Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Okay, this has been buggin' me for a while now. And it's most notable in the Fruit of the Loom music video "You Can't Overlove Your Underwear" which a certain other LPer brought up in another thread and unknowingly reminded me of this, lol. The Fruit of the Loom guys...we have apple, green grapes, purple grapes...and what the heck is that leaf guy?? Surely he wouldn't be tobacco...fig maybe? This is more mysterious than the whole Tootsie Pops licks thang...
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Underwear? Again? LOL! j/k Fig is my answer. Adam and Eve. You know. Subliminal like. LOL What did you think it was?
Originally Posted By mele Found this: The Fruit Guys - Personification of the corporate logo for the Fruit of the Loom underwear company which features a bunch of fruit (two grape clusters, a fig leaf and an apple). In their ad spots, human actors wear life-size costumes that represent the same pieces of fruit. The apple character wears the body of an apple and hat shaped like a core; the two grape guys (green and purple) wear costumes that resemble a stripper covered with balloons at a burlesque house, and closing out the fruity quartet is a guy dressed in a fig leaf costume. The fig leaf, of course, is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that historically (in art history circles) the fig leaf has been used to cover the genital areas of famous statuary/painting representing nude men and women.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck You know what bugs me more about that commercial than the fruit guys? The fact that they got Collin Raye (at least thats who it sounds like to me) to do a song about underwear for a commercial!!
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Ah, so it *is* a fig...okay...love the "inside joke" part from the industry, Lol. And LOL@CollinRaye! I've always wondered the same thing "Is that Collin Raye singing a sensitive Fruit of the Loom ballad??" LOL
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Omg it *is* him! LOL! =============================== FRUIT OF THE LOOM COMMERCIAL I know, I know............. Many of you have been asking "Is that Collin's voice lending to the new Fruit Of The Loom Commercial"? Well, you guessed it! YES IT IS!! That's Collin singing "You Can't Over Love" <Source: Kathy Carter, Assistant to Collin's Manager and President of The Collin Raye Fan Club> ======================= LOL! <a href="http://www.collinraye.com/news/news.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.collinraye.com/news /news.shtml</a> And I found a link to this, but I can't read the text here at work because blogs are blocked: <a href="http://aoprep.blogspot.com/2005/11/yes-that-is-collin-raye-singing-you.html" target="_blank">http://aoprep.blogspot.com/200 5/11/yes-that-is-collin-raye-singing-you.html</a> (looks promising though, lol)
Originally Posted By mele My first impression of the ad was "oh gross!" until I realized it was a song about underwear and sung by an apple. LOL I have to sing along with it now. That and Big Buckin' Chicken.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling har, har, har, smart aleck. It's just that it is so rare that I'm right about something I thought it was noteworthy. LOL
Originally Posted By knightnfrees I'm glad we got to the core of the Fruit of the Loom Mystery...It's just De..vine. Hmm, Go fig.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Just took some thinkin' from our li'l melons...sometimes a pear of LPers can fig-er somethin' out! Just peachy.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck It really is Collin Raye?!?!? OMG!! Wow I hope he got a good hunk of pocket change for doing that!! Oh and don't get me started on the big buckin' chicken!!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb oooh Knight, that was so bad! I cringed I laughed it was a knight to remember
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Ketchup is made from tomatoes. Tomatoes is a fruit. Why are there no tomatoes on Fruit of the Loom underwear?
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Because the common misconception is that 'maters are veggies. Unlike Tow Mater, who we all know is a car. ;-)
Originally Posted By chickendumpling <<. Why are there no tomatoes on Fruit of the Loom underwear?>> Same reason there is no banana.