I’ve been watching a lot of TV over the holidays. Like, during the day. Live. With commercials and everything. It’s been kinda like going to Colonial Williamsburg — reminiscent of a quaint, simpler time. Anyway, I must have seen the above commercial for Education Connection a dozen times. It’s twelve kinds of terrible. The song/rap, the dancing, the 
graphics, the implication that this girl works as a waitress at a restaurant that only serves only ketchup and mustard… all bush league. And yet I find myself transfixed by it every time it’s on.
Mostly I feel horrified for the poor girl starring in the ad. When I see her do one of those stiff, awkward dance moves, I get embarrassed as though it was me. I just imagine the director selling her on it the same way a porn director coaxes a girl into performing vile, disgusting acts on camera, “Don’t worry, baby. No one’s gonna see it. Didn’t you say you needed the money? What? It’s embarrassing? Relax, we’ll fix it all in editing.” I can only imagine her terror when the opening beats of the song come on when she’s with her family and friends.
In closing, two thoughts: 1) These commercials are on ALL THE TIME. What the hell kind of budget does Education Connection have? I feel like their commercials and Geico’s make up 75% of every commercial break. 2) More of the “College in your PJs” girl, please.
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More of this “College in your PJs” girl, please.
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The only difference between college pj’s awkward gestures and vince’s is tits.
On the TV commercial punchability scale, she’s registering just below the FreeCreditReport.com bands, but way below the Geico pig.
I love the idea that this will be on her acting reel for years to come.
I just wonder why the website address changes every time it airs. Great, the song is stuck in my head now.
Holy crap, this one is off the charts:
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The first commercial satisfies my “awkwardly dancing girls in waitress uniforms” fetish.
By the way, “when I get a degree, I will make a bigger salary”… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
@ Burnsy – I love that the girl in that commercial learns about Education Connection from the College in Your PJs ad. LAYERS!
You know, if you stay up late enough in Canada and the temperature’s just right and the moon is full you can still see an old Kate from Lost ad hawking some friend line.
At least I think it’s old, she doesn’t seem so busy now.
That embarssing feeling you are referring to is called “Tingles”. That horrible feeling for someone that shivers down you body when you get embarassed for someone, like when a retard is peeing with his pants down at the urinal.
Im glad I am attending a legitimate Masters program online at a state university, and when I tell people I am taking classes online they look at me like I do this shit. It takes forever to explain. THANKS A LOT, SHITTY UNACCREDITED COLLEGES.
The worst part are those awful, unflattering jeans. Giiiiiiiirl, no.
These “online education” sites are still better than UNC.
Also, click on Upstate’s link for the hot Spanish chick and stay for the always intelligent YouTube comments debate.
Is Burnsy a Dookie?
Dammit, Burnsy.
… Although I didn’t actually go to UNC. I was just raised Tar Heel.
@Squish Nah. Coach K is too evil even for me.
Fuck me, I’m so white and old I thought she was a good dancer. Thanks a lot you guys for ruining my fantasies and reminding me I am too old to realize what’s going on.
I hate Coach K like I hate Katherine Heigl.
Thousands of people go to real colleges in their pjs every day too, but you don’t see them making sh!tty commercials about it. Well, unless you watch college sports.
The new college in your pjs ads actually have tons of sexual innuendo.
And I’m all like “in your endo”.
UCF is a cow college!
TAR
I hate Coach K like I hate Katherine Heigl.
Now that’s some quality hate there Patty. And UU, more of that please.
UCF was once indeed Bovine University. I mastered in Teat Sciences.
Sad thing, is the first girl is probably killing both her singing and acting careers. She won’t be able to get away from this monstrosity either way.
@Burnsy well…ok then. Ill accept UNC hate…just not from a Dookie.
@Patty Boots there is no other way to be raised.
/get off UNC fan soapbox
*fart sound*
@Danger
My dad said, the exact same thing to me this morning, about this commerical, we have been watching loads of ESPN, and I also noticed all the coin commericals which I have convinced him I don’t get in New England and it is a NC thing.
/Raised in NC neither a Tarheel nor a Dookie
There is nothing in this world worse than the JG Wentworth opera commercials.
It will suck if she (Education Connection singer) were ever to get famous. Just ask Evangeline Lilly. They still play this on late-night TV
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WHERE DO I GO TO GET MY DEGREE IN PUSSYTUBING?
