In this ad for United Healthcare, we see a couple of young parents concerned about their baby's poop. So the mother wants to video chat with a doctor to make sure the baby's poop is normal, and while getting her phone for her, the father slips on a roller skate and crashes into the bookcase behind him. Well, the doctor says the poop is normal for a newborn, and then he jokes that the father's spasticity is normal for a new parent. But is leaving an errant roller skate in the middle of the floor of a new baby's room really normal? Because it seems ridiculously irresponsible to me. I mean, luckily for the baby, the father slipped on the roller skate and went crashing into the bookcase instead of the newborn. And it seemed to me to be an adult-sized roller skate of the clamp onto the shoe variety; so, what, are the new parents roller skating around the baby's crib to entertain it? In fact, the roller skate is such a non-sequitur in a new baby's room to be left in the middle of the floor, unless they want the baby to hurt or kill itself. So why not have the father step on a sharp-ish baby toy instead, and then grab his foot in pain and then hop backwards, losing balance and crashing backwards into the bookshelf? That would make a lot more sense, wouldn't it?
Or wasn't it supposed to be a roller skate? It sure looked like one to me when I saw the spot last during Olympics coverage. If it isn't a roller skate, it certainly seems every bit as dangerous as one, doesn't it? And as such, it shouldn't really be in the baby's room, should it?
Here's the roller poopy ad for United Healthcare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pMB0JUdag
