My son and I were distressed to find out that non-tivo-ed tv is still showing ads. So as we watched the five minutes of The Monkees that we could endure—an infuriating and stupid ripoff of The Beatles’ movies—we were forced to see a 30 second ad that showed an attractive young woman sitting on a bench waiting for a bus. “Don’t you wish everything was soft?” the narrator asks as the bench turns into a comfy couch.

1. Can you guess what this ad advertises? No, this is not the open-ended part of the puzzle, although it does give a new meaning to “open-ended.” The answer is in the first comment.

2. Once you’ve checked the answer, if you were in charge of marketing that product, what would one of your television commercials look like? Keep in mind that it has to be suitable for showing on whatever lame-ass cable station shows Monkee re-runs, although I suppose you could pick some other program to sponsor.

3. For extra credit, how might you market it on the Internet, and how would that change what you say about it? [Tags: doep puzzle]

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