@Conor
Thank god I’m not the only one afflicted with those abominations. I’m hard-pressed to determine which belongs higher on Burnsy’s patented punchability scale: JG Wentworth Opera, or god-forsaken Geico pig.
YOUR MOM GOES TO COLLEGE
I find her to be a very beautiful girl…and hey we all have to do things we don’t like to make ends met. And in a personal note I think she looks great on that pair of jeans.
Why must they torture us?? As soon as I hear a pause and look and see the needle of the record player coming down, I frantically search for my remote control to change the channel. Anything but that. I hate education connection for this commercial. Besides the fact that they help you get a worthless degree, that is as good as they can do to promote their useless service? Awesome.
What is hilarious is this is suppose to relate to some people. Those that did bad in high school and have a dead ender. Frankly I feel sorry for anyone that decided to try this.
It’s weird, but I can accept only the waitress education connection girl. All the other ones seem lame. If they kept putting her back on more of those commercials, I would go back to school through EdCon.
Whether they like it or not, everyone seems to be transfixed by this commercial. I could watch that waitress 100 times in a row and not get bored of it. I LOVE that model. Her name is Andreanna Veith, by the way. I don’t care if you think she’s awkward. I can’t take my eyes off her. I think she’s BEAUTIFUL and FASCINATING. She makes the screen light up.
As you can tell, I’m totally in love with Andreanna Veith. Now, I just have to figure out how I can get her to marry me and I’ll be happy.
Aww it’s not that bad ans she doesn’t dance that bad either.. I have seen and her that song so many times it grows on ya.. and for sure could be worse!
Here’s the deal.
1) The music is autotuned and sucks, BUT… very relevant and popular. I think Katy Perry should be shot into the sun, but if you listen to this song and a current (albeit annoying) trend would tell you that this is a perfect demographic for the target 19-25 audience. You fail.
2) The girl is gorgeous and a perfect age/sex/attitude for the target demographic.
3) The dance moves might be awkward, but so is not getting into a decent University and realizing that your life might just be improved by getting some sort of post-high school education.
4) The grammar, the style, the Ad-Hominem total fail of this “article” actually justify trade schools and technical colleges like this. I mean… even a high school graduate could angrily type out a better page than this. Maybe this school would help.
THIS ARTICLE FAILS
Here’s the deal.
1) The music is autotuned and sucks, BUT… very relevant and popular. I think Katy Perry should be shot into the sun, but if you listen to this song and a current (albeit annoying) trend would tell you that this is a perfect demographic for the target 19-25 audience. You fail.
2) The girl is gorgeous and a perfect age/sex/attitude for the target demographic.
3) The dance moves might be awkward, but so is not getting into a decent University and realizing that your life might just be improved by getting some sort of post-high school education.
4) The grammar, the style, the Ad-Hominem total fail of this “article” actually justify trade schools and technical colleges like this. I mean… even a high school graduate could angrily type out a better page than this. Maybe this school would help
THIS IS CORRECT – To bad the writer of this article simply wants to be recognized by being “controversial” FAIL. BTW- the “sad” as you put it girl now has more recognition not you LOL. Carry on.
The funny thing is, she probably has to do these commercials BECAUSE she couldn’t afford college. That’s irony so thick you could spread it on toast. Mmmmmm. Delicious toast.
The company/website making the commercials makes its money from referrals and contracts with the schools it advertises on its website. It isn’t a scam, but I think it’s wrong they try to pass themselves off as objective evaluators of online schools. The one thing they don’t lie about is that it is a free service. They are, in fact, only paid by the for-profit educational institutions they recruit for.
@ THIS ARTICLE FAILS
First of all, your assessment of the necessity of education, or lack thereof, is frightening. People need to be educated past high school in order to: a) get jobs; b) advance socity; and c) learn to write better than you.
Secondly, I think the distinction needs to be made between for-profit, and not-for-profit education. The schools advertised on this website are out to get your money. Look no further than the trouble University of Phoenix has gotten into for its corrupt sales practices in the news. Any decent, not-for-profit university or college is not involved in these nefarious practices.
Thirdly, the fact that you can’t get into a legitimate accredited college simply means that you aren’t trying hard enough. EVERYONE can get into a community college. I was a crap-student in high school and got into community college. As soon as I completed my program there I was able to go to a state university. The fact that people would pay up to 3X as much for tuition because they can’t get into a legitimate accredited institution, or because they want an easy certificate in 6 months is absurd.