my son seeing a man and woman having an intimate moment, that to witness (much less participate in) the senseless and far-too-realistic carnage found in most FPS games.
I’m with ya on this - the NFL needs to grow up!
Comment by Rob O. — January 29, 2009 @ 11:42 am PST
yep some interesting questions raised, thanks for the food for thought
Comment by Luke Slomka — January 29, 2009 @ 1:16 pm PST
I think its not a bad commercial, I’d love to see it during the super bowl.
Comment by Alan — February 1, 2009 @ 12:53 pm PST
Urgs. I hate (eating) broccoli as well as asparagus. Why does PETA always screw up their advertising? I mean, this one is just strange, apart from that I can’t see any real problem with it. I just seriously doubt that anybody will become a veggie after seeing the spot. PETA has published some other ads that are really problematic.
Comment by Simon — February 1, 2009 @ 1:33 pm PST
“Violence ok, sex not ok, is that it?”
Your post makes em thing of that Larry Flint movie. Violence, war, killing seems to be legal whereas all which is related to sex which is a human things, which gives life, love and all is being prohibited. where is our society going!!!!!!
This ad was great, the way being veg looks cool is very fun. the girls were also great. Maybe if the ad had been more sweet and less explicit, it would have been accepted, what a shame,,,,,
Comment by Sascha Singels — February 2, 2009 @ 7:02 am PST
I hardly found it offensive and agree that the NFL needs to grow up.
Comment by jennifer — February 2, 2009 @ 10:45 am PST
Well…that actually did it for me. I found myself oddly aroused by the veggies.
Comment by Grog — February 2, 2009 @ 1:02 pm PST
Personally I liked the GoDaddy girls Superbowl ad better. Did you ever think that perhaps PETA wanted the controversy because conflict brings curiosity? People seem to be drawn to banned ads like a magnet.
Comment by David — February 10, 2009 @ 7:15 pm PST
During a Super Bowl Game where children may and probably are watching, I don’t know that it would be appropriate. Especially since the word sex is displayed in this commercial as well. The Super Bowl is typically a family affair. I don’t know that the topic of conversation from a 6 year old asking ” Mommy, what is sex with vegetables?” would be appropriate. I suppose for some they’d find this hysterically funny and entertaining. But, for my young children I find it a little over the top.
Comment by Joanne Rowe — March 19, 2009 @ 10:04 am PST
I agree that the use of word sex is not appropriate for this ad. PETA has used the word just as a marketing strategy. Still the veggies itself do not arouse but the lady’s movements with the veggies (with our imaginations) do arouse sensual pleasures. That’s why it has been banned!
Comment by Simon — October 4, 2009 @ 9:41 am PST