This commercial for Oscar Mayer bacon features a father trying to communicate in hip young slang with his son who is busy playing video games with a couple of his friends. Then it turns out that the whole thing is just a sneaky ploy to get some bacon (!). You see, by mortifying his son, the father hopes to win the last piece of bacon as a bribe to go away. (Pretty smart strategy for this conniving father.)
I like this idea of the dad embarrassing his son in front of his friends with youth-speak, but the slogan: "We all speak bacon" isn't actually true. I know a bunch of vegans and vegetarians who not only do not speak bacon, but who would consider bacon-speak to be an unacceptable obscenity and insult. (Not me though: I love bacon!)
But maybe that's the whole point of this ad to begin with: to make all the vegans and veggie people and PeTA fighting mad so that they will condemn the ad, and then they will get lots of free advertising for their bacon? (It might just work, too, because most of the people I know just get hungry for meat whenever the anti-meat crowd starts complaining.)
Here's the bacon babble:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klv0HyamGhE
I wonder if this ad will finally get Oscar Mayer busted for its legacy of encouraging children to be cannibalized. Their old song about their hot dogs: "I Wish I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener", popular in ads when I was a child, promised children love if only they would sacrifice themselves to become part of the hot dog meat. But then they didn't even include the self-secrificing kids in the list of ingredients! Some nerve, let me tell you... (Or maybe that was a special brand of cannibal wieners for an underground secret society?)
