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Southwest Airlines apologized the other day. No, not because their pilots were sleeping on the job and missing their destination. And not because they ran out of peanuts. They should apologize for the on-flight movie being The Proposal, and having enough headsets for everyone.
What they apologized for is kicking a mother off a plane, because she had an unruly 2-year-old.
They later apologized to the woman and aside from her full refund, they gave her a $300 travel voucher. The boy was screaming before take-off “Go plane, go!” He also threw in a few screeching yells of “I want daddy!”
The mother tried to assure everyone the boy would be fine once the plane took off. My guess is…if you have a kid you can’t control, things aren’t going to get any better at 30,000 feet.
The woman now wants to be compensated for a portable crib and diapers she said she bought for the night away from home.
I’ll chip in five bucks for a muzzle to give her kid the next time they fly, or she decides to take him to an R rated movie.
I can’t believe the airline even issued an apology for doing something everyone else on the plane was thrilled about.
But someone that I do think owes people an apology is comedian and actor David Spade.
I always loved when he’d wheel his chair onto the Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” segment to make fun of celebs. His TV show wasn’t half-bad, but he’s real hit-and-miss in movies (more miss).
Well, DirecTV has been doing commercials that I think are very clever. They take a clip from a popular film, like Alien. And just as Sigourney Weaver is about to be attacked by the alien, she looks at the camera and talks about how much she wishes she had DirecTV. These are done with the same concept as those beer commercials I hate, with the guys asking NFL coaches at a press conference, various beer related questions.
I thought it was in poor taste for Spade to agree to do one that shows his Tommy Boy co-star (and fellow SNL cast member) Chris Farley dancing around the room. For those that don’t know, Farley died. And something about that just seems icky to me.
I didn’t have as much of a problem when John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and even Gene Kelly was in a commercial dancing with a vacuum. Those are odd, too. But a lot of time had passed since their death. And I thought something was kinda sweet about seeing Natalie Cole singing with her late pop.
I had mentioned in a previous blog, it being bizarre that Billy Mays commercials were still running; especially with the talk of him having cocaine in his system.
Spade says he doesn’t know why everyone is so offended because of the ad. But he had always been very protective of the Farley legacy.
And it seemed easy enough for him to tell the DirecTV people “Can’t we pick another movie of mine, where you don’t need a fat extra dressed like Farley and dancing in front of me? How about a scene from Joe Dirt?
Easy enough to have Spade grow the mullet to make an easy 100 grand for a commercial.
Southwest Airlines apologized the other day. No, not because their pilots were sleeping on the job and missing their destination. And not because they ran out of peanuts. They should apologize for the on-flight movie being The Proposal, and having enough headsets for everyone.
What they apologized for is kicking a mother off a plane, because she had an unruly 2-year-old.
They later apologized to the woman and aside from her full refund, they gave her a $300 travel voucher. The boy was screaming before take-off “Go plane, go!” He also threw in a few screeching yells of “I want daddy!”
The mother tried to assure everyone the boy would be fine once the plane took off. My guess is…if you have a kid you can’t control, things aren’t going to get any better at 30,000 feet.
The woman now wants to be compensated for a portable crib and diapers she said she bought for the night away from home.
I’ll chip in five bucks for a muzzle to give her kid the next time they fly, or she decides to take him to an R rated movie.
I can’t believe the airline even issued an apology for doing something everyone else on the plane was thrilled about.
But someone that I do think owes people an apology is comedian and actor David Spade.
I always loved when he’d wheel his chair onto the Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” segment to make fun of celebs. His TV show wasn’t half-bad, but he’s real hit-and-miss in movies (more miss).
Well, DirecTV has been doing commercials that I think are very clever. They take a clip from a popular film, like Alien. And just as Sigourney Weaver is about to be attacked by the alien, she looks at the camera and talks about how much she wishes she had DirecTV. These are done with the same concept as those beer commercials I hate, with the guys asking NFL coaches at a press conference, various beer related questions.
I thought it was in poor taste for Spade to agree to do one that shows his Tommy Boy co-star (and fellow SNL cast member) Chris Farley dancing around the room. For those that don’t know, Farley died. And something about that just seems icky to me.
I didn’t have as much of a problem when John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and even Gene Kelly was in a commercial dancing with a vacuum. Those are odd, too. But a lot of time had passed since their death. And I thought something was kinda sweet about seeing Natalie Cole singing with her late pop.
I had mentioned in a previous blog, it being bizarre that Billy Mays commercials were still running; especially with the talk of him having cocaine in his system.
Spade says he doesn’t know why everyone is so offended because of the ad. But he had always been very protective of the Farley legacy.
And it seemed easy enough for him to tell the DirecTV people “Can’t we pick another movie of mine, where you don’t need a fat extra dressed like Farley and dancing in front of me? How about a scene from Joe Dirt?
Easy enough to have Spade grow the mullet to make an easy 100 grand for a commercial.