Bait and Switch
A commercial came on during one of Caro's "Stories" that doubled me over with laughter.
Adult contemporary music plays in the background. Think "Feel the rain on your skin" or some such claptrap.
A mother and her daughter are getting ready for a wedding. We see them already dressed, putting the final touches on their appearances as they look out the bedroom window at the gathered guests, groom, and preacher in the distance on the lawn below. They seem happy and excited.
The narrator (a woman of indeterminate age) gushes on ad nauseum about how this is the most important moment in a woman's life, and how everything needs to be absolutely perfect, that nothing should stand in the way of her dreams. It is at this point I'm confronted with the thought that I may be purchasing whatever this ad is selling, very soon (for our own impending nuptials of course).
Cut to the end of the ceremony and we see a close-up of the couples' hands as the groom puts a ring on the bride's finger. My, their hands look awfully old and wrinkled to be such a young couple. The camera cuts to the couple's faces, and we see that it's not the daughter getting married, but the mother. Odd. A renewal of vows perhaps? Remarrying for money? Shotgun Wedding? Who knows?
Now, the clincher: What do you suppose is responsible for the wedding going off without a hitch? What product are they targeting at this nation's burgeoning population of sexagenarian brides?
Depends Adult Diapers. Nothing ruins a wedding like the bride's loss of bowel control. It'll make the honeymoon an adventure though...
If I find a youtube of this commercial I'll post it of course...
Adult contemporary music plays in the background. Think "Feel the rain on your skin" or some such claptrap.
A mother and her daughter are getting ready for a wedding. We see them already dressed, putting the final touches on their appearances as they look out the bedroom window at the gathered guests, groom, and preacher in the distance on the lawn below. They seem happy and excited.
The narrator (a woman of indeterminate age) gushes on ad nauseum about how this is the most important moment in a woman's life, and how everything needs to be absolutely perfect, that nothing should stand in the way of her dreams. It is at this point I'm confronted with the thought that I may be purchasing whatever this ad is selling, very soon (for our own impending nuptials of course).
Cut to the end of the ceremony and we see a close-up of the couples' hands as the groom puts a ring on the bride's finger. My, their hands look awfully old and wrinkled to be such a young couple. The camera cuts to the couple's faces, and we see that it's not the daughter getting married, but the mother. Odd. A renewal of vows perhaps? Remarrying for money? Shotgun Wedding? Who knows?
Now, the clincher: What do you suppose is responsible for the wedding going off without a hitch? What product are they targeting at this nation's burgeoning population of sexagenarian brides?
Depends Adult Diapers. Nothing ruins a wedding like the bride's loss of bowel control. It'll make the honeymoon an adventure though...
If I find a youtube of this commercial I'll post it of course...
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