This used to be peak commercial humor

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• Wetstew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My mother loved the Taco Bell Chihuahua, we had like a half dozen talking plushes of him saying different things.

  Was it racist? kinda probably yeah a bit, but it wasn’t hateful.

  Trafficking in stereotypes at most?

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, at one point everyone blithely assumed that Mexicans found Speedy Gonzales to be racist and there was a (completely white-led) little backlash against him until someone got around to actually asking some Mexicans about it and discovered that he was actually broadly popular with that demographic.

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    • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In general people really like seeing themselves on the TV and understand exaggerated stereotyping for comedic effect. Mama mia boopity bopy, as my ancestors would say.

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    • pedroparamo@lemm.ee [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He messed that cat up. Who’s going to be offended to be represent by speedyg? Nobody that’s who.

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    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Speedy Gonzales is laudable only because he contrasts the other sterotypes such as the drunken mice that occasionally help or Slowpoke Rodriguez, who I always thought of as super chill and awesome. But if I to pick which would stereotype would represent my minority, I’d also choose the model minority stereotype.

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    • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More examples, don’t get lost in the hole

      tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And to this day, people still won’t shut the fuck up about this fact in every comment section of every Speedy Gonzales video on YouTube.

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    • Wetstew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ld be curious to see them revive Speedy with the less-than-flattering characters.

      Every culture has a stereotype of a lazy/drunk/yokel, but there’s a proportion issue. A village of regular workin’ mice, one or two lazy slow or old mice and it’s no problem.

      Apu wasn’t a problem at first, outside of him being voiced by a white dude doing Indian face, his orginal character was he was a hard working immigrant who had thinly veiled frustration for the lazy spoiled idiots he has to serve to make ends meet. Only to end it with the expected nice-ities expected of a clerk.

      I’m not Indian though, and it’s been a while since I saw the early seasons. Grain of salt. Cutting him out of the show whole cloth sucked though, not a ton of Indian characters on TV.

      Atleast Bob’s Burgers brought back Marshmallow when they decided to retool her a bit.

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• spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, this commercial rocks

  Although, Doritos has some great ones.

  The Etrade baby was great too.

  For all the X-ers out there, WAZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

  I just wish car dealerships would advertise like this.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Im not clicking on any of those.
    Because I remeber most of them :/

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• nailingjello@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still have the plush toy chihuahua in a box somewhere.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “My name is Gecko, not to be confused with Geico. SO STOP CALLING ME!”

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Taco Neck Ssyndrome commercials were also great, but then whiny people with “tension neck syndrome” got all cry baby about it.

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• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and then they beat it into the ground like every other popular commercial.

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