Posted on 12/07/2009 9:24:38 PM PST by GonzoII
A video advertisement on CBS's Web site that "mashes" material from the iconic "Frosty the Snowman" Christmastime cartoon with two of the network's comedy series is offensive and should be pulled, media analysts told FoxNews.com.
The video ad, "Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman," takes authentic dialogue from CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men" and dubs it on top of the cartoon classic, changing well-known "Frosty" scenes to contain suggestions that the snowman and his friends visit a "strip club."
The mash-up also discusses Frosty's "porn collection" and contains repeated mentions of prior sexual conquests.
The ad is intended to promote the network's upcoming broadcasts of "Frosty the Snowman" and "Frosty Returns."
OPINION: CBS' dirty "Frosty" is a disgrace.
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Very classy.
Has there been any complaint about the beer commercial on “fumbling with condiments” which obviously is a reference to “fumbling with condoms”?
Cultural dilution.
Glad to see they’re living up to their name—See BS.
Tell it to the kids.
I agree, and to an extent, anyone who watches broadcast TV these days shouldn’t be shocked at the lack of class. However, this was a bit more jolting because they took an image that would draw children’s attention to the TV.
No need for that, as I threw our TV in the trash when our first one was born.
No need for an electronic babysitter in our home.
>>No need for that, as I threw our TV in the trash when our first one was born.<<
You gave birth to a TV? dang! I would throw it in the trash, too!
;)
Only for those that wish the Nanny State to control what their kids see on the TV.
For everybody else, there is the remote control, parental desecration as to what their kids blankly stare into the TV and watch or not having a TV in the house to rot your kid's brain.
No, when my wife was pregnant with our first child, we were at a friend’s house watching TV and I noticed how their six month old and two year old were staring into the TV and we made the decision not to have a TV in our home with children.
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O’Reilly called this one right - it’s CBS (See BS) attempt to “be cool” and the “South Park-ing of CBS”
And as Bernie Goldberg chimed in, “It’s pathetic” - and compared it to an old geezer hitting on 20 year old chicks in a bar.
CBS *is* pathetic. Just look at their news division.
I do rarely have access to television, when I visit with my wife's parents. Generally, we discourage our children from watching the tube when they visit, but sometimes there is something interesting and fun on. At other times, I can occassionally catch something via the web.
So, let me get this straight? Since I haven't had TV in 13 years; sexual liaisons and porn collections are items of discussion during shows that are programmed in prime time??
“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in armageddon...”
I was just joshin’ ya about how you phrased it...
I understood what you meant — and good for you BTW! :)
If you are sending your kids to public school, if you are watching television, if you are absorbing the news from the MSM...
you are part of the problem. Cut it out.
And it kinda sucked for a while as when we had just those brief moments as new parents to relax and maybe watch TV and there was not TV to watch.
However, we have a TV now and watch it very seldom and the kids who did not have a TV in the house until they were over 13 or 14, now have little or any interest in TV.
It is just see kids younger than 10 or 11 that appear to be hypnotized by the TV that really freaks me out.
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