{"id":86860,"date":"2012-04-17T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T05:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/86860\/now-words-sponsors\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T05:07:27","slug":"now-words-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/86860\/now-words-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now, Some Words From Our Sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV commercials have inspired me to cover songs on my ukulele. TV commercials they make me wonder. Really bad ones make me wonder who let these things onto the tube. Really good ones can make me cry. <\/font><\/p>\n

I\u2019m an observer and critic of TV commercials. Perhaps it\u2019s because of my combination of a creative spirit with a natural ability to sell stuff that I always thought I could have been a Madison Avenue guy, and therefore am just a frustrated ad man. <\/font><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at three ads that caught my eye in the last week. <\/font><\/p>\n

First, from the weekend, a short term TV ad from Burger King advertising a weekend-only promotion of Chicken Wraps for $1 each. First off, I\u2019ll admit, this ad accomplished it\u2019s primary purpose: if I had not seen this ad late, after dinner, on a Sunday night, I would have run right out to Burger King and bought a Chicken Wrap.. But not for the reasons the admakers might have thought\u2026 or\u2026 sinisterly, maybe they did. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Do you think I\u2019m talking about the recent controversy involving Mary J Blige as a black woman selling chicken? No\u2026 <\/font><\/p>\n

THE AD CLAIMS THE CHICKEN WRAP CONTAINS SEVEN <\/strong>KINDS OF LETTUCE! Okay..Wait\u2026 SEVEN KINDS OF LETTUCE?!?<\/strong><\/em> <\/font><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even know there were SEVEN kinds of lettuce!! Lemmethink.. Iceburg, romaine, leaf, red leaf, butter, umm\u2026 umm\u2026 that\u2019s five\u2026 Arugula? Chard? SEVEN KINDS OF FREEKIN LETTUCE?!?! Okay, maybe there are seven different kinds of lettuce, but how could you fit all seven in a single, small, chicken wrap? One leaf of each kind? `<\/font><\/p>\n

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DANGIT!! I HAVE SEARCHED THE INTERNET AND THE AD IS NOT TO BE FOUND\u2026 Believe me. I saw it. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Next, from the inappropriate combinations of children and hardcore drug references, this ad for a the Honda Pilot featuring a classic Ozzy Ozbourne song. <\/font><\/p>\n

Once again, great ad. Very well done. It makes the \u201ccrossover\u201d seem cool and long road trips with children seem exciting. Well, the vehicle needs it. The \u201ccrossover\u201d is a 21st Century term for what we used to call a Station Wagon. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s my problem. The song \u201cCrazy Train\u201d is all about cocaine addiction.<\/strong> Going after rails<\/em>\u2026 umm.. Yeah\u2026 \u201crails\u201d are lines of coke. That drug does make you crazy. Believe me. I remember. That doesn\u2019t make it a bad song; just not one you should be singing with kids in your freekin station wagon!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

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Lastly, again, perhaps this has something to do with my past history of substance abuse, but there is a particular line in this \u201cMiller 64\u201d commercial that makes me want to point out one thing\u2026 The selling line is \u201cBeer with less regret\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u201cLess regret\u201d means it still has some <\/strong>regret inherent in the very product!!<\/strong> Why should we be buying something that admits it comes with REGRET?!? <\/font><\/p>\n

What\u2019s next? Whiskey with less chance of you abusing your spouse? Slightly less liver-destroying vodka? <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TV commercials have inspired me to cover songs on my ukulele. TV commercials they make me wonder. Really bad ones make me wonder who let these things onto the tube. Really good ones can make me cry. I\u2019m an observer and critic of TV commercials. Perhaps it\u2019s because of my combination of a creative spirit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[5051,5052,5053],"class_list":["post-86860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","tag-burger-king","tag-honda","tag-miller-64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}