Friday, December 21, 2012

Gas-X Rolling Stones Ad?

Well, not with the Rolling Stones, exactly: just using one of their songs: “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, but with altered lyrics. This is kind of a joke, because I’m pretty sure the Rolling Stones would never agree to such a use of their song; but when I thought it up, it seemed pretty silly, so I figured I might as well put it up here anyway.

What would happen would be for a group of Stones fans to get together, but one of them doesn’t feel well, because she just ate tacos or Indian food, or something. So she holds her tummy, and her friends ask her how she is, and she answers, all singing along to the chorus of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, as follows:

“Are you alright?”
“No, in fact I’ve got gas.”
“You’ll be alright: Just take Gas-X, it stops gas, gas, gas!”

Then she takes it, feels all better, and they all sing the end of the song together:

“Just take Gas-X, it stops gas,
Just take Gas-X, it stops gas,
Just take Gas-X, it stops gas…”
(Etc.)

Actually, the truth is, this ad would be hilarious if someone had gas pains, and then the Rolling Stones jumped into the room singing this, and handed the person some Gas-X, and then they all sang the end together. That would be a hoot. In fact, maybe Mick Jagger could sing all the verses about all the stomach-challenging food he’s been eating at greasy spoons and back-roads restaurants and at home (like, for example: “I wolfed down lots of chili dogs yesterday, I ate mounds of leftover beans from last week, ow, ow, hey!”) and then the band could sing the chorus with him as I have laid out above, giving him Gas-X, and singing its praises, and with Mick singing the last line of the chorus: “But it's alright: I just take Gas-X, it stops gas, gas, gas!”. (Probably not going to happen, though.)

This is “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”: