In the last Super Bowl commercial break, there was an ad featuring Hyundai’s new program that lets you return a leased vehicle with no penalty if you lose your job within 12 months, followed closely by an ad for Cash4Gold.comโ€”featuring Ed McMahon and M.C. Hammerโ€”a website that helpfully offers to take all of your durable wealth off your hands.

Just sayin’.

Anthony Hecht is The Stranger's Chief Technology Officer. He owns no monkeys.

13 replies on “Signs of the Times”

  1. Hey, Bob Dylan peddling Pepsi…I love it! The folkies/far lefties/stupid hippies are probably still angry he went electric, how will they handle Pepsi?

  2. The Cash4Gold commercials (minus celebrities) run during the weekdays all the time. I would worry about some crooked postal worker stealing the envelopes.

  3. So yeah, I saw this ad and thought, Christ, that’s telling.

    I had a similar response when I saw an ad for Velveeta about three weeks ago – first one I’d seen since I was a kid.

    The whippersnappers out there probably don’t even know what Velveeta is!

  4. Yeah, the irony. Harrison, cinderella heart warming story, makes an unbelievable 100 yard interception return. Later in the game, he PUNCHES another player more than once childishly. For the most part, Pro Sports breeds fucked up people.

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