Really stupid commercials

[hilside]

Originally posted by Manda1219
I'm still utterly confused/bother by the McCain Golden Crisps commercial where the guy is speaking gibberish and the slogan is something like "you wont get how good they are until you try them"...
It's really stupid AND annoying...Has anyone else seen this one? Kinda makes me want to take a bat to my TV...

My DH said the other day he wants no part of those if they mess with the speech center part of your brain!

 

[Manda1219]

Originally posted by hilside
My DH said the other day he wants no part of those if they mess with the speech center part of your brain!

Just watching the commercial makes me insane...I'd be afraid to try one of those things!!! "Ikkabibble GOLDEN CRISPS!!!"
AUUUGH!!! makes me want to scream EVERY time...

 

[petula]

I just saw the dancing one for the first time and was SO confused! And the tampon one bugs me, but i did like the tampax commercial where the teacher thinks it's a piece of candy and tells the girl he hopes she has enough to share with the class.

Okay, I have a couple for a local experimental theater here. (The tiny kind with the walls all painted black.) If you're easily offended, don't read this. They're the kind of commercials that make you feel conflicted, wanting maybe to laugh but being too shocked.

In the first one, a couple is sitting in a bathtub full of water together, leaning against opposite ends. They're tossing a plugged-in toaster back and forth and looking really nervous but giggling and acting like it's a game. After a few minutes of this, the screen goes dark and "Want a more exciting Saturday night?" flashes up, then the name of the theater.

In the second one, a guy is slouching in a really depressing apartment in a shabby chair next to a mouse hole. He gets up, pulls some steel wool out of the hole and sprays a trail of spray cheese from the hole, across the floor, and up the leg of his pants, ending at his crotch. Then he sits back down in the chair to wait, sighs, and looks miserable. The same slogan comes up. I thought that one was just a little over the top.

 

[vhoffman]

My 7 year old son saw the Tampax commercial. He asked me what a tampax is. My 6 year old daughter replied, "its fishing bait".

The commercial reminded me of the Aggie joke (if you don't know, an Aggie is a student at Texas A&M University) There were a couple of Aggies who had only $5 to spend between them for the entire weekend. So one Aggie buys a box of Tampax. When asked why, he says, "We have our whole weekend here. It says on the box 'you can go swimming, horseback riding...'

 

[CALIFLADY]

I live in Japan, so I don't see American TV (except for CNNj occasionally). This is so cool to read about everything I'm (not) missing!

What I REALLY love about living here is that I get to pass on the whole Presidential election thing, but still cast my ballot!

And don't think you're special! While I can't understand them (they're all in Japanese), the TV ads here look just as bad...

 

[neosnightmare]

2 quick comments:

1) i LOVE the gelling commercials.

and 2) the quiznos subs commericials are disturbing but the great part was with the old one when they say, "they got a pepper barrr". i dunno i just think it sounds funny.

 

[MeanLaureen]

Originally posted by Stepharoonie!
Did you notice she had a WHOLE BOX of them with her? What chick carries around the entire box with them...and into a rowboat on a date?

Maybe she's got some kind of Gilligan's Island complex going on?....... a three hour tourrrrrr

Hate the McDonalds commercial with the bratty kids that won't come when mom calls until she holds up a crumbled McDonalds bag - if they were my kids the last thing they would get would be a reward for not listening!

I also hate the Lowes commercial with the ditzy chick that "HAS TO have color on her walls" and wants to look at all the colors. The Lowes person kind a looks at her and says "all 1435" of them? Then later she says "How about Spongebob Yellow" and her husband that is there for eyecandy says "cute" in a way that shows you that his IQ just about made it into double digits. ACK. I hate most of Lowes commercials

 

[Jolie C]

And speaking of tampon commercials, does anyone remember the one where the girl is at a party and she goes upstairs to "take care of business" and she walks into the bathroom and puts her tampon on the windowsill and the tampon falls out of the window and into the bushes? WHY did she walk across the room and put it on the windowsill, especially if the window is open???? That seemed SO STUPID to me. Really out of touch with reality.

 

[faithinkarma]

That made me laugh! And then I got to thinking, why even take ANY on a rowboat on a date? It's not like there would be a place to, uh... well, you know...

According to another thread Canadians are experts at making love in a canoe, so a rowboat offers all kinds of possibilities.

 

[buzzlady]

There is a new commercial for Kotex products that now have less "crinckle' wrappers. The entire commercial is silent. You have to read the words on the screen to know what the silence is all about.

 

[neosnightmare]

Originally posted by faithinkarma
According to another thread Canadians are experts at making love in a canoe, so a rowboat offers all kinds of possibilities.

lol. learned something new today.