More Dubious Commercials

[coccatino]

Apr 24, 2008 21:24:13 GMT -5 StarOpal said:

*loss for words*

I know, right? No lie- I see this at least 3x a night, every night.

[penguinslovedw]

Apr 23, 2008 14:08:06 GMT -5 coccatino said:

this gem. It offends me on so many levels, and it's on so often that I know all of the lyrics.

Oh, I don't know. The mermaids singing the non-rhyming phone number are kind of cool. What channel is this on?

[Rett Mikhal]

I hate all forms of advertisement, but commercials feel most at home insulting your intelligence; just like radio adds feel most at home assaulting your earbuds with sounds like car horns or alarm clocks or just DJs and anything they say.

I make it a special note not to buy anything I see advertised, unless I previously already liked it. If the ad is DAMNED ANNOYING ENOUGH, I will stop using a good product out of spite.

[PoolMan]

I quite agree with you, Rett. I think they should ban the following sound effects from radio ads:

- car horns
- car crashes
- sirens
- EATING (seriously, why do so many ads feature a guy chewing with a microphone right at his lips?)

And I've actually begun a small campaign against a local jeweller that INTENTIONALLY makes bad ads. They admit it IN the ads. And they keep going. I will never give them my business, ever.

[Rett Mikhal]

All jewelers are boycotted in my book. I'd rather see the intentionally bad ads than one more mother %#@^ing kay jeweler's ad blasting lovey dovey R&B music in my face for a month. A MONTH. They wonder why suicide rates go up in February?! It's like wondering why books have words in them!

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Here's another one of those medications whose side effect is worse than the ailment it treats:

Advair! It's for asthma patients.

Now the commercial itself isn't so bad. Standard fare, really. Lots of standard Boring Guy talking over standard animation of the human body, explaining the ailment and how This Wonderful Medicine will make it all better. Okay, so I get explaining to us how the medicine makes it better, but we do we constantly have to look at pictures/animation of grotesquely large, diseased portions of the human body and have the afflicting ailment explained to us? Who is this for, anyway? Is it supposed to be a keen health lesson to the layman? I mean, wouldn't it be safe to assume that the sick person (the one the commercial is FOR) already knows exactly what is wrong with them, what it looks like, and on and on? So why, I ask you? Why?

Anyway that isn't even the real point. The REAL point is the end of the Advair commercial where we get the always entertaining Side Effect Speech. I've seen so many of these things that I've heard just about everything under the sun (bipolar tendancies? check. heart palpatations? check. explosive diarrhea? yeah....), but I was NOT ready for this one:

And I quote, from Advair's site: "In patients with asthma, medicines like salmeterol may increase the chance of asthma-related death. So ADVAIR is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on another controller medicine."

THE WHAT? This is a medicine FOR ASTHMA, that may cause ASTHMA RELATED DEATH! What is this, some kind of Kavorkian solution for those who just can't stand dealing with their asthma anymore?

I'll take the non-lethal treatment, thank you.

[Razzberryfinn]

lol I was definately not going to watch this commercial, until I saw this quote:

Apr 23, 2008, 2:08pm, coccatino wrote:this gem. It offends me on so many levels, and it's on so often that I know all of the lyrics.


Oh, I don't know. The mermaids singing the non-rhyming phone number are kind of cool.

very funny, dw

[coccatino]

Does anyone else harbor a completely irrational hatred of that snobby woman in the more recent Glade commercials. She makes me want to gouge my eyes out

[Hucklebubba]

Dec 17, 2008 23:10:25 GMT -5 coccatino said:

Does anyone else harbor a completely irrational hatred of that snobby woman in the more recent Glade commercials. She makes me want to gouge my eyes out

Borderline eerie. I was just about to revive this thread for the sake of the Glade lady.

So yes; put me down for a serving of that delicious irrational hatred. More than her, though, I'm annoyed at Glade for their odd advertising strategy that seems to be built around portraying shame and deceit as necessary components when using their products.

Also, watch the one that started it all real quick. Done? Okay, now riddle me this: Is it presumptuous or unreasonable of me to think that the Glade lady should be suspicious of that degree of ass-vigilance from one of her same-sex friends?

[dex]

"This is my favorite Glade commerical, and Dori Kelly is beautiful."

If you need any proof for my hypothesis that youtube comments are part of an utterly insane secret alien invasion, this is it.

Dec 17, 2008 23:42:15 GMT -5 Hucklebubba said:

Also, watch the one that started it all real quick. Done? Okay, now riddle me this: Is it presumptuous or unreasonable of me to think that the Glade lady should be suspicious of that degree of ass-vigilance from one of her same-sex friends?

Calling Dr. Freud... Dunno, I reckon it doesn't take a lot of vigilance to detect this very obvious sticker. Just be glad they cut away before the pillow fight.

