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by Matt Goldberg Posted:February 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm
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By now, most fans of Kevin Smith are aware of the writer-director’s online scuffle with Southwest Airlines when he was asked to vacate a flight because he was deemed too fat to occupy one seat. What Southwest Airlines didn’t know is that Smith uses Twitter and has 1.6 million followers. After Smith used the power of his online pulpit to grab the attention of Southwest, the airline politely responded that their onboard staff made a judgment call, they apologize for the inconvenience, and will review the policy. Southwest is a pretty good airline and one of the few (if not the only) airlines that hasn’t joined the scam to make customers pay to check bags.
However, the animators of this video interpreted the situation in a generally correct yet delightfully off-kilter manner. I’m not sure if this is a parody of Apple-1 news’ CGI reenactments or the genuine article. Either way, it’s kind of great and you should hit the jump to check it out. And if you don’t know the greatness of these Taiwanese-news CGI reenactments, hit the jump to check out the video that that started it all: Tiger Woods’ wife chasing after him with a golf club.
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IS he really that fat? My dad is like 450 lbs. and even he was able to fly with us, granted he was sitting next to us and we waived the uncomfortableness of it being cramped- but still.
It seems there are more reasons than just your looks and health to be keeping thin, convenience certainly weights in pretty heavily too. :]
thats not how the kevin smith incident went down at all. The video had no humour what so ever, so im not sure if it could even be concider a parody (a boing sound doesnt count).
You should check out his Smodcast videos on the matter – goes on for about an hour and a half but it's worth it to bare witness to the passive aggressive awesomeness that is Kevin Smith.
In brief:
Point 1: 2/3 Americans are overweight.
Point 2: Southwest Airlines don't let overweight people fly.
Conclusion: 2/3 Americans should stop using Southwest Airlines.
That'll hurt their bottom line.
I'll be more than happy to fly Southwest when it becomes fat-free. More room in the seats, and less likelihood of fat slobs snoring or drooling on the next seat. Fat people shouldn't fly, period, as they stopped serving meals on flights anyway.
I too, am a fan of the Denvar Nuggats.
Shouldn't Kevin be doing press for his new movie? Oh wait!
I am tired of people eating too much and then blaming society.
Shouldn't Kevin be doing press for his new movie? Oh wait!
I am tired of people eating too much and then blaming society.
I like this article! Will come again next time for sure, thank again