Things you see in TV commercials that never happen in the real world

Kids riding bikes or skateboards are always wearing helmets and the right kinds of padding.

Happy people on commercial airliners.

A little person rewarding people with a diet Dr Pepper for such mundane tasks as replacing a thermostat or painting the living room.

Lightning burnt down the che-chier she shed, nobody burned it down.
It is the insurance guy, not a hideous woman.

Just two commercials straight off the top of my head where the husband is right.

It’s obviously arson, and would an insurance guy guarantee covering it before he gets a report from an investigator?

Like an insurance company is gonna be that wrong. Just because you’re glad to see it burn doesn’t mean it’s arson.

As I mentioned in another thread, Cheryl’s comment that “it finally happened” strongly suggests that there have been threats and/or attempts to burn down her she-shed in the past. Definitely arson.

I do not get this insistence that it was arson. It’s an insurance commercial and insurance companies can tell the difference between arson and a lightning strike. It’s not meant to be arson. Nobody liked her shed as evidenced by her ‘it finally happened’, implying that nobody liked it. But, like I said, just because someone wanted to see it burn doesn’t mean it was arson.

The last car we bought was at Carmax and yes, we did pose for a picture before driving off that included a big yellow bow (that was not part of the purchase).

A bag of groceries will always have carrot greens and/or celery sticking out the top.

A perfect blend of racial, ethnic, gender attendees at a football party.

Dirty, sweaty roughneck construction dudes driving a top-of-the-line Silverado or F-350 or Ram pickup towing a massive trailer with electrical equipment or cinder blocks. As if the typical blue-collar worker can afford an $80K truck. Also, the way they dump gravel in the back of said top-of-the-line pickup.

Dogs eating from an overflowing bowl of dog food.

Then explain the 60 foot steel pole in the background.

Made you look! :smiley:

… And a loaf of French bread.

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Things you see in TV commercials that never happen in the real world:

People suddenly confronted with a total stranger unexpectedly in their kitchens or even bedrooms or bathrooms, who react with interest in the product instead of by screaming and/or running and/or calling the cops and/or attacking said intruder with whatever comes to hand.

Or even saying ‘who the hell are you? Get out of my bathroom!’

And they just haphazardly dump a load of cinder blocks from a front end loader into the bed.

Opening the medicine cabinet and the guy who made your pillow is inside. And you don’t freak out.

Do they still goop on the toothpaste so that it starts to double back over?

Rollercoasters barrelling through small mountains of shaving cream.

Eggo fight!

If I see one more old woody tennis racquet…

It kind of makes sense to me. The people who want sensible, practical cars are no doubt already buying Corollas. They’re trying to expand their appeal beyond that group.

And I don’t see it much with Corollas, but believe it or not at least here in California it’s not uncommon to see the “Fast&FuriousTokyoDrifter” types driving modified Camrys. Like these, for example.

You will never see Shaquille O’Neal or Snoop Dogg driving around in a car with a short bald general with a Yosemite Sam mustache.

We weren’t saying we didn’t believe anyone could put a bow on a car, it was the fact that someone bought their spouse a car (or in one ad, his and her trucks) without a discussion beforehand.

In the commercials, it’s always a surprise, and a delighted one at that. (“Yay, we can put off all our vacations and the kids’ orthodontia while we pay off this car!”)