Alright Google, we need to talk. Your emotional commercials continue to make me a wreck at inopportune times. You’re coming after my heartstrings hard, like one-eyed dogs and P&G during the Olympics. But Sarah McLachlan has nothing on you, because I can’t look away. And I don’t want to. (I am a woman, and I get far too invested in things I have no control over.) But I have to ask: what’s next? I can only tear up so many times during Jersey Shore commercial breaks.
I use your email, I dig your Drive and I downloaded your browser. I’ll probably do anything else you say, too, so please keep it reasonable. You might wonder: why does Google need commercials? Everyone already uses it, right? These are commercials, but they are first and foremost, stories. They use people to humanize technology and make Google’s apps approachable and applicable to our own lives. They make Google relevant. Is that a tear in your eye? Maybe, but it’s also new information about how Google Plus, Maps and Calendar work.
Parisian Love
Dear Sophie
It Gets Better
Jess Time
Coffee, Bieber & GaGa
It’s obvious Google is going to keep the waterworks coming, so here are my suggestions for future commercials:
-Here, Boy: follow the story of a young college graduate and his first dog, Max, as they grow up and grow wiser together.
-Beauty School Dropout: a fashion dropout is finally back on track to get her high school degree. Billy Madison meets Josie Grossie.
-All in the Family: after a young man loses his father, he keeps the family auto shop open – and his father’s dream alive.
-Lending a Hand: a not-for-profit company uses Google to plan and organize their day-to-day, with the commercial’s emphasis on employees personally delivering supplies to the less fortunate.
-I Do: the triumphs and stresses of a bride and groom planning their wedding.
Kudos, Google. You’re right: the web is what you make of it. You keep it coming, and I’ll get more tissues.
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oh my!!!!
i cried by the time i got to the end of this… gosh this advertisement WORKED. i feel emotionally mind F*@%ed.
Oh god, the Sophie one makes me DIE every time it comes on!!!
Dallas Clayton: Awesome Dad was the best one! i sobbed like a baby.
Good Lord, I knew I shouldn’t have looked. I’m drowning in a puddle of my own tears. Darn me and my mushiness! The one about Jess is my favorite.
I had never seen these adverts, but did I just grab a box of tissues!
seriously. ive been saying this for months! i just rewatched them all and now i’m crying like a baby. thanks for making me feel less alone. OH and i also am afraid of bacon.
The Jess one makes me cry too!
these made me cry…
Oh god having a mini breakdown watching these!!
Oh my goodness! I’m so glad someone finally addressed this! When I’m bawling my husband doesn’t even look at the tv before saying “why is google trying to kill you?” I can’t even be in the room when Jess Time comes on!
you forgot Dallas Clayton: “Awesome Dad.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkMv_CbwDo8
You read my mind! I hadn’t seen the last one but now I’m crying harder than I should probably even admit.
Well, I definitely got caught crying at my desk by my boss! Thanks!
oh gosh, I’m just a wreck now!
I am crying at the thought of Google making any of your suggested videos. If the dog dies at the end of “Here, boy,” I’ll die.
Heehee sounds like the movie My Dog Skip.
EVERY SINGLE TIME… FIGHTING BACK TEARS!
Ohhh I thought I was the only one getting teary in the ads, thank you for posting this!
GREAT! Now I am crying at my desk at work… I love Google! These commercials are the greatest.
I’ve never seen these but I’m tearing up at all of them!
Oh man, I feel you! These ones always get me!