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OnStar Commercial
Have you seen the recent General Motors “OnStar” commercials? It’s a series of kids talking to a camera, asking their parents if they would “put [them] in a car without a seatbelt”, “put [their] little brother in a car without putting them in a child seat”, etc… Then they ask if you would consider putting them into a car that doesn’t come equipped with “OnStar”.
Finally, they look sadly into the camera and say, “Please mommy and daddy, don’t kill me - buy a GM car.”
Or maybe that’s just what goes through my head every time I see that commercial. It’s hard to tell the difference sometimes.
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Maybe I’m just in the car at the wrong times, but it seems like OnStar really scaled back on the radio advertising. Perhaps they’ve moved on to television as a more efficient way to make our eyes bleed. After all, bleeding ears from exposure to their radio commercials we could probably endure. Bleeding eyes, though …
I think they probably realized that everyone immediately changed the station within three seconds of one of those spots coming on the radio. The one which caused many a near-accident for me had a kid calling OnStar because his mommy was sick or passed out or something. This little boy’s cutesy-wootsy voice says something at the end like, “Thank you Mr. OnStar.”
Posted March 7, 2005 at 11:32 pm by Jim .
Hello, I recently heard an onstar ad on tv. I dont often watch tv so this was my first experience. To say the least I was totally digusted! Some kids car got hijacked with his litttle brother inside and OnStar saved them. That is so F*cked up! I cant believe this sh*t! Is this the United States that I want to spend the rest of my life in, and raise a family in, absolutely f*cking not!! Anyways, I am 20 years old, I dont normally use the internet to right on boards about things, but I wanted to tell anyone who was listening to write letters to people and inform as many as you cant about the dangers of tv and ads like these!!!!!! Dont buy into this sh*t!!!!! Youre smarter than that!!
Posted May 16, 2005 at 9:33 am by Meghan .
Hello Bryan — I’ve been scouring the sites for months looking for the OnStar kid spot you described. Do you happen to know where I can locate it? Thanks in advance for any info. — alan
Posted August 14, 2006 at 11:57 am by Alan .