The "Happy Jack" H2 commercial

For those of you who haven't seen it, the commercial is a little story that starts with a hand-written childish scrawl over a picture of a local hill, "First one down wins." The background music is The Who's "Happy Jack." One little boy gets busy in his garage, building your basic H2 Hummer. The day of the race, as everyone else is following the switchback course down the hill, the kid with the H2 just goes straight down over the bumps and hillocks off the beaten track, winning the race by a couple of lengths.

Several things make me want to lob something heavy through the television screen: First, my disappointment at hearing The Who on a Hummer commercial. Every bit as depressing as when United Airlines was using the Quaker hymn "Simple Gifts" as a marketing tool.

Second, the idea that even a cobbled together wooden H2 would ever be taken off road by its owner. These behemoths are strictly for the concrete jungle.

Third, the Hummer wins, but in real life, it would come in dead last as it would have to gas up twice to complete the course. If it wasn't for gravity, the Hummer wouldn't stand a chance.

Fourth, even after breaking the rules that everyone else is following, the Hummer wins by a narrow margin. Okay, that was actually sort of true to life, and doesn't honk me off nearly as much as the preceding.

In the larger scheme of things, I suppose this isn't really great shakes (hence my posting in the Lounge), but sometimes you just get fromaged off, you know?

Makes me crazy!! I wanna throw something at the tv too! I HATE the cheating bit. That is soooooo the attitude of H2 owners imho, "Look at me! I''ll do what ever it takes to win!.. Screw the rules!"
Is this the same H2 commercial when it ends, there is a photo of the earth as seen from space? Yeah, The H2,wrecking the planet one selfish asshole at a time....Wheres my 50,000$ tax credit for a new Prius??? Arghhhhh.

60K for a Yukon with a plush interior and flat sheet metal? They are just waiting to give you money for no good reason. If it weren't for them, con artists would have to try harder, and they might just target YOU. So thank an H2 owner for being an easy mark. And stay out of their way, because if they are that dumb, they aren't likely to know how to handle something that big.

Remember, if you are a really bad artist, market to them, ask a bundle, and reap the profits.

I hope Pete Towshend is as disgusted as I am.

He's a real conservative guy.

I thought he was gay - perhaps an English version of the Log Cabin type...

Of course, if you're skiing a slalom race and you miss every gate by barreling straight down the hill, you're disqualified, right? So, the kid in the plywood Hummer doesn't even bother following the course and he wins? Uh-huh.

Maybe the next Hummer commercial will feature other cars stuck in traffic in front of a hospital...while the Hummer owner blares his horn and gets around the traffic by mowing down the crippled people standing on the sidewalk. Same idea, n'est pas?

That's one of the most obnoxious commercials I've ever seen...and I'm in marketing.

I get closer to whipping out my car keys at a certain place.

And yes, in Orwellian Imperial Amerika, it is as grotesque as Bunnypants* using "We Won't Get Fooled Again", which is of course EXACTLY what this disgrace of an unelected dictator went out and did...

Second, the idea that even a cobbled together wooden H2 would ever be taken off road by its owner. These behemoths are strictly for the concrete jungle.

I was a passenger in one this weekend, in some very rugged country in far south Big Sur, near Salmon Creek. It performed quite well in extreme off-road conditions, and even got some (GASP!) paint scratches.

That said, I'd still prefer an original Hummer in diesel, primarily due to its wheelbase.

honestly i am a big fan of the original, i plan on moving to the mountains and one of those would be a great help, but the h-2 just fuckin sucks

Two things reinforced in this commercial. And doing it in a fugly vehicle to boot!

Love the song but the ad sucks.

This one tells kids it's okay to lie..... Then I have to deal with them in school, lying.

:grr: the hummer cheats

during Denvers' great Halloween blizzard of a few years back. They ended up getting just as stuck (if not more because of their weight) than many other vehicles. Yeah, the great monstrosity saves the day... sure.

and other gas-guzzling, air-polluting behemoths.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/Business/hybrid_suv_tax0301001.html

If any freepers ever give you the old argument that "the wealthy pay more in taxes," after responding with "horseshit!" give them this as an example of how the system favors the wealthy.

is that every time I see it, I can't get that damned song out of my head for the rest of the day . . . and I used to like it! . . .

Happy Jack is a brand of mange medicine. Are they saying you can get mange from driving a H2?

A porcupine has it's pricks on the outside.