After the internet was triggered by a Peloton ad featuring a yuppie buying a $2,500 exercise bike for his already-thin girl, not known on Twitter as “Peloton wife,” actor Ryan Reynolds came up with a brilliant idea;
He hired Peloton Wife – since identified as actress Monica Ruiz, and made a commercial for his Aviation Gin brand.
Seen by over 6 million people since its Friday release, the ad features Ruiz sitting at a bar, flanked by two supportive friends. Clearly shaken from her Peloton experience, she looks at her drink and says “This gin is really smooth,” before downing the entire drink.
“You look great, by the way” says one of the other actresses – playing off the recent outrage over the Peloton commercial in which “Grace from Boston” documents a year in her life since her male partner gave her the expensive exercise bike.
Exercise bike not included. #AviationGin pic.twitter.com/jYHW74h81l
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) December 7, 2019
The ad sparked a mass triggering – with some suggesting it was about a thin woman under pressure to lose even more weight for her man. On Monday, writer and comedian Eva Victor made a parody that went viral, in which she passive aggressively thanks her man for a “fucking workout bike for Christmas.”
when my husband gets me a Peleton for Christmas …….. pic.twitter.com/Z2d3ewMhPu
— Eva Victor (@evavictor) December 2, 2019
In response, Peloton shares fell 7.4% last week, while “Peloton” was as more popular search term than “impeachment” according to Google Trends.
This week there have been more US Google searches for Peloton than impeachment. pic.twitter.com/Jo0YR4UsMs
— Elliott Schwartz (@elliosch) December 4, 2019
Now watch the ads together:
This is what you get when you put together the Peloton ad and the Ryan Reynolds gin ad as one continuous story. Art. pic.twitter.com/WYlP6grZ2j
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) December 7, 2019
Ruiz told Deadline that the Peloton team “was lovely to work with,” adding “Although I’m an actress, I am not quite comfortable being in spotlight and I’m terrible on social media.”
“So to say I was shocked and overwhelmed by the attention this week (especially the negative) is an understatement,” she added.
“When Ryan and his production team called about Aviation Gin, they helped me find some humor in the situation.”
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
Everyone with a Twatter account is a comedian.
Beep. Beep.
Damn it. No wonder no one laughs at my jokes.
Make me a sammich
The only people who drink gin are those who try to fool the rest of the players at the poker table…..
No way. It’s one half of the best anti-malaria cure ever.
Two women getting their friend hammered and talking about “new beginnings” makes me wonder what sort of video comes out of that night together.
You know, even if you are skinny, riding a stationary bike to stay in shape is a sound move. And if the wife actually wanted the Peloton, why is it a problem that her husband got it for her? Our society is truly fucked up.
Now getting her knee pads, unzipping his pants, and saying “Merry Christmas” could certainly be an offensive commercial. But the days of commercials like that are long gone.
Classic.
See, there is so much to be taken from the two non related commercials. Other than the actress. Are they saying women cannot appear in more than one commercial???
1) maybe the husband died?
2) maybe he dumped her?
3) maybe she dumped him?
4) maybe he refused to become a vegan?
5) maybe all that soy he was drinking, shriveled up his manhood and she was on the prowl for a new man of larger meat?
6) maybe he realized he was a woman stuck in a mans body?
7) maybe she realized she was a man stuck in A woman’s body?
8) maybe her vegan diet did not provide enough nutrients to own a peleton?
9) maybe the damn peleton broke and they cannot afford a new one?
10) maybe just maybe the viewers are just stupid and do not understand there was no point to the commercial other than she had a rough year, it was new years eve and she wanted to make positive changes to her life?
…..
126) maybe, just maybe she did not want to meet an imagined expectation that she must remain skinny for her man and not confronting him to verify that in fact was the issue, like a typical women they expect all men to be mind readers, she just assumed this was the problem and a year later she realizes how unhappy she was and began a new beginning…..it never stated why.
There are over 12,168 points of assumptions we could make based on that commercial series but hey we can all agreed men are bad, are pigs, and compromise women just by us breathing. Yup thats it.
“Our” society? Ya got a turd in your pocket?
