I see they changed the ending to the automobile commercial where the little boy has to pee. Instead of him saying “Too late!” as they arrive at their destination, the mother hustles him out of the car and says “Come on!”
I guess someone somewhere finally realized that failing to make it to a toilet on time is not a good way to flog automobiles.
This “Tiny House” commercial for Spectrum plays constantly here in St. Louis. I pretty much hate it because it appears to be three commercials back to back (sometimes I think they only play one of the segments) with the whole thing being a minute long. Which nowadays seems interminable. I do like only one thing about it. In the first of the segments, the guy who lives in the tiny house (evidently named Tony) says that he downsized to match his internet speed while pointing to his head like he thinks “what a great idea” but to me it looks like he had to downsize to match his tiny brain. That little bit makes me chuckle, but the rest of the commercial is kind of silly with him and his guest bumping into stuff inside the tiny house, the dish falling off the roof, Tony trying to duck-tape it back on. The absolute worst part is at about 40 seconds in the production where his guest tells him that Spectrum will buy out your dish contract and tiny house guy says "I never knew! " in such an annoying voice. At the very end of the commercial, the words “to be continued” appear. Please, no more. There were already several commercials with these two guys. Tony was always coming into the other guy’s house to use his internet, have a Super Bowl party on his big screen TV, and so forth. And as many times as I’ve seen those two guys (Tony is the taller, clueless one), I can’t even tell you whether the shorter, Spectrum-having guy is ever called by name.
I am so not eagerly awaiting the continuation, but it might be better than seeing the current iteration seven hundred more times.
That bunch of ads was originally linked to the NCAA basketball tournament. Since that ended nearly a month ago, God knows why they’re still running them.