> Well, yesterday, I heard my first "self-aware"
> loud obnoxious car dealership commercial
> ever.
>
> I was on my way home from work at the end of
> the day, and in a bit of a bad mood because of
> traffic, but this commercial made me laugh. It
> started out as a normal-sounding
> commercial, and the announcer said
> something like, "You know how all those other
> guys have loud, obnoxious commercials full of
> explosions? Well, do we *have* to do it that
> way?" Then there was an EXPLOSION, BOOM!
> and the announcer goes "OOOOWWW!!!"
>
> He then says, "Okay, I gues we do," and then
> went into the usual shouting, loud obnoxious
> WE-HAVE-THE-LOWEST-PRICES-EVAR
> schpiel, but everytime there was an explosion,
> he'd stop and go "OOOWW!!!"

Oh man, I wish I could hear that ad. What a great concept.

Around here there is what I suppose must be a high-brow car dealership; its radio ads feature the owner talking in as flat a monotone as you've heard this side of the planet Vulcan, calmly lambasting the usual "shouting + explosions" formula and concluding, "those guys must think you're stupid." An interesting anti-commercial.

Iss "they probably include Grey Poupon with their cars" achar