Pot of Gold is Part of the Problem
I’m watching TV and commercials hit. And up comes a Pot of Gold chocolates commercial. It’s got an iMac G4 in it, so they get points for taste. The father of this little TV family asks the daughter to check if the brother got his (I’m assuming) Christmas present: a box of chocolates. So she turns to the computer and we see a jerky, fake online video of the brother singing the Pot of Gold jingle. Cute. The computer screen is a fake Mac OS X desktop. The browser is a fake Internet Explorer 5 window.
My instinctive reaction was to (quietly) scream “Why are you still using IE 5?! It’s a dead browser! It’s CSS support sucks! It’s never going to be updated! Safari is preinstalled!”
Then I realized I was talking to the TV.
Not even the cat, but only the TV? Dude….
Talking to the TV is acceptable when alone. I was told this by a respectable commercial.