Thursday, August 09, 2007

That's Brutal, Dude

I don’t watch alot of teevee, and only receive five channels, but I often hear it in the background when other individuals in the house tune in this or that show.  Mostly I overhear commercials, for some reason, and the Alltel commercial I overheard, for the second time last night, surprises me.

I cannot find the actual commercial I overheard on YouTube, but it follows the format of this Alltel van commercial, where four competing cell phone carrier dorks kidnap the Alltel dork and confront him in a van.

In the commercial, the four competing carrier dorks want the Alltel dork to stop offering some service and threaten to “do something bad” to the Alltel dork if the offending service is not stopped.

In previous versions I’ve seen of this Alltel commercial, which is linked above, the “something bad” was pinching the Alltel dork, which is no big deal and actually quite stupid, but in the version I overheard last night, when the four dorks threaten to “do something bad” to the Alltel dork, the Alltel dork says “Like what?”, and one of the four dorks replies “We’ll beat you with a tubesock full of wood screws.”

Initially, I thought that the line was kinda funny, but actually, it’s just plain brutal, and I’m wondering how, in this day and age, it even made it on the air.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/09 at 04:19 AM
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