Remember that picture of Mr. T wearing Snickers bar bombs? The ad created by BBDO (the same people who made the Heinz men kiss) features Mr T pulling up in a truck alongside a man exercising in tight yellow shorts and shouting, ‘Speed walking. I pity you fool. You are a disgrace to the man race. It’s time to run like a real man.’ He then forces the man to break into a sprint by taking pot shots at him with a Snickers machine gun. The commercial ends with Mr. T uttering the slogan to the current Snickers campaign – ‘Get some nuts’. Well its been pulled over complaints it was homophobic…
A spokesperson for Snickers parent company Mars says, “This ad is the second in a series of UK Snickers ads featuring Mr T, which are meant to be fun and have been positively received in the UK. However, we understand that humour is highly subjective, and it is never our intention to cause offence. Accordingly, we have pulled the Mr T speedwalker ad globally.”
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The worst part about this, is that Mr T’s high tops are 300xs better than those bullshit Cavalli sneakers LifeFiles decided to feature.
Are those troops? Mr. T is cool az hel!
um, but the commercial is funny as he–!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0bUxi_Eo6fU
I’m convinced his hair doesnt grow on the sides anymore. He has a permanent mohawk!
@STYLE you are so right! Yo I was feeling those when I first saw the flick.
Who is it? GLAAD again? Well since they like comparing the being gay thing to the being Black in America thing, where the hell were you guys when Sean Bell’s farce of a trial was going on? Would you like to bet that if some white gay guy was coming out of an infamous gay club after celebrating bachelorhood, whether or not he’d get shot down like a dog in the street by New York’s finest?
Or why not get at the Mars chocolate company about their particpation in “Blood Chocolate” (it’s real serious y’all. I haven’t eaten chocolate in a minute because of it) as opposed to a very funny commercial concept? I mean grow a pair people!! The funny thing is, by all this boo-hooing y’all keep doing you play into the stereotypes.
What only gay guys speedwalk? They don’t marathon, they don’t do the 400 meters? Grow an effin pair!
LOL @ get some nuts… mr.t’s shoes are hot too
It’s oblivious that it’s humor. I wish we could get half of the commerical the UK get. They are such much more liberal in their minds. We just pretend we are not in America. lol
Mr.T was no where near being gay or doing anything gay!..He is the fucking man..I pity the fool who call him out!!!
is America ruled by GAY ???
those people doesn’t have humour or what? in America not only you have to be white but you also have to be gay, grit your teeth guys!