Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A Terrible Commercial

Have you seen this commercial with the twins having a barbecue in a TV studio? If not, here it is.



Does anyone know why this commercial was created? What is the appeal? What made them decide to air this commercial over, say, dead air for 30 seconds?

Who cares if these two fellows are twins? While we're at it, are they actually twins? I kept wondering, if they're twins, why don't they look more alike? Then I wondered if perhaps they used some tricky digital hooha to make the same guy appear as both brothers. Then I thought, why would you bother with all that when you could actually hire real twins? Lalawood is crawling with "acting" twins. With the money they'd save on the digital effects they could have afforded to shoot outside instead of in front of the cyclorama in front of the cyclorama in the studio of Kansas City's FOX affiliate. And what gives with him calling it "incinerating?" He hasn't lit it yet. What makes pouring lighter fluid on charcoal incinerating? Then I thought, if I'm thinking about all this, I am certainly NOT thinking about Boston Market's barbecue menu.

Doesn anyone have any idea what it all means?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

So if you are not actually twins, but one guy PLAYING two guys, do you get paid double for two roles? Just a little AFTRA question.