Kentucky Fried Soap Opera

It’s hard to hear this commercial when it comes on because it’s drowned out by the sound of a million eyes rolling in unison. What is worse, the heavy-handed pseudo-drama over a family actually sitting down to dinner, or this kid’s horrible acting, is currently too precise of a measurement for our top scientists to conclusively make.

The start of the commercial leads you to believe this is a (cheap) anti-drug commercial which will berate parents into checking up on their children to make sure they aren’t losing their heroin-virginity while they are hob nobbing at the racquetball court. But no, the kid’s mom simply can’t believe a family is sitting down to a nutritious (wink wink) dinner.

Maybe hearing the other side of the kid’s conversation would make this less of a train-wreck, at least for the sake of trying to cover up the fact the kid is just cold-reading lines into a prop phone. The spot starts off too serious, and the “joke”, if it can so be called, is so vapid viewers run the risk of becoming so enraged they start to jab at the television with forks, umbrellas, and whatever other implements of impromptu jabbing might be handy.

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