# This car commercial pisses me off **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 26, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-car-commercial-pisses-me-off/73834 "2001-07-26T07:13:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-car-commercial-pisses-me-off/73834/41 "2001-07-31T04:50:41Z")
Another car ad with totally inappropriate music in the background. It was for some high-end SUV (BMW, perhaps), and the song they were playing was the ELP version of “21st Century Schizoid Man”. With lyrics. Yep, “innocence raped with napalm fire” is just what I want playing through my head as I’m strapping Sublight, Jr. into his car seat. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-car-commercial-pisses-me-off/73834/42 "2001-07-31T19:37:04Z")
I can’t think of anything more stupid than a current add for Chevy trucks, where you see this mammoth truck arriving on a construction site. The truck is probably 50 feet high at the cab, and contains a driver and passengers of equally awesome proportions. We hear the "Bwwwwoooaaaaingggg " of the guitar note from “Like a Rock”, which Chevy should probably have dropped ages ago, yadda, yadda, yadda… In fact, while we’re at it, fuck all commercials with enormous things or people…like the beer commercials where 2000 foot-high people play basketball amid Rocky peaks that just stand up to their waists. ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-car-commercial-pisses-me-off/73834/43 "2001-07-31T20:39:00Z")
I’ve only seen this ad in movie theaters. You don’t find out what it’s for until the last 5 seconds. It’s shot entirely in a blue-tint monochrome - beautiful photography. I may have the individual shots out of order, but it’s something like: Narrator: There’s only one past (shot of tribes people dancing around a fire) Nar: There’s only one future (time-lapse shot of sun rising over lake, clouds streaming) Me (in my head): I wonder what this is for. Nar: There’s only one mother (close up of a pregnant woman cradling her belly.) Nar: There’s only one _mother_ (shot of earth from space (or something)) Me: Ohhh, it must be Earth Day, or some environmetal thing. Cool. a couple more clips which I forget before the final- Nar: There’s only one Jeep. (Shot of some behemoth SUV climbing on rocks.) Me: :mad: :rolleyes: (seething and foaming at the mouth.) Why do I object? I don’t want to debate the cost/benefit equations of the SUV. Dead Horse, etc. But c’mon Jeep, admit it. You don’t care about pissing off environmentalists - those hippies can’t afford a Jeep Liberty anyway, so screw 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Lil\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Lil\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lil_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-car-commercial-pisses-me-off/73834/44 "2001-07-31T22:48:45Z")
Have you seen the minivan commercial which features Mom and Pop American and their towhead mini-Americans? Mom is driving. Dad is reading his newspaper. Minis are eating goldfish in peaceful silence. No one is talking to anyone else. Suddenly giggles are heard from the minis in back who are, as it is revealed to us, watching a cartoon. In the van. Mom and Dad smile contentedly. I think… heaven forbid the family should actually **talk** to one another on a trip. Dad isn’t even talking to mom about the naughty things they could do after the minis are in bed. Kids have earphones on, their attention focused on the electronic babysitter. That commercial makes me crazy. I want yelling. I want grape juice spilled on the seat. Reality, man. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-car-commercial-pisses-me-off/73834/45 "2001-08-01T21:32:37Z")
\*\* > [@](#): > > For one thing, he has his turn signal on at the light, before an intersection - it’s illegal to change lanes crossing an intersection, and it seems wrong to signal a lane change while sitting at a light, well before you could legally change lanes.\*\* Depends where you are. I was told in traffic school here in Phoenix that, while it is not the safest thing in the world to do, it is NOT illegal to change lanes in an intersection here. Of course, neither is it illegal to make a U-turn in the middle of the road - something I’d never done in my life before I moved here. > [@](#): > > \*\*Most hateful: Another one of those SUV “you probably never will but you could” that has a bunch of them on a perfectly beautiful green mountain top driving fast and leaving huge tracks and skidding wildly…playing soccer! WTF?!? Haven’t seen this in a while, but I don’t watch TV much, so I’m hoping that they realized how environmentally detestable this came across. \*\* Actually, I believe they’re playing polo. The SUVs are being compared to swift, graceful polo ponies. Which also mess up the landscape to some degree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-car-commercial-pisses-me-off/73834.md?page=2)