# That pony commercial! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343 "2009-11-29T17:07:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/61 "2009-12-08T03:02:58Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Yeah, because advertising folks hate it when people all over the internet are talking about their ads. > > You can repeat yourself until you’re blue in the face, but marketing departments looooove to know people are talking about their efforts. I do not get blue in the face. 😛 Dang. Still not replying to my oft-repeated statement. (of 24 or so words) I’ll re-word with less words: If you folks didn’t buy their products, they’d stop advertising them. (11 words or so) See! Nothing about what the ad people like. Or not. I don’t get it. I sense mild hostility in some of these replies (not this one). Why, I wonder. 😕 I re-read my OP and didn’t see _anything_ that should offend anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/62 "2009-12-08T03:07:49Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I do not get blue in the face. 😛 > Dang. Still not replying to my oft-repeated statement. (of 24 or so words) I’ll re-word with less words: > If you folks didn’t buy their products, they’d stop advertising them. (11 words or so) > See! Nothing about what the ad people like. Or not. > I don’t get it. I sense mild hostility in some of these replies (not this one). Why, I wonder. 😕 > I re-read my OP and didn’t see _anything_ that should offend anyone. You’re the only one I’ve seen get offended thus far. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/63 "2009-12-08T03:19:11Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > You’re the only one I’ve seen get offended thus far. There you go again. I didn’t say anything about anyone getting offended. I get it. I’m being whooshed again. Taking advantage of an old man is mean. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/64 "2009-12-08T03:35:56Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Im meant respond to the advertiser by buying their product. So far, no one in this thread has admitted to doing so - and some have denied doing it - but you seemed to jump to the conclusion that **lieu** , and perhaps others, had. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/65 "2009-12-08T03:51:41Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > So far, no one in this thread has admitted to doing so - and some have denied doing it - but you seemed to jump to the conclusion that **lieu** , and perhaps others, had. A conclusion I may have jumped to. Understandable, given this reply by lieu: > [@](#): > > All in all they’re very effective. I wish they’d come out with more lieu could easily have corrected me. I’d have believed it. All of that was just a little off the subject of the OP anyway. Which is that I’m kinda troubled by the hurt look on that kid’s face, and the seeming acceptance of the meaness of the trickery. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/66 "2009-12-08T05:22:04Z")
I’m not changing banks, but if I were considering switching, those ads would definitely get my attention. The two girls seem equally cute to me. The star actually reminds me of a co-worker’s daughter when she was younger. Aww. What really does it for me more than the kids, though, is how totally and utterly gleeful the adult is in screwing them over. That just cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/67 "2009-12-08T13:16:52Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > There you go again. I didn’t say anything about anyone getting offended. Right here: > [@](#): > > I re-read my OP and didn’t see anything that should offend anyone. So, I’m telling you that I don’t see where anyone has so much as acted like they were offended, except you. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/68 "2009-12-08T13:41:53Z")
> [@Idlewild](#): > > The two girls seem equally cute to me. The star actually reminds me of a co-worker’s daughter when she was younger. Aww. What really does it for me more than the kids, though, is how totally and utterly gleeful the adult is in screwing them over. That just cracks me up. Which one is the star? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/69 "2009-12-08T13:51:56Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Right here: > > So, I’m telling you that I don’t see where anyone has so much as acted like they were offended, except you. You’re kidding, right? With that “right here” quote? I’m not the one who brought up the idea that someone might be offended. It came out of the blue (not my face) and caught me by surprise. I suspect you’re trying to keep me replying in hopes that I’ll make some sort of error that you can jump on. 😛 Could happen. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/70 "2009-12-08T14:02:10Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > You’re kidding, right? With that “right here” quote? I’m not the one who brought up the idea that someone might be offended. It came out of the blue (not my face) and caught me by surprise. > I suspect you’re trying to keep me replying in hopes that I’ll make some sort of error that you can jump on. 