RetroBuzz: E-Trade

This week, we look at some of our favourite Super Bowl ads.

Twelve years after its release — as we sit in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression — this 2000 ad for E-Trade is either hilarious or profoundly depressing, dependng on how personnally the recession has affected you and yours. 

Either way, the idea that someone could have money coming out the wazoo, either metaphorically or physically, as a result of trading stocks online truly seems like something from another era at this point. 

That said, I still like this commerical in a lot of ways. I love the idea of taking a figure of speech, like money out the wazoo, and turning it into a medical condition, and I think it's way, way better than E-Trade's more recent talking baby ads, which creep me right out.