To cleanse the palate, via LauraW at Ace’s site, a new entry in the surprising recent ad trend involving people being scarred for life. The last spot I saw that was as genuinely funny as this was … I’m tempted to say the Darth Vader Volkswagen Super Bowl spot, but that was less “ha ha” than “tee hee.” This one? Ha ha. Can’t wait to find out in the next few days how the idea for this came together within Ragu’s creative team. It feels like a joke someone made while the writers were sitting around a table late at night looking for a real idea, and then the more beers they drank and the more they thought about it…

We’ve all been there, though, haven’t we? An inopportune barging-in to mom’s and dad’s bedroom followed by a warm bowl of guilt pasta. No, just kidding. No one’s been there. No one.