Take me fishing... Cause my wedding will be sooner than you think.

[texas1928]

WHAT THE FUCK!!! is she not going to graduate from high school, go to college? No she is going to get married. I HATE THOSE takemefishing.org commercials.

[scarlet_owl]

1. I thought the same thing when I saw that ad.

I hate that commercial too. :grr:

[texas1928]

13. It just bugs me...

One of the biggest reasons is they are just so SAPPY.

[LeftyMom]

2. Well, they have to gloss over the bonding with a body count aspect, so they play up the tradition

and appeal to idealized nostalgia. You can't really do that with non-traditional roles- "Take her fishing today because she'll be leaving for grad school sooner than you think" doesn't really evoke the same gauzy sense of better days past. The visual images on the ads often look like color copycats of the opening sequence of The Andy Griffith Show for the same reason.

[texas1928]

7. I know they are playing on people's AAWW factor.

But it just hacks me off. The boys are show me how to drive the boat, or our boat is cooler. But the one little girl is My wedding.

[ComerPerro]

3. I think the point is just that kids grow up fast. But whatever

[texas1928]

8. Oh I know where they are going with it.

But the others for the little boys are show me how to drive the boat, or our boat is cooler, or so I will always have something in common with you. But the one little girl is My wedding. It just bugs me.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. I used to work with the people that wrote those ads

Want me to pass on your comments?

[texas1928]

9. Nah.

I am just venting, I had the TV on the Weather channel all day and they play those commercials non stop.

[supernova]

15. Actually yes,

They might want to know that their ad is having urm... the opposity effect, shall we say?

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Well, I'll try and get them some feedback

The point of that commercial, however, is that when a family raises children, and they leave to start a family of their own, the dynamic canges entirely. That's why the reference to a wedding day rather than a graduation. Daddy's little girl is still daddy's little girl in many people's thoughts after graduation, or a job. When she gets married, things change emotionally.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. yes please.

[supernova]

17. Dupe

Love the server burps.

[eyesroll]

5. Can't parents take their married daughters fishing?

:shrug:

[supernova]

10. That's what I thought

You gotta give up fishing if you wear a wedding ring?

[texas1928]

14. Yep...

See post 11.

:P

[texas1928]

11. No, once girls are married, they can not go fishing.

it is a law. Don't you know these things?




:P

[AlCzervik]

6. yeah and if you're driving with her in the car you better hope you have on star

or you're a shitty parent. i hate both those ad campaigns.

[texas1928]

12. The only On-Star commercial that I like is the one where the little girl is standing there...

and she says "Mommy broke the car." I can just hear her saying that to her father once they see him. Makes me chuckle.