Monday, February 8, 2010

I just saw a commercial for some laundry cleaning product (I cannot remember which one) where the grandmother is hip and kind. She's going on and on about how great her middle-aged granddaughter is going to look in a concert t-shirt from the eighties after she spruces it up with color booster. Do people really have grandmothers like that? They should have cast me with my grandmother. That would have been an entirely different commercial. My grandmother is super crotchedy and mean-spirited. She would have told me I was too old to wear a rock concert T-shirt and that my thighs were too thick for my jeans. And me, after decades of withstanding her super-crank factor, would finally break down and scream "Oh yeah, old woman? You're lucky I don't hum this (insert product name here) bottle at you!" Yup, it would be weird to see this level of realism in advertising, but all that rageful screaming of the product name would really make you remember what it was, right?