In commercials people are always sitting down to eat a “well balanced breakfast” consisting of many different items.
Then when you get back to the show, people are always presented with this same sort of complicated breakfast but are *always *in too much of a hurry to do anything more than eat a bite of toast or have a swig of orange juice. The bus is here!
Parents who throw their entire nicely prepared salmon dinner away because the kid will only eat mac and cheese, and decide the entire family has to eat mac and cheese instead of just ordering the kid to eat what he’s given, or if you’re a pushover, make it just for him.
Flashbacks in black and white and modern day in color.
The bow is probably worth more then most of my cars.
A broke young guy with a miserable credit score, walking away gladly with € 1.000 in cash from an usury credit given by a financial sharks institute, being instantly surrounded by at least four swooning hot chicks.
Mrs. Martian would be super impressed if the guys had picked up a nice Belgian quad…
Colin Powell’s Corvette came with a bow. Granted, it was from his children rather than his spouse.
Nowadays they use bladder leak liners for that.
Yeah, and what’s with everybody in commercials driving perfectly restored 1969 Ford Broncos???
People getting their title back from Title Max.
I’m not sure if this is a local ad or not, but it’s for some “retirement village” and shows these two girls who are about 10 years old, and one is raving to the other about all the great amenities at grandma and grandpa’s new place. Yeah, that’s not what 10 year old girls are talking about in real life.
Applebee’s food looks good.
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Me three! Still disappointed.
As a young’un, my kid came up with a clever taunt: “Well, you’re as stupid as… the people in the black and white part of an infomercial.”
We had a thread on that and someone posted the stats that December is a low point for car purchases. So, no, there aren’t many people doing that.
But if they are, they deserve to be divorced. “Hey, honey, I just made a major financial decision with no input from you, and put us even deeper in debt for five years! Surpriiiise!”
Add to that: anyone referring to “my Buick,” as in a parasailing guy saying anxiously “I think I forgot to lock my Buick.”
No one in the history of the planet has ever said this. Ever.
Another thing seen in TV commercials and never in the real world: Tom Selleck giving a %&#@*& about the old people he’s luring into being-foreclosed-on with his deliberately-deceptive ‘reverse mortgage’ ads.
I read somewhere, someone bought an expensive car as a surprise, it was delivered with a huge bow on top, and someone from the dealership came to take pictures. He left WITH the bow, because he said it was one of the only ones they had and they had to reuse it.
I was just going to mention that Buick commercial. And then he drops his phone in the ocean after he locks it via the app.
I hate those Buick commercials. People asking, “is that a Buick?” or “is that your new Buick?” etc.
I gather the Buick people are hoping that the idea will arise that a Buick is very similar to a Mercedes or a Rolls-Royce or a Bugatti: that is, that people will think of Buicks as being such high-status cars to own, that people will naturally mention the make of their car in casual conversation. Because, prestige!
But this is so clearly ridiculous that people are more likely to start thinking of Buick owners as fools.
And I bet that won’t be good for sales. At all.
In 1969 Foolbert Sturgeon published an underground comix story called “Jesus goes to the College Faculty Party,” in which one of the background scenes was a professor asking “if you were a car, what would you be?”
A heckling nearby prof said “He’d be a 1948 Buick with mudflaps and a chrome duck on the hood.”
It’s been one one of my go-to lines for years.
This. Don’t people have conditions that are mild?
The guys taking boner pills are all good-looking and masculine, no short, fat, bald old guys whining that they can’t get it up. And their women are so very happy that they’ll be getting fucked again.
