Pants on a Hedgehog
Pants on a Hedgehog

First there was lipstick on pigs, now pants on hogs. When will the mischaracterization of our nation's soccer moms and fat men stop?

For its latest "turn off your cell phone during movies" ad, Sprint tells a short story with a moral: It takes many calls to make a movie, but only one to ruin it. And when you make a movie, those many calls are between important Hollywood types, whereas when you ruin a movie with your ridiculous MIDI Für Elise ringtone, it's just a nobody calling a nobody, and that's sad. See the spot here.

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