Tuesday, January 16, 2007

TV Commercials

Not that I want ripping on commercials to be the focus of this blog, but they are asking for it lately. It seems the latest trend is to make a commercial with something "unique" and "attention grabbing" that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the product, mind you, and then run the commercial about a billion times. The hope of course is that when I'm hungry and only have 3 bucks, I will first think of Wendy's. If I only had 3 bucks, though, I'd be able to stretch that 3 bucks better at the grocery store.

Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but for those of us with even slightly more than half a brain, after we see a commercial like twice we have the concept down pat and know whether or not we are going to buy your stuff. If you keep ramming it into our senses we aren't going to zombie walk to the store to buy your product, we're going to start to hate your commercial, then tear the commercial apart, then just hate your whole company.

So to you, Dodge trucks, stop already. Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots were made of plastic. Toyota trucks: Oh yeah, you have tough trucks and sure after what the truck goes through there's no damage. When will the next truck maker have their truck destroy a Toyota and Dodge? I'm all over cars today. Acura dudes, check it out. Gravity is a constant force. Dropping a car or any other object causes a certain maximum speed (slower if there is wind resistance of course). So obviously a car can go faster on the ground. Your car may be "faster than gravity" but so what? If I dropped a ball alongside the car, it would make it to the ground quicker. Now I don't know much about physics and aerodynamics, but I think I'm right. Now it might not be Acura's commercial, I could be mistaken, but it shows only that your commercial has not accomplished its goal. I don't want to buy your car I just want to rip apart your commercial.

Sorry to pick on the auto commercials and all.

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