Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Stupidest ad in the universe (and above, Evilest ad in the unviverse)

The antihistamine commercial where the dad comes down and dusts off his old fishing rod, and says he hasn't been to that favorite fishing spot, "a river that runs through a field, a field with pollen."  Some moron figured that the ads with fields of wildflowers meant hayfever, and not a river, so they needed to have the field.

Few rivers run through fields.  The field would be a wetland, or there would be river banks. Small streams tend to run in vegetation.  Fields that weren't wetlands would be plowed to the river bank.

So in the end the father and daughter are shown walking through a forest and then standing and fishing on a brownish green CGI "field" with a CGI "river" put through it and vanishing into light savannah in the distance.  The edge of the "river" looks like a flat silver knife edge.  It's like an idiot dream.

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