Smart Decides Cursing Children Are Hilarious, Clever [Video]

by Aaron Cole

Updated: December 31st, 2020 Published: July 8th, 2015

smart decides cursing children are hilarious clever video

Ahead of its new Fortwo and Forfour models, Smart is releasing an advertisement destined to live only on the Internet.

The ad — titled “Swearing Kids” — is completely self-explanatory and accurate. It is wholly uncensored and mostly funny and full of naughty language that’s definitely Not Smart For Work.

Like anyone with children will tell you, kids have a habit of picking up foul language from parents and repeating it at the most inopportune times.

George Carlin can’t be too proud, though, as the purveyor of micro cars only covered just two of his seven dirty words.

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SlowMyke on Jul 09, 2015

Damn, there's a lot of vitriol over this. I chuckled at it. I think it's pretty obvious that they just grabbed YouTube clips to make this, I highly doubt they requested kids to swear specifically for a video that will only be on the internet. I also highly doubt everyone commenting here never said something inappropriate as a child. The only difference is there are cameras constantly recording these days and everyone is so willing to post their everyday life online for attention. If anything is to be mad at here, perhaps be mad that the parents were recording and the threw it up on YouTube? Seems pretty trivial though and their final example with the suburban driver is totally realistic.

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- Pch101 on Jul 09, 2015
  
  It would be easier to just make some videos of kids, then overdub some fake audio. And it wouldn't be smart to grab videos of kids on YouTube and use them in a commercial without first obtaining model releases.
  
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- SlowMyke on Jul 09, 2015
  
  @Pch101 I'd imagine in this day and age, it's not hard to find 5 people willing to put their kid on a commercial for a few hundred bucks. While I'm not particularly savvy in video creating, I've got a friend in marketing that could make this video in an afternoon. I bet the most expensive part of this ad was the driving scene at the end, with the rest costing very little.
  
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- David C. Holzman on Jul 09, 2015
  
  Kids can be hilarious. My sister is a decade younger than me. When we were traveling through Europe when she was 3, we visited a museum with a nude statue of hercules. She goes up to the statue, points, says, in a rather loud voice, "What is this? What is this???" Then she toddles over to my mother, whispers, my mother whispers back. She toddles back to the statue, says, "What is this? HERCULES PEN!S!" Then there was the time, when my older brother was learning to drive, someone cut him off or something. He goes, "oh, shite!" She, now around 4, goes, "oooh! Tom said shite instead of sh!t!"
  
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Anonymous on Jul 09, 2015

Shaker has this spot on. SlowMyke is just all wrong about this. The production is too slick, the resolution too high and the audio too consistent to be a bunch of Youtube videos. After sleeping on it overnight, I'm more outraged by it this morning that I was last night. What kind of society have we become if we think this is OK?

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- Pch101 on Jul 09, 2015
  
  You must be one of those guys who believes that there was a real person named Forrest Gump and that he actually met JFK.
  
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- RideHeight on Jul 09, 2015
  
  @Pch101 And John Lennon!
  
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- Pch101 on Jul 09, 2015
  
  @RideHeight I still can't get used to the fact that they were able to find a baby who sounded just like Bruce Willis and make a movie with him. I mean, what were the odds of that?
  
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- SlowMyke on Jul 09, 2015
  
  Damn whiskey, if this video is getting you that upset... After rewatching the video, the production is pretty slick, but I'm still not sold its original material for Smart. MB has a lot of money to spend on ads and I'd imagine there's a lot you can do if you get the original source files from the parents rather than ripping off of YouTube. Either way, browse YouTube for a few minutes, a few kids swearing on a car ad is hardly the worst thing out there.
  
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- Luke42 on Jul 09, 2015
  
  Wow, it's totally like it's a car commercial posted to YouTube. Who could have guessed?!? Oh, right, they tell you which car they're trying to sell at the end.
  
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Corey Lewis on Jul 09, 2015

I'm 100% sure I'd rather have the 20+ year old 300CE parked behind it.

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Shaker on Jul 11, 2015

I think the kids learned these words from those "Minion" toys that come in Happy Meals.

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