Sunday, November 6, 2011

Subway Commercial

I've been watching Sunday night football on NBC, and seen a couple of commercials for Subway Steak Melt.

A grown woman comes up to a man seated at his desk in his office.

"Do you want to be my boyfriend?" she asks - in a dubbed little girl voice.

The nerdy looking guy, with dubbed little boy voice, says, "Sure."

So she reaches out and takes his Subway melt. To his look of surprise she says, "You're my boyfriend now."

Implication being, once a girl and boy are girlfriend and boyfriend, the boy has to give the girl anything she wants.

Is this actually how it is with little boys and girls, as this commercial seems to imply? Are little girls that shallow, that they will say, "Be my boyfriend" just so they can steal a boy's sandwich? And the boy will just give it up?

The sequel to that commercial is where the nerdy guy is appproached by another woman (both beautiful of course) who also can't apparently afford her own sandwich so wants to take the nerd's. But he's already given it to the first girl. "How could you," she says and storms off.

This awful thing brought back memories of a Jello commercial from a few days ago. A new boy moves to town, so we get scenes of little girls cooking food for him, and bringing it to his house with smiles on their faces, then a little girl shows up with jello and she's the one he lets into the house. Annoyed the hell out of it then and annoys the hell out of me now!

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