It's Time Again for Those Ludicrous 'Banned' Super Bowl Ads

Sketchy dating site is first to cry foul

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One time-honored Super Bowl tradition involves sketchy advertisers loudly protesting that their proposed Super Bowl commercials have been "banned" for being too risqué—never mind that they almost certainly couldn't afford the $3 million-plus price of entry anyway. Ashley Madison did it last year. Now we have our first shameless player of 2012—TheBigAndTheBeautiful.com, a dating site for plus-size men and women. The company's PR rep insists that the spot below was rejected by NBC. "The ad stars America's Next Top Model winner and plus-sized model Whitney Thompson.

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