Friday, June 22, 2007

Has anyone else seen this ad?

I first caught this commercial the other night. It's ridiculous for so many reasons:

1. Gary Coleman, perhaps more desperate to make a dollar than ever before.
2. They couldn't have at least put a telephone book under Gary? As is, he can't even see the vents on the dashboard.
3. Pause the clip at the very end when the fine print shows. Take a look at the APR.
4. Take a look again.

16 comments:

rob said...

you just made geoff very happy

Geoff said...

You mean because I love really high APRs?

T.J. said...

Isn't that the G:TB motto?

Dedicated to the premise that life would be better if we all listened to Geoff."

Geoff said...

And it's brother site "Jerry's Wheelhouse: Sports, Drinking, Elitism and Implicit Racism."

T.J. said...

"Your name in lights...if it's white."

rob said...

wonderful feel-good story about college athletes and their team names in the extrapolator today:

http://extrapolater.wordpress.com/

T.J. said...

Just so you know, it took a lot of effort on my part not to compare Mr. Coleman to the creator of this site. A lot.

T.J. said...

Rob, G:TB appreciates the 5-star review on the GNUru list, but can do without the commentary.

T.J. said...

Would this commercial work as well if Emmanuel Lewis were starring in it? I say no.

Actually, is Emmanuel Lewis still alive?

rob said...

teej, your cryptic comments confuse me. i'm not familiar with your modern ways. i'm just a simple unfrozen caveman.

T.J. said...

No, no, no...Mayhugh is the unfrozen caveman.

Mark said...

Wrong again. The REAL unfrozen caveman in Greg's dad.

Dennis said...

I think of this "commercial" more as a public service announcement to keep your young ones out of the child-actor scene. I mean the Gary Coleman route is even a best case scenario...

T.J. said...

'Lil Dennis will not be exploited in such a way.

T.J. said...

Uh, yeah, have fun with this?

T.J. said...

I would like to murder most of the Yankee relievers.