I RATE ADS

jtherkal: Aside from the fact that this is just not a good commercial, it’s one of the worst products known to man. $1 to get an answer to a text question? If you ever use this service, they should put you on a list of people who should not be allowed to be in charge of anything, ever. I’m sure there were a stack of funny scripts involving some sort of race to avoid physical pain by answering a question, I’m just not sure how this one was the winner. Product, F. Ad, D+.

sjbooher: And the fatal flaw? As my wife pointed out, the second guy should have obviously repeated exactly what the first guy said. F.

jtherkal: I bet I watch over three National Lampoon’s Family Vacation movies per year. As a movie franchise, that puts it up there with The Bourne series, Rocky, and Rambo. Well ahead of Superman and Friday the 13th. Watching the Christmas Vacation is one of my favorite parts of the holiday, and some of my first tits were seen with Rusty in Europe. I even suffered through Vegas Vacation one a few weeks ago. So I’m sort of excited to see the Griswolds here. I didn’t love-love the commercial, and I can’t view the episodes on the website on this shitty laptop, but I can’t give this any lower than an A-.

sjbooher: I may have never seen a Griswold movie… but I still recognized them. I can’t say that added or subtracted from the value of this ad, for me, though. It probably did hit the age demo that typically rents hotelts, though. I love puns and cats, so I laughed at both the “complementary” and cat poster jokes. I may even have had that poster as a kid, and if I didn’t, David Proudfoot did. This product seems like a good idea. A+