Raised by Wolves commercial -- help me with it.

[PinkTiger]

I just saw a Honda Pilot commercial where the wife is talking about how the Honda Pilot has made the family's life better -- that her husband was raised by wolves and now they can cope, etc.

Wasn't there another commerical with another company where one man asks another man, "What? Were you raised by wolves?" and the guy goes into a reverie remembering being raised by wolves, where he is suckling his mother (YUCK!), and then says to the other guy, "Why, Yes, Yes, I was."

What is with the Wolves commercials???

Was this also a Honda commercial? I don't remember the product, and come to think of it, I haven't seen the commercial for several days.

Help me TV Watchers out there!!!!

Thanks....

[NoPasaran]

1. The other one was a Quizno's spot

[Philostopher]

2. Yeah -- the 'raised by wolves' guy

was eating some kind of fast-food burrito in a wax paper wrapper, sitting at the opposite end of the bench from the Quizno's customer.

[PinkTiger]

4. Yeah! that was it!

It just seemed odd that there would be these commercials about wolves. Am I missing something?
Sometimes I feel I'm out of the loop here. I'm 53, and although I teach college students, I know there is an undercurrent of culture I'm like, totally missing out there.

(That last sentence was my lame attempt to sound cool....showing my age; I know. Nothing more ReeDICulous than an old person trying to sound young and -- dare I say it -- "hip.")

[mitchum]

3. You don't really expect originality from ad hucksters, do you?

[PinkTiger]

5. Well, yes, actually, I do! Were you raised by Wolves???

I teach public relations and advertising, as well as newswriting, etc. My hope is that ads are created with some purpose and an idea of the audience.
That's why I thought I was left out on the "joke," or the nuance here.

[mitchum]

6. Oops...I guess I let my contempt show

But you have to admit (deep in your heart of hearts), that advertising is no more creative than pornography (I've worked in both) Both forms just shuffle around a handful of well-worn tropes in order to elicit expected responses.

[PinkTiger]

7. Well, actually, no.

I don't believe that advertising is similar to porno. Pornography elicits a response by appealing to the physical.
Advertising, if done correctly aspires to serve higher needs than just the "id" of sexual desire.
It is artful, and has a more noble purpose.
That's like comparing loving, marital sex to an encounter with a hooker. (Not that there's anything wrong with that! ;)

[Bob3]

9. Advertising is not art its a marketing tool and that's it.

It serves the needs of the client or it gets pulled. No art no higher purpose here - it's as utilitian as a hammer.

I mean What higher needs "did please don't squeeze the charmin" serve? None but it worked - it established Charmin as a brand. Therefore it was a good ad series.

It's the slave of captalism - any higher purposes it serves are not important to its fuction - like a hooker who can cook really really well.

[mitchum]

10. Well said, Bob3

But you have to remember that's an industry whose participants are fond of saying, "If Shakespeare were alive today..." Well, that's utter horseshit. Now, if Goebbels were alive today...

[Madrone]

11. You don't really expect originality from ad hucksters, do you?

Says the guy with the user id:




Sorry - couldn't resist :)

[Squeech]

8. Ads get weirder all the time

I suppose (I hope!) the American people have acquired some immunity to the old classic sales pitches, so now Madison Avenue has to go to great lengths to insert their products in your head. But it's always a mystery to me how they expect you to have a favorable view of some product that seems to cause hardcore cretinism in its users! I guess the enormity of the insult is what's supposed to make the product stand out, but it certainly makes me think consumers have no shame.

That said, I kinda like the Honda ad. But I also like to get down on the floor and romp with my dog, so maybe I identify with it.

[Guaranteed]

12. I noticed that too, but I dunno.

It's weird. Ad executives must be running out of ideas.