Ad of the Day: Subaru

Road trips are great, until you get naked in the hot springs

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Subaru, the Happiest Automaker, continues apace with its blitzkrieg of cheerfulness in this spot about a very game couple who, in the spirit of Subaru owners everywhere, are up for pretty much anything.

Because I am a broken person, filled with misery and fear, it pleases me to report that the spot—from Carmichael Lynch and director Lance Acord—ends on a down note, with the couple's anything-for-fun spirit getting them into a frightening hot-springs encounter with a really creepy hippie dude and his girlfriend that ends in …

Well, it ends in a cutaway, and the excellent actors agreeing with each other that "we shouldn't have done that."

The folks in this spot are cast to a T.

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