You’re not serious.
I thought it was a commercial for fly rods.
He gives away who Fenwick really is
I can’t read your question because it’s horizontal and I’m holding my phone vertical.
The quote “I am Spartacus” is dervied from the 1960 movie “Spartacus” directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas as the titular role. Near the end of the film, a Roman general announces to a group of former slaves that unsuccesfully fought againsts their rulers that unless Spartacus is turned over to them, all of the slaves will be crucified. Spartacus is then willing to turn himself in to protect his friends by standing up and proclaiming “I am Spartacus!”, but then the rest of the slaves show their loyalty to him by also proclaming that himself is Spartacus in great numbers. Since the general still doesn’t know who the real Spartacus is, all of the slaves are led to crucifixion.
Except in this commercial the dunce with the shield gives him away.
The bad guy said he would let them all go if they give up Fenwick.
So they all said that “I am Fenwick”
The dope comes up and ask Fenwick to his face where his shield is/was.
Are you serious? They got the idea from this famous scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyiljKo0
Horizontal stripes on your shield make you look fat.
-PJ
One side of a battle is defeated, led by Fenwick. The leader of the other side says to tell him who Fenwick is and he will spare all others.
So, in a Spartacus like way, Fenwick starts to identify himself, but others claim they are Fenwick.
But, doofus comes up and says "Hey Fenwick" and thereby betrays the identity of Fenwick. The gag is that he has a shield with vertical stripes. He tells Fenwick that his shield had horizontal stripes.
Well, the people on the victorious side find this very humorous. He has not only told them who Fenwick is, he is also a first class dolt, because he was too stupid to know that if he had rotated his shield, he would have had horizontal stripes, not vertical stripes.
They are trying to save him, but he shows up and gives himself away — stupidly????
 "I am Fezziwig!" |
I don’t know what a Fenwick commercial is.
Never saw the commercial before. I thought this thread was referring to the movie, “The Mouse that Roared”. In that movie, a tiny European principality, Fenwick, invades and conquers the US.
If you read the second one down on your link you would find...
About Southwest Airlines Wanna Get Away Sale TV Commercial, ‘I Am Fenwick’
Do you want to get away? Fenwick probably does. He’s a warrior in an army and the opposing side has just asked him to identify himself. Many of his brothers in arms identify themselves as “Fenwick” in an attempt to save him, but then a man comes up looking for Fenwick’s help to find his shield. The shield he’s holding has two vertical stripes on it but his, he says, has horizontal stripes. He could’ve just rotated his shield, but now Fenwick is going to have a hard time of it. Southwest Airlines is offering one-way flight deals during its Wanna Get Away Sale.
Oh, so it’s not a Fenwick commercial, but a Southwest Airlines commercial. Do be precise next time.