Spirit Airlines Releases Sex Commercial, Pisses Everyone Off

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

The economy is in such dire straits, it seems, companies aren't perturbed in the least to hear that their employees are furious about the new marketing plan...

According to the Huffington Post, pilots and flight crew alike are furious at Spirit Airlines for forcing employees to wear aprons with Bug Light's logo on them. Oh, and there's this ad, which has garnerned a whopping 1.5 stars on YouTube since its release and is Spirit's new lead commercial:

As one union spokesperson put it:

"I feel as though I have entered a time warp and am reliving the battles for respect and justice for women that we fought for 40 years ago," Friend said.

Some of Spirit's ads invite customers to enjoy its DD's (deep discounts) and "MILF" (many islands, low fare) specials _ double entendres that also refer to large breasts and a crude acronym popularized in the 1999 movie "American Pie" that describes an attractive mother. [HuffPo]

This may be even sadder than American Apparel using full frontal nudity to sell its... clothing. Correction: this is definitely sadder, because at least those were porn stars.

 

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Comments

Tom_Rakewell said:

I don't understand why you're belittling American Apparel for using full frontal nudity in its ads.  Don't we love those ads?  Isn't that why you post stories about them, so that we can see the hot nude models?  You are here openly pandering to our baser desires, right?  Or is this like Fox News where we pretend that we don't like sexual openness while we revel in stories about sex all day long?

January 31, 2009 4:01 AM

About Brian Fairbanks

Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Nerve, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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