Indazone
11-24-2008, 05:35 PM
Have you guys seen this yet? Pretty funny.
Yao to Barkley, "Don't be a baby! Eat the Head" LOL
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTQ2MTU1NjA=.html (http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTQ2MTU1NjA=.html)
Yao to Barkley: Try the shrimp
T-Mobile campaign puts Rockets center to work as cuisine advocate
By DAVID BARRON
Nov. 20, 2008, 4:10PM
The continuing melodrama of Charles Barkley and Dwyane Wade and, of course, their cellular telephones, launched a new season Thursday night with the addition to the mix of Rockets center Yao Ming and a bowl of live shrimp.
In the advertisement for T-Mobile, which premiered Thursday night on TNT, Barkley and Wade are presented at a Chinese restaurant with what the waitress describes as Yao’s favorite dish – drunken shrimp, which are freshwater shrimp delivered to the table alive but stunned by immersion in a potent Chinese liquor.
Barkley, who as we know from a previous T-Mobile advertisement does not eat shrimp, and Wade balk at the delicacy but are prodded by the cook, the waitress and Yao.
The center calls in from his mobile phone as one of Barkley’s “Fave Five” with instructions to “eat … the … head … eat … the … head.”
Barkley and Wade, of course, decline.
“Charles might even be a better actor than he was a basketball player,” Yao said in remarks released by the company. “I really like how the commercial turned out, but next time they better really eat the shrimp.”
The new spot, titled “Yao’s Comfort Food” and produced by Publicis West USA in Seattle, is the first of three in T-Mobile’s fourth season of NBA-themed advertisements, said Jenna Beardsley-Smith, the company’s director of advertising. She would not say which players would appear in the future spots.
“We liked the international flavor of it, coming off the heels of the Olympics,” she said. “It reflects the international flavor of the NBA. Yao was a good fit, and he is a very funny man.”
By the way, Beardsley-Smith said no shrimp were actually harmed during the filming of the commercial.
Yao to Barkley, "Don't be a baby! Eat the Head" LOL
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTQ2MTU1NjA=.html (http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTQ2MTU1NjA=.html)
Yao to Barkley: Try the shrimp
T-Mobile campaign puts Rockets center to work as cuisine advocate
By DAVID BARRON
Nov. 20, 2008, 4:10PM
The continuing melodrama of Charles Barkley and Dwyane Wade and, of course, their cellular telephones, launched a new season Thursday night with the addition to the mix of Rockets center Yao Ming and a bowl of live shrimp.
In the advertisement for T-Mobile, which premiered Thursday night on TNT, Barkley and Wade are presented at a Chinese restaurant with what the waitress describes as Yao’s favorite dish – drunken shrimp, which are freshwater shrimp delivered to the table alive but stunned by immersion in a potent Chinese liquor.
Barkley, who as we know from a previous T-Mobile advertisement does not eat shrimp, and Wade balk at the delicacy but are prodded by the cook, the waitress and Yao.
The center calls in from his mobile phone as one of Barkley’s “Fave Five” with instructions to “eat … the … head … eat … the … head.”
Barkley and Wade, of course, decline.
“Charles might even be a better actor than he was a basketball player,” Yao said in remarks released by the company. “I really like how the commercial turned out, but next time they better really eat the shrimp.”
The new spot, titled “Yao’s Comfort Food” and produced by Publicis West USA in Seattle, is the first of three in T-Mobile’s fourth season of NBA-themed advertisements, said Jenna Beardsley-Smith, the company’s director of advertising. She would not say which players would appear in the future spots.
“We liked the international flavor of it, coming off the heels of the Olympics,” she said. “It reflects the international flavor of the NBA. Yao was a good fit, and he is a very funny man.”
By the way, Beardsley-Smith said no shrimp were actually harmed during the filming of the commercial.