1. Am I supposed to know who this young woman is? I looked it up, and it turns out that she's an Olympic Gymnast. Ok. I'm going to ask again- am I supposed to know who this young woman is?
2. Am I supposed to believe that a black guy working in the shoe section at a Dick's Sporting Goods would quickly recognize an Asian Female Gymnast like she's LeBron James or Pat Mahomes? I can suspend disbelief for some advertisements but this is a bridge too far, and we're not even at the worst part of the ad yet.
3. This woman can do a back flip. So can this guy, who I'm going to go out on a limb and guess is not an Olympic Gymnast. She responds to his feat by saying "that's cute," and then enlists CGI to defy gravity and show us once again that American Television is more than willing to toss physics aside in the service of showing up a guy in a contest* with a woman.
What is this ad trying to sell me again?
*a contest he didn't even know he was in. Without being prompted, this woman just barged in on a guy's work area and did a back flip. So he showed he could do one too. Instead of just acknowledging that he could do a blackflip, she decided to use computer magic to grind him into the dirt where I guess he belongs for daring to be able to do a backflip. Where is the part where I'm supposed to be inspired to buy sneakers or anything else from Dick's Sporting Goods? I mean, what the hell?
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