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captainsblogI don't watch a lot of television beyond sporting events and the couple of series I've been hooked on (none of which are running new eps at the moment), but I do see my share of commercials between the ballgames and the bigscreens at the gym. Among them, I'm seeing a bunch of these bits for something called Scottrade, which feature some big corporate mucketymuck flying all around in his impressive helicopter.
It amazes me how stupid and forgetful ad agencies think we are. For it wasn't THAT long ago that another investment company, by the name of First Joisey Securities, used virtually the same faux-impressive series of ads on its way to building both a personal empire for the guy in the whirlybird and, ultimately, a multi-billion securities fraud case against him:
What's next? OJ Simpson resuming his Hertz commercials? Fred Flintstone doing testimonials for RJ Reynolds's pharmaceutical division? ("See your doctor if Viagrock gives you an erocktion for more than four sundials.")
Or maybe they'll just be honest with us and slap McCain's name on those Bush-Cheney campaign spots from four years ago:P
It amazes me how stupid and forgetful ad agencies think we are. For it wasn't THAT long ago that another investment company, by the name of First Joisey Securities, used virtually the same faux-impressive series of ads on its way to building both a personal empire for the guy in the whirlybird and, ultimately, a multi-billion securities fraud case against him:
What's next? OJ Simpson resuming his Hertz commercials? Fred Flintstone doing testimonials for RJ Reynolds's pharmaceutical division? ("See your doctor if Viagrock gives you an erocktion for more than four sundials.")
Or maybe they'll just be honest with us and slap McCain's name on those Bush-Cheney campaign spots from four years ago:P