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April 25, 2007
Commercials
There's a television ad in which a woman is riding a fairly full elevator down and changing the configuration of her clothing; she strips off some items which reveals more sports-oriented attire beneath. When the elevator doors open she rushes out the front of the office building to find her gal pal waiting at the curb in a car with bikes on the roof. Girl One hops in, looks forward very seriously and say "let's go."
I don't even know why I hate it. Is it because Girl Two was obviously going to go even without the prodding of Girl One? Is it because the tone Girl One uses is so serious it's as if the gals are on their way to deliver a heart for a life-saving operation? Is it because Girl One was changing clothes in an elevator and Steven Tyler wasn't in the frame?
Another commercial involves a bunch of women on motorcycles chasing two guys down in their vehicle. The leader of the pack returns the driver's cell phone to him, declares "there's a new number in there," turns to the other woman, snaps her finger and says, "let's go."
Again, I'm not sure why I don't like this commercial. I don't think it's the dialog that the two commercials have in common that put me off and I'm a big fan of attractive women.
I'm not even sure it's the stupidity of the commercials that offend me. There's one I really like in which an attractive young lady is sort of gyrating around and sweating and words pop up on the screen that say, "When she sweats, it's hot … when you sweat it's smelly," or something like that. See, it's sort of stupid, but it's fun and funny.
Maybe I think the other commercials are trying to take themselves too seriously.
Maybe it's because crap like attractive women changing clothes in elevators just doesn't happen and I doubt there are roving bands of good-looking young-lady motorcycle gangs roaming the southwest.
Who can tell?
I know that I thank God each and every day for the fact that I can't take ten steps in Hilliard without stumbling across a hot, scantily clad, 20-something female gyrating in place to some song only she can hear.
[Last night I saw the spot with the motorcycle gang — it's an ad for Suzuki autos. Just before I posted this the commercial with the elevator came on — it's a Suzuki car commercial as well. I hadn't realized both the commercials were for the same company. I can only assume the advertising agency involved has a big bag filled with dialog tiles that they reach into as they are writing commercials and "let's go" came up twice in two hours.]
Posted by delmer at April 25, 2007 10:34 PM
Comments
Michelle hates the bike rider commercial also, she believes that the elevator woman should be wearing a sport bra to go riding because of her large, um, hands.
Posted by: Mikeo at April 26, 2007 10:09 PM
I'm so put off by the commercial I've never even taken a look toward her chest.
Posted by: delmer at April 27, 2007 9:03 AM