Saturday, November 17, 2012

Nissan Pathfinder "Bird's-Eye View" Parking Ad

In this silly and whimsical spot for the Nissan Pathfinder's video parking assist feature, a man prepares to park in a tight parallel parking space on the street, and his wife asks if he's sure they can fit. So naturally he says of course he can fit, because he's a man, and men can parallel park, unlike women, and so she divorces him on the spot, making their house and this car technically hers already, leaving him on foot despite his precision parking prowess.

Okay, that doesn't happen, but what does is even sillier, because like in Walt Disney's Snow White, little birds come flying down from a nearby tree and help guide the car into its parking space (!). (Actually, in Snow White, birds come help her with housework, not parking a car. Wow, this is even more sexist than I thought! So birds only help women with housework, but they help men parallel park? And all so men can brag about how well they can park? Sexist birds.) Unfortunately, the guy's wife was right, and the space is too tight, resulting in the car crushing two of the birds to death against another parked car (!!).

Well, this is too much for these birds to bear! After all, they flew down to help this guy, and he just kills them! So forever after this occurrence, birds everywhere attack this guy's car wherever it is, and dive-bomb his person, pecking at his face and pooping on his head. And then they start doing it to the whole human race! It's just like in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds! In fact, someone is remaking The Birds, and in the remake, this event of a Nissan Pathfinder killing birds while parking is what starts the whole avian apocalypse. Oh, if only Nissan hadn't created a car that attracts birds, but now it's too late: we'll all die in a feathery fight to the finish, and it's all Nissan's fault! Oh, the humanity! Oh, the, um, avianity?

Here's the avian apocalypse-activating ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3wJ1iXWdY