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Boy. Kevin Smith really will not let this Southwest Air thing go. On the bright side, perhaps he will commit himself to fighting Southwest Air online full time, and retire from making movies. FINGERS CROSSED. In any case, he has now “challenged” Southwest Air to “prove” that he can’t fit in the seats. Finally! Some comical clown justice in this world! I stopped following Kevin Smith on Twitter in January as part of my New Year’s resolution to stop following people who wrote too many tweets about their wife’s taint, but the Huffington Post is on the case:
“Hey @SouthwestAir: you bring that same row of seats to the DailyShow, and I’ll sit in ‘em for all to see on TV,” he tweeted. “If I don’t fit, I’ll donate $10k to charity of your choice. But when I do (& buckle the belt as well)? 1) You admit you lied. 2) Change your policy, or at least re-train your staff to be a lot more human & a lot less corporate when they pull a poor girl off the plane & shame her.”
Hey, Kevin Smith, here is an idea: how about you just give $10k to charity and MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE. There is nothing that more quickly demonstrates the upsidedowny misguided priorities and false populism of a celebrity’s self-righteous indignation than when they use a charitable donation that might actually make the world a better place for real human beings as a fucking bargaining tool to get their self-indulgent point across. Like, no matter how embarrassing this whole thing has been for Kevin Smith, fat people fly on planes all the time without his help, and I’m sure Southwest Airlines already IS reviewing their corporate policy, and he’s still a millionaire, and he got to Burbank in the end thank God, and there are actual real problems in this world that require focus and attention, so, you know, relax, HERO.
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“Hey,@SouthwestAir: How ’bout I get off my fat, doughnut eating laurels and make something funny and relevant for a change?”
We live in a world where large numbers of people are currently persecuting gingers and this moron spends his time complaining about seats?!?! He should be ashamed.
I heard a ginger was sitting next to him and is the reason for this whole mess.
Boo.
Kevin Smith is the MLK of fat people on airplanes. “I have a dream that my two little children will be able to sit comfortably beside their father and use their armrests!” Don’t quote me on that, it’s Kevin Smith, I think.
I think he’s more like Rosa Parks, except he’s stuck in the bus seat.
i’m 6′ 4” 240 lbs and I fit easily in airplane seats. at least width wise, sometimes my knees are smashed in my chest.
that being said, he needs to be a bit less Kevin Smith and a bit more Silent Bob about this.
you see what I did there?
Very unfriendly, Kevin Smith.
I wonder if they forced him off the plane not because he was too fat for their seats, but because they knew the unlucky soul who had to sit next to him would be terrorized with tales of his wife’s taint pwning his balls for ten years.
If this happens and Smith can’t fit Southwest should donate that 10K to treating Anorexia patients.
These are trying times and I am glad Kevin Smith is identifying the real corporate evil for us. I am curious though…what is up with his wife’s taint? Has there been any news?
What’s Up with Kevin Smith’s Wife’s Taint? could be a new feature here.
Oh my…
There are few things grosser than talking about your wife’s brown taint but sure enough, Kevin Smith has manage to out-gross himself with this vivid description of how he got off jury duty.
Hint : anal fissure
http://silentbobspeaks.com/?p=211
He should Operation: Dumbo Drop this issue. Paving the way for fat people to become fatter is never a good move (this coming from a fat guy)
“C’mon, @SouthwestAir, don’t Cop Out on this! (in theaters Feb. 26th)”
I just want to tell you that some people have war in their countries!
True story: I went to Zack & Miri Make a Porno and almost left when I realized during the opening credits that it was a Kevin Smith movie. (I should have.) Fact: Kevin Smith movies are no longer marketed as Kevin Smith movies. For example: Did you know that the Cop Out is a KS movie? It is mentioned nowhere in the 30 billion commercials that air.
I’m not even sure what his argument is…that Southwest should not have a “too fat for one seat” policy, or that they should have such a policy and he simply was not quite fat enough for it to have applied to him? It seems only common sense that at some point, a “too fat for one seat” policy is legitimate. Some people are very, very fat, and planes are small. It’s science. Also – who is the poor girl being shamed in this scenario? Is it Kevin Smith? Is it his wife’s taint? Please keep in mind that when you are too fat for the armrest to go down, that the person in the seat next to you is f’ed.
Kevin Smith likens himself to a poor, humiliated girl? Perhaps the years of torment from Jason Mewes have had an effect. Way to bury the lede, Gabe.
While I wish that was true, actually a woman on the plane was also kicked off for breaking the fat rule.
May I submit that Southwest airlines institute a “talks too much for one seat” policy, which goes with the “coughing too much next to my face for one seat” policy.
If Kevin Smith is reading this, don’t be surprised if he steals Gabe’s first two tags on this post for his biopic, Fatso Justice.
This could be only be more awesome if Southwest’s charity of choice was E-Meters for Haiti.
While I feel bad for the guy, I don’t at the same time. Obviously there was some miscommunication somewhere and neither side wants to own up to it. Thus the bitching from Smith’s front and the half-hearted apologies from SW’s front will continue… *forever*.
On another note, I find my icon highly appropriate in this situation. Though when I was passing by CNN the other day there are groups that are so strongly NO FATTIES it’s kind of terrifying.
