That Borat commercial ... live from Maryland.

[kwassa]

So, I watching TV last night and a commercial comes on for the new Borat movie.

In the commercial Borat is talking to a car salesman in a parking lot, and says something like "I want a car that makes girls have sex with me", and then the car salesman says "then you need a Corvette".

The name of the dealership is clearly visible on the building behind them. Why, it is Criswell Chevrolet, where we bought our Malibu, and which I drive by every day on the way to work. Criswell has a huge Corvette inventory, and also sells Lotus and Honda and Hummers.

What is Borat doing in my suburban neighborhood???

Should I be scared???

[taterguy]

1. Just a special effects trick

They switch the name of the dealership depending on what market the ad is running in. Quite clever of them

[kwassa]

2. It looked like the actual building, though.

[kwassa]

3. No, it was my local dealership after all.

from Newsweek magazine

Behind the Schemes
In 'Borat,' Sacha Baron Cohen plays unsuspecting folks for big laughs. Meet the real people who became punch lines.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15175836/site/newsweek/

Oct. 16, 2006 issue - He arrives at the very last second for his interviews, and he doesn't stick around afterward for small talk. As soon as the camera's off, he vanishes. "His crew wouldn't let anybody near the guy," says Jim Sell, a car salesman at the Criswell Dealership in Gaithersburg, Md. About 18 months ago, Borat Sagdiyev, a "TV journalist from Kazakhstan" who's actually an English guerrilla comedian named Sacha Baron Cohen, visited Sell to buy a vehicle for a "documentary" he was making about his experiences driving across America. "We had to move to a remote area on the lot," says Sell, "and now I understand why." After a few hours, during which Borat, cameras rolling, requested a car with a "p---y magnet" and tried to buy a $70,000 Hummer for $600, the strange visitor was gone. Later, while Sell shared the story with his co-workers, one woman rushed off to print out a photo from HBO's Web site. "It was Borat," he says. "I got set up pretty good, and I'm not real happy about it. For $150, I wasted three hours and he never even bought a vehicle."