The ad I choose for my discussion is a tv commercial which aired during the 2010 Super Bowl. The reason I picked this commercial is because of it's great sense of humor and it's ability to utilize several concepts Julia B. Corbett discusses in her article, "A Faint Green Sell: Advertising and the Natural World" (235). In the opening scene we see a young white male purchasing groceries and is asked whether he would like paper or plastic. After a sudden pause, he decides to go with plastic, when out of nowhere he is tackled by another white pale dress in what seems like a security officer's uniform with the exception of green pants. Thereafter; he states he is a green police officer and apprehenns the suspect for committing a crime against
