I love watching football, but not exclusively for the game. Everyone talks about the Super Bowl commercials, and they are pretty cool, but too many people sleep on the regular season. Some of my favorites are the truck commercials. If you take the truck commercials at face value the advertising company’s truck will make you stronger, faster, better. It will allow you to tow a fully loaded supertaker across the country on a single tank of gas. Your hair will grow faster, thicker, darker. If you buy from the other guys, well you’ll get AIDS and a thousand kittens will be slaughtered in every kindergarten classroom around the world. Oh, and you won’t be able to tow as much.
Another example? How about the Cialis commercials. I don’t know who came up with these, but they should be writing for Saturday Night Live(they need the help). In each of these commercials there is a lot of smiling and prancing about by an older (but surreptitiously not too old) couple. They appear to be very happy, presumably because the ‘drought’ is about the end. However at the end of each of these commercials the couple is sitting in cast iron bathtubs in preposterous locales. Bathtubs, plural. Maybe this is some newer flirting technique, whose directions are distributed only through the pages of AARP Magazine, but I would think the purpose of their product would be to bring people together, literally. Are they suggesting that their product is so potent that following ingestion the man will be able to reach his woman from an opposing bathtub? If so…then mission accomplished. And how did those bathtubs get all the way out to that meadow/cliff/beach? Maybe someone bought a new truck, of course if they had bought the right truck they wouldn’t need the pills, or so they say.
