I saw this commercial the other day for a local water park. It was shot on video (as opposed to film) so it had, what I call, the “we filmed this commercial in our backyard” look.
The amateur approach to this commercial gave me a flash back to a commercial that I was almost a cast member of:
Let’s say it was 1986. I’m not exactly sure of the year but I feel like I was about nine. I was in Girl Scout Troop 114 (that I AM sure of) and we went on this excursion one Saturday that involved the most random of events:
First, we went to the local junior college to get our hair and make-up done. The cosmetology students there fixed us up with tons of blue eye shadow, blush and lip stick. Then they topped us off with up-dos. Some of us got French braids. I’m not sure which is funnier.
And we were wearing our Girl Scout uniforms, mind you.
Then we all went to this roller skating rink. Now the roller skating rink was owned by the dad of this girl in our troop named Becky Jo. (That’s not her real name but it was a double name that sounded like she belonged in a double wide.)
Anyway, Becky Jo’s dad claimed he had bought commercial space on MTV and needed to film a spot about the rink. Of course, we didn’t understand that a commercial on MTV could be local and only run in the middle of the night. We thought we were going to be seen by millions of MTV watching music fans, all over the country, all the time. There would be a Madonna video followed by Girl Scout Troop 114, roller skating around in our make-up and up-dos.
So we roller skated around and around while the cameras (or the dude with the small video camera) rolled. It was a pretty easy gig. I don’t know what models are always complaining about.
Then every day after that we tuned into MTV to see our debut. I never saw it. Nobody ever did. What a waste of an up-do!
But at least if I ever get an IMDB profile it won’t list “Becky Jo’s Dad’s Roller Skating Rink Commercial” as my first acting job.
I really regret that I don’t have a picture of this to show you but it kinda looked like this:
3 comments:
This is from mama. I am laughing so hard I am crying. You should have a picture of this with your fellow "up do" scouts. Was this the rink in Pearland or Webster? They are both classy locations.
Maybe you have some pictures somehwere of this! I have a Pearland feeling.
I am thinking it was the Pearwood skating rink!
Maybe if the ad had run, the skating rink would have taken off to be a national sensation, and girls all over would have been sporting up-dos and gobs of make-up while roller skating!
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