oh, meatloaf

There's a new commercial for the "Go Phone" that I've caught a couple of times. It uses the song "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf.

Disturbing that a song that is blatantly about a guy trying to get into a girl's pants is being reworked to be sung between a dad and son about the dad buying the kid a phone.

Sad that Meatloaf is singing in the commercial and playing the dad. It just makes the whole thing weirder.

However, I do enjoy a recent new commercial for Dairy Queen. It begins with a dad talking to a class on career day, and saying "So that's what it's like to be a spy." The kids say, "Wow" but aren't overexcited. Then the next dad comes in and says he owns a Dairy Queen and is making everyone Blizzards, and the kids go nuts. Three more dads wait outside, and one says "How do we follow that?" They are an astronaut, an animal tamer with a lion, and a guy wearing a jet pack.

It's silly and it makes me laugh, without being disturbing. My class has career day on Friday. We don't have a guy with a jetpack, but one of the dad's IS a race car driver.