As a “first year Boomer”, ’46 – the year “the wholesale bleeding ended and breeding started”, drafted ‘Nam VFW, ’69, and former int’l vagabond/expat for many years, I sadly agree w/ your terse accessment of the current social condition already being in serious FUBAR territory. I haven’t experienced/seen it all but more than enough to know this “nation-state” is headed for a very serious “ruckus”. Considering the current state of such blatant corruption, selective enforcement and turpitude, I’m daily increasingly grateful to be old and, as of this posting . . . “a little closer to Home”. 2020 may very well be the commencement of such social/political and financial chaos as never experienced before.
IF:
1) The DemonRATs & Co rig enough of the election process/ballot tabulation to SEIZE POWER – there will [eventually] be WAR.
2) The Trumpster and conservatives somehow again prevail against all odds, causing the DemonRAT’s Soros-subsidized DummyBrat chump-changers to go bat-schiff crazy – there will [quickly] be WAR.
WAR is the ultimate distraction/grifting tool used by the int’l banksters/financial [d]elites to “exit, stage left”/bug out to their remote, undisclosed, well provisioned/secured digs from which they will again proceed to fund ALL the belligerents and . . . then the REBUILD with FIAT DEBT, “FUNDED” into circulation on the “AUTHORized sigs of the pleb borrowers – the coupon/interest portion, of course, remaining UNfunded recycling their next pyramid ponzi and eventual asset xfer.
I still continue to maintain that history will eventually identify the GENESIS of the GreatER Depression to be 2007-08. That the PRIVATELY-held [NOT]Federal[NO]Reserve will “QE to infinity” with its interest-encumbered FIAT DEBT currency/electronic digits “’till the fat lady croaks/the golden goose’s bones get picked clean”. Whenever additional injections of “liquidity” will no longer “cover” the coupons/interest on the burgeoning debt/bonds/paper; calls for physical delivery on precious metal contracts/ETFs go unsettled and the subsequent cascade of derivative defaults occurs, the greatest MOAP – ‘Mother of All Ponzis’ – in recorded history EVER, will implode. Then . . . there will be another big-ass WAR.
yo fellow “fly-over deplorables”: hunkered-down, gathered/grouped, gunned, gardened and . . . SIMPLIFIED on a portion of arable, inland, rural, UNencumbered/UNaddressed county dirt yet, BEFORE those most brutal/toughest remaining of the unprepared, displaced, desperate zombie “citYzens/urbies/coasters” “come-a-call’n” and it’s “unlock, fire at will, pass the ammo” time? Tick-tock.
Psst – TheLord’s “Blessing/Will from the Beginning” is being revealed: FELLOWSHIP of the REPENTed/REDEEMed. When/where “two or more GATHER . . .”, What/Who “abides”?
MAGA – Make America GRATEFUL/GRACIOUS ALWAYS.
NO FEAR/HATE – parry past all the corp-owned media bull-schiff.
“JC, always before of me”! Hoo-rah.
Watching college football. Aside from personally fighting an enemy this is as close as it gets. Peleton? What that? Sounds really femmy but, go ahead… oh yes, femmy. Enjoy.
Oinkly. No one uses one of these who needs one. Further, if you set one of these up in the living room, pretty soon your living room smells like oxidized sweat… piss, in other words.
Nope. It’s just a place to hang your shirts.
After watching the commercial i have been using my year old peleton completely wrong? Omg. So, it’s not for throwing my work shirts on as a temporary hanger before shoving into the cleaners bag?
I had a Soloflex for that in the 80s, then a Nordic Track in the 90s.
We got the Inversion Table set up today!
How long before I drape laundry over it?
Pretty sad that people have become so shallow they imply a bike gift ends in divorce. We’ve come a long way from “Till death do us part”.
Talk about a tempest in a teapot. Just look at the current articles on this site. North Korea walking away from disarmament talks, looming rece/depression, inflation, farm failures, black chicks with back cleavage as big as their front cleavage, civil war, global unrest… and people are upset about a fucking exercise bike ad? Good thing we got time to be upset about this shit, because I thought there were some important things going on in the world.
You know people have a bias when they look at everything through a one lense micro aggression trying to correlate everything they see and hear to their cause. These people are so biased and close minded, the party of tolerance…..LMFAO
Excellent.