I’ve been wanting to comment on these commercials forever but still haven’t made up my mind on them.
Brinks Home Security.
Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The stereotypical commercials in which a clean-cut yet psychopathic male breaks into an innocent damsel’s house, upon where she screams and then answers the phone to heroic male operators usually named Andy or Rick from Brinks Home Security headquarters. These Andy and Rick characters sit behind an office desk with a Backstreet Boy’s old headset and are willing to minimize their game of Windows Solitaire when your house alarm is going loco. From there, Andy and Rick promise to notify the police while you chillax at yo house with a burgular. But of course by this time Brinks Home Security system would have surely scared them away. Now, I don’t have anything against security systems; they’re pretty James Bond if you ask me. But as far as I can tell, Brinks Home Security commercials are basically like a Kay Jewelers commercial gone wrong. See for yourself. Watch like the first half of this commercial-melodrama:
See what I mean? Are you supposed to laugh or be scared?
The actors, the script - so cheesy, I laugh…….but also mildly traumatizing….?…..not sure how to feel right now….
In general though,
I laugh.
Maybe advertisers should just stick to good, old-fashioned brain washing. Does this ring a bell, anyone?:
Whoever made that commercial knew what was up.
If you’re interested, there’s also like a 30 second version of that. Just so you know. I know a lot of you probably want to see more of that.
When I’m like 90 years old and suffering from dimentia, I think “Head On: Apply directly to the forehead” could possibly be my dying words.
Depressing, but potentially true.
I don’t know, we’ll see. But seriously, Brinks Home Security – I can’t decide what I think about your commercials…
