A spoiled little entitled girl gets mad that she can’t have everything she wants all the time in this ad for Ally Bank. Her parents were tired of her always nagging them for everything, and then when she got whatever she wanted, she would act like it wasn’t good enough for her, so they decided to play this little prank on her to teach her a lesson. Little did they know that Ally Bank was going to secretly record it and make a commercial out of it! Shame on them, exploiting a little girl like that, even if she is a selfish, greedy, hyper-entitled little brat!
But seriously, what a hard lesson about how the world really works for a little girl to get! Yep, sorry: the blonde girls get all the ponies, because gentlemen prefer blondes. Get used to it! (That's why blondes have more fun: They get all the ponies!) Hey, at least she’s learning it early enough that by the time she’s a young woman, she won’t take it personally, and the disappointment won’t be so bitterly crushing anymore. But hey: maybe this is really teaching her that she ought to bleach/dye her hair blonde if she wants to have gifts showered upon her by a sugar daddy! And perhaps this is secretly a guerilla marketing campaign for blonde hair dye from L’Oréal: Because you’re worth it! Or, actually, you have to use L’Oréal, because you’re not really worth it unless you have blonde hair, right? Maybe that ought to be the new L’Oréal ad campaign concept! (“L’Oréal: Because you’re not worth it unless you use our hair dye to become someone you’re not!”) They could show this ad as a before, and then show the after, where the dark-haired little girl dyes her hair blonde, and then she gets the pony now that she has beautiful blonde hair thanks to L’Oréal! Hey, it might sell lots of hair dye to little kids, right? And think of all the new pony sales that will result! So it will be a boon for two markets: hair dye and pony breeders! A win/win, if ever there was one! And then, next, they could work on marketing a line of pony hair dyes, so you could make your pony look just like a real live My Little Pony! Oh, and also sparkle glue-on kits to make the ponies look extra magical! Think of all the money they would make! Cha-ching!
But you know, while I really like this ad, I’ve always wanted to see a sequel spot where they show us what happens after this ad! What would it be like? Well, like this: So it’s a few months later, and the little dark-haired girl who didn’t get the real pony gets a call from the little blonde girl who did get the pony, and she asks her to come over. So the little ponyless girl goes over to the pony-owner’s house, and she arrives to find her adversary crying and miserable, and soon she find out why: the girl has nowhere to keep her pony, and so she has to keep it in her room! And her room is completely trashed and filled knee-high in pony poop, and the pony has chewed up all of her clothes, and her curtains, and it has destroyed all her things, and it eats all her food, and it has taken over her bed so she has to sleep on the floor in a pile of pony excrement; and the little girl is desperate to get rid of the pony! But guess what: it’s illegal to abandon a pony, because that would be cruelty to animals, and since everyone has seen the ad on TV, everyone knows that this is her pony, so she can’t just let it go, or kill it, or whatever; she’s stuck with it for life! Plus, she keeps being harassed by PeTA for the horrible conditions in which she keeps the pony, which she can’t even help, since she’s just a little girl! So the little ponyless girl gets to gloat back at the other girl, this time for being so fortunate as to not have been given a pony! Yay, schadenfreude! And that would teach kids not to be so materialistic, and to “be careful what you wish for”! Yay, didactic ads, teaching valuable life lessons to children!
Oh, here’s that commercial, by the way, just in case you have no idea what I’m talking about:
