SkipTheDishes Has Completely Lost The Plot

Dec 14th 2025

You know how music from the 70's and 80's and 90's is better than "any of the garbage they put out nowadays"? Is that just selection/survivorship bias, or is it because society fundamentally desires simpler and less lyrically creative music?

It's hard to answer that question for music, and it's possibly even harder to say for the quality of advertisements and commercials.

Take this SkipTheDishes commercial. Mad Men's lead character, Don Draper Jon Hamm, says to a couple waiting in line at a fancy restaurant that they could have saved the hassle of going there without a reservation if they had just used Silicon Valley's latest lazyness app.

But that doesn't make any sense! The couple dressed up to go to this fancy restaurant, to enjoy the ambience, the presentation; maybe they came here to celebrate a special event like an anniversary.

The same criticism can be applied to pretty much every single ad in the rest of the video.

I can't believe that this was made and that some VPs greenlit this. It just doesn't make sense at all.

Is it because the best ads of yesteryear are the ones people remember, or is it because they were actually creative works of art? Are ads nowadays are trying to maximize the sales per creative effort expended and that's what makes them uninspired?