Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Carmine & Deb Call At-Home Carpet
TV ad currently airing numerous times after 1 a.m.
Scene: The claustrophobic living room of a New York City apartment. Walls are painted an ugly pale orange color. A man about 30 is sitting on a striped couch, facing us but watching TV, a cheap landscape painting hangs on the wall behind him. He's wearing his work clothes, brown shirt & pants. He might be local route truck driver or work on a loading dock, maybe he's a carpet installer. A woman with longish dark hair, wearing black blouse & slacks, walks in the room, standing directly between the man & the TV with her back to us.
DEB: Cahmine, I can't stand this cahpet, you promised to replace it.
CARMINE [irritated]: Hey Deb, you make a better door than a window.
DEB [her voice rising to a whine] : Let's go SHOP-ping.
CARMINE [angrily, stretching out his arms]: Fuh-GED-dabout it. Dis is da most impawdent game a da yee-ah!
Carmine & Deb (whose face we now see) welcome a smiling woman carrying a book of carpet samples. They sit on the couch, the woman in a chair, together looking through the book.
Cut to two men unrolling carpet in the living room.
Last scene, we notice Carmine & Deb have changed their clothes. He's wearing slacks, sports shirt & casual jacket. She'swearing a tight red thing. They're standing near the window, admiring their room.
CARMINE: [with his arm around Deb]: Now THAT was a piece of cake.
DEB: I'm glad we called At-Home Cahpet.
Scene: The claustrophobic living room of a New York City apartment. Walls are painted an ugly pale orange color. A man about 30 is sitting on a striped couch, facing us but watching TV, a cheap landscape painting hangs on the wall behind him. He's wearing his work clothes, brown shirt & pants. He might be local route truck driver or work on a loading dock, maybe he's a carpet installer. A woman with longish dark hair, wearing black blouse & slacks, walks in the room, standing directly between the man & the TV with her back to us.
DEB: Cahmine, I can't stand this cahpet, you promised to replace it.
CARMINE [irritated]: Hey Deb, you make a better door than a window.
DEB [her voice rising to a whine] : Let's go SHOP-ping.
CARMINE [angrily, stretching out his arms]: Fuh-GED-dabout it. Dis is da most impawdent game a da yee-ah!
Carmine & Deb (whose face we now see) welcome a smiling woman carrying a book of carpet samples. They sit on the couch, the woman in a chair, together looking through the book.
Cut to two men unrolling carpet in the living room.
Last scene, we notice Carmine & Deb have changed their clothes. He's wearing slacks, sports shirt & casual jacket. She'swearing a tight red thing. They're standing near the window, admiring their room.
CARMINE: [with his arm around Deb]: Now THAT was a piece of cake.
DEB: I'm glad we called At-Home Cahpet.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
That ad is so wrong. Imagine the guy giving up the big game to flip through carpet samples. I love how her clothes are so ill-fitting and tight and her hairdo is strictly from Farrah Fawcett-land. That never fails to amuse me because she can't have even been born during that sytle's heyday. Unless that ad is 3o years old?
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