Help! I've fallen and there's an Indian in my kitchen!

Gasp! A new topic! It is completely pointless, but a new topic none the less!

There are quite a few commercials that really make me laugh and make me mad and if I went on about them all, I'd been here all day and you would die from opinion overload, so I'll limit myself. One of my favorites at this time is the new Life Alert commercial, you know the "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!" company. They've always been amusing but the new one steps it up a notch or really two.




Now, Life Alert will not only pick you up when you've fallen, but if someone breaks into your house, they will scare the burglar away from their location by saying "This is Life Alert, you have been detected! Leave NOW!" Which, if you have seen the commercial then you know how funny it is. The voice tries to sound menacing but instead he just sounds like Ben Stein yelling at stupid people. That part, mildly amusing as it is always gets me going for the best part.

The life alert representatives call the woman when they detect "smoke signals" coming from the kitchen. Watching this commercial you should be thinking, 'okay, that is kinda nice, if there is a fire in your house they call to let you know so you can get to safety' (though I do wonder what happened to good old smoke alarms that I always manage to set off while cooking). But no, their phrasing leaves something to be desired. Instead of the image of a fire engulfing a poor helpless womans gas stove, I have an image of (and as bad as this is) a Native American sitting in their kitchen with his fire and a blanket sending smoke signals to the house next door!

I guess if they detected that, the would resort back to "You have been detected, leave NOW!" and then there would be a fire in the kitchen.

Everytime I watch this commercial I laugh so hard I have tears running down my face and I miss the first part of whatever comes next. I have no plans to buy a Life Alert for myself (If I fall down, I think I can get back up at this point in my life and if there's an Indian in my kitchen, I would love to learn from him) or for anyone I know, but I do get a good laugh.


The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~E.E. Cummings