Faster Than a Man in Tights

Ad: Faster than a man in tights.Speedster? Check.
“World’s fastest man?” Check.
Skin-tight costume? Check.
Wings on head? Check.
Lightning motif? Check.
Round insignia on chest? Check.
Yellow boots? Check.

I first saw this ad for movietickets.com with 3:10 To Yuma a few years back. You may have seen it. He’s trying to impress his date by running and buying the tickets for their movie while they’re still at dinner. The show’s sold out, but it turns out she’s already bought the tickets online. Amazingly, they’ve got the video clip online…

I haven’t been quite sure what to do with it, since I’m not ready to start in on listing every parody of the Flash to ever appear in media.

Hmm, now that I think about it, the Blur in that Baby Ruth commercial back in the 90s was blue, too.

Originally posted at K-Squared Ramblings in 2007

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3 thoughts on “Faster Than a Man in Tights

  1. Kyer

    I don’t think this is quite what that Guardian guy meant when he told Blue Lantern Barry to go out and spread the message.

    (Which brings up a point…the heroes could have just sent out text messages.)

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    1. Kelson Post author

      I remember Wally once wrote and personally delivered a letter to Jay because it was faster than picking up the phone and dialing.

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      1. kyer

        True..but that was Wally. This is Barry. Mr. Always Late. ;P

        Oh hey! ONLY A COUPLE OF HOURS UNTIL YOUNG JUSTICE ON CARTOON NETWORK! Gotta go check to see if I can pawn a disk off of my sibling.

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