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Remember that commercial I mentioned last week that some thought an outright fabrication, others an episode of Too Cute seen through a zolpidem scrim ? It’s worse than I originally intimated:
Call him now, or the puppy gets it! What are you waiting for? Unsafe strangers from the Internet?
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Yes, my name was Ernst Stavros Blofeld before I changed it, went into the car business and acquired this cute little puppy. Why do you ask?
It’s the dead eyes and creepy mouth movements that do it for me.
You talking about the clip, or Paul Ryan?
Yes.
Certainly has a Wayne LaPierre vibe. Ick.
Bath salts. At 0:38 he eats the puppy’s face.
i see a Psycho remake, in this guy’s future.
There is a new TV prequel coming out soon — on A&E and starts tomorrow
yeah, we get to see mom, before she was ossified. kind of creepy ads too.
You’re a little carried away aren’t you? He isn’t even threatening animal shelters, just giving them a shout-out.
Yeah, it looks like he’s just using the puppy to try to look less creepy.
Which, of course, has the opposite of the intended effect.
You’re sure you know the intended effect?
He’s a used car salesperson.
And he does sound authoritative when he says ‘It’s not safe.’
At any speed – he does remind me of Nader during the 2000 campaign.
I agree. He’s creepy and awkward, but I get no puppy-threatening vibe.
On a related note, why do car dealers think it’s a good idea to be in their advertisements? They are almost universally awful.
I think it’s arrogance. I’m the face of this business, I sell the cars around here. People love me and worship beneath my inflatable gorilla.
Apparently they think that we think that someone who looks goofy or awkward on TV will offer a fair deal on a car. They’ve been doing that kind of commercial all my life, I’m sure someone is telling them it works.
This could be a cross-over movie project between the SyFy and Hallmark cable channels.
That reminds me of this classic
Totally creepy. The puppy looks like a prop, and the setup definitely calls to mind the bad-guy-holding-innocent-animal device so often used in movies. Boardwalk Empire recently did this wonderfully with the character, Rosetti, who was already one of the scariest characters I’ve ever seen, by giving him a special fondness for a cute puppy. I’m guessing the visual rhetoric explanation would be that putting a cuddly, defenseless animal in the clutch of a character already known for cruel/violent/unpredictable outbursts serves the purpose of maintaining a level of anxiety in the viewer. A constant reminder of the fact that something bad may happen at any moment.
It seems more like he decided to use to a few seconds of his advertising time to give shelter adoption a shout-out. I think it’s far more innocuous than you initially reported.
Yes, the cute little puppy gives it a weird vibe, but then, it’s not a very good ad anyway you cut it. I could see someone going, “a puppy will get people’s attention, people go bazongas for puppies.” But it’s a bit too distracting. You just watch the puppy, and stop paying attention to the words or the thing being sold. For instance, after watching it twice, I still can’t remember what he’s telling me; buy cars?
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