It’s all very well that TV commercials have thus far featured women playing Tetris and Animal Crossing and Nintendogs and stuff like that. However, the suggestion (proffered in the New Super Mario Brothers TV commercial) that birds play proper games where you have to not fall off stuff is TOO MUCH.

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“Oh my god! There’s a little man in there! How does he breathe? Oh wait, that must be what the holes are for.”

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This is the bit where she’s actually shaking the DS up and down and shouting “JUMP! JUMP!” at it. If we’d made this up as a parody, people would have called US sexist.

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Silver and gold medals go to A) The face she makes when she sees Mario eat a mushroom and grow big, and B) The face (shown above) she makes when Mario dies respectively, with the latter setting a new world record. “Wow! When I ran into that turtle it played a pretty tune! I wonder if I could get it to do it again?”