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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Diet Plan "Pit and the Pendulum" (Joke) Ad
The movie Pit and the Pendulum is on this evening, and since I'm always thinking of how to make silly ads out of everything, it made me think of an ad for a diet plan that uses the film's climactic scene of the pit and the pendulum in action: A man is strapped down to the pendulum table, but he's not worried, because he's just lost a lot of weight on some diet system, and as we see, the pendulum doesn't lower down far enough to harm him since he's so slender now (and we see the frustrated torturer looking on in bewilderment that the blade can't be lowered down enough to cut his victim in half). Oh, but that's not how it used to be, for we see in a flashback what he used to look like, with a big beer gut, and as he lies on the table talking about his big stomach, the blade of the pendulum swings down and slices it wide open as he screams in horror. And so then we cut back to the present, and the guy says how grateful he is now that he's lost all that weight, as the torturer guy takes him off the pendulum table and throws him into an iron maiden, laughing maniacally. Oh, but he's so slim now, the spikes in the iron maiden can't reach him to impale him either, and so he says that anyone in his position would really appreciate the great health benefits of weight loss using the (whatever) diet plan. (Oh, but then the torturer takes him out of the iron maiden and puts him on the rack, which works as a torture device regardless of the degree of corpulence the victim possesses. But ever the optimist, our heroic dieting torture victim says to the camera: "I hope this thing works; I've always wanted to be a little bit taller.")