There’s a new Priceline “Negotiator” commercial starring William Shatner, and in this one King Shat also plays his own evil twin (you can tell he’s evil because he has a goatee and a skull ring on his pinkie — video below). In it, the Rip Torn-lookin’ Evil Shatner is giving bad advice to a man booking online travel plans when Good Shatner busts through the wall and saves the day. As AdFreak noted, the first YouTube commenter scored a win with this bon mot:
Is he really the “good” twin? After all, he did just cut a hole in the side of that guy’s house to tell him that he could save $80.
This is kind of getting away from the point, but Shatner and Rip Torn were born six weeks apart in 1931. Not only do I want them to play evil goateed brothers in a movie, I want that movie to be The Evil Bucket List. It’d just be two hours of them getting drunk and high and pistol-whipping smart-mouthed teens and stranding hookers in the desert.
Here you go, here’s my $12, I’m watching that on opening night.
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Shatner = The Canadian Kool-Aid Man
When I first saw this commercial, it was playing on the other end of a bar I was in, and I thought Evil Shatner was Tim Curry.
Ooh! Tim Curry can play their son!
Wait, uh, can two brothers have a son? Never mind.
Rip Torn really wants to borrow Good William Shatner’s plasma torch for his next trip to the
bankbarbarn.They could have both had sex with the same woman (possibly creepy twin threesome?) and can’t find out who the father is. See? That would work.
And I would pay double to see that movie. Sounds like the best idea for a movie in years.
I’m not even joking when I say that’s a brilliant idea for a movie. The Fuckit List we’ll call it. Or maybe Beer and Shouting in Bank Lobbies
No joke, my dad looks just like old Shatner. Which means….one day I will look like old Shatner. Read em and weep.
When I took the time to alert Priceline of the irony that the Good Shatner leveled about $2000 worth of property damage upon the customers house to save them $80, they replied:
“We understand that you unhappy with our new advertisement starring William Shatner. We take your comments seriously and have forwarded them on to our Marketing team for review. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
Translation: Get a life. Indeed.