{"id":122,"date":"2005-07-07T10:34:06","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T14:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/07\/07\/a-30-second-depiction-of-everything-wro"},"modified":"2005-07-07T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T14:34:06","slug":"a-30-second-depiction-of-everything-wrong-with-this-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/07\/07\/a-30-second-depiction-of-everything-wrong-with-this-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A 30-Second Depiction of Everything Wrong With This Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you seen the new KFC commercial? It’s the one where a mother arrives home with a gigantic red and white bucket of fried chicken. As she walks up the driveway, the husband drops what he’s doing and follows her into the house. Then she passes the children (one playing a video game, the other fighting with her boyfriend on the phone) and they drop what they’re doing to follow the mother into the kitchen.<\/P>
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This commercial is wrong on so many levels:<\/P>
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1 – What are they eating fast food? The obviously have a nice enough home that they can afford a nutritious meal. And don’t tell me it’s because the parents have been hard at work all day because Mom is all pretty and clean and Dad has enough time to water the lawn with a hose (or wash the car with the hose…I forget which he’s doing). <\/P>
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2 – The father notices the mother then drops the hose, following her inside while leaving the water spraying all over the place. By the end of the commercial he’s eating in the kitchen. How long did he plan on wasting water like that?<\/P>
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3 – The son abandons a video game leaving the TV and game system running, wasting electricity.<\/P>
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4 – The drama queen daughter (in tears during her phone call) simply drops the phone and stops crying the minute that the greasy dead birds in a bucket arrive. So not only does she show a complete lack of etiquette by walking away from a live call, she leaves the phone dangling on the bed with somebody else on the other end. What if grandma had to call because grandpa just had a heart attack?<\/P>
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I don’t know – perhaps I’m reading too much into this commercial. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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