Finally, a car commercial that doesn't make you want to trash your TV
Most car commercials are unbearable. Not as awful as the pharmaceutical ads offering you diarrhea and bleeding ulcers in exchange for clearing up your pet allergies, but still pretty bad.
The problem with car commercials is that they try to sell you on a life you probably will never have: careening around mountain curves with reckless abandon, hauling your boat to the marina with your camera-ready kids who don't fight over space and make only easily wiped up messes in the backseat, loading 75 tons of concrete into the bed of your truck then balancing it on the edge of a cliff...
It just seems like these commercials should reflect real life more accurately. Real life is mundane, filled with petty emotions like jealousy and misplaced superiority, and rife with -- what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes. Violence.
Thank goodness Andy Richter gets it:
Sold!
PREVIOUSLY ON THE BEEHIVE
American car commercials suck
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ROFLMAO!! It's so fantastically wrong.
Posted by: SBR at March 10, 2009 1:54 PM
omg!I used to like Andy...before he was a murderer!
Posted by: pk at March 10, 2009 2:14 PM
Beautiful. Very funny. I love it (the supercilious Toyota owner is spot on. If you spend any time in the Bay Area, you'll see it). What you forgot to mention though is that, well, at least according to the commercials, if I buy a European luxury car, I will be filling my weekends jetting off to exotic cocktail parties with supermodels while looking fantastic in my designer suits. How's Hyundai, Toyota, and Nissan gonna compete with THAT? Hmmm?
Posted by: John at March 10, 2009 2:28 PM
Heeeelarious. But I thought this would end up being an ad for the Prius, which does sound much better than the Hyundai.
Posted by: Stephen at March 10, 2009 4:31 PM
The Toyota guy is L.A. comedian James Adomian from UCB. He's also the writer.
Posted by: blortock at March 10, 2009 6:33 PM
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