Commercials

Maybe this shouldn't've ( <-- How do you like that double contraction? That's shit they don't teach in school) bothered me, but it did. So here goes:

Cheerios. Yes, the cereal. Some time ago, I first saw an ad for Cheerios with a British couple where the fellow states how they are healthy for you, and his wife took offense thinking that he was calling her fat. All in all, not my favorite ad, probably because the guy can say nothing right which seems to be a common theme in TV ads, but I like the accents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B2_LEoEb2A (sorry, couldn't find the whole ad, but you'll get the point)

Last night, I saw the same commercial, but noticed something different. The British accents were gone. They had dubbed over the ad with new actors, and the box looked different. I thought it odd, and checked to see what station it was on, and it was coming out of Georgia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZ9CL4phPk


So I guess I just thought it funny that they would go through the trouble of changing the voice rather than subject the American audience to a British accent.

While I'm going on about commercials, anyone ever see the Brita ad where it shows a glass on a table, then a toilet flushes off screen at which point the glass drains and refills, as the toilet would? The voice over then says that tap water and toilet water come from the same source.

Really?!

When I built my house, I had two wells dug: One for drinking, and one for everything else.

Of course it comes from the same source, but it doesn't go to the toilet first, and then to your tap. And even if it did, the water in the tank is still perfectly fine, it is just the water in the bowl that you would have to worry about. However, with their logic, you may as well fill your Brita water filter with water from the toilet bowl.

Personally, I do use a Brita filter pitcher. I just don't like it when companies are intentionally misleading like that, but I guess if you're gullible ( <---Interesting note: I looked 'gullible' up in the dictionary to check the spelling and it wasn't there) enough to fall for it......

Just as a closer, I miss TV not having station identifiers in the corners of the screen, and I also don't much care for when they have the end of one show run into the beginning of the next show by showing them concurrently for a few seconds just to squeeze in more ad time.

-Scott