Anybody else think this ad is kind of mean-spirited?

[Brigid]

It kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It might be, a little...

I don't think it intended to be. They just want to get our attention, and that worked.



YMMV.

[In_The_Wind]

2. I truly hope that ad doesn't last long.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Meh. They just thought it would be funnier than it is.

[DebJ]

4. I do. It struck me as horrible. I can imagine the impact

on young people if all advertising tried this kind of 'funny'.

Probably funny to those wishing to put us seniors on cat food
or in Solyent Green though.

[No Vested Interest]

5. Well, it's a little outrageous, but I often like outrageous humor. nt

[elleng]

6. Yes for the way the mother is shown and treated.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Well, I got a chuckle out of it...

But just a chuckle. It is mean-spirited. Looks a lot like "Republican humor" to me. Maybe that's intentional since far too many of the elderly vote R.

[irisblue]

15. ^^this^^

I agree "republican humor". Mama should dope slapped him as he went past her...

[pipi_k]

8. I'm one of those

people with a rather warped sense of humor, so I didn't think it was mean-spirited.

[RebelOne]

9. Yes, I thought the same thing when I first saw it.

I'm glad someone else agrees.

[Sherman A1]

10. Yes,

it is most assuredly mean-spirited and I think Kayak needs to know that.

[MissB]

11. It makes me less likely to use Kayak, because their spokesman seems to be an uncaring Republican.

That's what I got out of the commercial. It didn't hit my funny bone. But that's me, and I'm sure someone found it funny. And I don't think one needs to be a republican to find it funny.

Advertising is interesting sometimes - different folks will see different things.

[NutmegYankee]

12. No, it's sort of like the Outpost.com commercials.

You get spun up, but you remember the site! Remember, even bad publicity is publicity.

Seriously twisted stuff.

[antiquie]

13. Burn on stairlift -- it takes sooooo long.

As a little old gray-haired lady, I'm used to being the butt.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. No. But I used to do my Tommy Udo laugh when I pushed my mother near stairs when she was ...

.... in a wheel chair.

(she thought it was hilarious. she also said, on her death bed, her one regret was not beating me enough - true story)

[davidpdx]

16. I just watched it twice

I didn't find it mean-spirited or funny.

[CBGLuthier]

17. Some days I think the concept of humor is completely lost on people.

No one is really suggesting we shuffle our elderly to the side so we can ride the stairs for free.

it is a joke. Buy yourselves a sense of humor.

[sarge43]

18. Agree

Can't help wonder how that ad would fly if a ten year old child were struggling up the stairs. The elderly aren't the only ones who need physical aids.

One of the worst things about being old: Won't live long enough to see what happens to the jackasses who make fun of the elderly.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. It's definitely dark humor. You laugh because the whole thing's uncomfortable and just wrong.

Reminds me of an old, old Steve Martin bit where he'd loaned his mother money and was having her work off the debt doing things like hauling his free weights up to the attic.