king size, and i don't mean my bed

So there I am, happy as a clam, baking away at my kitchen table with some Law & Order rerun on the tv, and this ad comes on that I've never seen before.

In front of some really crappy-looking blue screen action, a couple of happy fat guys are extolling the virtues of the "King Size Catalog," telling us about all the problems that "guys like us" have at the mall...nothing comes in our size, the dressing rooms are uncomfortable, stuff like that. Fortunately, the King Size Catalog is the solution to our problem, because they have all kinds of stuff (even underwear!) in sizes up to 10X.

The ad mentioned that their website can be found at www.kingsizetv.com. It's worth taking a look at, if only to chuckle at the section where they ask you what you were watching when you saw the ad...choices include not only TNT and FX, but also Cheaters, World's Wildest Police Videos, and Rocky II (or, as they put it, "Rocky 2").

The part that cracked me up was the part where I imagined the cheerful Christian wives of the jolly fat guys forgetting the "tv" part of the URL and typing www.kingsize.com into their AOL browser windows.

I personally haven't followed that particular link, but I can pretty well imagine where it goes.

Posted by volfie at September 23, 2003 12:59 PM