Still, you should thank them for this ad. If you ever enter a house and smell that rubbish (or spot the telltale sticker) you know there live people there who respond to this kind of advertisement. So you know what to do. Time for good ol' Emily (or whatever you call your chainsaw).

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Dec 18, 2008 7:40:31 GMT -5 dex said:

"This is my favorite Glade commerical, and Dori Kelly is beautiful."

If you need any proof for my hypothesis that youtube comments are part of an utterly insane secret alien invasion, this is it.

Amen.

Dec 17, 2008 23:42:15 GMT -5 Hucklebubba said:

Also, watch the one that started it all real quick. Done? Okay, now riddle me this: Is it presumptuous or unreasonable of me to think that the Glade lady should be suspicious of that degree of ass-vigilance from one of her same-sex friends?

Calling Dr. Freud... Dunno, I reckon it doesn't take a lot of vigilance to detect this very obvious sticker. Just be glad they cut away before the pillow fight.[/quote]

Heh. I was going to say the same thing, and then I thought that maybe Kaleb was referring to the fact that she was looking at the sticker hard enough to be able to read that tiny writing on it (totally trying to cover for you here Kaleb. Go with it. )

[wdm0744]

Have you seen the new Arby's commercial?

The one where the guy is sitting in bed and asks if his wife is almost ready? She says "I'm only doing this for your birthday" and he responds, "I know, and I really appreciate it".

Then she walks in to "bow-chicka-bow" music wearing an Arby's uniform and carrying a tray of Arby's food. The husband says, "Me likey!" and then an animated Arby's hat sprinks up over his head, complete with the "BOWING" sound.

Now, yeah it's funny, but:

1. If I had kids, how am I supposed to explain this commercial if they ask? I'm not a prude, but come on - how sexulized do we have to make a fast food commercial?

2. Do we really want to equate food in general, let alone fatty fast food with sex?

3. How hard must it be to be a female Arby's employee now and have to wear that uniform? God help you if you are attractive. I wonder how many times they hear "me likey!" a day now?

I'm probably making too big a deal out of this.

[Hucklebubba]

Dec 18, 2008 9:40:39 GMT -5 BlackCatWhiteCat said:

Heh. I was going to say the same thing, and then I thought that maybe Kaleb was referring to the fact that she was looking at the sticker hard enough to be able to read that tiny writing on it.

No, I'm pretty sure I was trying to shoehorn lesbianism into a perfectly innocent and platonic situation. It's kind of what I do.

Dec 18, 2008 11:34:48 GMT -5 wdm0744 said:

Have you seen the new Arby's commercial?

The one where the guy is sitting in bed and asks if his wife is almost ready? She says "I'm only doing this for your birthday" and he responds, "I know, and I really appreciate it".

Then she walks in to "bow-chicka-bow" music wearing an Arby's uniform and carrying a tray of Arby's food. The husband says, "Me likey!" and then an animated Arby's hat sprinks up over his head, complete with the "BOWING" sound.

Now, yeah it's funny, but:

1. If I had kids, how am I supposed to explain this commercial if they ask? I'm not a prude, but come on - how sexulized do we have to make a fast food commercial?

2. Do we really want to equate food in general, let alone fatty fast food with sex?

3. How hard must it be to be a female Arby's employee now and have to wear that uniform? God help you if you are attractive. I wonder how many times they hear "me likey!" a day now?

I'm probably making too big a deal out of this.

Ditto on the not-prudeness, and I also thought it was in rather poor taste. I think their decision to use the one sound effect exclusively dedicated to implausibly-abrupt erections was what really put it over the top.

[dex]

Dec 18, 2008 9:40:39 GMT -5 BlackCatWhiteCat said:

Dec 18, 2008 7:40:31 GMT -5 dex said:

Just be glad they cut away before the pillow fight.

Heh. I was going to say the same thing

Wait, so it isn't just a male fantasy?

I dare to dream again.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

Dec 18, 2008 12:08:56 GMT -5 Hucklebubba said:

Dec 18, 2008 9:40:39 GMT -5 BlackCatWhiteCat said:

No, I'm pretty sure I was trying to shoehorn lesbianism into a perfectly innocent and platonic situation. It's kind of what I do.

You're pretty sure. So not totally sure? Meaning that might not have been what you were doing? You...BAH nevermind. Kaleb's a perv but we love him that way. Takes all kinds of spices to make our Mutant Mix.

Given my track record I think I'd be Accidental Sexual Innuendo Spice.

Too lazy to quote anymore:

WD40: Totally on board with you about the Arby's commercial. I, too, can't imagine having to wear an Arby's uniform after that. Also I think I may never say "me likey" again. Ever.

DEX: Who are you now, the paparazzi? You can't take my words out of context like that! I was referring to the sentence BEFORE the one you quoted, meaning that I had thought about teasing Kaleb about reading too much into the butt tag (and NOT that my next logical conclusion was that they were going to have a pillow fight. Or mud wrestle...or any of that kind of thing.)