Sober people on cruises.
I used to think the same thing, but now I just think that if buying a new luxury car as a surprise gift would be such a major financial burden, then you’re not in that ad’s target demographic.
A complete stranger coming up to you, giving unsolicited and very smug advice about how she got her holiday so much cheaper than them so they should do the same, and your reaction is “hmm, she’s very informative” rather than “superior cow, who does she think she is?”
On the salad theme: Women Laughing Alone With Salad
I do see multi-ethnic groups of friends in their twenties and thirties pretty frequently in real life, though. Guess it depends where you live.
A complete stranger coming up to you, giving unsolicited and very smug advice about how she got her holiday so much cheaper than them so they should do the same, and your reaction is “hmm, she’s very informative” rather than “superior cow, who does she think she is?”
On the salad theme: Women Laughing Alone With Salad
I do see multi-ethnic groups of friends in their twenties and thirties pretty frequently in real life, though. Guess it depends where you live.
I know, I was just providing a data point. I agree on buying a car to surprise your spouse being a BIG and unplanned financial commitment - like that GMC couple where the guy buys not one, but TWO luxury GMCs (one an SUV and the other a truck) and puts them $125K-$150K in the hole. Do people really do that?
Yes to all that. The Buick people keep clinging to that dream of convincing commercial-watchers that Buicks are prestige-cars…but all they’re accomplishing is convincing us to laugh at their efforts.
Back to: Things you see in TV commercials that never happen in the real world:
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[li]Call-center workers with large, well-lighted cubicles in a large, well-lighted office, smiling and relaxed, and all looking as though they’d just stepped away from their jobs as lawyers, engineers, or other professional careers.[/li][li]Insurance-business trainees who, one-on-one, walk through the spacious and venerable halls of Insurance-academe with their one-on-one instructor, looking at various museum-quality exhibits that explain various insurance scenarios. Then it’s off to the Skull-and-Bones meeting, then squash with Bitsy![/li][/ul]
Brothers and sisters getting just a little too close over a cup of coffee.
Labs at tech companies that are spotlessly clean*, and futuristic looking with glass walls and modernist furniture.
Or for that matter, labs with test tubes full of colored liquid heating over Bunsen burners, with scientists in clean white lab coats staring at them intently while holding a clipboard.
German engineers, also in white lab coats and holding clipboards, checking cars for quality. (ETA: I’m sure they do quality control, but I doubt that’s what it actually looks like)
*Not talking about clean rooms, just general labs.
Every single person who wants to rob your house is a lone middle aged white man who wears either a domino mask and black knit cap, or a black balaclava, and black t-shirt and dark jeans.
They also always employ bright flashlights and wave them around haphazardly like they’re an incompetent security guard.
^ Do they have a canvas bag with a big “$” on the front? Well, they should; that’s just poor planning. 
And they shill for a security company on their off-day, still in the black balaclava outfit.
And an unwrapped baguette.
The entire family sitting down together for a healthy breakfast of juice, toast, milk, and delicious sugar bomb cereal before going to work and school. As if all those carbs won’t cause a sugar high and a terrible crash in 3 hours.
Or fighting for the last waffle.
I believe I said that. :dubious:
A lady rubbing her bum covered in the ‘pretty’ incontinence panties. And same bum with nice slacks on that doesn’t show her ‘pretty’ panties underneath.
If I wore them I’d put them on in the dark and put my slouchy sweatpants on fast. (:))
I never understood why in breakfast commercials people would drink both milk and orange juice in the same meal, why are you doubling your dish load?
Not gonna lie, Mr. Clean or the Brawny guy shows up to help me clean, I’m not telling them to get out.
Frazzled ditzy housewife in curlers, in bathroom, lamenting hysterically about the ring around her bathtub.
Deep male white-lab-coat calm voice, off-camera: “Madam! Have you tried Fantastik?”
Ditzy housewife, in exaggerated caricature hysterical screeching panic: “But Fantastik is my kitchen cleaner! Whaaaaat about my baaaaaaaaaaath?”
Deep male white-lab-coat calm voice, off-camera: “Madam! Just as fast as Fantastik will clean your kitchen, it will also clean your bath!”
Madam cleans tub with light swish of sponge (as noted in an earlier post) and is all smiles.
Yes, that was a real commercial some years ago.
Neatly-dressed shoppers who are not fat.