Saturday, July 14, 2012

Of course, the real danger lies in drinking this junk





A while back, I snarked on a McDonald's commercial which attempted to explain why that restaurant offered Egg McMuffins, pancakes and coffee.  The ad showed a variety of people attempting to make breakfast at home and failing miserably, and the message was "we make breakfast because you are too intensely stupid to pull it off without doing serious damage to yourself and your house."

I think the makers of International Coffee Creamers (I think that's the sponsor) are using basically the same tactic here.  Apparently you have two choices if you want a cup of fat-laden cream flavored with coffee- you can either risk life and limb buying it at your favorite coffee shop, or you can safely and easily purchase it at the Safeway while picking up your weekly supply of frozen pizza and Doritos. 

And just in case you didn't buy the notion that there is some danger in purchasing your coffee at Starbucks (other than snapping and killing the people in front of you who have amazingly complicated drink orders,) here are some episodes of Let's Laugh at the Stupid People Getting Hurt theater.  I have the strong sense that this is just a bone tossed to the YouTube crowd, which can't get enough of watching Stupid People Getting Hurt no matter what the background situation.

I'm not sure why most of the stuff we see happening to these idiots can't happen in the kitchen after pouring a great big class of cream- maybe it's just that it's less likely to be caught on a cellphone and YouTube'd?  And maybe not even so much less likely- it's not like anyone puts their cellphones away, ever, anymore.

2 comments:

  1. Rather than focusing on people too stupid to function solo in today's world, they should focus on the fact that iced coffee is bloody expensive in a coffeehouse, and buying their stuff is (probably) less expensive, not to mention it's a lot less complicated to pour it out of a carton into your glass then driving to the coffeehouse and waiting in line. They can play up the reality and get some cheap laughs from that.

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  2. Since these things are all about how doing things is bad, they've become the perfect companion to the "Don't do interesting things, buy DirectTV" spots.

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