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Okay, tell us we're not the only ones that see the resemblance. We're talking about that new T-Mobile ad where the dad walks around and tells his daughter there's the "no Derek who drives Mustangs" clause in the new contract - if you haven't seen it, it's posted right here at Videogum. It's as though they thoughtfully saw through time, and brought back a near-future Richard Roeper to star in the spot.
But it's not just the physical resemblance. Two things: Roeper the Dad would totally get busted checking out a random MILF at soccer practice. He'd also be the kind of dad that tries to relate to his spawn by using hip, with-it lingo like "Duuuuuuuude." Maybe we're nuts. But we don't think so. You decide.
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Welcome to the "Nail On The Head" Club. I hadn't thought of this, but it sort of makes sense. Although I didn't see the physical resemblence. the attempts to remain "hip" in the fact of a receding hairline and a proceeding gut is spot on.
Hasn't "Dude" been used in the language since like the '70s? Not sure what the point of this article is. Roeper sucks? Meh.. Me thinks it's much worse to get the vapors over him.
If I had more competent Photoshop skills, I would have pulled a still from later in the spot, as the resemblance is much more noticable.
As to the point: Does there need to be one? I got a kick out of the similarity, that's all. And yes, as to your point to the dialogue - it would have been funnier if he said something to the effect of, "Oh, snap" or "sick burn" or the like.
dick groeper
Does anybody else remember the columns that Dippy Doper wrote in the 90s ripping SNL for its Chris Farley-Alec Baldwin Boy Scout skit, ripping the film Primal Fear for being anti-Catholic (in Dippy's opinion), and ripping female humorists in general because Dippy finds it impossible that women can be funny.
Nope, don't see it. The T-Mobile guy is missing the upward pig snout.
"Dude" dates back at least as far back as "dude ranch," sometime before the 1930's.
I meant "Dude" in the same way it's used now.