Toyota Drivers Are Inconsiderate Scofflaws

There is a Toyota television commercial that has been running for a couple of weeks--it opens with a black-and-white security camera shot of a department store, complete with time and date stamp running in the upper right hand corner of the frame. In a moment, a woman's voice is heard off camera, announcing to the customers that there is a Toyota Corolla CAMRY parked in a tow-away zone. After the announcement, EVERYONE in the whole store starts moving toward the exit. Looks like a crowd of 40 or 50 people, all streaming out of camera range.

Get it?!

EVERYONE owns a CorollaCAMRY! Tee-hee!

But.

Are you going to tell me they ALL parked in a tow-away zone?! I mean, you start to park, and all the whole entire parking lot is empty, and everyone is piled up at the fire lane in front of the building, and you decide, "Hmm, looks good to me"?! Or rather than being inconsiderate scofflaws, maybe they're trying to say that CorollaCAMRY drivers are such big idiots they can't remember if they parked in a tow-away zone or not.

Why not just have the announcer say that they left their lights on?


APOLOGY: I saw the commercial again yesterday (6/22) and the announcer says it's a Camry, not a Corolla, thus explaining the intrusive and overwrought editing.
posted by Terry at 10:55:00 AM