# Um, about that line, Subaru **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569 "2015-03-09T02:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/41 "2015-03-10T19:41:57Z")
I thought both the Suburu and the Folgers commercial were sweet. Nothing more. Little Nemo, care to explain your post about Fanta? Am I missing something? What does Fanta’s history have to do with anything? Wiki says Coca Cola effectively created a company (Fanta) that was cutoff from Coke’s headquarters because of a trade embargo, thus allowing them to continue to bottle and sell cola until after the war. The only controversy over the “good old times” ad was the people that chose to believe it was saying that Nazi Germany was the “Good Old Days” which is, of course, ludicrous. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/42 "2015-03-10T19:47:40Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > “She grew up in the back seat” implies that she lost her virginity there. The hell it does. It implies that the mother drove that car for the entirety of her baby, toddler, and pre-teen years, when the daughter would have been restricted to the back seat. The lost-her-virginity-there interpretation is prurient, adolescent, sex-obesssed, stupid, and offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/43 "2015-03-10T19:55:45Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The lost-her-virginity-there interpretation is prurient, adolescent, sex-obesssed, stupid, and offensive. So … pretty much “the internet” then. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/44 "2015-03-10T20:07:34Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I thought both the Suburu and the Folgers commercial were sweet. Nothing more. > > Little Nemo, care to explain your post about Fanta? Am I missing something? What does Fanta’s history have to do with anything? Wiki says Coca Cola effectively created a company (Fanta) that was cutoff from Coke’s headquarters because of a trade embargo, thus allowing them to continue to bottle and sell cola until after the war. The only controversy over the “good old times” ad was the people that chose to believe it was saying that Nazi Germany was the “Good Old Days” which is, of course, ludicrous. As you note, Fanta was created by Germany in the 1940s when Coca Cola pulled out of Nazi Germany. After the war, Coca Cola re-aquired its German factories and Fanta. Recently, Fanta ran an ad waxing nostalgic about its origins. John Oliver just skewered the ad: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVBKH-FzsY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVBKH-FzsY) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/45 "2015-03-10T20:10:22Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The hell it does. It implies that the mother drove that car for the entirety of her baby, toddler, and pre-teen years, when the daughter would have been restricted to the back seat. The lost-her-virginity-there interpretation is prurient, adolescent, sex-obesssed, stupid, and offensive. So you never got laid in the back seat of a car then? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/46 "2015-03-10T20:15:11Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > So you never got laid in the back seat of a car then? What are you, 12? The commercial is about a mother reminiscing about her teenage daughter’s childhood and is meant that highlight the longevity and reliability of Subarus. The idea that the mother is nostalgically thinking about her daughter’s cherry getting popped is as ill-thought as phlogiston theory and as crass as FAMILY GUY. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/47 "2015-03-10T20:15:50Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The hell it does. It implies that the mother drove that car for the entirety of her baby, toddler, and pre-teen years, when the daughter would have been restricted to the back seat. The lost-her-virginity-there interpretation is prurient, adolescent, sex-obesssed, stupid, and offensive. Offensive? Really? Prurient, adolescent, and sex-obsessed, sure, but you’re actually _offended_ by people reading sex into that line? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/48 "2015-03-10T20:21:36Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The hell it does. It implies that the mother drove that car for the entirety of her baby, toddler, and pre-teen years, when the daughter would have been restricted to the back seat. The lost-her-virginity-there interpretation is prurient, adolescent, sex-obesssed, stupid, and offensive. I heartily condone & completely agree with this post. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/49 "2015-03-10T20:34:53Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What are you, 12? So that’s a no. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/50 "2015-03-10T20:38:27Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > So that’s a no. The question is idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/51 "2015-03-10T20:40:05Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > … a real stretch. Phrasing! ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/52 "2015-03-10T20:41:54Z")
Why is there so much pearl-clutching in this thread? I had the same reaction at “growing up in the back seat”, snickered, moved on. What’s the big deal? Good grief. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/53 "2015-03-10T21:48:49Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I have never in my life heard “grew up” = “lose virginity” until I read this thread, and now I’m worried about what other incredibly mundane phrases people might get their jollies from. As **Cecil** put it [so many decades ago](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/592/what-does-do-not-hump-mean-on-the-side-of-railroad-cars), the search for off-color significance “seems to give many of the Teeming Millions their principal reason to go on living.” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/54 "2015-03-10T22:50:44Z")
I think a valuable statistical correlation could be drawn between “who interpreted the ‘grow up in the back set’ as a reference to back-seat sex” and “who lost their virginity in the back seat”. It probably deserves research. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/55 "2015-03-10T22:57:15Z")
The idea with this set of Subaru commercials is that the car will still be operable when the kid is ready to drive and inherit it. She’d have to be driving herself to Makeout Point at night in order to get laid in the back. She seems almost at the age where she’d have a license, but her mom is still driving her around. It didn’t occur to me that she be out on her own messing around in the back. I do hate the “Love” crap though. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/56 "2015-03-10T23:13:14Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > But there’s no reason for “daughter was just confused” to be in there. No reason for the “grew up in the back seat” to be voiced, either, if there’s no implication. Just the visual sequence carries that already. > > Big-name commercials are _heavily_ conceptualized, directed, produced, edited. As a rule, every shot and every sound is there for a reason. So what’s your explanation for why it’s there? Also, are you implying that the “What?” and “grew up in the backseat” were meant to be there b/c the company wants to convey the lost her virginity message? That doesn’t make sense, either. Why would the mom be so happy about her teen daughter losing her virginity in the back seat of the family car? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/57 "2015-03-11T00:44:25Z")
I have one of the dirtiest minds going, and can find the sexual context in just about anything. I never even entered my mind that the mom might be talking about her daughter having sex in the backseat. I like the teenager in the commercial. Such a typical teenager attitude. “What?” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/58 "2015-03-11T01:32:16Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I have never in my life heard “grew up” = “lose virginity” until I read this thread, and now I’m worried about what other incredibly mundane phrases people might get their jollies from. [Like this one?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGC-lvCWsrM) ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/59 "2015-03-11T18:07:51Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > I have one of the dirtiest minds going, and can find the sexual context in just about anything. I never even entered my mind that the mom might be talking about her daughter having sex in the backseat. > > I like the teenager in the commercial. Such a typical teenager attitude. “What?” Me too! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569/60 "2015-03-11T18:37:14Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > The hell it does. It implies that the mother drove that car for the entirety of her baby, toddler, and pre-teen years, when the daughter would have been restricted to the back seat. The lost-her-virginity-there interpretation is prurient, adolescent, sex-obesssed, stupid, and offensive. So you’re saying we shouldn’t blame the mother for the daughter ‘becoming a woman’ in the back seat, because she was restriciting her there for her own good? Trying to throw it back on society is interesting, but I think it might be a little reductionist. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-about-that-line-subaru/714569.md?page=4)