latest Priceline - okay, this was funny

There was a British movie starring Michael Caine, many years ago, in which the ending scene is of the thieves on a bus with a load of gold, and the bus has gone off the side of the road and is teetering, and the movie ends, and the audience never knows, do the crooks get off the bus or not.

I'm assuming that famous scene was the inspiration for the latest Priceline commercial in which a passenger bus is teetering on the edge of a ravine, and William Shatner is in the front of the bus, helping people to exit, telling them about Priceline. A final woman gets off the bus, he hands her his cellphone and says, "Save yourselves... some money."

Then the bus tips over, falls and explodes.

The woman makes her booking on the cellphone and then looks up to see someone watching her. With great timing and delivery and expression, she says, "It's what he would have wanted."

Perfect!

And over the top enough so that no one could get offended by what has actually happened in real life - at least in Mexico, people on an overcrowded bus plunging into a ravine and dying.

But no...I liked this one.