New gay McDonalds commercial from France
New gay McDonalds commercial from France
TulitaPepsi
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/04
#1New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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...
"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"
#2New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/25/10 at 9:15pm
This is just adorable. "awwww"
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 5/25/10 at 09:15 PM
#2New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/25/10 at 9:20pmI 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.
#3New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/25/10 at 9:28pmThat was pretty cool. That French kid is all kinds of cute.
#4New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:24pmWhy would he bring his class picture to Mcdonalds?
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#5New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:30pmI love France.
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NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#7New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:50pmYay McDonald's!
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Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#8New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:59pmAww. And I agree. That french kid is adorable.
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#9New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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.
Just give the world Love.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#10New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 5/26/10 at 1:37am
This thread is racist.
But cute!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#11New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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)
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#12New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 6/6/10 at 2:47am
And so begin the spoofs...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdB1jN8LCQ
#13New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#14New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 6/6/10 at 3:00amAnd not even slightly funny...
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#15New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 6/6/10 at 8:25amI LOL'd.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#16New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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.
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StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#17New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 6/6/10 at 10:54amThat kid in the French commercial is absolutely adorable.
KFTC!!!!!
#18New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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?
....but the world goes 'round
#19New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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.
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#20New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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.
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Updated On: 6/6/10 at 12:06 PM
CateBroadway
Stand-by Joined: 7/2/08
#21New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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 :)
#22New gay McDonalds commercial from France
Posted: 6/6/10 at 4:12pmAKB and Jake Wilson have always been way too obsessed with their perceived cleverness.
#23New gay McDonalds commercial from France
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.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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