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American Express's New, Especially Insane Commercial
by Dagmar at 5:56 pm EDT, Jul 4, 2008

I've been seeing this distasteful thing being aired for a couple of days now, and I'm aghast they'd even have considered airing it once.

A customer approaches the ticketing counter and says he needs a flight to SFO for his business for a VC pitch, puts his card on the counter. It's a custom card with kittens on it. The attendant looks at it and says "...and you said this is a business flight?".

Almost immediately, there are two TSA employees behind the customer, telling him to come with them. One of them is snapping on a latex glove.

While he's being led away, another customer comes up and buys a ticket to SFO, hands over his AMEX card, and is simply thanked.

So, is it just me or is this commercials veiled threat that if you don't use Amex you're going to get someone facist's hand shoved up your ass particularly beyond the pale?


 
RE: American Express's New, Especially Insane Commercial
by Stefanie at 11:58 am EDT, Jul 9, 2008

Dagmar wrote:
So, is it just me or is this commercials veiled threat that if you don't use Amex you're going to get someone facist's hand shoved up your ass particularly beyond the pale?

Maybe it's a direct jab at Capital One's commercial.


 
RE: American Express's New, Especially Insane Commercial
by Dagmar at 1:18 am EDT, Jul 26, 2008

I find it somewhat vindicating that within days of this post, apparently some people at either AMEX or multiple broadcasters also decided that this commercial was in questionable taste at best, and stopped airing it.

...and those peanut people have changed their commercial to saying "nut snack" instead of talking about selling you a might fine nut sack. So, if you thought you were hearing this before and are thinking you didn't now, yes they were in fact using the slang for a scrotum for several days.


 
 
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