Debunking commercial myths #1

You can’t watch a sporting event on television without being subjected, in virtually every commercial break, to the spot where the guy’s driving along in his SUV and a bunch of animals jump in through the sunroof and start singing along to “Rock Me Gently,” a ditty that no doubt scored Andy Kim scads of groupies when he’d sing it on tour but Jesus does it make my ears bleed. (Here’s how bad this commercial is: Even though I’ve seen it far too many times, I don’t really pay that much attention to commercials, so not until this last airing did I finally notice that it’s for Jeep. For some reason, I always thought it was for Toyota.)

Anyway, my point: I don’t think it’s a very realistic premise. It seems unlikely that animals living in the wild would have had a chance to have heard the song enough times to have memorized its lyrics.