Luckily they only come around every two years because they are engrossing...and dangerous to my sleep. We rarely watch TV (in favor of Hulu) so I haven't watched many commercials in the past few years.
Until now. With the Olympics.
And commericals bug me.
Last night I saw one for Muckleshoot Casino, a local Indian Reservation casino. With apparent winnings from the casino, a husband and wife each bought each other a flat screen TV.
The final scene of the commercial shows them, jubilantly sitting side by side in recliners. The wife proclaims that they no longer have to fight over the remote. They fist bump and the camera pans to show them watching their side by side big screen TVs.
This leaves me with a lot of questions:
1-do they have a one room house?
2-did they consider returning one of the TVs?
3- does the volume of their spouse's TV distract?
4- are all winners at Muckleshoot idiots?
Fortunately NBC came back with Shaun White on the half pipe so I could move on from my musings.
Stupid things bug me though.
Like this advertisement I saw in a magazine:
It's an ad for the stain resistant properties of this furniture.
Are you kidding me?
Look at the expression on the little girl's face. Someone this cavalier with an ice cream cone should not be on a couch.
And look at the mom. That is an expression reserved for someone who just surprised you with bringing in an unexpected birthday cake or balloon bouquet, not a dumped ice cream cone.
Ice cream isn't pleasant to clean off linoleum. I doubt these couches make it any more fun.
Finally, Shaun White, Lindsay Vonn and Shani Davis are going to have to win a lot more gold medals to recover us from the hit to our national pride that American cheese inflicted.
American Cheese?
Really?
I can picture the invention of American cheese.
Inventor 1: Ew. Try this.
Inventor 2: Yeah, that's nasty. What should we call it?
Inventor 1: Cheese?
Inventor 2 (shrugging): Sure, why not.
Inventor 1: But what kind of cheese?
Inventor 2 (with a sneer, because he hates Americans): How about American Cheese?
Inventor 1 (with scheming tented fingers because he hates Americans too): Great idea!
Sadly these two inventors went on to invent Wonder bread and now there's anti-American sentiment in the world.
(Wonder bread: named because it makes you wonder why it's called bread?)
OK, my rant is over. I can officially get on with my life...until tonight when I'll be back to watching the Olympics...
4 comments:
You are too funny! My middle two children only watch the Olympics with us for the commercials! Macy claims they are so funny! Asher just observes big eyed and then announces his disgust at the competitors of the events, informing us that he could do it better/faster. No lacking confidence in that kid!
You sound like Enoch and soccer! :) Just kidding.
I'm enjoying the Olympics too. So is Isaiah. He wants to be in them. Can you imagine being Shaun White's mom though? I get nauseated when Isaiah's on the top of your parents' slide!
I'm not a big winter sports person...but for some reason I've been enjoying watching the Olympics this year. Of course, my husband taught my son to say "snowboarding" and they'll sit together on the couch oohing and ahhing together. I'm already experiencing heart papaltations over this.
Oh man! I just read through your Ad rants! I was laughing so hard. Especially at the American cheese rant. I don't understand why they still sell the stuff. My kids actually beg me for the stuff when they see it in the store. Yuck! I say no, usually, unless it's their birthday or something.
My kids want to have a meal during the Olympics where we have many different foods from different countries (or at least with the country's name). A few we thought of were German pancakes, French toast, Swiss cheese, Italian sausage, Canadian bacon, Swedish meatballs (or fish, or pancakes, etc). We were trying to think of an "American" one. My kids said, "American cheese." I said, "No, that's not a food!" Any other suggestions?
P.S. We are totally addicted to the Olympics, too. We don't watch tv and my husband hooked up the rabbit ears during the Olympic opening ceremonies so we could enjoy a few weeks of Olympics. I stay up way too late watching it!
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