I had a golden retriever puppy like that once. He took about five years to mellow, but then lived to 15.

At the end aren’t they all lounging around reading Variety instead of setting up for a shot? Great stuff.

Probably wasn’t cheap to rent that house for the shoot.

Teenagers. Definitely not wives.

AND NOW, FOR THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES

Look at Moneybags here, with his Patagonia sweaters and shit.

Ha, when my kids were younger we did one of those wake them up, “we’re going to Disney!” things and filmed it. They were too confused and half-asleep to say more than “What? Now??”  It was actually pretty funny because I’m not sure what else we expected.

It’s conspicuous consumption by people who don’t care they’re spending their last pennies. Have to keep up appearances, and his financial idiocy is probably why they’re broke.

Texas clamped down on that after the great recession, which actually kind of pisses me off because I have a ton of equity in my home and it’s really not their business if I decide to access some of it. You can put a HELOC or cash-out refi on a mortgage one time, regardless of credit quality.  After that you have to…

I’m going out on a limb and guessing Oprah both personally and through her production company are staying fully out of the chain of custody. GM just dumped 200 previous-year models.

Didn’t she pay the taxes as well after taking a beating over that the first time?

In other words, a puppy. 

I don’t make gifts, but always try to be thoughtful in what I choose for people. I have a pretty small family so it’s not that hard. I keep a list throughout the year of things people mention they like, which they usually find delightful when they open it five months later.

Precisely. Many people will be happy to say “it’s like the one from that ad where the guy buys his and hers trucks.”

My wife got a SUV a few years ago with the full overhead surround-view camera, which she discovered the first time into the garage is not as accurate as the dashboard screen would have you believe.  Fortunately the dealership fixed it at cost since we had picked it up just a couple of hours before; still $800+

I don’t know, it’s such a distillation of how ridiculous those original Lexus ads were that I feel they provide some kind of public service.

A lot of people take the cash because the income tax on anything of major value is going to be a burden.  “You won more than $50,000 worth of prizes!  That will be $10,000 cash, please.”

Oh it’s 100% aspirational. People that age who can afford that home are almost certainly not buying a couple of trucks.

Multiple expensive lessons.