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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Have you seen this commercial?
Message-ID: <3850034@csd2.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 13:08:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 13:08:00 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 05:26:48 EST
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I saw a funny pseudo-commercial on Saturday Night Live last night
that reminded me of the recent discussion about yuppies. Did anyone
else catch it? It was a takeoff on those obnoxious yuppie-directed
commercials that have recently started to saturate the airwaves
(i.e. Michelob Light, American Express, lots of cars, etc),
and it went something like this:

(background music: where you're going ... )
Scene: Herd of yuppies in posh restaurant. Camera closes up on one
who raises his beer and says:
"To Mike, who just sold his condo for five times what he paid ..."
(bm: you're on your way to the top ... )
Scene: (extreme low angle) Guy gets out of highly reflective Ferrari.
Scene: (medium distance) Girl wearing walkman doing roller disco down
Second Ave thru a bunch of business suits.
(bm: yes you've always known it ... )
Scene: (through fisheye lens) Helicopter pilot smiles and gives thumbs up.
(etc. etc. etc. - this part was well done and could have been mistaken
for a real beer commercial)
(bm: where you're going ...)
Scene: view of beer glass being poured.
(bm: sudden dramatic chords)
Scene: Lots of yuppies immersed in boiling tar pits. Voiceover says:
"Is straight to hell, you shallow money grubbing slime you!"
Scene: Credits, together with voiceover, say:
A message from God.

Well, *I* though it was funny. Of course, I also thought Springtime
for Hitler was funny. Oh well,

Isaac Dimitrovsky
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You know the great thing about tv? If something important happens anywhere at
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