Wow: Is Fruit of the Loom the first American company to
embrace rhythmic gymnastics in a major ad campaign? (I’m asking, because I
don’t know, but I don’t remember anyone else doing it lately.) That’s pretty
cool!
I don’t know if anyone else likes rhythmic gymnastics, but I
love it! Beautiful, statuesque models/athletes doing amazingly artistic ballet-like
gymnastics that’s mixed with contortionist-level flexibility? What’s not to
like? (The outfits, maybe? They can be kind of tacky and yucky. Some of these ladies look like they were attacked by a maniac with a Bedazzler!) If this was available on American TV, I’ll bet men would like it more
than football, if they were allowed to watch it by their wives.* But I’m not
married, so I get to see all I want! Except that nobody shows it on American
television, so I don’t get to see any! And we’re never going to win this sport
unless people get to see it, like it, get involved in it, etc. And we Americans
might be great at this sport, if we weren’t so fat! (Maybe we can all do
rhythmic gymnastics to lose weight! It’s aerobic exercise, right?)
But I love that Fruit of the Loom made an ad using the
ribbon apparatus! People here joke about this stuff, but just wait until you see the
Russians use this ribbon apparatus in the Olympics (if we’re allowed to see it
by NBC)! Man, it’s amazing! Wow! Once you pop your eyes out at this stuff, you can’t
stop! (Once you pop, you can’t stop: that’s an ad slogan for rhythmic
gymnastics, right? No? It’s Pringles? Well, close enough!)
This is not the ad I mean (I can’t find that one: sorry), but it will do (I’ve never seen
this one before, and it’s great! My apple core hat’s off to these guys for a
fun spot!):
