MATCH.COM

Michelle grew up in a suburb of Washington DC. She was a straight A student who experienced little adversity on her path to becoming the East Coast Junior Vice President of a major telecommunications company.  From an early age Michelle had an obsession with technology that could be characterized as slightly beyond average.  She was only twelve when she learned that terrible power that can be harnessed with electronic communication.  During the early stages of AOL's popularity, Michelle was all about chatting, chat rooms, IMing and emailing with all of her friends.  She remembers very clearly the sickening feeling she got one cool January day in 1996 when she received the first of many threatening emails from an unknown AOL user.  She didn't respond, but over the next several months, she received as many as three emails a week, berating, teasing and threatening her, with details including her address, her hair color, even the clothes that she had worn the day of the emails were sent.  She lived for three months in fear of this unknown person, while to embarrassed to tell anyone, because she blamed herself for spending so much time on the Internet, and thought her parents wouldn't believe that it was just a random stalker, and would assume she had been seeking out attention in the wrong places.  It wasn't until many years later, when she started dating a boy who had been dating a girl who had been her closest friend at the time, that she found out it had been her friend all along.  Joining Match.com, for Michelle, was more of a final step in overcoming her fear of Internet based communication than anything else.

Brian is a twenty nine year old buyer for a large department store.  He's hoping to be promoted to Divisional Merchandise Manager within the year.  Recently he has been reading copiously from a wide range of books on psychology, attempting to understand the strange impulses he feel to kill people on a daily basis.  He thinks his desire for violence stems from anger he felt while engaged in sexual activities with partners of varying gender age and social status as a young teenager.  The details of these sexual encounters are hard for him to recall, and he has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, though he has never acted on his violent feelings.  His dreams are filled with blood.  He feels like he knows what's wrong with him, but it's obscured by a door that he just can't convince himself to open. An avid writer and commenter on Internet forums about psychological health, he first decided to join Match.com when it was recommended to him by a friend he met through a website called PsychForums.com, on a thread about the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

Basketball & Hamburgers

The crazy thing is that famous athletes actually eat at McDonald's all the time!  This is the most honest commercial.

Insurance Commercials

This is pretty funny, a cool looking guy is pretending to be a teenage girl driving a pink Jeep.  But don't forget: You're constantly in danger and your life will be ruined if you don't start giving us money once a month.