Carrie, you loosened up a bit it seems. Was it a raise in salary or email from a suitor? Or both, perhaps?

Welcome to America, Alex – a land of plenty of kolbasa for everyone. We are all friends here.

What makes Six Flags Guy an exception? He looks old, but he’s acceptable onscreen because he behaves like a child on a sugar-binge: dancing energetically, making goofy faces, grooving to youthful music, riding coasters. He represents the only acceptable kind of old person: perpetually healthy and childlike. (And given that there’s actually an athletic young woman inside this suit, I could even argue — tongue-in-cheekily — that this guy is sort of an age-ist equivalent to the old minstrel shows where white performers put on blackface. But if I went down that silly rabbit hole I’d never come out.)

Much as I’m tired of the Cialis ads (does every man taking erectile dysfunction drugs have an outdoor clawfooted bathtub and a vineyard?), at least they have a more graceful tone on aging issues.

Every year a new bunch of them young prats descend locust like upon this wonderful city from each and every provincial hole on the US territory. They share some crappy basement by a dozen during the night while subserviently serving lawyers, lobbyists, politicians and corporations during the day. They visit the National Zoo, Adams Morgan and Black Cat. They hang around Dupont Circle. They learn opinions. Before long the young dolts become deluded to such a degree as to think themselves urban sophisticates. They’re above Virginia and PG County, if you please. They think they have a taste in music while it’s quite evident the only taste they have is in their mouths. Doped with consumption and porn and TV, they think they’re clever and classless and free. But they’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see. Get back to where you belong, yo.

Wow, Carrie. It’s just a commercial. The old guy is meant to show young and old alike can enjoy Six Flags. It’s fun, it’s a party. I’ve seen all kinds of kids do goof take offs of the old guy and techno music. They get it. How hateful to say the guy looks like a predator! You can’t tell those creeps from their looks, but by how they are in person.
Old doesn’t mean dead. I’m disgusted with the whole concept of
“youth” culture and what is or is not appealing! The old guy is fit, can still dance and was smart enough to invest for retirement instead of spending it all on botox. I like that iconic old buzzard. I will
agree on clowns in make up being scary.

As I live and flourish… SarahG, otro vez. Jolly good posts, by the way.

I guess that’s kinda like episode of “South Park” when Stan’s grandfather traps the kids in a room with Enya’s “Orinoco Flow,” just to show them what old age is like.

Six Flags’ marketing team should have come up with a more appealing spokesperson, like, say, Tommy Necker, The Little Boy Who Was Decapitated on a Six Flags Coaster.