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So here’s the inevitable American spoof of McDonald’s gay French ad. And I’ve gotta say: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wins in creativity.

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By: John Rogers
On: Jun 7, 2010
Tagged: Advertising, Food, lols, McDonald's, spoofs

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No. 1 · Aaron
Funny :)

Jun 7, 2010 at 12:40 pm · @Reply ·
No. 2 · Ian
This isn’t parody, it’s actually quite homophobic and insulting to gays in general. It’s simply so sad that France can air such a mature version of the commercial, but here in America we have to have a “screaming queen” type. HOW is that funny??? It’s no different than the racially insulting “Amos & Andy” who tried to show through ‘humor’ that blacks were simply simpletons. This ‘parody’ is just as insulting based on gross stereotypes.

Jun 7, 2010 at 12:54 pm · @Reply ·
No. 3 · Scott
@Ian:

You do realize that often, the point of parody is to play up the stereotype? Otherwise it wouldn’t be a parody. Also, this isn’t the “American” version of the McDonald’s ad because it’s not from McDonald’s. It was obviously made by a few guys who had a camera, wrote a minute long sketch and had about 2 hours to kill on a weekend to shoot and edit this whole thing.

Jun 7, 2010 at 1:22 pm · @Reply ·
No. 4 · Anyway
Damn, that was stupid.

Jun 7, 2010 at 1:25 pm · @Reply ·
No. 5 · dellisonly
@Ian: Lighten up sweetie

Jun 7, 2010 at 1:39 pm · @Reply ·
No. 6 · Fitz
I agree with Ian. It’s pretty fagophobic.

Jun 7, 2010 at 1:47 pm · @Reply ·
No. 7 · Ben
Okrrr!
Is that something the gays are doing now?
This was pretty cute. Thanks for posting this!

Jun 7, 2010 at 1:48 pm · @Reply ·
No. 8 · fagburn
There’s a better gay spoof here…

Jun 7, 2010 at 1:49 pm · @Reply ·
No. 9 · pickles
The point of the US parody was that parents (fathers) are often clueless to what is literally in front of their face and make assumptions about their kids that have nothing to do with what and who their kid actually is.

That was part of the point of the French add as well.

This kid is so gay you’d have to be blind and deaf not to notice and still the father’s just waxing on about HIS life and HIS adolescence.

It’s great.

It’s not just that gays are welcome (come as you are) it’s also “Hey parents, your kid might be gay, don’t assume they aren’t, listen when your kid speaks, pay attention.”

The parody is adorable and funny. Great job.

Jun 7, 2010 at 1:52 pm · @Reply ·
No. 10 · Aaron
@pickles: Here, here :)

Jun 7, 2010 at 2:00 pm · @Reply ·
No. 11 · Qjersey
Call it what you want. I know at least 3 “twinky-somethings” that act JUST LIKE THAT. Including the OKrrr.

Jun 7, 2010 at 2:37 pm · @Reply ·
No. 12 · Adrian
HA, this one was good. I also really enjoyed the one Fagburn recommended :-)

Jun 7, 2010 at 2:38 pm · @Reply ·
No. 13 · Lefty
I don’t get that one posted by Fagburn, lol.
I thought McDonald’s has always served gays :/

Jun 7, 2010 at 3:00 pm · @Reply ·
No. 14 · hyhybt
Why does this make me think of a line from Designing Women: “If sex were fast food, there’d be an arch over your bed”?

Jun 7, 2010 at 7:33 pm · @Reply ·
No. 15 · umm
does anyone else think the dad is skeevy-hot?

Jun 9, 2010 at 2:58 am · @Reply ·