# I'm in Love with a Character in a Commercial, or How Lame can Lightnin' Be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221 "2002-06-03T19:58:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/1 "2002-06-03T19:58:19Z")
That girl in the Mitsubishi Eclipse television ad. You know, the one wearing the stupid hat and doing that funky torso dance to the song “Days go By”. Oh, how I want her so. I think it’s that she’s doing this really stupid-looking dance, completely oblivious to the fact that the driver is obviously embarassed by it. Or maybe just that she’s freakin’ gorgeous. I don’t know, doesn’t matter. Heck, for all I know her speaking voice can shatter glass and curl the hooves on a llama, but I don’t care. I’d just have that song playing continuously, as we drive around _all day long_. I’ll even buy her all the stupid hats she wants. I just wanna watch her _dance_. I’d probably ram us into a lamppost, 'cause I won’t be able to keep my eyes on the road. Anyone know who she is? _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/2 "2002-06-03T20:22:30Z")
I _hate_ that commercial. Like the song. _Hate_ the commercial. For what it’s worth, I kinda had a thing for that chick in the Jared/ Subway commercial-- she lost a bunch of weight and was walking down the street, and met Jared for lunch at the end of the ad. Now _she_ was cute. stv ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/3 "2002-06-03T22:01:52Z")
I think she has a mental condition. I hate that commercial! ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/4 "2002-06-03T22:20:22Z")
I can’t believe anyone actually has a crush on Arm-Dancing Girl. You’re lying, right? Right?? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/5 "2002-06-03T22:31:31Z")
Nope. It’s bizarre- I can see how she’d be annoying as all get-out. I, on the other hand, can watch her all day long. Maybe I’m the one with the mental condition? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/6 "2002-06-03T22:48:05Z")
Don’t rush into this… have sex with a mannequin first and then re-evalute your decision. ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/7 "2002-06-03T23:31:31Z")
I really used to like **Halle Berry** until she did that stupid Pepsi “unzip my head” commercial. She is about 95% less sexy now that she’s the pupae between the annoying little girl’s larval stage and the full adult insect Barry Bostwick. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/8 "2002-06-04T00:35:53Z")
I had sort of a crush on the woman in the [Drugstore.com](http://Drugstore.com) commercial who apparently never left her bathtub. She didn’t mind deliverymen seeing her in there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/9 "2002-06-04T00:57:47Z")
When I first saw this commercial I realized that she looks like a girl I used to know. Very tall, impossibly thin, and pretty in an alien sort of way. She acted goofy as all hell, too. Perhaps I can find her number. If it makes you feel any better, I’d go to bed with the Verizon “can you hear me now?” guy. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/10 "2002-06-04T01:28:23Z")
You. May. Have. Her. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/11 "2002-06-04T01:37:20Z")
Hate the commercial and the damn song. But I’m hot for Ashna Patel on the TV Guide Channel, as long as we’re sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/12 "2002-06-04T01:53:18Z")
Let’s see, I have crushes on: Several Characters from Star Wars novels Glenn Miller, legendary band leader and dead King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia-assasinated in 1934 So don’t feel too bad. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/13 "2002-06-04T03:32:43Z")
**Myrnalene** , coincidentally, I find that trenchcoat-wearing dude from the Sprint PCS commercials oddly appealing. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/14 "2002-06-04T04:08:36Z")
I think she’s pretty cute too. If I hear the commercial coming on from another room, I rush in there to watch her. I thought I was alone. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/15 "2002-06-04T17:05:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by easy e \* > \*\ ***Myrnalene** , coincidentally, I find that trenchcoat-wearing dude from the Sprint PCS commercials oddly appealing. \*\* Oh me too. There’s something so pleasant and helpful about him. And he’s so mellow; nothing phases him and he never gets mad. I’ve already confessed my crush for August Busch IV (or whatever number he is) on the Budweiser commercials. He looks like an old time matinee idol. Probably reeks of beer though! However, I would not go so far as to say I LOVE any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/16 "2002-06-04T17:50:36Z")
Too bad. Distracted by her weird dancing the driver drifted over the center line and hit a cement truck. At least that’s how the commercial ends in my world. Now the Direct TV commercial where the guy installs it and the wife hugs him for a bit too long and then the husband hugs the installer. That woman catches my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/17 "2002-06-04T18:53:49Z")
I love that commercial. It’s so… serene. And there is indeed something bizarelly alluring about her dance. Now, what was the artist of the song? ---
**Author:** ![obidiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@obidiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obidiah)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/18 "2002-06-04T19:01:10Z")
That commericial freaks me out, as do all the Mitsubishi commericials. They all have the very “sterile” people in them. Yucky-poo. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/19 "2002-06-04T19:03:14Z")
Woot! I’m not alone! I love that girl, she’s having a great time and doesn’t care what anyone else thinks about it. I also like the way her boobies bounce 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/20 "2002-06-04T19:28:50Z")
Guin—You mean you’ve left Archduke Rudolph for _meeee_? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221.md?page=2)