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Thank God this commercial is dead.

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Seems like car and truck commercials generate one of three feelings for me: 1.) Laughter, 2.) Apathy (if apathy can be a feeling, which is really its own discussion), and 3.) Disgust.

The Chevy truck commercials with John Mellencamp singing “This is our country” never failed to bring out a solid number 3. I wonder if that dude lost a divorce settlement or something. I’ve never heard him sound more soulless. It’s like he’s trying to sound like something else.

This is arrrrr kuuuun tray

Add the crappy song to a pandering, quasi-political, film-school-wannabe, piece of junk like the stuff below, and voila! America’s crappiest commercial ever. Don’t take my word for it. Take a look below and form your own opinion.

One of the versions of the commercial:

These commercial spawned a few million parodies, among them these two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv1vZG0zdhg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPNMERRPuHw

I’m incredibly happy these commercials finally got killed off.

–Will

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Posted in General, Movies and TV, Rants on June 12th, 2007

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3 Responses to “Thank God this commercial is dead.”

  1. Allison Says:
    June 12th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    This is one of my boyfriend’s biggest pet peeves ever–crappy car commercials, especially the ones for American-made cars. It tries him NUTS! I guess that’s another good reason why I drive a foreign car haha!

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  3. Carrie Says:
    June 15th, 2007 at 11:01 am

    I could NOT agree with you more - this commercial drives me insane (no pun intended). Funny thing is that they play it in Canada, with Canadian dealers and whatnot, and it’s supposed to be patriotic here too.

    Great news that it’s done!


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