New gay McDonalds commercial from France

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 9:10pm

Translation:

BOY: "Hello. Yeah, I was thinking of you, too - I'm looking at our class picture. I miss you. Have to go, my father's here. Love you."

FATHER: "Is that your class picture? I looked just like you when I was your age. The girls were all over me! Too bad there are only boys in your class, you could be a big success!"

ON SCREEN: Come as you are.
Papa, I have something to tell you...

[binau]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 9:15pm

This is just adorable. "awwww"

Updated On: 5/25/10 at 09:15 PM

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 9:20pm

I envision a gay themed McDonalds ad with a bunch of bears walking through the door after their weekly bowling league game. Maybe one of them is feeding his boyfriend french fries while another takes a huge bite into a Big Mac.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 9:28pm

That was pretty cool. That French kid is all kinds of cute.

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:24pm

Why would he bring his class picture to Mcdonalds?

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:30pm

I love France.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:44pm

Yay France.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:50pm

Yay McDonald's!

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:59pm

Aww. And I agree. That french kid is adorable.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 12:03am

"Why would he bring his class picture to Mcdonalds?"

My first thought is that they were just handed out at school.

So sad that American advertisers couldn't come up with something this good.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 1:37am

This thread is racist.


But cute!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/26/10 at 5:44am

I only skimmed over the translation before viewing and missed the part about the SCHOOL photo.

I was pleasantly suprised to find such a young man. (and I don't mean that in an inappropriate way)

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 2:47am

And so begin the spoofs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdB1jN8LCQ

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 2:53am

Well that was just f*cking horrible. Way to sh*t all over a cute commercial by making it stereotypical. Good job AKB.
Updated On: 6/6/10 at 02:53 AM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 3:00am

And not even slightly funny...

[binau]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 8:25am

I LOL'd.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 9:54am

Why would he bring his class picture to Mcdonalds?

I assumed his boyfriend is in his class at school.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 10:54am

That kid in the French commercial is absolutely adorable.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 11:26am

I loved the original commercial. Very sweet.

I didn't read any of the comments regarding the parody, but I'm not entirely convinced that it's meant to as homophobic as it seems. I got that it was more making fun of the father's ignorance and inability to accept/acknowledge the obvious.

The stereotype was over the top to be sure though.

I wonder if Alice Ripley helped to write it?

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 11:58am

I don't mean to be the lone dissenter, but I don't love the commercial and it doesn't make me warm. The poor kid clearly has an ignorant dad. I think it would be a progressive commercial if dad looked like a lug but turned out to be accepting of his son.

The commercial made me sad because the kid has to hide himself to his dad, which refutes the "Come As You Are" message, because the kid isn't doing that.

Also, you have to excuse me, but I'm a therapist and I over-analyze things. There seems to be a correlation between love=food, so if your dad won't accept you, come have a Big Mac. That's just sad and unhealthy. It's a total fail in my opinion.

It's like when people hail a TV show for merely having a gay character or a person of color character, but that character is never shown in a three dimensional way. It's the same as not having a character at all.

Plus part of me can't help but think they are trying to get gays in the hospitality industry to come work there.

Sorry to rain on the parade.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 12:06pm

I agree with taz, in that it was meant to say how oblivious the dad is. I LOL'd too.

Updated On: 6/6/10 at 12:06 PM

[CateBroadway]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 3:29pm

"Way to sh*t all over a cute commercial by making it stereotypical."

Right, hence the fact that this is a parody. If he played it straight it would just be the original commercial. Ditto that it's making fun of those dads who refuse to see what's right in front of their face.

I also feel like that dad was a little creepily into his son getting all the women he wants. Not sure if that was the point but...

Made me laugh :)

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/6/10 at 4:12pm

AKB and Jake Wilson have always been way too obsessed with their perceived cleverness.

[binau]

Posted: 6/7/10 at 5:33pm

Bettyboy72, I agree you DO overanalyse things way too much.

I think the ad is kind of 'heartbreaking' in that his Dad doesn't know, but I think to perceive the ad as a gay-recruitment advertisement is completely ridiculous.