So I'm seeing this Ford ad where they stick a Ford pickup truck in a cargo plane, land the plane, dump the truck out the back tied to a big chain, and the truck uses its brakes to stop the plane on the runway. Then some guy tells you how great it is to know that your truck could stop a plane with its brakes.

In what reality is this a purchasing criterion for *anybody*? Why is the ability to stop a runaway cargo plane a valid reason to purchase a vehicle?

The Toyota Tundra ads are just as dumb, though not quite as over-the-top ridiculous as this one. Though I imagine they'll have to up the ante to match Ford. I predict an ad where a Tundra prevents the space shuttle from launching with a rope tied around its side mirror while a gravel-voiced narrator says, "Whoa, nellie!" or "Happy birthday!" or something like that.

The punchline is that sectors of the media constantly deride hybrids as "just about showing off." And these things aren't?