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!

1. Flames and Healthy don’t seem to go together
2. You gotta love places that emphasize they don’t serve pets