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Title: Cars.com commercial portrays man on date as creepy stalker
Post by: mens_issues on Jul 26, 2014, 12:55 PM
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?
Title: Re: Cars.com commercial portrays man on date as creepy stalker
Post by: dr e on Jul 27, 2014, 03:59 AM
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?
Title: Re: Cars.com commercial portrays man on date as creepy stalker
Post by: Captain Courageous on Aug 07, 2014, 02:40 PM
Commercials in my neck-o-the-woods are getting worse and worse by the day.  :angryfire:
Title: Re: Cars.com commercial portrays man on date as creepy stalker
Post by: neoteny on Aug 07, 2014, 03:38 PM
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.