Wrong, Paul Gross!

I never thought I would be nitpicking a weather forecast. But this morning's forecast for metro Detroit from Channel 4's Paul Gross flew in the face of commonsense. He said cloud cover would increaase but that it would not rain at all. Well, around 5 PM, it was clear that he was wrong. It was not a major downpour, but enough to prove the point that where there are dark gray clouds in the sky, rain is usually not far behind. Luckily I did not get too wet on the way between the building and my car.

Thanks for the confusing message, Huntington

Huntington Bank has a new ad on TV to boast that they're the number one SBA lender. In the ad, a manager happily informs his employees of this fact, and that he's had T-shirts made to commemorate their ranking. The employees cheer, but the smile disappears from their faces as one of them points out that the shirt actually says "#1 ABS Lender."

So what you're telling me, Huntington, is that you're the top-ranking lender as measured by the Small Business Administration, but some of your employees don't know how to spell the acronym for "Small Business Administration"? Maybe it was the shirt company that screwed up and switched the letters around. But why didn't the guy take a look at one of the shirts to make sure it said what he wanted it to say?

I do understand that commercials nowadays, with their ambitions to be micro-movies, must present some kind of problem in their narrative. But at least make the problem a problem that your company can solve by the use of your product or service. It makes little sense to introduce a problem that has to be solved by another company. Anyway you slice it, the ad is too distracting from the message. If I was a small business owner in need of a loan, Huntington would not be my first choice.

Tired of Family Guy crap yet?

Maybe we were all too grossed out by the idea of Brian actually eating Stewie's crap to notice something Brian should have realized long before putting his nose to the diaper:

Remember how in "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" the Griffin household degenerated into a pigsty when Lois went to jail? Peter, Brian, Meg and Chris are sitting on the couch, looking all dirty, when Stewie comes in, pleading for someone to change his diaper. "I can't fit any more in there," the poor baby says and then just falls down face flat on the floor.

Let's not forget that Brian has a long memory. There was an episode in Season 4 or 5 in which Brian got back at Peter for something that happened in Season 3. And if Stewie really is still 1-year-old, shouldn't Brian remember that Stewie survived the ordeal of Lois's incarceration despite so few diaper changes?

It was painful to watch that scene when Brian actually eats Stewie's crap. It felt very wrong. Now that I remembered these scenes from previous episodes, I understand why it felt so wrong for the character.