Weird ad during football broadcast

[Larry Kart]

I know this might border on a forbidden "politics" topic, and if so, feel free to complain and this post will be deleted. But I think this is mainly a request for information from someone (i.e. me) who saw something on national TV yesterday that left me bewildered.

My original Facebook post, from yesterday afternoon, which so far has not generated any responses from anyone who saw what I did.

"This went by very quickly about ten minutes ago while I was watching the Mississippi-Tennesse football game, but I think I saw the craziest and maybe the ugliest political ad of the season, though it may have been some-off-the-wall joke --but then people don't pay to put off-the-wall jokes up on ESPN during football broadcasts, do they?

"The ad shows two middle-aged African-American guys in a coffee shop. They have near-identical scruffy beards and look rather scruffy in general. They've just ordered something that one ordinarily orders in a coffee shop -- pancakes or whatever -- but instead the waitress brings both of them plates on each of which sits an onion the size of a 16-inch softball, with a garnish of smaller onions. They turn quizzically to the waitress, who points to a nearby TV screen on which a newscaster is saying something like "The President [or the government] has ordered that today [or this week or this month] we only eat onions." Cut to the original two guys, who are now at what seems to be a drive in, sucking on onion milkshakes with much disgust.

"Anyone else see this thing? Any thoughts on what the heck is going on here? If it wasn't some kind of joke -- I know, the onion and The Onion -- but a real political ad, the message seemed to be that even hard-core Obama supporters should be aware that he is or will be taking away our most basic freedoms, like the freedom to eat what we want to eat.

"BTW, the way those guys looked, with their near identical, scruffy and in some way dated-in-style beards, made me think that they were supposed to stir semi-subliminal associations to Black Power revolutionaries of the '60s in a kind of cuts-both-ways manner -- as in 'That's who Obama's supporters are really like, and even those guys should be waking up to what's really going on.'

"Please, tell me it's a joke that went by too fast for me to get it."

[clifford_thornton]

couldn't find it doing a quick youtube search, but it sounds dumb and off-base.

[GA Russell]

Perhaps it is related to the objections some people have to the new school lunches which Michelle Obama has promoted.

[Larry Kart]

Perhaps it is related to the objections some people have to the new school lunches which Michelle Obama has promoted.

Undoubtedly so, if it's not some weird joke, but unless and until you've seen this thing, I can't convey how creepy it was.

[JSngry]

A while back, I worked with this really good country guitarist who had a grandmother in Gun Barrel City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Barrel_City,_Texas ), whom this guy swore was a stickler for giving the whole family onion enemas when springtime rolled around. I kid you not.

So maybe this is related to that?

[Leeway]

Maybe it was a commercial for Sonic, like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30F46wjSpZ8

[Larry Kart]

Maybe it was a commercial for Sonic, like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30F46wjSpZ8

Hmmm -- could be; they're spacey enough. But the details in my original post don't seem to fit, nor was there in the ad, or whatever it was, any mention of or allusion to the pleasures of Sonic foodstuffs.

BTW, someone suggested that even though it cropped up on a national broadcast it could have been an ad aimed at a local market, like those weird GOP wedding dress spots, which are generic but have the name of that state's GOP gubernatorial candidate (E.g. Rick Scott in Florida, Bruce Rauner in Illinois) inserted. Go to YouTube and plug in "GOP wedding dress ads."