# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/21 "2002-06-04T20:04:42Z")
I like the Sprint commercial with the “soap opera star” and I like the way the woman in the commercial is trying to listen to the men talking, but she’s just _mesmerized_ by the shirtless, pouting soap opera guy. Oooo, baby! I used to have a crush on the goateed computer programmer guy in the Volkswagon Golf? Jetta? commercial. He has a line like, “When you’ve been typing code for eleven hours, you need to get away” or something. Then at the end he leans into the camera and says, “In real life, there _is_ no Reset button.” _Totally_ weird, because that kind of bearded, scrawny, coffee-drinking dot-commer is _so_ not my type IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/22 "2002-06-04T20:22:09Z")
**LaurAnge** , the group that does the song ‘Days Go By’ is Dirty Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/23 "2002-06-04T21:10:50Z")
**Zebra** wrote: > [@](#): > > 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. Yes. Exactly the commercial I had in mind when I opened this thread. I would be her cable guy any day. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/24 "2002-06-04T21:45:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > [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. Wacky. I love the commercial, but it’s because I find the husband strangely attractive. Maybe it’s because he’s apprarently _not_ bothered by his wife’s affection toward another man, which pings my polydar. Or maybe I just admire a man who’s so secure in himself that he can show affection toward another man, indeed, a near stranger, on national TV. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/25 "2002-06-04T22:09:56Z")
I, on the other hand, have the hots for the cool Asian chick with her eyes closed in a similar but separate Mitsubishi commercial. Although I can’t take any of them seriously; all those people are _way_ too cool to be driving around in Mitsubishis. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/26 "2002-06-05T04:48:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*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. > \*\* Your world is _cool_. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/27 "2002-06-05T04:50:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\*I used to have a crush on the goateed computer programmer guy in the Volkswagon Golf? Jetta? commercial. He has a line like, “When you’ve been typing code for eleven hours, you need to get away” or something. Then at the end he leans into the camera and says, “In real life, there _is_ no Reset button.” _Totally_ weird, because that kind of bearded, scrawny, coffee-drinking dot-commer is _so_ not my type IRL. \*\* Oh, yeah. He’s a cutie. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/28 "2002-06-05T05:06:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > **I, on the other hand, have the hots for the cool Asian chick with her eyes closed in a similar but separate Mitsubishi commercial.** The one bobbing her head ever-so-slightly side-to-side along with the music? That little move is so damn sexy… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/29 "2002-06-05T09:45:33Z")
Hate the sing _and_ the commercial. Right now, I’ve got a thing for the English stewardess in the _I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter_ commercial. “We only serve that in the ultra-mega-platinum first class.” ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/30 "2002-06-05T13:44:51Z")
Well, I thought I’d pop in to say that I’m in love with the girl in the Kaluah commercial… Best description about it: Three guys and her are playing pool, she looks at them walks buy them closely and then kisses one of them as confirmation that he was drinking the kaluah. She is blonde with short hair and killer smile. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/31 "2002-06-05T14:01:31Z")
3 quotes from one post! None are flames! This is a record for me. Thanks guys! and **DarkWriter** you can visit my world any time. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/32 "2002-06-05T15:22:58Z")
Oh my god…don’t get me started on that commercial. For a while, my boyfriend and I had planned to write an angry letter to Mitsubishi about how we strongly objected to their portrayal of epilepsy as something fun. We were going to write about how tasteless it was to show a girl having a seizure to music and say that if this was how the youth of America got their kicks, we wanted no part of it. Damn! Now I really want to send that letter. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/33 "2002-06-05T16:24:26Z")
I got two commercial crushes these days: 1. the Orbit gum girl. She’s “fabulous!” I’d get dirty with her anyday. 2. She’s been in multiple commercials. In Circuit City, her husband goes running off like a kid in a toy store as she rolls her eyes. In some software/synch commercial, she tells a guy she loves him, he stares blankly, she leaves, then he responds in kind. And in one of those “Take me with you” SUV commercials, she pulls up to a toll booth and is harrassed by the toll taker. Multi talented! ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/34 "2002-06-05T16:36:21Z")
My car commercial crush: I think it’s for Hyundai, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it’s the one where this couple is sitting in a diner booth, and it sounds like they’re breaking up; she’s telling him how she needs to try new things, she needs adventure, or something like that. Turns out she just wants to drive his new car, and he reluctantly lets her. She’s hot. She should break up with the guy who had to be talked in to letting her drive his car and give me a call. She can drive my car anytime she wants to, if you know what I’m sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/35 "2002-06-05T17:27:19Z")
I totally agree, **Anamorphic** - she’s damn cute. She needs to grow out her bangs, though, they really bug me. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/36 "2002-06-05T17:50:07Z")
> [@](#): > > The one bobbing her head ever-so-slightly side-to-side along with the music? > > That little move is so damn sexy… All the women in that commercial are hot: the head-bobber lip-syncher, the three black chicks groovin’ together, the blonde through the passenger window on her side. It got to the point that my wife would tell me when the commercial came on (since being open about it was easier then finding an excuse to quickly wander by the TV in time, every time) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/37 "2002-06-05T20:35:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \* > \*\*My car commercial crush: I think it’s for Hyundai, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it’s the one where this couple is sitting in a diner booth, and it sounds like they’re breaking up; she’s telling him how she needs to try new things, she needs adventure, or something like that. Turns out she just wants to drive his new car, and he reluctantly lets her. > > She’s hot. She should break up with the guy who had to be talked in to letting her drive his car and give me a call. She can drive my car anytime she wants to, if you know what I’m sayin’. \*\* Isn’t she the nipply fish-store girl in [Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Turner,+Bree)? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/38 "2002-06-05T22:52:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*Well, I thought I’d pop in to say that I’m in love with the girl in the Kaluah commercial… > > Best description about it: Three guys and her are playing pool, she looks at them walks buy them closely and then kisses one of them as confirmation that he was drinking the kaluah. > > She is blonde with short hair and killer smile. \*\* This is actually Bailey’s Irish Cream, not Kahlua. I know this because I notice this commercial every time, specifically because I’m trying to figure out if this is really and truly supposed to be a gang-banging quartet. She’s clearly out and about with all three guys, and at the end of the commercial she’s choosing to neck with the one who’s got the taste of her liquer on his lips. If one of the other two had swiped the drink, the commercial implies, she would have tongued him instead. Really, I can’t see any other way to read this. It’s _dirty._ Don’t get me wrong, I _like_ dirty. But still. ---
**Author:** ![tolyri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@tolyri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tolyri)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/39 "2002-06-05T23:05:34Z")
I am strangly attracted to the guy (Mark) in the “What do you think this is, a Holiday Inn?” commercials. He’s grungy, balding, and living with his parents, but I find him inexplicably sexy. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221/40 "2002-06-06T01:36:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tolyri \* > \*\*I am strangly attracted to the guy (Mark) in the “What do you think this is, a Holiday Inn?” commercials. He’s grungy, balding, and living with his parents, but I find him inexplicably sexy. \*\* Ditto, I think it’s because he’s vaguely reminiscent of Joel from MST3K. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-love-with-a-character-in-a-commercial-or-how-lame-can-lightnin-be/112221.md?page=1) [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=3)