12/16/05: Merry Christmas From The Friendly Skies! This thing here is essentially an image spot from United Airlines. It's not selling anything but the brand itself, but then, I guess that's all most airline commercials do anyway. If I felt like being nice, I'd say that the team behind the ad were going for the sparse, not-much-happening motif in an effort to better contrast against the general busyness of commercial breaks, but I don't, so I'll come right out and say that this commercial was a horrible waste of money and the fact that United Airlines spent Trudy's trust fund to wedge it onto the air between the closing credits of T.J. Hooker and the opening credits of the special bonus episode of T.J. Hooker makes both me and T.J. Hooker sick to our stomachs. Now that I've said that, I feel like such a fucking rebel. It's just dumb. A low-rent animated Santa glides by after an hour of nothing, giving United Airlines a chance to nail their company slogan and act as if it was some great payoff and not at all the result of either a limited ad budget or plain laziness. What really bugs me is that they could've just as easily made this a fifteen-second spot and saved half of Trudy's money. And if you're wondering why I give so much of a shit about Trudy, it's cuz she's smoking hawt. Click here to download this commercial! (.WMV, 5 MB) ....close this window!