Adsurdity
“When I was a kid Halloween was Halloween and Santa wasn’t poking his fat ass into it.”
–Lewis Black
Okay, I’ve gotten behind. On November 1st, I saw my first genuine Christmas ad, for Home Depot (or Lowe’s?). It featured a couple (I think, I only saw it once) talking to a Home Depot/Lowe’s employee about Christmas Lawn decorations.
Then, I saw one for Visa not too long ago. It wasn’t overtly a Christmas ad, but it was set in an old-fasioned toy store, and it aired in November*.
*Has a touch of a circular argument about it, doesn’t it?
Oh, and I might classify the MasterCard ad as a Christmas ad, too. You know, the one that features the woman singing “My Favorite Things”? That’s a Christmas song, in this house (sung by Barry Manilow, no less.) By the way, the woman in the scuba suit has the sexiest voice I’ve ever heard. Not unlike the woman who narrates The Corporation, except this woman is physically attractive, also. Yeah, I don’t even know why I bothered writing this either.
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