Prius TV adv. slams Fresno as a future "low budget tourist stop."

It was just tongue-in-cheek.

Everyone knows how important Fresno is.

 

This ad/story is ridiculous for two reasons

1) If I didnt know there was a "controvesey" over the ad involving fresno I would have never even noticed the shot at them. Its probably the most subtle thing in the entire ad

2) the ad itself is ridiculous, everyone driving around in prii its really creepy

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tideland Prius @ Nov 11 2007, 05:38 PM) [snapback]538142[/snapback]</div>

Pretty much. It's usually known for it's horrid air quality and crime/theft rates. lol *edit* I forgot Meth! lmao

The ad was pretty funny but I would never have ran it because the idea it depicts is exactly what all of the opponents of fuel efficiency, the environment, progress, etc. see in Prius drivers. Seemingly mindless clones who believe in EcoTopia and think everyone should drive a Prius. :angry: I do fall victim to one of those three though. h34r:

 

How'd you like to be collecting cow farts?

Hilarious! Of course, everyone who doesn't live on the left coast already knows it's the complete truth!

 

Slamming Fresno...wouldn't be the first time. It seems that a character in "Airplane" made a similar comment.

Another thought is that where I live, we used to crack jokes about the Phoebus section of Hampton, such as "People don't go to Phoebus, people leave Phoebus." Now, it actually has real standing as a historical district, complete with what that usually implies. Of course, I recall when the American theater there was the Lee Adult Theater...

 

I couldn't help but think of

Anyway, its sounds like Toyota has apologized and removed the line from the ad.

 

Hey! Fresno isn't all that bad. A little backward maybe, but not all that bad.

I got my Prius from Fresno with a referral from a Hollywood buyer's agent. I got a call that there was the exact car I wanted available immediately at MSRP.

This was back when my local dealers in Silicon Valley wouldn't call me back, didn't take my name when I came in, and quoted maybe in six weeks.

 

Hmm, well people are just a lot less able to take a joke these days. I don't remember anyone suing anyone back when this TV show starring Carol Burnett aired in 1986:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTQRtppImo

 

Like it or not, Fresno is the New Jersey of California.

 

Uh. They're both states. You can have a Newark or a Camden. Public?

Is Fresno really the, "Raisin Capital of the World?" I thought that was somewhere in Florida?

 

Isn't Wildkow from Fresno? I wonder whatever happened to him.

 

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Everything in Fresno tends to shrivel and wither so I wouldn't doubt it. lol

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skguh @ Nov 12 2007, 08:29 AM) [snapback]538387[/snapback]</div>

Apparently so. I mean, how many cities can claim to have a "Raisin Processing Laboratory"? Or a "Raisin Babies Jazz Band"?