Yeah, like I say, I may be putting too much backstory on to it. It just seems like, if you want to convey a lighthearted attitude toward life, have the kid riding a bike on his back tire without a destroyed front tire. Then it looks like he wants to, because it’s fun, not because he has to, because his crushing poverty does not let him get his tire fixed.
Yeah, sounds like some pseudo-Latin accent. I was surprised when I looked it up and found out she’s not only American, but from my hometown area. I’m guessing the song is from a soundtrack album of a Broadway play where she plays a character with an accent.
I’m thinking the Volkswagen commercial for the ID. Buzz, its new electric minivan, is intended to remind people of the fond memories they have of the original VW Microbus.
Riding on the back tire since you just had what looks like a pretty serious bike accident and need to get your bike home, somehow, to fix it, still doesn’t exactly convey a sense of ‘we’re having fun’.
Hey, I enjoyed driving the one I’ve had a chance to drive. Riding over the front wheels of a vehicle is a unique and engaging experience, even if it is generally more dangerous than riding behind them.
We inherited a conversion van from my parents. One day I looked up the crash test info… pretty safe except for one little spot: the driver’s left foot is one of the crumple zones.
Seriously, they had footage (heh) of a crash test dummy with one mangled foot.
Told my wife we should practice our high kicks in case we’ve got some warning of a crash.
Somebody decided that this was the perfect time for a new assault on our senses by those obnoxious Sesame Street puppets. I’m not sure what the product is, credit cards?
There’s a terrible commercial airing on Hulu/MAX, and quite likely elsewhere, for the Cirkul water supplement that is beyond annoying. I’m not even going to go looking for it, because it really is that bad.
Being Hulu/MAX, I can’t skip it or fast-forward through it, either. Muting it helps.
There’s an indoor water park somewhere around here called Wolf Lodge. Some marketing genius thought a good “jingle” would be to use Chic’s La Freak and replace “freak out” with “wolf out”. It’s as if it was created by someone’s eight year old on ‘Take Your Child to Work Day’.
I mean, if your going to skip the creative part and just use an old song, why not just use one with the “wolf” already baked in, a la Hungry Like the Wolf ?
I hate “Wolf Out,” but if they start using “Hungry Like the Wolf” I will riot in the streets. “We Quilt This City” gets my vote for the worst abuse of lyrics in a commercial.
