Tom Hanks and that guy Michael married to Stephanie in the Newhart Inn show...
Posted on 04/21/2023 9:09:28 AM PDT by Morgana
An old Bud Light commercial has resurfaced online, providing a different angle to the intense debate around the beer company's recent partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The 1994 advert shows a group of men wearing wigs and dresses participating in the bar's 'Ladies Pool Finals' tournament.
Two of the men dressed as women eventually make it to the final as they vie to win first prize: Bud Light.
The resurfacing of the ad comes amid a row over controversial trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney's partnership with America's most popular beer brand.
Mulvaney's involvement in the beer brand has been fiercely contested in recent weeks, with Bud Light's parent company Anheuser-Busch falling heavily in value amid the backlash.
In the recently-resurfaced 30-sencond commercial, a man with a thick black beard is seen wearing a blond wig, pearl necklace, and orange dress.
The man proceeds to run the table, pocketing ball after ball, and nocking one woman out the way to make room for his shot. He then lets out a falsetto giggle in celebration.
'These guys are good,' one of the women spectators complain.
'Who are you calling 'guys'?' one of the men screeches indignantly in a high pitched voice, flanked by two others also dressed in wigs, dresses, and what appear to be breast implants.
The 90s commercial then ends with the men making it to the finals where the first prize is advertised to be Bud Light - the died bier produced by Anheuser-Busch.
'It looks like you're in the finals, ma'am,' a referee in a white shirt and black bowtie tells one of the men disapprovingly.
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I remember this ad. It was great. But here is the kicker. We knew they were men dressed as women and there wasn’t an issue with it. However, if we say that now, we can be arrested and charged with violating someone’s civil liberties.
Tom Hanks and that guy Michael married to Stephanie in the Newhart Inn show...
It was almost 30 years ago, you're forgiven. :-)
I haven't watched TV (much less TV commercials) since the mid-70's so I never saw it either, but I can believe it's real.
Countdown to it being taken down as being transphobic...3...2...1...
I remember the Bud ad with the frogs but not this one.
It's still a big joke. The ones taking their "gender dysphoria" seriously are the biggest joke of all.
After watching it, I do remember this ad. Back in the day, this was called "humor."
Irving Berlin's "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones", performed by cross-dressed U.S. Army soldiers, 1942.
In my dad’s high school annual from 1954, there is a picture of the football team dressed up as chicks. It was called humor or entertainment.
Tom Hanks likes to tell people that this was just a role he played in a television show.
You are right and the men in the ad were being made fun of or ridiculed for going to such lengths to win Bud Lite.
Men have been dressing in women’s clothing for centuries as an element of humor, and men, women, and children have laughed at it.
They laughed at the absurdity of a man imitating a female, and it was funny. It wasn’t advocating men being women. It was portray in a humorous way a man pretending to be a woman.
Everyone thought Flip Wilson was hilarous, Benny Hill was silly and funny, and so on. It was a joke, and everyone knew it was a joke.
It wasn’t being used as a platform to promote aberrent behavior as a positive thing, as it is now.
Ah. Donna Dixon.
Anyone old enough to remember Geraldine Jones?
There was “Some Like It Hot” and a Monkees episode “Some Like It Lukewarm”.
When a beach bar went lesbian I kept playing pool there sometimes and it was interesting to watch the butch lesbians try to hold their own for an hour or two against the male energy that I and 1 or 2 buddies brought to the beer-drinking and pool-playing.
They would eventually give up as the 20-something male energy unconsciously dominated the space they were trying to hold by faking their male energy and mannerisms.
That was a real-life example of how males just naturally dominate space, even when trying not to.
Haven’t thought about Geraldine for ages!
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