In another version with a different voice, presumably the "sanitized" one, he just places his out, palms down and parallel, and thrusts his hips. The word is that the commercials got pulled, not because they're horrible, but because some viewers found Pasta Dude's moves to be vulgar. However, the ads still aired for a while time in in L.A. and the West Coast, a nod to its rich history of people, with varying degrees of success and skill, trying to be rappers.
But judging by the campaign's short life, it seems the rhymin' rigatoni's final cries of "Pasta playa hata" were prescient. At least now we finally know what happened to The Noid; he knocked up a box of Kraft Mac & Cheese.
TRANSCRIPT
Mom: Why can't we ever agree on what to eat?
Pasta Dude: Check it, y'all, with the hip hops to perfecta from Domino's!
(screams)
Dad: What are you?
Pasta Dude: Five varieties of oven-fresh yum, the whole family's down, we're all gettin' some!
Kid: This is tight.
Pasta Dude: Pasta dude, uh! Pasta Dude, yeah!
(Mom yells)
Kid: Mom....!
Pasta Dude: Pasta playa hata...
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]]>"However, the ads still aired for a while time in in L.A."
I love the consumerist, but you guys don't seem to take even a cursory second glance at your posts anymore; so many errors all the time. This was the title of one recent post "Walmart Only Institutes Initializes Anti-Trampling Measures At NY Stores"
Only Institutes Initializes?
Please don't disemvowel me.
]]>In 30 minutes, you could make those yourself. How hard is it to boil some pasta, dump a jar of sauce on it, and add veggies (primavera) or crumbled bacon (carbonara) - or do both and have "prima-bonara"?
]]>Niether the twain...? Geez, I'm tired. That should read "never the twain shall meet". Blergh.
]]>Oh please. Working in tv, I can tell you that the creative people who work in advertising and the corporate executives who butt in are two different groups, and neither the twain shall meet. It's ad industry people making fun of their own bosses, of the sorts of things they're forced to do when everyone knows it's stupid and weird.
People who work in advertising are indeed -people-, and when they manage to slip one like this by their analytical, buzzword-wielding bosses it's funny.
]]>AWW YEEAH! PASTA DUDE! PASTA DUDE!
]]>Yeah, that commercial totally reminded me of the Sprite commercial.
]]>The whole self-aware meta commercial thing is a little old at this point. They're just looking for bonus viral irony points.
]]>"Oh God a talking pastry! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!"
]]>That, combined with the family freaking out and destroying it, really lambasts how no one ever reacts to these artificially hip icons just sauntering into their house and telling them what to eat/wear/buy.
]]>Annoying and over the top.
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