The Families In Commercials

You've begun to notice that families in TV commercials just don't add up.

Like the one you just saw for Splenda artificial sweetener while you were watching a syndicated episode of Seinfeld (“The Vasectomy”). The family seemed perfect except that the “father” and “mother” in the commercial both had brown eyes, and the children (one girl, and one boy) both had blue eyes.

Whoops.

I mean, genetically, that’s impossible…unless the makers of the commercial want consumers like you to think those are someone else’s children. In which case, how nice of that nice couple to feed someone else’s children breakfast. And how nice of them to consider the health consequences of feeding someone else’s children too much sugar.