OT Anybody seen the new Dodge Outdoorsman comercial? OT

[greg g]

Guy laying under the stars next to his new Outdoorsman optioned Ram 1500, near his camp fire. A sound of chirping (bird or chricket) wakes him up and annoys him. He rises from his bed roll, opens the side pod of the pickup bed retrieves his Compound recurve bow, and razor headed hunting arrow and dispatches what ever is making the noise. He lays back down pulling his hat visor down over his eyes. A bull frog starts up, and he pushes up the hat visor to reveal the 1000 yard stare. The comercial then goes to a voice over regarding how the outdoorsman caters to the needs of sportsmen etc.

I wrote to Chysler and sugested that they might want to change the message, lest some sportsman like him show up at the dealership some day and not like the annoying noise that the service writer might be making regarding his warranty coverage......

Perhaps this is a lesson in 2nd amendment rights that somehow I am missing, but I find this add totally offensive.

[oldodge41]

I have seen it. I also don't like it very much. I don't find it offensive, I just find it to be lame. I like ads that describe the features of a vehicle, not just the image that they want to portray. This one does neither very well.............Tim

[TodFitch]

...snip... not just the image that they want to portray...snip...

They've been doing that since the 1920s when a salesman named Ned Jordan decided he could build and market a car with nothing more than image:

"Somewhere west of Laramie there's a bronco-busting, steer roping girl who knows what I’m talking about. She can tell what a sassy pony, that’s a cross between greased lighting and the place where it hits, can do with eleven hundred pounds of steel and action when he's going high, wide and handsome...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Motor_Car_Company

[randroid]

Gents,

The Dodge truck ad sells the idea that with it you can create your version of a perfect world by killing whatever it is that happens to invade it. Cars are sold by everybody as the embodiment of getting you out in front of the pack. Even the Food Channel has gotten away from practical cooking to competitions (how many cupcakes can you create in an hour?).

I have several strong opinions on why this sort of mind set is selling so well but most of them rhyme with "politics" so I shan't delve deeper.

-Randy

[brentembry]

maybe it was just lame humor....

[Powerhouse]

Well put randroid!

[Don Coatney]

Have you seen the new viagra commercial? Guy gets his Dodge truck that is pulling a horse trailer hung up in the mud. Un-trailers his team of horses, hitches them to his truck, and pulls the truck and trailer out of the mud. He then tells you he could not have done it without viagra?????

I dont get it.

This would make more sence to me if the truck were a furd or shiverlay.

Let the comments begin....

[randroid]

Don,

Please allow me to be first. The trend is going toward calling "ED" (that expression cracks me up) anything other than ED. Another Viagra ad asks if you "lace your boots up or hang them up". Euphemisms can sell a product almost as well as T&A because there is no need on the part of the consumer to acknowledge any relationship to the dysfunction.

Denial can be an easy way through life, so if you're not man enough to do one thing there's no need to be man enough to do the other.

Just take the damn pill and enjoy!

-Randy

[Young Ed]

Randy being an Ed calling it something besides ED is fine with me!

[greg g]

Don, If he wasn't taking Viagra, his other half wouldn't have kckied him out of the house and he woudn't have been messing with the horses in the first place. That what he gets for pestering her about doing the nasty.............gets to go out and paly with the horses, and forgets to engage 4wd, because its his other brain doing the thinking.

[T120]

...Remember when?..Before ED..

[Oldguy48]

Guy laying under the stars next to his new Outdoorsman optioned Ram 1500, near his camp fire. A sound of chirping (bird or chricket) wakes him up and annoys him. He rises from his bed roll, opens the side pod of the pickup bed retrieves his Compound recurve bow, and razor headed hunting arrow and dispatches what ever is making the noise. He lays back down pulling his hat visor down over his eyes. A bull frog starts up, and he pushes up the hat visor to reveal the 1000 yard stare. The comercial then goes to a voice over regarding how the outdoorsman caters to the needs of sportsmen etc.

I wrote to Chysler and sugested that they might want to change the message, lest some sportsman like him show up at the dealership some day and not like the annoying noise that the service writer might be making regarding his warranty coverage......

Perhaps this is a lesson in 2nd amendment rights that somehow I am missing, but I find this add totally offensive.

I find the ad offensive also. Just the fact that this "sportsman" would do something that stupid is ridiculous. I know of no real sportsman that would

simply shoot into the darkness to kill whatever was annoying him. A drunken redneck maybe, but not a sportsman. That alone turned me off to that commercial, regardless of the vehicle they were promoting.

[Dan Hiebert]

My sentiments exactly. Regardless of the product placement, no self respecting "outdoorsman" or "sportsman" would do something like that - even if he/she had the skill to do so. Besides, chirping crickets and burping frogs are part of that outdoors experience.

[Captain Neon]

What ever happened to advertisements where girls leaned on cars or sat on tailgates?

[Don Coatney]

What ever happened to advertisements where girls leaned on cars or sat on tailgates?

I will buy whetever it is that Go-Daddy sells as long as they keep Danica Patrick in the commercials.

[greg g]

what is it that they sell anyway???