It's from Lifetime TV and it's got a real cute premise. The show is titled "Gay, Straight or Taken" and yes, a hetero female has to choose a possible future love connection from three guys which are, ahem, either gay, straight, or taken.
Some notes on the Superbowl 2007 commercials....funny, funny notes.
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Superbowl 2007 Commercials
Well it's time for the Oscars and I'm just posting about this past year's bevy of Superbowl Commercials. In fact, CBS has a site devoted to the Superbowl commercials, CBS SUPERBOWL COMMERCIALS Web Site.
The only reason I am really bothering is I really loved the Snickers' commercial and to my dismay I discovered that Snickers pulled the ad.
First, my favorite commercial this year was the Blockbuster "mouse", heh, which was a REAL mouse used to run a computer.
Well maybe you hadda be there...Anyway, the Snickers commercial featured two car mechanics feasting on a snickers bar. I'm not sure how it came about but these two manly fellows ending up munching away contentedly on one snickers bar, each chewing happily on an end. At some point their mouths meet and they realize their faux-pas.
So these manly men, having consumed the entire candy bar until their manly mouths met, decide to do something "manly". At which point they tear out their chest hair, screaming at the brutal pain.
Aw, come on folks. This commercial was beyond funny. Only the homosexual males amongst us got all offended and hey, I'll concur. The commercial probably was offensive to homosexuals and perhaps the company was right in pulling it. Well I don't think so but homosexuals eat candy bars too.
Still, the commercial played up to STEREOTYPES, folks, and in its own way it made great fun of homophobia, or stupid hetero men who fear that THEY may be homosexuals. Ah, but maybe yon average snickers eaters wouldn't get the nuance like The Wise I managed to catch the smirk as intended.
Let this Blog reflect the history of the snickers bar commercial which got pulled that Kaitlyn Mae will someday know that it DID happen.
Heh.
TV REVIEW-Lifetime TV's "Gay, Straight or Taken":
I was immediately taken by the premise of Lifetime TV's latest offering of a straight woman charged with properly picking an available fellow from a trio of offerings in which one guy is "taken", another is "gay" and one, finally, is available. If the lady chooses the straight fellow, well I guess she goes on a date and lives happily every after.
Actually, it's not clear what happens when and if the girl chooses the fellow who is available but I do know the viewing audience can win money. I'm not sure how the viewing audience can win money except perhaps to vote on Lifetime's web site with THEIR instinct on who's straight, gay and available.
Here is Lifetime's Site for this show; check it out yourself and maybe join in.
I only watched one show in this series and it was interesting. My intrigue was cultivated as soon as the hype hit the airwaves. For I once got myself all involved with a fellow who was a homosexual and I didn't have a single clue. It was a long, long time ago and there was no great history made besides a bit of embarrassment on my part. I was interested in seeing how another heterosexual lady handled identifying the taken, the gay and the available.
It turned out that Stephanie, the hetero female featured on the night I watched was about as dumb as me. Although I didn't get a single one of her choices classified correctly while she got two right. I completely agreed with Stephanie with her choice of which of her three choices was gay and I agreed with her logic as well. We were both dead wrong.
The male contenders were:
...Damien, 30-artist
....Zach, 28, fitness model
...Ryan, 23, waiter/model
The ages of the fellows is fairly consistant with Stephanie falling somewhere between all of the ages offered. As for the jobs of the fellows trying to either win or fool Stephanie, their careers are similar enough to be essentially worthless in identifying who is gay, much less taken or available.
To help her find her man, the female contender can assign a task or participate in an activity with each of her fellows. Stephanie had Ryan dress her up, Damien attended a wine tasting with her and Zach was supposed to do some sort of flower arrangement. Zach did do something weird in that he had Stephanie lie down and he strew flowers over her body.
The female contender can also snoop through her male co-contenders' vehicles. She found that Zach drove a BMW and there was a Mariah Carey CD in the player. Damien had a pair of designer sunglasses in his car and she found a membership to Gold's gym in Ryan's car.
Based on this, Stephanie guessed that Ryan was gay because, as she said, every guy she's ever known to be a member of Gold's gym was gay. This has been my experience too. Stephanie did guess that Zach was taken as she could not imagine a single and available guy having a Mariah Carey CD in his car. By the process of elimination, Stephanie arrived at Damien being her fellow, or the one who was available.
Well it turned out that Damien was gay, hey we got to meet Damien's boyfriend. Zach was taken, goodness he was married and yes his wife did own that Mariah Carey CD. Young Ryan would have been Stephanie's love but Stephanie guess him to be gay and, allegedly, he is not.
I say "allegedly" as I still think Ryan's gay even if he says he's not. That Gold's Gym membership is a dead giveaway. It's my story and I'm sticking to it.
This was an enjoyable 1/2 hour show and with a little more hype could go far. As I understand Lifetime offers two new shows every Monday.
I'd recommend it.
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