Lindsay Wagner has been hawking the Sleep Number bed for some time now. I usually don’t pay attention. But the latest commercial bugs me. Yes, she’s pushing 60. Yes actresses want to look good. But the soft-focus is really overdone. Makes it look like the camera operator was myopic. ‘Dude! Use the diopter adjustment!’ It’s as bad as the Liz Taylor commercial from a few years ago.
Our local CVS doesn’t even have that much Vaseline on its shelves…
If it were in sharp focus, we’d either be getting “Oh my god, she’s so OLD, why doesn’t she get some plastic surgery?” or “She’s gotten way too much plastic surgery, woman looks like a plastic doll!” so really, she couldn’t win no matter what. Back in the day I thought she was the most beautiful woman on the planet, and she’s still beautiful, soft-focus or not.
What do you mean Lindsay Wagner is pushing 60? It says “35” right there on the screen.
I’d still hit it.
I saw one of her infomercials at about 5AM one morning during my intern year, when I was chronically sleep-deprived, I had been working since 7AM the previous morning, and I was trying to catch a nap on the decidedly sub-optimal mattress in the call room. (That’s where they put the regular hospital mattresses when they wear out.)
The commercial was full of young, attractive, well-rested couples talking about the hours and hours of incredible sleep they got on their Sleep Number bed, followed by the Bionic Woman in her sultry soft focus talking about all the sleep she was going to give me.
It was the most hardcore porn I’ve ever seen.
I love the new commercial compared to the last one. (ok I dont really give a crap about either but)
the first one just killed me, “hi I’m Lindsey Wagner and I have the energy of a starving zombie who has gone weeks without eating a single brain, if you sleep on this mattress you to can achieve the amazingly well rested state that I have achieved”
good god she was perfectly terrible for that commercial, there was no way in hell I was going to buy one of those mattresses after seeing that.
The commercials may suck, but the bed itself is awesome. Our next mattress is going to be a sleep number. We tested one at their store and fell in love with it, plus they’re a good deal cheaper than I expected.
Or worse, “She’s gotten way too much plastic surgery, woman looks like an insect!”
[sub]Yeah, I’m looking at you MTM, and I wish I wasn’t.[/sub]
I learned the proper way to use the word “recuperative” in a sentence from that infomercial.