Is anyone else squicked out by that "birds and bees" Volkswagen ad

[Danmel]

With the vehicle rocking and the couple upgrading to a larger vehicle each time with another kid in tow?
Eww, just ewww.

[2naSalit]

1. Really?

There's a car ad that portrays that? Wow.

[jmowreader]

6. Yup.

The problem I have with this ad: I own a New Beetle almost like the one the couple had as their first car - mine is yellow not blue, but other than that.... There is no damn way in hell anyone could have sex in that thing; there's enough room in the car for people to sit comfortably in the back seat, but no more. Even if you flipped down the back seat to form cargo area you couldn't do it.

[bluecollar2]

9. No damn way in hell anyone could have sex in that thing

I submit the following in response...


When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.”— Aeschylu

[True Dough]

14. Yeah, it's more a matter

of determination, or desperation!

[JDC]

2. The wide-eyed cows watching are kinda funny.

The rest is a little tasteless given they play it all day. Just one more thing to explain to my 8 yo daughter while we watch golf at noon on at Sunday. "Daddy, what's E.D.?"

[LisaL]

5. Exactly.

[irisblue]

8. Indeed the cows are the best part

[Yavin4]

12. E.D. is Electoral Dysfunction

Which is how we got Bush II and Trump as presidents.

[citood]

3. Count me as 'squicked out'

I never really pay attention to commercials...but I watched this one because the blue Beetle at the beginning is a carbon copy of my daughter's car. So yep - I find it very weird.

[3catwoman3]

4. I have enjoyed many Volkswagen ads over the years.

Not this one. Tacky, tacky, tacky.

[Initech]

7. Good god I hate that ad so much!

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I would also add the Charmin bears bragging about how clean their underwear is, and the Juicy Fruit ad to the list.

[femmocrat]

10. It doesn't make sense to me.

If they have children, they must have a house or apartment, no? So why are they *you know* out in their vehicle? I think it's trashy, like that saying, "don't come a-knockin' if the van is a-rockin'. "

[sharp_stick]

11. It didn't bother me too much

until they started playing it every damned ad cycle, sometimes 2 or even 3 times.

The worst is Premier League soccer on the weekends, I swear that's the only ad they show...Well maybe those equally annoying "real people" Chevy ads.

After awhile it's like c'mon you guys have hundreds of ads, at least play a couple of different ones.

[frogmarch]

13. I wondered if it was just me who was

and that it might be because I'm 73. I'm glad I'm not alone in finding the ad tasteless.

[True Dough]

15. I suppose the marketing folks

wouldn't be thrilled that most DUers dislike the ad but they'd surely be satisfied to know their ad is generating "buzz" (like the bees of "the birds and the bees&quot and getting tongues wagging (as may have also happened in the vehicles shown in the commercial).

[ailsagirl]

16. I somehow manage to avoid all commercials

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But I'll take your word for it!

[Ron Obvious]

17. I agree with the concensus

It was amusing the first couple of times, but excessive repetition is lethal to humour in TV ads.

Besides, I always preferred the Jewel Akens version.