Time whizzes by and I, I write of glimpses I steal

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Where is the outrage?

I kid you not, this is a real advertisement on television:

Open to a beautiful young woman looking longingly at her marriage photograph as she dusts an immaculate room. Cut to a charming young man running through a corridor carrying what appears to be a huge canvas. Back to the woman whose mobile rings. She picks up the mobile and wordlessly goes to the window to open her curtain. And lo behold! on the opposite building is the charming young man holding a canvas with a heart shaped rose petal artwork and waving madly and he had given similar canvases with bold letters on them, to people in different apartments to read M-A-R-R-Y M-E A-G-A-I-N. The girl moved by this romantic gesture, blushes. End advertisement.

The ad was for Pond's Age miracle cream.

Here is this guy who dumped his woman because she looked old and wrinkly and now that she has used Pond's age miracle cream and gotten all young and beautiful, he wants to marry her again. And she blushed.

Excuse me, I have to throw up.

1 comment:

another day in paradise said...

yes...made many of us throw up...such fickle minded ad concepts?