I hate seeing commercials in general. I hate when they try to be funny. I hate that insurance is a business.

But this commercial is such an intersection of obnoxious capitalist bullshit that I actively look away when the commercial starts playing.

Like fuck dude, they show the poor server getting a hand cramp and we’re supposed to find that funny?

I’m going to write another comment breaking down specifically why I hate this particular commercial, but I’d love to hear other people’s response to the ad.

  • meeshen@vegantheoryclub.org
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    2 months ago

    It’s not well-written and makes no actual sense (“as easy as grating parmesan”, but it obviously looks like the server is struggling?) but here the customer is more the butt of the joke imo. He is shown to be unreasonable, while the server is the straight man who has to indulge the customer weirdo. I’m with the person before me, it’s a bad commercial but not like egregiously extremely bad like some can get