TV Commercials
We don’t watch a whole lot of TV in our home, well let me rephrase that, the kids & I don’t watch TV in our home. The TV is on from 5:45 am until 6:30 am and then from the time my husband gets home until he goes to bed at night. The TV is turned off during supper.
My son & daughter will be sitting at the table ready to eat, dad will still be watching the news. My son will call to his dad, “Dad, come ‘n’ eat, supper ready, turn off tv!” This happens almost every night, sort of funny & cute – although I wish the TV wasn’t on at all – but I guess that’s another issue all together.
Any way back to the TV commercial thing. It’s funny how kids pick up on certain things, like for example, they love the song for this one packaged pizza commercial (McCain, I think). It’s an Italian song, the commercial has an older guy making a pizza and another guy comes in with a basket of tomatoes. Well the kids love the song, they come running when they hear it and start dancing around. They’ve also figured out that McCain lumps their commercials together. So for example if the McCain French fry commercial comes on, they know that either their pizza commercial or the McCain cake commercial will be on next.
The other commercial that my son likes is the one for the discovery channel with the song “I love the whole world” – I think that’s the name of it. We also have the song on one of his cd’s and he just loves to hear it.
There’s a computer commercial that my daughter has started bobbing her head to as well. And then of course there’s the commercial for the Calgary Zoo! Both of them start yelling, “the zoo, the zoo!”
I’m just very glad that right now they don’t really care about the products that are being sold on the commercials, they just like the music. But I can sure see how music affects and influences the marketing industry!
Oh yeah, the other commercial my son loves are the ford commercials – for some reason he really likes Paul Brandt. Probably because he’s such a cowboy himself and thinks that Paul Brandt is an awesome cowboy too.
