Commercials: Subway and ANA

I’ve recently been seeing a new commercial promoting Subway’s five-dollar footlong deal, presumably for the benefit of alien body snatchers who have never encountered a Subway or a television before.  The commercial seems to be unknown to my friends outside California, nor is it posted on YouTube (otherwise I’d link it here,) suggesting that the ad is restricted to my locality.

I am thus forced to contemplate what about my area suggested to Subway marketing executives that we would like to buy a product referred to as a “Yum Rocket.”  The only product to which reasonable minds could ascribe a name like that would be a dildo–and not even a good one, but a bubblegum pink lump of smelly Thai resin, jagged with flash.  This is not something I would particularly like to put in my mouth, not even in the process of perpetrating “Grand Theft Sandwich.”

The other commercial I’d like to highlight is not exactly new, but at least it’s online for me to show you.  As embedding is disabled, please refer to this link.

A bold effort, All Nippon Airlines, but I’m fairly certain weeaboos comprise less than 10 percent of the global market for airfare to Japan.  Also, your animation smacks of Amerimanga.

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