Commercials tend to “pull at the heartstrings” in order to sell you crap. There have been I don’t know how many commercials that tell a sobby story about some family getting together for one last family road trip; one running right now – I think for a car company – has three or four generations of folks taking granny on a trip across America with her dead husbands ashes, because he always wanted to take her, blah, blah, blah. Many other commercials that extol the virtues of “big dreams,” and the promise kids have of being anything they want to be when they grow up.
And then there’s this kind, which made me laugh a lot more than it probably aughtta.
Face it: few things funnier than reality smacking up “dreams” upside the head. At least when its someone elses dreams… when it’s your own, it’s a tragedy. But someone else? Comedy.