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25 June 2008

Have you seen those showtime "pinup" style banners? I needed to mock them, so I made one too with me posing like that.

post by: dabitch at: 06:03 | 19 comments

Ha ha ha... yours is awesome!!

The real versions of that banner are plastered on the sides of all our city buses right now... have been for a while now, I think.

posted by BoringPostcards 25 June | 07:19

GAG. I really don't get why they did that to the weeds heroine. So wrong!

posted by dabitch 25 June | 07:23

I don't have Showtime, so I had no idea if it fit with the image of the shows or not.

posted by BoringPostcards 25 June | 07:24

Pay cable still means sex and swearing and all things naughty.
Still a stupid idea but if they'd been more self aware, it could have been funny.
i have to wait beofre i can get any new episodes of anything.
i think you'd like Weeds, bp. Rent it. It's fun.

posted by ethylene 25 June | 07:32

That's awesome.

The Billie Piper one is kind of fun, though it is missing something. Or someone.

posted by grabbingsand 25 June | 07:42

Hahah, yeah I can'ty let go of Dr Who in connection with Billie either.

I second the recommendation for weeds, the first season is dark comedy funny.

posted by dabitch 25 June | 07:56

HA! I love that! I've never seen the other banners, yet they still seemed like something I've seen a lot. You are way more bestest though. I would totally watch your show. :)

posted by taz 25 June | 08:45

In my bleary-eyed state this morning, before the caffeine and the level 1 system alerts, I totally read that as Showtime's "pimp" style banners.

And I was not a bit surprised.

Then I got to work and clicked on the link and laughed my ass off.

Now that I'm assless, I don't need to work out today.

Thanks, dabitch!

posted by lysdexic 25 June | 08:52

I didn't recognize Billie Piper dressed nicely and without a scowl.

posted by Eideteker 25 June | 09:46

I've never seen those posters before (probably too risqué for Pittsburgh) but I like yours better.

posted by octothorpe 25 June | 09:53

Grrrr... stupid filtering at work blocks the link. So I gotta wait five hours to get home and click it. Grrrr...

posted by syntax 25 June | 10:48

I like the addition of you giving Perle some Jolt. Way to get 'em started early!

posted by Zack_Replica 25 June | 11:03

AdRants noticed.

posted by grabbingsand 25 June | 11:04

I love your ad, dabitch! It's hilarious you have Perle sipping from a can of Jolt Cola. "Just what your toddler needs!"

posted by deborah 25 June | 11:06

rock on !

posted by matteo 25 June | 11:32

Nancy Botwin, mother of two, is quite the sexual figure, or at least grapples with using her sexuality as a means to an end, and the show altogether is full of sexual irreverence. One of my favorite lines is the Bitch-On-Wheels, Celia, reminiscing of her glory days: "High on Ludes. Queen of the Roller Disco. I could fuck against a wall with my skates on, no easy feat." I don't see the ad as problematically incongruous. It is a risque show.

But I liked your banner!

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 25 June | 11:33

I just remembered: her special strain of pot was christened MILFweed. So...

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 25 June | 12:49

Heh - oh yeah I wrote mother of three because I keep thinking her brother or whatever he is much like another kid in the house. I guess I just had enough of all things selling that particular day (like most days) needed high heeled sexyshots. We can't be interested in Nancy Botwin's crazy ass surburbia life aleready, what with the pot dealing, gangster wheeling, children who talk to dead fathers and cross stealing mayhem around her already, nooooo, we need to see her kicking back in hot-pants and heels to be interested.

posted by dabitch 25 June | 13:08

also, lysdexic, I must try that laugh-my-ass-off diet one of these days too because god knows I haaate the gym. Glad to be of assistance. ;)

I hope child services doesn't come cracking down on me for that Jolt thing. (It is why I keep them carefully hidden in the house, she sees a can and she runs straight for it. Then there will be no sleep for three days.)

posted by dabitch 25 June | 13:10

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