While watching TV the other day, I happened to see something odd in one of the Sonic commercials. I’ve been paying attention to the Sonic commercials lately, becuase I wanted to see the one where they discuss “bits vs. bytes” where they guy goes into the whole 8 bits in a byte (bite) spiel.
The particular commercial that came on was the one where the two guys order the mini-banana splits and the passenger tries to pay for it with “mini-money.”
Something seemed really odd about the show, so I took full advantage of Tivo and rewound the commercial again. Sure enough, this is what I saw:
I think it is pretty obvious that the seatbelts used in the commercial car are fakes! The guy in the passenger seat moves all around with what looks more like a crossing guard stripe from gradeschool than a seatbelt! Here is another photo:
If you zoom in on the corner where the belt should be attached to the car, I think you can see the real seatbelt has been pulled back into the rear seat and strapped down out of sight:
Call me crazy, but I can’t imagine why they would put fake belts on for the commercial, unless they needed to move around for the camera and the real belts made that difficult. Anyway, thanks to Tivo for making TV useful and thanks to Sonic for making some really funny commercials!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Brent // Mar 13, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Dude, you have FAR too much time on your hands.
2 Brent // Mar 13, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Way way way too much time on your hands
3 Sean // Mar 13, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Yeah, way too much time. You should be like Brent, at least all of the video clips on his website (www.planetspork.com) show time put to good use.
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