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Thursday, January 11, 2018
No Iron Shirts "The Iron Price" Ad (Joke/Proposed)
We see some attractive young man come visit his father for the holidays (or for his birhtday, or whenever), and he's wearing a beautifully pressed dress shirt. (It would be funniest if it were Alfie Allen, from Game of Thrones.) And when his father answers the door, it's Patrick Malahide, the actor who plays Balon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones, and he says to his son: "That's a nicely pressed shirt, son. Did you pay the iron price for it?" And Patrick Malahide holds up his hands, and we see that his fingers are all covered with bandaids from burns, and then we rack focus to see an ironing board with a shirt being burned by an iron on it, with steam and smoke rising from the iron laying flat upon it. And the son says: "No, Dad, we don't have to pay the iron price anymore! Now with (whatever brand of iron-free) shirts, we can look great anytime!" And then he presents his father with one. And then we cut to see the father in the shirt looking dashing, and he says: "Well, I still don't like it, but if you say no one can tell the difference..." And he dumps his burnt shirt and iron in the trashcan and he and his son leave to go out on the town together.