{"id":103219,"date":"2015-09-25T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=103219"},"modified":"2015-09-25T08:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:21:37","slug":"friday-flashback-suzanne-researched-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/friday-flashback-suzanne-researched-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback: Suzanne Researched This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun Friday Flashback. How many of my readers remember this classic 2006 Century 21 TV commercial?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=20n-cD8ERgs<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suzanne Researched This&#8221; became a big inside joke among those who didn&#8217;t buy the hype at the peak of the bubble. This commercial was so egregious that even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/ad_report_card\/2006\/04\/the_nastiest_wife_on_television.html\" title=\"Slate: The Nastiest Wife on Television\">Slate wrote an article headlined &#8220;The Nastiest Wife on Television.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About a year after this ad aired, I happened to catch a radio show segment that was basically the real world &#8220;rest of the story.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/suzanne-researched-this-part-2\/\" title=\"Suzanne Researched This: Part 2\">Suzanne Researched This: Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, we bought a house two years ago, and ever since we bought the house it\u2019s always been \u201cwe bought it because you wanted it,\u201d and every time we have financial struggles, it\u2019s my fault because we bought a house that he said we shouldn\u2019t buy, so\u2026 that\u2019s\u2026 I guess the stresses of the house are getting more intense because our interest is going up so it\u2019s been sort of like the past month I\u2019ve been hearing him talk a lot about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full audio of the cringe-worthy Dr. Laura call:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-103219-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drlaura_2007-08-22.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drlaura_2007-08-22.mp3\">http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drlaura_2007-08-22.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div style=\"clear:both; margin: 0 0 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p>On a related note, this 2006 &#8220;Real Financial Heroes&#8221; video is a pretty great skewering of homebuying mania. For context, it&#8217;s a parody of a series of Budweiser ads from the time called &#8220;Real American Heroes&#8221; that used the same style and music.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Real financial heros part 3 of  3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TxylHPnoloI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Top Ramen tastes a lot better when you eat it off a granite countertop.&#8221; Classic.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:85%; border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;\">The purpose of our <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/tag\/friday-flashback\/\" title=\"Friday Flashback on Seattle Bubble\">Friday Flashback series<\/a> is to remind people why it&#8217;s never a good idea to base your home purchase decisions on the word of someone with a vested financial interest in selling as many homes as possible for as much as possible, no matter what.  If you&#8217;ve got a good example of local home salespeople or other industry shills on record making fools of themselves in the years before the bubble burst, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/contact\/\">shoot me an email<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun Friday Flashback. How many of my readers remember this classic 2006 Century 21 TV commercial?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suzanne Researched This&#8221; became a big inside joke among those who didn&#8217;t buy the hype at the peak of the bubble. 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