Clone High! That show was so great.
Know what? I really don’t care, it might be the fact that I fit into a seat on a plane.
Lots Of Love Gabe, but please try to make 2010 the year in which no LOST recap is ever asked to wait even a minute for a post about a fat guy who tweets about his wife’s taint.
Also, even if you can get the armrest down, your large arms attached to your large upper body are not restrained, and will spend the entire flight pressed into the person next to you.
Flight attendant: “Would you like some orange juice?”
Passenger: “Yes, I would. Please put it on the tray right next to Mr Smith’s sweaty elbow. Thanks!”
Phew. I was starting to feel sorry for Kevin Smith in this whole affair. I’m glad I don’t have to do that anymore. It was uncomfortable.
Also: Kevin Smith, please don’t drag The Daily Show into your petty public arguments with an airline.
Yeah – did he even check with the Daily Show producers before he floated this proposition? I bet they’re thrilled.
Smith has twittered that he isn’t asking for special treatment from SWA in this matter as a celebrity because he’s simply not a celebrity. Weird how a non-celebrity like Smith is willing and able to make a challenge to SWA for a future segment on the Daily Show, huh?
He’s asking for all people who are borderline cases to be treated with a bit more dignity. If they think you might be a little big, they might say something when you are buying your ticket, or checking in, or about to get on the plane. Instead they wait until you are already on the plane in your seat, and so you can’t really freak out about being told to leave. And the whole “our specific rule we tell you is about not being able to put down the arm rests but if you can put down the arm rests that isn’t good enough.”
While he may be being obnoxious about it, it seems like the people at that airport were being rude. Heck, not to be all seriousgum, but it’s nice to see the reset button hasn’t stopped us from hating on fatties.
I gotta say, it’s pretty incredible to me how poorly reported this whole thing’s been. Smith was taken off the plane because of a SouthWest fuck up, but the reason he’s so angry (according to him, anyway) is because some fat girl he found himself sitting next to on the flight they ended up putting him on got taken off the plane and was told she should “think about buying a second seat” , despite the fact that there was an empty seat between the girl and smith. I agree that Smith should probably chill out about it with this Daily Show stuff, but the bit about the girl is pretty vital piece of the story that NO ONE IS REPORTING in favor just ripping on Smith.
That makes a much different story, you’re right. And while my interest in getting to the bottom of this is minimal, I do maintain that a “too fat for one seat” policy is at some point sensible. As a fairly large person in my own right, airplane seats are uncomfortable enough when everyone is within the space allotted to them. When the person next to you is spilling over into yours, it’s all but unbearable.
Of course, sooner or later, they’ll get the seats small enough so most people have to buy 2, and then the fatties will have to buy 3. I’ve seen buses with more room to sit that quite a few planes. It’s nice of them to make the planes capable of holding smaller than average people to make it extra uncomfortable for everyone, but every extra person you can cram in, all the better.
The worst part though is the girl who apparently was spilling over into the empty seat that Kevin Smith was spilling over into … and so she should buy another seat to not inconvenience the person that was a seat away from her. And that was after the woman paid extra money to get the “business class” (first on the plane, first choice of seat).
And on the note of first class travel … that’s as first class as they get … they let you get on first, pick your own seat, and then they treat you rudely. Hell, in the whole story they kept ripping off Kevin Smith because their policy is YOU HAVE TO GET ON THE PLANE RIGHT NOW!
I’m all for anything that keeps him away from filmaking, even if only for a moment.
I dunno, in my book, the guy has a lifetime pass for Clerks. But then, I grew up in New Jersey and lived in Belmar and basically knew a lot of Jays and Dantes and Randals in 1994.
I don’t know, I think Smith has a lifetime whatever-the-opposite-of-pass-is, for Clerks and everything else.
But really, a person should be able to buy a ticket and go on an airplane, whether they are Kevin Smith, or a fat girl next to Kevin Smith, or anyone else.
“Cop Out” in theatres this Friday, February 19
He needs to properly duct-tape his gut in before he boards, so that he can safely transport the precious cargo of fat he so lovingly maintains. Additionally, he should really stop making movies because he’s honestly not very good at it. [FROWNY FACE EMOTICON!]
KEVIN SMITH is being judged rather HAStily here. Before we tAke this FArTher Let’s not forget that we all recently pushed the reset BUTTon.
This is all a scam to promote Cop Out. Phase two of his plan to make it #1 at the box office next week will be telling his supporters to show their solidarity by purchasing two seats to see it at the movie theater.
Yeah, I have to side with Smith on this one too, not because of his movies (I don’t care whether or not you guys hate Clerks/etc.), or because he was so “wronged” by the airlines (which he freely admits that he’ll be fine and it didn’t bother him as much as the way they handled it) but because he’s really sticking up for this girl who was very clearly humiliated and wronged. To really hear the full side of this story and not base it off of a few “tweets” you should listen to his podcast, specifically the one where the girl tells her side of the story.
that being said: fat jokes are funny.
Someone needs to get over his fat, unfunny ass.
I can’t wait to buy “An Evening With Kevin Smith Part 10″ to hear about all the details. jk LOL @ kevin smith fans.