This ad from the New York Lotto is absolutely horrible. Here are several reasons why:
1) What newsstand guy wants lottery tickets for Christmas? If he wanted a lottery ticket, he'd turn around and take one off the wall of his newsstand, where he sells lottery tickets. No need to buy "Shop 'Til You Drop" from him only to turn around and give it right back. Trite, treacly, ultimately pointless. Fail.
2) That lady is the human embodiment of a black licorice gumdrop.
3) This is obviously a Christmas commercial, but NYL won't say "Merry Christmas." I'm not a thumping War-on-Christmas lunatic, but no one actually says "Happy Holidays" unless they're trying to sound like a jerk.
4) Like Phil Collins, who I also can't stand, this ad is everywhere.
If, miraculously, you haven't seen this ad, watch anything on Hulu. Or take a cab.
PS: NEW LOOK!
2 comments:
This post really raised my ire-
I mean maybe the guy has been selling lotto tickets all this time and never had the cash to play himself. does the cobblers son ever have a tattered sole? out shoes; does a fish monger eat Tuna every night?..and this women (who by the way is dressed appropriately for the weather) just wants him to share some yule tide cheer with him. She doesn't know what god he worships, and she doesn't let that get in the way-
scrooge.
Oh Andy. If you saw this ad I swear you would projectile vomit all over Texas.
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