Commercials suck. I usually try to avoid watching them, and Tivo helps to get that job done. For some reason, I wasn’t fast forwarding through commercials the other night and noticed something rather strange.

Have you seen the Citibank commercial where this dude takes his woman to a fancy restaurant that took forever to get into, and they start bitching about how the food is tiny, and is in fact “elf food”? I’m talking about these 2 clowns:

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The picture sucks, I know. It’s hard to take pictures of the TV but hopefully you’ll get the idea.

So, they get all worked up because they are served elf food, and decide the only logical thing to do is to buy more substantial food at a gas station. Mmmm….every time I hear the word “Texaco” my mouth starts watering.

Take a look at this woman’s fingers (if you can muster enough will power to pull your gaze away from her freakishly large nose):

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They look fairly normal, no? Note the ring on the ring finger of her right hand. Now….look at that same finger as she goes to give the store clerk her credit card:

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Not only is that ring missing, but her FINGER IS MISSING. What the hell is that gnarly discolored stump where her ring finger used to be? The wife and I thought at first that maybe her finger was bent, but it just doesn’t look that way. A few more frames of the video confirm our suspicions:

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That hand, my friends, does not belong to that woman. It must belong to a guy that got it stuck in the sharp angry bits of some sort of dangerous farming equipment.

Now, I have nothing against people with missing (or extra) fingers. But WTF? If they are trying to film a scene with a “CITI” card as the main object of interest, wouldn’t you think they would take the extra time to try to find someone in the room with a full set of fingers? I just don’t get it.

Next time this commercial comes on, watch it closely and let me know if you saw the same thing.