Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Old Sofia Vergara Commercial Puts Kim Kardashians Super Bowl Ad to Shame (vid inside)

Best Week Ever - Sofia Vergara has shot to American mega-fame as the sultry Gloria on Modern Family. And as a result of her newfound fame, all the former gigantic-boobed skeletons are slowly spilling out of her closet. Like this. An ad for Bally’s from 1998 that features a bikini-clad blond Vergara, dipped in Crisco, shilling for Bally’s Total Fitness. Only in the 90s could you cut from a shot of the woman’s entire ass to a clip of her hugging her son while she tells you that she’s “a mother.”

This really makes me miss late 90's TV. That was like the Wild West time period for pushing and testing the FCC's limits.  Pre-Janet Jacksons boob, before everyone could get together and figure out how to sanitize TV the way it is now. Parents are all up in arms over MTV's Skin's.  I remember coming home from school as an 8th grader and watching Sweet Valley High and La Femme Nikita after school, not to mention MTV's Singled Out, just 25 hoochies all giving it their sultry best to win a date with some brah.

And that's without even touching upon the TV commercials.  This spot below with Sofia was just your average gym commercial back in the 90's, hell it was prudish compared to the old Bowflex commercials, those things were like mainstream male-on-male porn shots in the late 90's.  Even now, think about how big of a deal Kim Kardashian's Super Bowl commercial was, a one time, very edgy spot that made news headlines for a couple of days.  Doesn't hold a candle to Sofia's shower scene, and that sure as hell wasn't made for any special occasion.  Probably ran that spot at the end of every month hoping to drag in a few fatties for the price of $5 a month initially.