Tis The Season to Surprise Women
I’ve now seen three holiday commercials with a similar through line...
A family lounges around a fireplace in the evening. A child reads aloud from a book “'Twas the night before Christmas, and mom didn’t know, that dad was behind her, with a box and a bow!” Mom is confused as dad comes up and gives her what looks like a jewelry box. She smiles.
A couple searches for the perfect Christmas tree, when the guy finally points one out. When the woman asks why, he exclaims “Because there is already a gift under it!” The woman finds a small box, most likely jewelry, under one of the trees. She smiles.
A father and son stand outside their house. The father pulls out his cellphone and calls his wife, inside the house. He says “Sorry honey, I wasn’t able to pick him up from practice.”, to which the wife gives a disgruntled look, hangs up, and leaves the house in a hurry. The father and son are there, grinning next to a new car in the driveway topped with a huge bow. She smiles.
So it seems the vogue thing this year for holiday commercials is for men to surprise women. What I wonder, though, is exactly who that last commercial is trying to appeal to. The average family can’t really afford to just SURPRISE each other with new fucking cars, can they? I’d love to see how that last commercial would REALLY go...
MOM: Is... is that a car?
DAD: Yup, what do you think?
MOM: Have you lost your goddamn mind?
DAD: Well I just thought that...
MOM: Why...? What...? We JUST had a conversation about our finances.
DAD: Yeah but...
MOM: We JUST had that conversation this morning. We agreed to make it a small Christmas this year. Because we’re fucked on so many fronts right now.
DAD: Yeah, but I wanted to surprise you.
MOM: Our mortgage, your brother’s parole, the hardwood floors...
DAD: Im sorry. I just wanted it to be a surprise.
MOM: The real surprise is how we are going to afford DINNER tonight.
DAD: Honey.
MOM: Did you THINK about that?
DAD: Honey.
MOM: DID YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
(Son hides behind new car)
DAD: No.
MOM: I have a surprise too. I wanted to wait till after Christmas, but this is fucking nuts.
(Mom pulls out a folder of what is obviously divorce papers with a similar red bow around it.)
Merry Christmas everyone.
A family lounges around a fireplace in the evening. A child reads aloud from a book “'Twas the night before Christmas, and mom didn’t know, that dad was behind her, with a box and a bow!” Mom is confused as dad comes up and gives her what looks like a jewelry box. She smiles.
A couple searches for the perfect Christmas tree, when the guy finally points one out. When the woman asks why, he exclaims “Because there is already a gift under it!” The woman finds a small box, most likely jewelry, under one of the trees. She smiles.
A father and son stand outside their house. The father pulls out his cellphone and calls his wife, inside the house. He says “Sorry honey, I wasn’t able to pick him up from practice.”, to which the wife gives a disgruntled look, hangs up, and leaves the house in a hurry. The father and son are there, grinning next to a new car in the driveway topped with a huge bow. She smiles.
So it seems the vogue thing this year for holiday commercials is for men to surprise women. What I wonder, though, is exactly who that last commercial is trying to appeal to. The average family can’t really afford to just SURPRISE each other with new fucking cars, can they? I’d love to see how that last commercial would REALLY go...
MOM: Is... is that a car?
DAD: Yup, what do you think?
MOM: Have you lost your goddamn mind?
DAD: Well I just thought that...
MOM: Why...? What...? We JUST had a conversation about our finances.
DAD: Yeah but...
MOM: We JUST had that conversation this morning. We agreed to make it a small Christmas this year. Because we’re fucked on so many fronts right now.
DAD: Yeah, but I wanted to surprise you.
MOM: Our mortgage, your brother’s parole, the hardwood floors...
DAD: Im sorry. I just wanted it to be a surprise.
MOM: The real surprise is how we are going to afford DINNER tonight.
DAD: Honey.
MOM: Did you THINK about that?
DAD: Honey.
MOM: DID YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
(Son hides behind new car)
DAD: No.
MOM: I have a surprise too. I wanted to wait till after Christmas, but this is fucking nuts.
(Mom pulls out a folder of what is obviously divorce papers with a similar red bow around it.)
Merry Christmas everyone.