I was in a restaurant (where I spend most of my non-work waking hours), and the TV was on (but muted) in the bar area. It was a FedEx commercial that showed some Oriental suit-types all eating some kind of SPAM-type meat. They’re on a conference call with an Occidental suit-type.
I guess, from the reactions that the meat was spoiled, and the motto was “If you had used FedEx, this wouldn’t have happened.”
But I didn’t hear any dialogue, so what exactly were they saying?
I think that’s the one where they’re all chowing down on what they think is beef jerky, and it turns out that the Western Suit Type guy had sent them fresh filet mignon or something. Gross!
Also, he had sent it two months previous.
Fell off my couch laughing at this one.
Subordinate gets the ‘client from Texas’ on the line.
Boss thanks him for the :whispered - what is the word? “Beef jerky”.
Texas client says “I can’t take credit for that. The last package I sent was that there fillet mignon two months ago.”
[I love how he says it as ‘fillay minion’!]
Look of horror on boss’ and subordinate’s faces as they race out of the room.
Texas client - “Hello? Hello?”
This is similar to one FedEx did awhile ago - middle-aged dumpy man working as a pool cleaner in a run-down trailer park in the middle of the desert (obviously the best job he could get around here).
“Other” overnight courier service pulls up with overweight, non-caring driver - hands him an envelope from a prestigious university saying he has a full four-year scholarship with room and board to the university but he must reply by May…1972 (25 years too late).
Driver - words to the effect of “Oh well, I was delayed”.
Implying that the man’s life would have changed for the better had the university used FedEx.
(I remember this one specifically because the actor playing the driver used to live in the Orlando area - d@mn funny guy.)
I have to say, my favorite is with Steve Irwin (aka, the Crocodile Hunter). He’s in the outback and gets bitten by a poisonous snake – not to worry, the antidote was sent FedEx. Then he falls over dead.
Um, wasn’t the point being the antidote was NOT sent via FedEx, but by a cheaper and less reliable carrier, then he panics and dies midsentence?
Still a great commercial.
Uh, yeah. Somehow I left out a sentence there. Oops.