Picture this:

An older man reads the newspaper, clearly forlorn. Somber, downbeat music plays in the background as the depressed man's two daughters with a pair of big, sad eyes apiece come into the room. The older child looks at her father, sheepishly smiling, knowing that very little she could say could bring her father out of his sadness.

"C'mon, Dad," she says, with a perkiness that is clearly manufactured. "It's time for you to get back out there!"

The younger daughter smiles, hopeful. "You're a great catch!" she exclaims, and presents her either divorced or widower father a box of Just For Men hair color.

Later that evening, the father, with freshly hidden gray hair, sits at a table with a lovely looking younger blond woman, as they have a great time. He pulls the woman close, and takes a picture of them with his cell phone camera, "for my girls." He sends it off to them, and as the children receive their multimedia message back at home, they share a hopeful high-five.

This was a commercial I saw during the news today, and I have just this to say: this is the creepiest thing I've ever seen. At best, it's about a divorced man who's children are asking him to forget their mother and move on; at worst, a man who's wife has died is being pushed back into the dating world by two selfish children who want another mother figure. And, given how he looked in the commercial, I'm pretty much guessing it's option two.

Creepy, creepy stuff.