I pit the commercial where the dad spends 4 weekends building a treehouse for his 2 children and the disrespectful brats tell him they’d rather stay in his minivan and watch DVDs.
One of the rude children even asks the other, “got any 3s” in the middle of what the dad is trying to say.
I’m sick of rudeness and disrespect being used to try to sell me something.
Man, I discussed this elsewhere, but it feels great to pit. Thanks.
The commercial just reflects the norm you’ll see on most TV shows and movies in which Dad is the dufus who can never get anything right while his wife is torn (because she knows what a screw-up he is) between admitting it to her wiseacre children and supporting him. The kids are always pissed off, bored, and generally impossible to be around for 5 seconds without hitting them with a shovel.
Yes, it sucks and is very pit worthy. I’m pretty sure you can find this being declared a “War on parental authority” or somesuch if you care to slum in the evangelical literature/web sites.
The thing that makes my skin crawl is when the brats are being jollied along - “C’mon kids, it will be FUN” instead of told to shut their yaps.
Alas, it has the ring of truth to it. I know a guy who took his family, which included two young teenage sons, on a vacation to the Grand Canyon, and the brats didn’t want to get out of the car because they were busy with their Gameboys. If it had been me, the Gameboys woould have taken a quick trip to the bottom of the Canyon.
We’re raising a nation of spoiled brats.
It’s confession time.
When I was about 10, my dad and I started building a treehouse in our backyard. Dad’s good at this sort of thing, and the treehouse was going to be a professional-looking job. I “helped” as much as a young’un can, but he basically did all of the work. Around the time we (read: he) finished, I lost interest. I decided that I’d rather sit in the house than sit in the treehouse. Dad worked so hard on it, and I hardly used it at all. :smack:
But I also hate commercials like that. “Our product is better than genuine love and affection.” A worse variation comes out around Valentine’s Day. There was one this year wherein a man uses an awkward sports metaphor to tell his SO how much he loves her, and she stares at him disappointedly. That is, until he reveals the diamond ring (or whatever), at which point she lights up like a goddamned Christmas tree. That one always made me want to punch a marketing executive in the kidney.
I’m 19 years old, if that helps contextualize my story.
Yeah, I know how you feel. IMO, that ad ranks right up there with that one for Hall’s cough drops where the kids are whining that Dad’s illness is “bumming them out” because he might not be able to take them skiing. I wonder why they didn’t just get T-shirts that read “Hi!! I’m a selfish little asshole!” I told someone after seeing that ad that if my kids did that, then they’d get no sympathy from me the next time they woke up feeling rotten–“Roll that butt outta bed and get it ready for school! C’mon, now, you’re bumming me out!”
On the same note, I get really irritated watching AFV and seeing videos that feature an unbelievably annoying little brat having some sort of screeching fit or displaying an appalling lack of gratitude for a gift garner the top prize. If that’s what people find so hilarious, I guess it’s not such a surprise that advertisers use it as a marketing device.