I think you could count on it, unless Mr JS is a pachydermophile. :eek:
When he goes to the fair, he gets elephant ears! sob
I think you meant “Perhaps for the purpose of hiding the package from >perhaps< her husband.”
Once again, there’s no “perhaps” about it. She’s deliberately hiding her packages. The only person on Planet Earth who seems to be open for interpretation on this point is you.
Well, they could have gone about it without the angle I’m ranting about, eh?
Nah, I assumed husband, too. But I like to challenge my assumptions.
And the pachydermophile. I asked him.
You seem really wound up about this. Perhaps you need a vacation. Or some nice, soothing shopping. Be sure to leave the purchases out on the seat or something.
Yes, I’ve seen the commercial. It’s not like he didn’t know she was shopping. She came back from shopping and giggled when he couldn’t see where her bags were for inspection.
My “great and biting reply” was for everyone here who assumed she was stealing from her husband because she giggled and didn’t immediately offer her bags for inspection. Especially for those who assume she’s a liar and a thief and would rip their wives earrings off if she tried a stunt like that.
I hate that ad. Not only is it offensive, but (to my mind at least) it’s got to be completely ineffective. All I think after seeing it is “great, here’s another real estate company that’s going to push me into buying more than I can afford and bull doze past all my objections in order to make a sale.” Plus, as mentioned, the idea of a real estate agent listening in on my personal discussions is downright creepy!
I’m with Guin on this one. I seem to remember it being a shrimp puff dumped into a drink. But a horrid commercial nonetheless. I would never buy from Jared now for fear of seeming like a stereotypical bling obsessed, grumpy, harpy!
I agree with those who saw the van ad and interpreted it as a wife hiding purchases from her husband. If the ad wanted to portray someone simply finding convenient storage space or hiding purchases out of sight of theives, the ad creaters would have shown it that way. It’s not like most U.S. ads are designed to be subtle!
Working in marketing and having worked on many ads, all I can think when I see these horrible creations is “who the hell approved this?” Who has the kind of mind set to write up a strategy along these lines? Did they test it at all? They have to have some clue how offensive it could be.
The only conclusion I draw is that they must know and not care. Apparently, those of us who are offended aren’t in the target market and that target market doesn’t mind.
Nope. Just a Pit rant. BTW, what’s the point of that comment? Couldn’t you paste that sentence into every Pit thread? Perhaps you should go over to Cafe Society and take some “it’s only a movie” dumps in threads over there.
I didn’t take it that he was going to inspect them or anything remotely confrontational. I didn’t take anything in the commercial as confrontational or mean-spirited. Lame, though.
But if she had started pulling out her purchases so he could expire in rapture, it would have been even lamer. Because in commercials, if someone explains some NEAT! NEW! FEATURE! to someone else, they both have to coo and gasp and then you’d have one of those, “Hey, I get to drive the brand new clunky minivan tomorrow!” “No, I do!” “No, I do!” exchange which is just excruciating.
I must be naive. I saw that commercial and assumed she was hiding them because they were his birthday presents, and he was checking the car because he was eager to see what he was going to get.
That would fit the “atmosphere” I got from the commercial.
Did you write this ad? 
I don’t think anyone is pitting the character, but rather the damn copywriters who chose to use the stereotype of the little wifey on a shopping spree who feels she needs to hide her purchases from big bad hubby. Pure comic strip stuff. Real couples are not like that - unless one of them has a serious problem, and, this being an ad and not a drama, I doubt this is the case here.
I’d think her throwing up the cubbies and going “ta-da” to the astounded husband would sell the product just as well without being obnoxious. Maybe the copywriter should figure out that Blondie is not a documentary (not that she ever hides her stuff.)
I didn’t write it! Way too much action and too little wan drooping over the landscape for me to have written it. And no dead birds. 
Wouldn’t people be complaining had she done that, too? After all, he’d look foolish if he didn’t realize their van had in-floor storage. I can see the angry thread now.
Maybe no one would complain if a curly-haired little girl popped from the compartment and yelled “Ta da!” No wait. Then they’d be suggesting child endangerment, the bastards.
Is the implication that my OP was overreacting, and I’d take offense at anything? OK, I’ll play.
Maybe no one would complain if a dog peed on it. No wait. Or maybe no one would complain if a delivery man showed up and asked if he could could pee in their house. No wait. Or maybe no one would complain if the husband asked the wife if she’d made his doctor’s appointment. No wait.
The whole world isn’t talking about you. Really. People often have conversations that don’t actually reference you at all. Even in a thread you started.
But now you are completely overreacting. No one is having a pissing match except for you and my beloved FedEx delivery guy.
He wins, though. He got some on my shoe.
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Just for the sake of comparison, what about the ad (Home Depot, IIRC) where the husband quickly stuffs his power tools under the car wheels seconds before the wife backs the car out? She stops, horrified, when she crunches over them. The husband sighs that now he’ll have to buy new ones…then turns his back so his wife can’t see, smiles and does a little victory pump-fist.
Not nice behavior, and a very direct portrayal. It just aims at men as a demographic.
Veb
Who is convinced most ad ‘genuises’ are total dolts.
I’m sure of it. I’ve worked with some.
Of course, I’m in sales, and we’re not talking a drawer full o’ sharp knives there, either.
Alternate suggestion;
The man is, in fact, a burglar who has been watching the house carefully over a period of weeks in order to get to know the woman’s routine. He decides the best time to rob her is when she goes out shopping; he can pick what he wants to take from the house, get it all prepared, and then when she comes back from shopping he can force her to load up the car with the house items, allowing him to steal house stuff, newly bought stuff, and the car.
All goes to plan, until he steps into the garage (ready to issue a threat to ensure her cooperation) and sees the car empty; the car’s storage areas mean all her purchases are hidden from view. “I thought you went shopping”.
The woman, meanwhile, is scared out of her wits. Assessing the situation, she tries to to stall. “We-ell…” Taking advantage of his confusion, she hits the reverse and drives out, leaving the burglar to merely the items already in the house. Later she drives back home and retrieves her purchases from within the car, happy to have outwitted a burglar.
Yeah, OK. You’re innocent.
I’d forgotten about this commercial – I found it offensive to both sexes. The wife, being portrayed as so naive as to not know that her husband is a completely selfish jackass, and the husband being cruel enough to tie the “female bad driver” stereotype to her, as well as being so selfish as to find his desire of a new tool to be more important than humiliating his wife.
No, that wasn’t all explicitly stated in the commercial. Yes, I still know that’s what they were getting at.
It’s true though (at least it’s true of me) that a male reluctance to shop does not include a reluctance to tool shop. Whenever I drop into my local DIY store (most recently, for some pipe lagging and duck tape for the kids to make light-sabres out of, ISYN) it takes an act of willpower for me not to pick up something new, shiny and potentially useful every once in a while. (Well, I did buy a new set of drill bits. But the old ones were really cruddy.)