What happens in Vegas leads to blackmail
Ok, I must be stupid because I don’t get it. I just saw a commercial on the tee-vee about “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”. Although I don’t normally watch commercials (thank you media center!), I was watching live so didn’t get an opportunity to skip.
What caught my attention about the ad was how creepy it was. The whole point of this slogan (as far as I can tell) is that you can get away with doing stuff in Vegas that you would not normally do. But the pretext of the ad was that a “normal” homeowner was getting blackmailed by his lawncare person who saw him doing naughty stuff in Las Vegas.
So not only was “what happened in Vegas” not (staying) “in Vegas”… but it was coming back to haunt this homeowner with open-ended and potentially disastrous consequences.
Oh yeah. I totally want to go to Vegas now because of that ad. Such a great selling point. But then again, maybe I just don’t get it and it’s saying something totally different…
Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » Strange Jetta radio ads said,
August 23, 2006 at 7:48 am
[...] Maybe I’m still just thinking too much as I observe these commercials (see my previous thoughts on the “stays in Las Vegas” blackmail ad for another example). But it just seems like someone on the ad team wasn’t thinking when they put this ad together, as seemingly sincere as it was. [...]