Friday, May 13

Ad Nauseam



Is anybody else out there annoyed at the cloying bullshit that Toyota is using to get the simpler minds to rush out and purchase their Sequoia?

The ad has a father coming home to find his wife involved in her laptop and the kids glued to the TV; he turns off the tube and hauls the family out to the boonies to look (raptly of course) at the night sky.

The voiceover intones that ...of all the places the Sequoia can take you, the most important is back to your family.

Hey, if you want to get closer with your family, pile 'em into a Metro and get to know each other.

The only commercial more annoying is that Take Me Fishing treacle matter.

While I'm on the subject. In an ad for the drug, Premarin, they list possible side effects for it that includes the completely redundant warning ... if you have a uterus, estrogen may increase your chances of developing uterine cancer... Do they really need to mention that you could only develop uterine cancer if you have one? Is this to make sure women who've had hysterectomies, or really stupid men, don't think they've developed uterine cancer from taking said drug?

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