Mistake In (McDonald's?) Commercial?

Okay, y’all may have to help me out with this one: I *think * it’s McDonald’s, but I can’t remember right now, and google doesn’t bring it up for me.

Involves a female cop (meter cop?) apparently about to give a guy a ticket for over-parking and he comes running up and yells, “No, No! I’m here!”, or something like that.

Next thing you see is her giving him a handful of quarters back as she walks away, smiling.

Then we see he painting over a red curb with white paint where his car is parked.

Okay, this may not be a mistake, but if she’s painting a section of red curb white, then he was parked illegally, right, which had nothing at all to do with a parking meter and therefore that handful of quarters wasn’t needed at all?

Let me know what y’all think, 'cause if I caught that, then I’m pretty proud of myself!:slight_smile:

Thanks

Q

I’ll have to watch it again, but I got the impression that it was a different motorist that she was helping out. The second fellow was parked in a red zone ad she was removing the red. I wasn’t paying too much attention, so I could certainly be wrong.

From the description I’m assuming that the idea is McDonald’s makes people friendly through the magic of its deliciousness and reason doesn’t apply to magic. But in the real world the cop is breaking the law in both cases. Once a meter goes to zero, the ticket is supposed to be automatic. If you add quarters a minute later you still get the ticket. If somebody else feeds the meter they are breaking the law. Damaging government properly by painting a red curb white (California provincialism) is probably a felony.

“McDonald’s turns cops into felons!” is probably not the message they want us to take away.

Yup. Somebody put in a call to Mayor McCheese, ASAP! :smiley:

Q

Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Male announcer: [later] The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There’s never stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Don’t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again.
[Later]
Male announcer: There’s just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Male announcer: It’s really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there’s no danger involved.

That made me laugh way more than anything written has ever made me laugh in a long time, Johnny!

Surely that’s not the first time you’ve heard that bit before!

ahem?

:slight_smile:

Q

I’ve heard it before, and don’t call me Shirley.

But why’s she painting the curb like a giant Tylenol?

this sounds like a mentos commercial too

BTW, it’s an IHOP commercial, and I don’t get the “paint the curb” joke either.

Not everywhere, and apparently not in New York City (at least as of Jan. 2009), Mayor of Mott St. Can't Feed the Meters Anymore - The New York Times, Chicago, Parking Meter Samaritans, Watch Out! - The Chicagoist, or Denver: Random act of kindness begets meter madness – The Denver Post.

Perhaps she could make it a brooch, or a pteradactyl.

I think I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

So, um… before this deteriorates into Airplane quotes (thanks a lot, John ;);)), does anyone have any other ideas about the commercial?

Thanks

Quasi

I’ve seen the commercial, and I’m pretty sure it’s what GaryM said; she’s helping two different people. First, she gives the expired-meter guy some quarters, and then later, she paints over the red curb for someone else.

ETA: And I think it is IHOP!

Yea, okay… that makes sense. :slight_smile:

Thanks, guys

Q

:: whinnies ::

Did somebody say ‘Blücher’?

John, you put him up to that, didntcha??? :slight_smile:

Q