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Life on Laurel Lane was good until everyone in the neighborhood started sharing a cable line for Internet access. The ad shows the frustrations felt by the residents when they experience slower navigation on the Net.
In one house, a woman pounds her desk. In another, a girl screams at her computer monitor.
These modern-day inconveniences create quite a stir in the neighborhood. Children are playing with a balloon when it floats over to an elderly woman's yard. She punctures it.
A paper boy is plummeted to the ground and off his bike after a neighbor rockets the newspaper back at him. A man's garage is spray-painted with the words "Web Hog" and he's in a shouting match with two very young culprits over who's the real "Web Hog."
An ice cream truck drives down Laurel Lane, not stopping but displaying his own spray-painted message: Log Off! One neighbor's aggravation is clearly featured as he stops trimming his own hedges to lower the trimmer into his neighbor's flowerbed.
The commercial's tag line:
Don't share a cable line. Get Pacific Bell DSL. Next page > Why It Worked > Page 1, 2, 3
Always fast. Never shared.
