Stupid - I know this is stupid.
There’s an ad running on TV, I’ve seen it a couple of times now. It’s set in a school lunchroom where three little girls are opening up their lunches and getting ready to eat. It also happens to be Valentine’s Day, and each lunch has been “enhanced” by mom in honor of the occasion.
The chubby little blond girl pulls out a piece of fruit that her mom has decorated with stickers. The second girl pulls out a sandwich which her mother has trimmed into the shape of a heart.
The third girl pulls out an envelope. In side is a Hannah Montana card with a pre-recorded message from mom to her little “rock-star”.
The ad closes with a shot back on the little blonde who looks, not just wryly disappointed, but absolutely shattered.
It makes me really uncomfortable. I would under no circumstances purchase this card or anything like it - and I can’t help but feel that this isn’t quite what the marketing department had in mind with this commercial :)
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I’m getting stuck with my knitting, which is a little depressing, but was predictable for the time of year. I’ve got several projects under way but don’t want to work on any of them. It always seems to happen around now - the beginning of the new year. I have also acquired some beads that I want to incorporate into some lace knitting but can’t decide on what I want to do with that and have the sneaking suspicion that if I start something new, I’ll get bored with it as well.
Ack - I suppose it will pass…
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Eww! That ad is awful on so many levels! During the holidays, Lexus was running a similarly cringe-inducing TV ad with a little girl getting a real pony for Christmas while her best friend next door is so jealous (yes, they use that exact word in the ad - ah, Christmas spirit!) because she only got a toy horse.
Aren’t those winter blahs just aggravating? I hit that rough patch earlier. It does always pass; it just feels like it’s taking FOREVER… Hang in there!
what a horrible commercial! what does it say about having children eat healthy? oh no. don’t eat the fruit. it’s lame and uncool. have a hannah montana card instead. feh.
you know, when my knitting gets me down? i take out my spinning wheel. just sayin’. ;-)
Hello fellow knitter!
Nothing stupid about finding this ad distasteful. I did, too, and wrote a negative blog post. Today, I received a letter from Hallmark saying they are pulling the add off the air! Evidentally, it made a lot of people upset.
