Concerned Children's Advertisers -- Stay Fit

Now that you all know who I am and how I came to be, let's jump into our first rant.

The Concerned Children's Advertisers have created some of the most irritating PSAs out there. There are a few good ones. Body Electricity is pretty catchy. And then there's Don't Put it in Your Mouth. These puppets look like they have come from the darkest depths of hell to deliver their message, but their song it catchy. So I don't really mind it. (Apparently the latter is an old one, but if you're watching the wrong channel at the wrong time you might see it.) Then there are the ones that are just annoying. In Smart as You a talking TV tells the viewer that they're smarter than the TV. The TV almost literally encourages the viewer to change the channel when this ad comes on: "You've got the remote control. You can change channels if you don't like what you're watching." Don't know how they let that line slip through.

But there's one that I absolutely despise. Stay Fit. The annoying little tune of the music makes me want to drive spikes through my ears. It could possibly worse than Maple Ridge Chrysler's radio ads featuring Ian and Steve. Whoever designed this ad had to be high. Has anyone ever stopped to watch it to see what it portrays? The video shows a group of girls chasing a boy. Unfortunately the boy is not fit, and the girls catch him and kiss him and surely spread their cooties all over the place. Huh? What point are they trying to make? Are girls bad? Is that why we all need to stay fit to run away? Has nobody noticed this? How do they even find actors for ads like this anyways?

A similar one that's just a little bit better shows a similar scenario with an ice cream truck. A group of kids notice an ice cream truck but are unable to catch up to it because they're too fat not fit. The ice cream truck is driving pretty fast for a truck that's selling ice cream. And it's not the kids' fault they couldn't catch a motor vehicle on foot. They could have flagged him at around 0:20-0:24 and he might have seen them in his mirrors. One thing I do like is the dramatic music. I wish ice cream trucks in real life played dramatic music like that. I should start a petition for that.

The only ad in the series that makes a good point is Blown Away. I can see how that one would be a frustrating experience, if you just bought a card and it blew away. But the music isn't dramatic enough.