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Thursday, October 19, 2017

A Commercial I Actually Like, Repeatedly.

This is a rare thing, particularly if you know me, but there is one.
A car commercial, no less.
You've probably seen it.
It takes place in midtown traffic, and we suddenly hear Neil Diamond's recording of "Sweet Caroline", coming from one of the cars.
It turns out that it's coming from a young red-headed male's car.
He is loudly singing along with Neil.
After we see some other drivers mocking him, we see a rather attractive girl contemporary of his
singing along with him.
She pulls along side of him.
"Sweet Caroline--(bah, bah, bah,) Good times never felt so good, (so good, so good, so good), they sing in duet.
And it makes you sad to think that these two will probably never see each other again.
He should have at least gotten her phone number.
You know she would have given it to him.
And they are both on their respective ways.
And it's sad.
As with most commercials, I had no idea what kind of car they were selling.
It wasn't until the sixth viewing, when I went out of my way to pay attention, that I realized that they were selling Hyundais.
It doesn't much matter what they were selling, this is how commercials should be made.

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3 comments:

  1. True of the most memorable commercials. Think of Ricardo Montalban's silky tones "Corinthian leather"--do you remember the car? Or "marshmallowed meatballs"--what was the product? Or the little piggy crying, "Wee, wee, wee"--who was the sponsor? To us, they are the epitome of a successful commercial. To the company, however, they were miserable failures because everyone remembered the ad but not the product.

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  2. Agree -- I love that commercial!

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Hi. I am, according to my Wikipedia entry,(which I did not create) a noted television writer, playwright, screenwriter, and occasional actor. You can Google me or go to the IMDB to get my credits, and you can come here to get my opinions on things, which I'll try to express eloquently. Hopefully I'll succeed. You can also e-mail me at macchus999@aol.com. Perhaps my biggest claim to fame is being responsible, for about six months in 1975, while Head Writer for the "Happy Days" TV series, for Americans saying to each other "Sit on it."