😛 Could happen. Once again you were the one who said: [QUOTE=mangeorge] I re-read my OP and didn’t see anything that should offend anyone. [/QUOTE] You were the one who brought it up out of the blue, not someone else. Understand? I’m wondering if you’re confused, because you certainly are acting like it. Perhaps you could show us all where someone else brought up the idea that someone might be offended “out of the blue”. Yes? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/71 "2009-12-08T15:44:16Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Once again you were the one who said: > > You were the one who brought it up out of the blue, not someone else. Understand? I’m wondering if you’re confused, because you certainly are acting like it. > > Perhaps you could show us all where someone else brought up the idea that someone might be offended “out of the blue”. Yes? Now I see your mistake. I said that I didn’t see anything that would offend anyone (no offense, see?), then you replied that I seemed offended (_now_ there’s an offence). I gotta get to work. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/72 "2009-12-08T15:47:53Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > Now I see your mistake. > I said that I didn’t see anything that would offend anyone (no offense, see?), then you replied that I seemed offended (_now_ there’s an offence). > I gotta get to work. Yeah, it’s such a stretch to think you actually assign meanings to your words as you type them. Of course, you meant nothing by them, did you. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/73 "2009-12-08T15:50:42Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Yeah, because advertising folks hate it when people all over the internet are talking about their ads. > > You can repeat yourself until you’re blue in the face, but marketing departments looooove to know people are talking about their efforts. To **mangeorge** , I don’t think that everyone who sees the ad and thinks about it is necessarily going to buy it. After all, say a six year old girl sees it and thinks, “Ooh, pony”–she’s probably not in the bank’s clientele. But even if you yourself don’t buy the product, you’re telling other people about it. And those people who are now watching it may go on to buy it. Advertising in action. I don’t know if anyone is buying because of the ad, but this advertising certainly isn’t hurting. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/74 "2009-12-08T15:53:04Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > To **mangeorge** , I don’t think that everyone who sees the ad and thinks about it is necessarily going to buy it. After all, say a six year old girl sees it and thinks, “Ooh, pony”–she’s probably not in the bank’s clientele. > > But even if you yourself don’t buy the product, you’re telling other people about it. And those people who are now watching it may go on to buy it. Advertising in action. I don’t know if anyone is buying because of the ad, but this advertising certainly isn’t hurting. Indeed. if you google “pony commercial” (without the quotes), you’ll see that this thread is the ninth hit that appears, amidst a sea of links referencing Ally’s ad. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/75 "2009-12-08T16:31:17Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Indeed. if you google “pony commercial” (without the quotes), you’ll see that this thread is the ninth hit that appears, amidst a sea of links referencing Ally’s ad. Of all the others who have posted here, yours are the only ones, some of them, where I really don’t follow exactly what you are talking about. My fault, probably. Anyway, my original reason for posting was that I wondered if the cheated girl was faking her reaction to the trick played on her. Apparently not. It seems she did not expect a real pony to come walking out. For me, that was mean. Simple. I’m tired of this tangent, so I shall just observe form now on. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/76 "2009-12-08T19:12:49Z")
Since you guys are so good at digging up commercials, can one of you find this one for me: It’s for a cell phone provider, probably vintage 2005. It’s a series of parents calling out their kids for going over their minutes. Each scene is a kid of a different socio-economic and/or cultural background. I don’t know the specifics, but it goes something like this: 1st Scene (typical white-bread middle-class family): Jennifer Lynn Thompson! 2nd Scene (red-haired family in Boston): Patrick Aloysius O’Shaughnessy! 3rd Scene (Indian-looking family): Rajesh Vindaloo Koothrapali! ```auto ``` ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343/77 "2009-12-08T20:49:26Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Okay, I didn’t get that the pony had anything to do with looks. That’s kind of disturbing if it is–sorry, I tend to find the whole “blonde haired/blue eyed girl=attractive” thing distasteful but then I guess that’s what comes of growing up non white in America… As a green-eyed blonde woman, this is exactly what troubles me about this commercial. Maybe I’m oversensitive, but it sure looks like the little blonde girl gets the pony because she’s blonde. It doesn’t make me happy to see either of the little girls learn that lesson about the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-pony-commercial/519343.md?page=3)