The Saved By Zero Ad Kills People
It's wonderful how this entire country has come together to hate on Toyota's "Saved By Zero" commercials. But it wouldn't really be a thing the entire country has come together to hate without its very own movie mashup. Saved By Zero: the commercial that kills everyone who watches it:
BUT: if this similar mashup was any portent, Toyota is going to be selling so many trucks because of that commercial. Oh no!
Posted by Lindsay at 4:45 PM in Backlashes, Commercials
Tags: Saved By Zero
To whoever made this, thank you.
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"We are reaching the point that I am two weeks away from stopping by my local Toyota dealership, buying a brand-new Toyota Tundra with zero APR financing, driving the car off the lot, doing a U-turn, then plowing it through the front window of the dealership at 60 mph while screaming, "SAVED BY ZERO," like the guys from "Red Dawn" screamed, "WOLVERINES!" Cut down on the ads, Toyota. We're not kidding. You know why you haven't see John Mellencamp in two years? He's trapped in the basement of some frustrated baseball fan who dressed him like the Gimp and keeps him in a trunk after hearing "Our Country" for the 700,000th time. Look, we're all ecstatic that the guys from the Fixx are getting royalties again. Just tone it down. We get it. Zero APR financing. Heard you loud and clear."
- Bill Simmons
Thought it was a good summation of the commercials. I don't think they're as annoying as the "Our Country" ads, though.
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The Saved by Zero ad is my one reprieve during football games from the monotony of the Coors Light frost brew liner and the make-me-want-to-stab-a-pencil-in-my-ear 5 dollar footlong.
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Dudes, get a DVR, TiVo or whatever and record EVERYTHING. Even football games. Here's what you do: Set a recording of the game and start watching around 45 minutes after it starts. Fast forward commercials and you should catch up to the live game up by the end of it. I don't watch sports so maybe this isn't ideal.
I'm so used to DVR that I get extremely indignant any time I have to sit through even the most innocuous commercial.
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