it's no jockey ad

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If you’re looking for an overweight man to wear Speedos in your TV spot, casting can be a real experience.
Periscope Marketing Communications found that out as it prepared to shoot its latest spot for Arctic Cat’s Tiger Shark dealers. The ad called for a portly man to walk into a Tiger Shark store wearing only a tiny swimsuit. When he offers to pay with a dollar bill pulled from his crotch, the salesman politely refuses.

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