This is a joke political ad, based upon the old micro-play
we all used to do as kids with the bow as a prop, where it plays out like an
old silent movie scenario with a mustache-twirling villain trying to force a
damsel in distress out of her home, only for her to be rescued by a handsome
hero. Remember? It goes like this:
(With bow as a mustache): “You must pay the rent!”
(With bow in hair): “But I can’t pay the rent!”
(With bow as a mustache): “You must pay the rent!”
(With bow in hair): “But I can’t pay the rent!”
(With bow as bowtie): “I’ll pay the rent!”
(With bow in hair): “My Hero!”
(With bow as a mustache): “Curses, foiled again!”
The above scenario would be used as the basis for a (joke)
political ad, showing President Obama as the “villain”, rich CEOs of Wall St.
banks and oil companies (and the Koch brothers) as the “damsel(s) in distress”,
and John Boehner as the “hero”. So this is what it would look like (it would be
done in Flash as paper-like animation, a la South Park, when they use photographs of people’s faces as the
basis for the animation):
Obama would say: “You must pay the tax!”
Then the rich CEOs (maybe with little blonde pigtail wigs
Photoshopped onto their pictures, and with stacks of money and gold coins
behind them) would say: “But I can’t pay
the tax!
Obama would again say: “You must pay the tax!”
The rich CEOs would again protest: “But I can’t pay the tax!”
Then John Boehner would say: “I’ll stop the tax!”
Rich CEOs: “My hero!”
And President Obama says: “Curses, foiled again!”
Now wouldn’t that be a fun political ad? (It actually might
work as an ad for Obama’s tax plan as is, demonstrating the silliness of the
Republican tax position. Or they could paste on some didactic dialogue at the
end about how Republicans in Congress are stopping corporations and the
super-rich from paying their fair share of taxes, etc.)
