Or "Lexus says 'it's December, time to make the most self-indulgent, disgusting commercials featuring people totally unrelatable to 99 percent of the public,' to which BMW replies 'hold my beer.'"
So asshat Son shows up with this trophy wife to Dad's house for Christmas only to have a random giant bow which just happens to be on the porch get blown off said porch by a puff of wind which impacts absolutely nothing else and land on his presumably brand-new BMW SUV. Dad instantly assumes that the ribbon on the car his son drove up in means that the car is a gift to himself (yeah, the apple didn't fall far from the tree here, did it?) Son has so much damn money that he just goes along with it* and lets Dad drive (like a freaking maniac) he and his trophy wife back home in DAD's new car. And as if this wasn't all noxious and insulting enough, Dad dials the privilege up to 11 by wondering out loud what his son got Mom.
Yeah, that's right- because not only does this dad believe his son would buy him a $60,000 BMW for Christmas, but he also assumes that the car is JUST for him and that his wife will be getting- well, what? An SUV of her own? Several cruises? I mean, WHAT? And the look on Son's face makes it very clear that he's wondering the same thing- and will quickly be arranging some enormous purchase to save face before Christmas dinner rolls around.
A few years ago, we had that horrible truck commercial where hubby buys matching black and red tricked-out trucks and then is flummoxed when his wife chooses the black one. A few years before that, we got the god-awful war crime that was that commercial where the wife notes that there are an entire 42 miles on the odometer of the brand new BMW her husband got her for Christmas. And then there was that commercial where a guy gives his wife an Audi and her "thank you" is interrupted by a passing Lexus- which she can't stop staring at and which I guess in her mind suddenly made the Audi about as valuable as a 1975 LeCar. But for my money, this is the absolute worst I've ever seen. The presumption, the entitlement, all of it....just too much.
"Can't wait to see what you got your mother." Good lord. What did this son give his father LAST year? And before I forget- what is with you YouTube commenters? You all love this ad? Come on. You're all bots or paid shills. You have to be.
*Instead of, oh, I don't know, just telling Dad that no you freaking moron, the ribbon just blew on to the car, which Dad should realize because it's the ribbon that was ON HIS FREAKING PORCH A MOMENT AGO. The son's relationship with a father he can't be honest is kind of depressing, but not as depressing as the fact that he can just write off the $60k as a "whaddayagonnado" and doesn't seem to be at all disturbed about it, nor does Trophy Wife seem to care. So these people have money burning holes in their pockets. Again, so very relatable.
and OF COURSE he's in a mixed race marriage...
ReplyDelete... because according to Madison Avenue, everyone in America is in mixed race and/or same-sex marriages. Don't get me wrong, I very much approve of normalizing these things, but why do advertisers feel the need to turn it into a kind of farce. Is it really necessary to make it seem as though everyone in the world is involved in mixed race, same-sex relationships when, in fact, that's nowhere near true? Why not just be real? It's incredibly ironic that in this day and age when everyone seems to be all about "keeping it 100", we're probably further away from that ideal than we've ever been.
ReplyDeleteIn a few years, we'll be nostalgic for mixed-race couples on TV, because all of the couples will be single-sex.
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