The copy on this Best Buy ad sent in by tipster Jordan reads, “A woman has needs. And right now, I need this wild cherry steam thing.” Oh, it’s a washer. And a dryer too, you say? Golly! I’ll take two. Let me just give you some of these emerald rectangle monetary devices out of my ebony zippery pouch device here… Full size inside.
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this is actually pretty hilarious. bad advertising? more like bad-ass advertising!
This is not even funny. Almost bizarre, actually.
As for stupid husband commercials, isn’t that also the basis for 75% of the bad sitcoms out there?
This may be off topic, but doesn’t “Wild Cherry Steam Thing” sound like an awesome band name?
@FuryOfFirestorm:
Yeap, it does
@wgrune:
We all know that these are the best color ever! They go with everything!
Today’s “Wild Cherry” washer = 1970′s avocado colored appliances?
Could this be the angle; Women have become so liberated, they don’t even know what a washer and dryer are anymore? I know the appliances in question are but vague “concepts” to my wife. And yet she still complains about my folding technique. (bitter aside)
Taiter
Bart: “Quick, mom! Better whip up a cake before dad fires you!”
How you doin”
Hey guys, I suggest you get into a good washer and dryer or you will never get a woman with needs.
The ad is stupid. Just stupid.
I know a place in Philly you can get a wild cherry steam thing…..for much cheaper
Wasn’t there a That 70′s Show episode where Red worked at Bob’s appliance store and had to realize that the women that went in there only decided off of color alone? He tried talking a woman out of a specific appliance because she needed something better but it didn’t come in the color she wanted so she walked out of the store. Anyways, if I was an ordinary not technologically advanced woman and saw the price tag I would have decided based off that it is a better machine than the $100 ones. Who needs to look at specs when it’s so shiny and red??
oh and sex sells.
Wow, this is right up there with Geritol’s infamous “My wife, I think I’ll keep her.” There are so many gender stereotypes embedded in this meme my head hurts. She buys things purely based on their decorative value, she has “needs” that can only be solved by consumerism, her place is in the home doing the laundry. I wonder if she has a cherry steam thing in the kitchen too…