OK, it’s cute. Guy’s wife is a marionette. He and his friend have to backpedal when they talk about wires being ‘ugly’. But they have a kid. So the guy’s been boffing a doll. The idea skeeves me out.
I also find them kind of creepy. There’s been some discussion about them in the “Latest stupid commercials” thread.
Here’s the latest one:
The current commercial is the string lady doing a sexy bedroom dance for hubby.
Don’t most relationships come with a few strings attached? 
Marionettes are second only to clowns in creeping me right the hell out. So, yeah, I have to fight off an urge to run from the room when those things are on.
Oh, come on! Thunderbirds was great! But then, nobody ever boffed Lady Penelope.
The first commercial was OK. I was like, ‘Heh. They guy’s wife is a marionette.’ The second one, where we meet the son, I thought ‘Wait a minute. They have a kid. That means they done it!* Ew!’ And the latest one, where she wants to be told how pretty she is, where she rips off her robe (which somehow gets through the strings), where she tries to turn her husband on… Well, I didn’t need to see that.
I’m not a prude. Really! I like sick and twisted and creepy. There’s just something about these commercials that I find disturbing. Now if it turns out that this marionette family is all in the guy’s head and they really don’t talk and move around without his assistance (‘Norman!’) and he’s really a sexual predator and a serial killer, that would be cool. I dare DirecTV to do that!
*[sub]I always channel TYO Neil when I say that. 
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I don’t know why, but I laugh my ass off every time the puppet woman tries to pour lemonade and it just spills everywhere.
If the wife dancing around creeps you out, don’t ever, ever watch “Team America: World Police”.
That’s different.
So what about the most important wire that goes to the TV? Ya know, the power cord?
These commercials creep me out, too.
Yeah, these commercials have gone from “OK… that’s an odd idea” to “Seriously? It was *barely *funny the first time” and now I’m just thinking “Oh, God! Where’s the brain soap?!”
Couldn’t we have just gone with another perky sales girl?
The commercial clearly shows that you don’t need that one either. And commercials never lie, right?
I said they were not creepy.
Yeah, those commercials creep me out too. They are going down in history with “badly conceived ad campaigns.” Like Burger King’s “Herb,” or Calvin Klein’s pedophilia ads, or that liqueur ad with the woman saying “Hit me with a club.” Or when Quiznos implied that the employee was having sex with the oven.
Yeeeesh.
So stupid! Marionettes have STRINGS, not WIRES! Urgh!
I didn’t have a problem with the first 2 but the latest one with them in the bedroom is creeping me out.
But given the internet, you know it’s only a matter of time before their slash fiction starring that puppet.
They could be worse, they could be hand puppets
It skirts on the edge of Uncanny Valley for me but what can I say? I think the wife is a hottie and I find the ads funny.
I’m guessing there already is, given that Rule 34 art has been around for a couple months.
Wait, you’re saying there are Quiznos ads that are creepier than this one?