# Identiy Theft Commercials
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 18, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024 "2004-06-18T12:51:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/1 "2004-06-18T12:51:27Z")
These are the commercials where they take “regular” looking folk and do voice overs with someone telling where and what they spent the “regular’s” money. My favorite is the dental hygenist and **Larry** the babe magnet. I find these quite clever and entertaining.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/2 "2004-06-18T12:56:45Z")
The first one, with the “leather bustier,” is IMHO the best. The expression on the victim’s face at the end makes it for me. Really, look at how his trailer is decorated. $1500 is probably three months rent for that place, and some snotty-nosed mallrat spent it on an article of clothing she won’t be wearing (because it’s no longer fashionable) in one month.
Classic.
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### Author:  [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/3 "2004-06-18T13:14:41Z")
**Dr Fidelius** , that is my favorite too. I love the sigh at the end and the look on his face. Very clever idea.
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/4 "2004-06-18T13:18:46Z")
Firewall? That couldn’t stop me. Once I got her account number, I couldn’t spend it fast enough! 64-inch plasma screen monitor, 10 2.4GHz wireless routers … oh, and $20,000 to complete my robot. My _girl_ robot.
This is gonna be the Best. Prom. Ever.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/5 "2004-06-18T13:26:20Z")
Great commercials. Makes me wanna go out and steal somebody’s identity, it sounds so fun!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/6 "2004-06-18T13:27:23Z")
I agree with **lno**. “My _girl_ robot!” is my favourite line in these commercials. (Incidently, I knew someone who talked like that; although he was not computer-literate.)
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### Author:  [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/7 "2004-06-18T15:35:27Z")
They’re all quite clever, but Larry the Babe Magnet is the one that does me in every time. Its that throaty laugh at the end. Oh, and the droll delivery of “freaky-deaky”. What a great phrase.
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/8 "2004-06-18T15:43:16Z")
I’m with **DrF** on the leather bustier version. It’s the look on the guy’s face when he says “lifts and separates” that gets me every time.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/9 "2004-06-18T16:11:29Z")
Another vote for “_girl_ robot.”
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/10 "2004-06-18T16:23:51Z")
What’s really troubling is the words “My _girl_ robot!” coming out of Macy Gray’s twin sister’s face. SHIVERS!
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### Author:  [@Princess\_Ozma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Ozma)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/11 "2004-06-18T16:35:01Z")
Another vote for Larry the Babe Magnet (Hey, that would make a great user name!). My husband and I will immediately stop whatever we are doing to watch, and then we both still crack up every time. (Yes, we have no lives… 😃 )
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### Author:  [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/12 "2004-06-18T17:23:41Z")
> [@lno](#):
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> …10 2.4GHz wireless routers…
IIRC, he actually says 4.2 MHz. Obviously not written by a techie.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/13 "2004-06-18T18:12:19Z")
> [@Princess Ozma](#):
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> Another vote for Larry the Babe Magnet (Hey, that would make a great user name!). My husband and I will immediately stop whatever we are doing to watch, and then we both still crack up every time. (Yes, we have no lives… 😃 )
My husband and I do the same thing over the “leather bustier” one.
My 2nd favorite one is the old woman cleaning her swimming pool – prrrrrr-ah, mammasita! [Watch](http://www.shifthost.com/~johnnykn/lj/citi.htm) how the husband sitting in the background does the “thumbs up” when the woman mentions the mud flaps with the naked ladies on them. Hee.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/14 "2004-06-18T19:05:38Z")
Anyone have links to these commercials online? I’ve only seen one or two, but would like to see them all.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/15 "2004-06-18T19:09:52Z")
> [@Shayna](#):
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> My husband and I do the same thing over the “leather bustier” one.
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> My 2nd favorite one is the old woman cleaning her swimming pool – prrrrrr-ah, mammasita! [Watch](http://www.shifthost.com/~johnnykn/lj/citi.htm) how the husband sitting in the background does the “thumbs up” when the woman mentions the mud flaps with the naked ladies on them. Hee.
The “growling Mommacita” has become one of the biggest jokes in my social circle. And when you make jokes about them in public, everyone knows what you’re talking about, and wants to join in. It’s hysterical!
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### Author:  [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/16 "2004-06-18T19:18:42Z")
Anybody know which agency did them?
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/17 "2004-06-18T19:27:19Z")
Can you believe we all agree on a commercial we _like_? And a _series_ of commercials, yet! 😃
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### Author:  [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/18 "2004-06-18T19:52:40Z")
> [@The world's most deadliest...](#):
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> They’re all quite clever, but Larry the Babe Magnet is the one that does me in every time. Its that throaty laugh at the end. Oh, and the droll delivery of “freaky-deaky”. What a great phrase.
I like these parts: “I had to power up my babe magnet: fresh hair plugs, wax job on the old chassis…ooouuuuchh!” and “Easy ladies, there’s enough Larry for everyone!”
heheheheheh
It’s even funnier that it’s coming out of the mouth of a little Asian lady at a nail salon!
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/19 "2004-06-18T19:56:00Z")
You want to know what’s evil about the commercials?
An actor that appears on screen but does not speak gets less money and of course someone who does the voice over gets less money as well.
So they are cheaper to make than most commercials and even though the two actors (the voice and the on screen) are really charming you guys, the actors get less money.
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### Author:  [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identiy-theft-commercials/251024/20 "2004-06-18T20:39:25Z")
My favorite moment is the look on the Asian dental hygenist’s face when she does Larry’s creepy laugh.
When these commercials first started running, I thought it was a concept that, though cute for a couple of viewings, would get old quickly. Instead, they seem to get better.
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