This spot shows a father with his very young son playing football in their yard and then going inside to eat breakfast. But while playing football, Tony the Tiger is playing defense, and it looks to me like he’s letting that kid win. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d think a tiger could disembowel a player with his sharp claws and tear out his throat with his sharp teeth. But then again, I guess he really just wants to sell cereal in this ad. But once the shoot is over, he might kill the camera crew! But hey, tigers are endangered, so I guess they can do whatever they want with impunity, from making our kids obese by selling fattening sugar-bomb cereal, to eating whoever they want to. Right?
Okay, I can’t find this commercial, but here’s one about baseball; and a tiger can eat baseball players too, right?:
Did you notice how fathers don’t care what their kids eat? They’re always letting their kids eat cake and stuff! Bill Cosby had a comedy bit about this years ago. But it’s true! Do you see a mother in this commercial? No: you don’t! Do you know why? Because moms want kids to eat yucky crap that’s “good for them”! And that’s no fun! That’s why Tony the Tiger banned chicks from his commercials! In fact, maybe he ate them all just to make a point: sugar-coated stuff is great, and it’s mean to make kids ever eat anything else!
