Ship my pants! - Kmart

[JediTricks]

First there was "Ship My Pants": http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 03UmJbK0lA

Now there is "Big Gas Savings": http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 1yir-p68xM

Good job Kmart. And to the One Million Moms organization complaining about this, if your precious little darlings know what these things mean, they're already corrupted anyway, Kmart didn't do it.

[BWprowl]

I haven't seen the pants one (at work right now, I'll check it when I get home), but I saw the gas one the other day and enjoyed it, as far as commercials go. Of course, I have a love for clever word-parsing and drawn-out double entendres, so I'm kinda in the target audience for these things (any time my friends and I chat Magic the Gathering, it devolves into discussion of deck sizes and how we like to play with our decks and how keeping your deck covered for protection is important and how it might be fun to try playing with someone else's deck but it's a little personal and feels weird).

Are people seriously complaining about these ads? They're pretty tame by today's standards, with stuff like GoDaddy.com's continuous campaign, or that horrific banned Skittles ad I saw a while back, or basically anything shown advertising beer during a primetime football game.

[JediTricks]

I haven't seen the pants one (at work right now, I'll check it when I get home), but I saw the gas one the other day and enjoyed it, as far as commercials go. Of course, I have a love for clever word-parsing and drawn-out double entendres, so I'm kinda in the target audience for these things (any time my friends and chat Magic the Gathering, it devolves into discussion of deck sizes and how we like to play with our decks and how keeping your deck covered for protection is important and how it might be fun to try playing with someone else's deck it's a little personal and feels weird).

You said "Magic the Gathering" and I thought "I cannot imagine where he's going with this", then it was so obvious I felt dumb for not seeing it. Playing with your decks down in the basement, what are you boys thinking?!?

Are people seriously complaining about these ads? They're pretty tame by today's standards, with stuff like GoDaddy.com's continuous campaign, or that horrific banned Skittles ad I saw a while back, or basically anything shown advertising beer during a primetime football game.

Yeah, the Ship My Pants one gets a whole complaint page from the OMM organization, and like you said, this is really tame stuff by comparison. It's thought police, they want to make sure their children who already know phrases like "big ass" and "shit my pants" (due to the parents' neglectfulness) don't continue to think them.