Where the Nordstrom guy doesn't get it is that absurdity in humor is valid, but usually not funny when it is depicted as being at someone else's expense. There are certainly other pretexts that could have been used to portray someone's obsession with shoes *without* that obsession becoming destructive to someone else (much less a spouse). Like, say, adding a room to your house (for the shoes), or having your RV pull a trailer (for the shoes). They didn't think very hard. The ad with the motorcycle dropped onto a freeway took some serious choreography, good stunt drivers, and *lots* of money to shoot. Was the crushed Cadillac done with computer graphics or a realistic mockup, or did they just throw money at that one, too, and waste a real car?
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