Yeah, I also find them kind of creepy.
Neither. Dude is happy his TV doesn’t have wires running up the wall. Marionette wife takes it as a sign that dude hates wires in general and no longer likes her. Dude comforts marionette wife. We’re supposed to find it amusing (and learn about the ‘no wires’ thing).
It’s not a great ad (I’ve complained about it a couple times now) but I don’t think it’s supposed to inspire some sort of marionette racism or anything.
She can prepare and carry a tray with a full pitcher of lemonade and glasses from the kitchen without incident, but cannot navigate the final ten inches and suddenly lacks the coordination to pour?
Get me the Kangaroo, I’m going with Dish Network. Yeah, naps are awesome.
If I were an Executive Fat Cat In a Suit with the power to do so, I would storyboard that ad and get it on the fast track to production. Hell, I’d probably storyboard it anyway, if you don’t mind…
Little Caeser’s: dad is driving his kids around and they’re chanting “Pizza! Pizza!” He stops, rips the hair out of his head, and says, “What am I supposed to do? Drive home, look for a place online, fill out a form,” etc. One kid sagely suggests Little Caeser’s, because all you have to do is drive there and pick out something without waiting.
On what planet is ordering pizza online less convenient than driving someplace through traffic and choosing crap that’s been dehydrating under a heat lamp? Do LC suits think their customers are weak-willed parents who instantly obey their rugrats’ pizza demands? The only desire I get when exposed to LC ads is to avoid flat grease-soaked boxes.
As long as I get $442,000 up front and 2% of the resulting sales increase after the ad runs, have at it! 
Then we should get the Kickstarter campaign up and running, stat!
Did I undervalue myself? 
I have nothing further to say about this ad campaign except it’s first one I’ve seen that complains about the inconvenience of ordering things on-line or by through a smart phone.
I have not seen this ad. Based on your description of it I shall now live in a state of existential dread, with my mind conjuring ever more disturbing images from the darkest corners of my imagination, until such time as I witness the true horror that awaits.
I hope you’re happy.
In addition to all the other nitpicks, is anyone really bothered by wires? It’s like those ads for tagless t-shirts; they’re trying to convince us that they can solve a problem we never even knew we had.
Over Memorial Day weekend, Arby’s ran a 13-hour commerical for its smoked brisket on KBJR-TV in Duluth, Mn. You can catch it online today (Wednesday.)
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If they’re crammed behind the entertainment center, I could care less. However, if one is hanging down the wall I’ve been known to paint the exposed part in an effort to camouflage it.
Shirt tags are one of my hugest complaints. They drive me crazy. I wind up ripping them out and leaving holes in my shirts.
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Gave me a woody.
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[/QUOTE]It’s not quite as bad as I feared, but how does she get the robe off over the wires?
Do you have any tagless black t-shirts with the label printed on them in dark gray that fades after a few washings?
Tagless t-shirts are great! The tags always used to annoy me.
Not at all; it’s just that I’m not the proverbial Fat Cat Suit with the kind of budget that could front that kind of money… yet!