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> Okay, the original thread is a few days old, so I'm not going to post in it...besides, my big beef is more with offensive TV ads than with stupid TV ads. But don't worry, I'll mention some stupid ones as well.
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> But first, on to the TV ads I find the most offensive:

Offensive ads? I can do that.

There're two ads by Ford, about their new electric car prototype (key word here... prototype... as in, no one's ever seen these things on the road before.)

In the first, the woman explains that she likes to take her car to gas stations to watch (in hiding!) as the attendants try to find the gas tank to fill it. She then asks "how much do I owe you?" as she gets in her car and drives off laughing. She explains that she likes to do this once a week but she's running out of stations.

In the second, same woman only now she's taking it to a garage for an emissions test. Off goes the woman to hide again, watching as the two mechanics try to find the car's taipipe. After she can stand no more hilarity, she comes out, asks the guys "Did I pass?" as she climbs in, and calls out "See you next year!" as she drives away.

Here are the conclusions that I've drawn from these two commercials.

1) Electric cars are good... so good, in fact, that they make you a better person, even better than anyone else. Drive an electric car, and you have free reign to look down on those peons that drive Neons.

2) People who work at gas stations and garages (places that admit those evil, evil combustion vehicles) should be mocked, ridiculed, made fun of, and mucked with. You are, after all, a god now that you own an electric car. Mess with the mortals.

3) Don't be afraid to show your smugness and arrogance to the gasoline-using slugs that inhabit such places. Had they the brians to comprehend your taunts, they'd go get their own prototype, or wait the five or so years for their own.

4) Ford wants people as pretentious as possible to drive their vehicles.

Diane