Jenna Elfman and AT&T are Psychic

Someone out in Youtube land is amazingly observant. I was in third grade when these 1993 ads came on, so I’ve got an excuse for not noticing that AT&T were actually carefully plotting and engineering our futures. I scoffed through my Lucky Charms when I saw these in between late-night Golden Girls episodes.  Video phones?  Touch-screen books? Impossible!  That shit could never happen! How wrong I was…

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Pay careful attention in the second ad. The lady calling home through the video to tuck in her baby (about 0:50)? That’s Jenna Elfman, of dubious Dharma and Greg fame. Yeah. Apparently the phone company knew her future, too.  [PS - I had/have a huge ladyboner for this woman.]

I wonder what else AT&T has in store for us?

Posted: September 24th, 2009 under science, television.