Yet Another Post About TV
So, have you seen the commercial where Yao Ming pulls into a little country gas station, steals like a nickel’s worth of gas, then leaves? What the Hell is that about?
All I get from said commercial is this:
He’s not from around here.
He doesn’t need directions because he has a GPS gizmo.
He doesn’t pay for his gas, probably because he’s really tall.
And apparently he gets 1000mpg because… I dunno, Chinese efficiency?
You see him get out of and walk to the back of his big ol’ American convertible, you see him pick up the gas nozzle, you never see him put it back, he doesn’t pay the poor, baffled old man, he gets back in the car and drives away, and the whole thing happens in 30 seconds.
The commercial is nearly effective, it forces me to pay attention, but I’m so fixated on the lack of gas nozzle continuity and proper payment protocol that I don’t know exactly what they’re selling, aside from the fact that its some sort of GPS.
Oh well, at least he doesn’t poop out sausage like that freaky Jimmy Dean.