Colin's a Fairy!

June 12, 2005 10:39 AM

Silly TV commercial campaign for junk food featuring a performer who clearly deserves better, OR another inroad by the dreaded Homo Agenda? You decide... It's Colin Mochrie as The Snack Fairy! inspired by this thread and this comment.
posted by wendell (21 comments total)

I saw this last night on TV!

I have no complaints, except a little worry that he'll be TOO popular in this role and typecast as mythological food entities.

Err...yeah.
posted by Kickstart70 at 10:49 AM on June 12, 2005

Homo agenda? It's the fact that Mochrie's a filthy Canadian that we here in the true heart of NA should be worrying about... Hands off our snax, nuckie!
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 10:57 AM on June 12, 2005

ahahahah the mindless corporate megalith of the snack food industry fights back against the philosophy of "french women dont get fat," knowing full well that only fairy fags would try to watch their weight.

Frito Lay, Nabisco and Sara Lee should be fined 1 million dollars for every obese american woman. So grave is the crime against humanity involved.

Seriously. Lay off millions. Put a guy in a pink tutu. This is the corporate management of 2005.
posted by nervousfritz at 11:02 AM on June 12, 2005

Best snack food commercial EVER. [quicktime video]
posted by handshake at 11:38 AM on June 12, 2005

Would someone please tell Nabisco that it's 2005 and people sometimes watch videos on the Internets that take up the full screen.
posted by VulcanMike at 11:47 AM on June 12, 2005

Nutrigrain WINS!
posted by Balisong at 12:14 PM on June 12, 2005

Great!
posted by the cuban at 12:28 PM on June 12, 2005

nervousfritz, have a Twinkie and relax. Nobody in those companies puts guns to people's heads and forces them to eat.
posted by jonmc at 12:39 PM on June 12, 2005

Well, I would hope my retirement plan was making money!
posted by Smart Dalek at 12:57 PM on June 12, 2005

After seeing him play a lobster trying to escape the pot and a chicken with its head cut off, I am convinced nothing is too strange for this man. Not even being a snack fairy.
posted by cmyk at 1:06 PM on June 12, 2005

Didn't they have a grumpy straight guy playing the tooth fairy in some toothpast ads a few years back, complete with pink tutu?
posted by jonmc at 1:13 PM on June 12, 2005

Colin claims to run Canada when they need him. Draw your own fairy-related conclusions.
posted by tommasz at 1:29 PM on June 12, 2005

I met Colin at Pearson airport a couple of years ago. He is just as funny and weird in person as he is on TV, without that sense of being constantly 'on' that so many celebrities have.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 1:40 PM on June 12, 2005

have a Twinkie and relax

Hell no I'm not going to have a Twinkie. They have beef fat in them. Which food scientist, pondering the concept of snack cake, had a light bulb pop on for beef fat? How can anyone relax when snack cakes are made with beef fat? Really.
posted by nervousfritz at 2:32 PM on June 12, 2005

nevousfritz, please tell me that you're ironic performance art. Otherwise, I'll have to conclude that you're a Republican plant designed to make all countercultural people look like fur-brained morons.

And beef fat tastes good in snack cakes.
posted by jonmc at 2:44 PM on June 12, 2005

Beef fat, eh? No wonder Twinkies taste so good. McDonald's fries have never been quite as good as they used to be, ever since they took the beef tallow out of the fat.

And for what it's worth, I've never met Colin Mochrie personally, but my girlfriend and I have seen him perform live twice. The man's freaking nuts, and we love him for it.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:39 PM on June 12, 2005

nevousfritz, please tell me that you're ironic performance art. Otherwise, I'll have to conclude that you're a Republican plant designed to make all countercultural people look like fur-brained morons.

:o) haha

Well more #1 than #2, that's for sure. I think the whole system is designed to make countercultural people look like (depends on what state you live in) "fur brained morons" or worse yet terrorists.
posted by nervousfritz at 9:43 PM on June 12, 2005

Didn't they have a grumpy straight guy playing the tooth fairy in some toothpast ads a few years back, complete with pink tutu?

Yup.
posted by blucevalo at 10:07 PM on June 12, 2005

So what does this have to do with homosexuality again? (unless you're talking about stereotypes, like fried chicken commercials being some sort of African American agenda-pusher, that is)
posted by Poagao at 12:40 AM on June 13, 2005

Which food scientist, pondering the concept of snack cake, had a light bulb pop on for beef fat? How can anyone relax when snack cakes are made with beef fat? Really.

Hmm. Have you been to England?
posted by bwerdmuller at 4:20 AM on June 13, 2005

Hell no I'm not going to have a Twinkie. They have beef fat in them.

Wow. Are you living a decade in the past? Animal fats are certainly not the greatest thing in the world, but they're orders of magnitude better than the fake trans-fats that McDonald's etc. tried to push as healthy ("Of course they're healthy! It's made of VEGETABLES!")
posted by dagnyscott at 11:07 AM on June 15, 2005