There is a cars.com commercial in which a man meets his date at a table and says his passion is puppetry. He proceeds to pull out a puppet that looks just like the woman and starts kissing it. The woman is weirded out and abruptly leaves. Somehow this portrayal of a man on a date as a creepy stalker is supposed to be funny and sell cars as well.
Here is the commercial:
First Date - Funny Cars.com TV Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnlxPCt5xjc#ws)
Supposedly some people think this is funny and represents how men approach women (in an extreme way, perhaps). I think it's a demeaning representation of men. What do you think?
What a strange commercial. I can't see how that would sell cars...was that the entire commercial? Are they trying to mimic the Geico commercials?
Commercials in my neck-o-the-woods are getting worse and worse by the day. :angryfire:
I bought a Nike T-shirt with the logo "Burn Your Television" on it two decades ago. I might have been victimized by Madison Avenue in that instant, but I don't possess a TV since then: so the advertisers' loss -- and my gain -- was much bigger than the amount I paid for the T-shirt.