Latest stupid commercial thread

[Barking Dog]

Originally Posted by BrassyPhrase

I am so glad that someone brought this up again. And I enjoy good commercials.

But this one pisses me off b/c the logic is shit. (to me). Some chick at a roof concert, she's filming it on her phone. Then she sends it to like five other people--AT THE SAME CONCERT.

Oh what? Did they need to see it from the left side?

It's a phone commercial.

In the same commercial, doesn't she point her phone at a jumbo-tron inexplicably on the side of a building half a block away and immediately footage of the concert pops up on it? What kind of magic phone is this?!

[Spectre of Pithecanthropus]

Originally Posted by TonySinclair

2) Actually there are a couple versions of this commercial, and they are so bad that I can't even tell you what is being advertised; I guess it's some kind of car. But a couple is contemplating a vacation, and the guy says:

Version 1) "How about an ocean cruise?" And his wife says, "Hmm," and then they both imagine they're on the deck of a cruise ship, and a pale fat guy walks past them in his bathing suit. The possibility that they might encounter someone who doesn't look like Matthew McConaughey immediately sickens them, and they both say, "Definitely not a cruise!"

This one's really more about the fact that the old guy's wearing not just any bathing suit, but--OMFG--a Speedo. I don't particularly want to see an old guy in a Speedo myself, but would take more than that to disabuse me of the idea of taking a cruise. People aren't really that superficial, are they? I hope not.

BTW it's for Infiniti.

[Spectre of Pithecanthropus]

A currently seen commercial for Ancestry.com. A woman comes on, appearing to be about my age which means she was likely born in the late 1950s. Information is shown about her grandmother who was born in 1907. The woman has learned, she enthuses, that her grandmother lived in a building a few blocks away, and that she walks by there every day.

How is it possible to grow up knowing so little about your grandmother, when she lives in the same city? And when said grandmother is still fairly young during your childhood? It's not like she's 95 years old and lives in a distant nursing home.

You'd think at some point during her upbringing, perhaps while eating the morning bowl of cereal, she'd have thought to ask Mom or Dad about Grandma. I know, families split up, and this type of information can be come less available, but still it seems rather extreme.

[Waenara]

There's a commercial I've seen too much of lately. It's for a company called Acorn Stairlifts - they install chair lifts than run along the stairs in your house, so people with mobility issues don't have to worry about falling. Seeing the commercial even once is annoying (high cheese factor, low production values, lackluster testimonials), but the other day I ended up seeing it about a dozen times when I was watching a movie on tv late at night, and the ad run during every. single. commercial. break.

Their tagline is not exactly original - "Give your life a lift with an Acorn Stairlift!". But the funniest part was the quotes from "actual customers" - who knows, they might even be real customers. Expected stuff like "I'm the king of my own castle again!" or "Now I don't need to worry about falling down the stairs". But my favorite was from a customer who said "my Acorn Stairlift was definitely more affordable than moving!" All I can say, is that if that's the highest praise you can offer, it's not much. Seriously?! Can you imagine if it wasn't more affordable than moving? Would anyone at all ever buy it?

[sahirrnee]

Originally Posted by ZipperJJ

I agree BUT...the one with Romney singing "God Bless America" (it's an Obama commercial) is pretty awesome.

All the others, even the Obama ones, can go to hell.

AWESOME????!!!!!
Nobody but Nobody should have to listen to Romney singing.
Whoever created that spot should be charged with assault.

Is it supposed to be a threat, as in vote for Romney and you will have to listen to this for the next 4 years?
Sorry Obama I don't know which is worse, his singing or your approving it.
You have to be a sick sick man to approve of that.
So who do I vote for? The torturer or the one who approves the torture?

Forget using Metalicca, having to listen to Romney sing would have everyone curled in a fetal position rolling on the floor confessing to crimes that have yet to be committed.

Now the second I hear Obamas voice my finger hits the mute button.

[salinqmind]

Xarelto, the newest wonder drug for deep vein thrombosis, to prevent strokes. This one makes an attractive older guy so happy he buys the attractive older missus a surprise trip to New Zealand. Annoying because they seem to have escaped from a Viagra commercial, and would taking this pill really make you plan your dream trip across the world? I know dozens of older men on medications and all they do is huff and puff around the house, whining and complaining, and don't take their long-suffering wives anywhere.

[Jackmannii]

I despise ads that use interviews with allegedly cute kiddies who want (or don't want) more money or faster cellphones. ("Would you push grandma onto the subway tracks because she's too slow?" "YES!! WHEEE!").

Actually, virtually any ad that tries to sell adult products using children makes me dive for the mute button.

[Peanuthead]

Originally Posted by salinqmind

Xarelto, the newest wonder drug for deep vein thrombosis, to prevent strokes. This one makes an attractive older guy so happy he buys the attractive older missus a surprise trip to New Zealand. Annoying because they seem to have escaped from a Viagra commercial, and would taking this pill really make you plan your dream trip across the world? I know dozens of older men on medications and all they do is huff and puff around the house, whining and complaining, and don't take their long-suffering wives anywhere.

Now they can get up, run outside, and chase those damn kids off their lawn!

[TonySinclair]

Originally Posted by Jackmannii

I despise ads that use interviews with allegedly cute kiddies who want (or don't want) more money or faster cellphones. ("Would you push grandma onto the subway tracks because she's too slow?" "YES!! WHEEE!").

Come on now, they didn't say that. They said they'd tape a cheetah to her back.

[Philliam]

Originally Posted by Spectre of Pithecanthropus

A currently seen commercial for Ancestry.com. A woman comes on, appearing to be about my age which means she was likely born in the late 1950s. Information is shown about her grandmother who was born in 1907. The woman has learned, she enthuses, that her grandmother lived in a building a few blocks away, and that she walks by there every day.

How is it possible to grow up knowing so little about your grandmother, when she lives in the same city? And when said grandmother is still fairly young during your childhood? It's not like she's 95 years old and lives in a distant nursing home.

You'd think at some point during her upbringing, perhaps while eating the morning bowl of cereal, she'd have thought to ask Mom or Dad about Grandma. I know, families split up, and this type of information can be come less available, but still it seems rather extreme.

In addition:

I've been doing some census research and have never seen any census form that showed full addresses in a column in the middle of the form like the ad shows. When addresses were supplied, the street/road/highway was listed vertically (for simplicity) with house numbers in a column next to it (no need to write the street name over and over).

If only it was that easy!

[AuntiePam]

The one that's driving my husband nuts is a car ad where a dad is teaching his son how to throw a ball. Guess dad wants his son to be picked last too.

[Death of Rats]

Originally Posted by Spectre of Pithecanthropus

A currently seen commercial for Ancestry.com. A woman comes on, appearing to be about my age which means she was likely born in the late 1950s. Information is shown about her grandmother who was born in 1907. The woman has learned, she enthuses, that her grandmother lived in a building a few blocks away, and that she walks by there every day.

How is it possible to grow up knowing so little about your grandmother, when she lives in the same city? And when said grandmother is still fairly young during your childhood? It's not like she's 95 years old and lives in a distant nursing home.

You'd think at some point during her upbringing, perhaps while eating the morning bowl of cereal, she'd have thought to ask Mom or Dad about Grandma. I know, families split up, and this type of information can be come less available, but still it seems rather extreme.

The do kinda address this in the ad. The timeline shows that she was born in 1963 (I think) and the Grandma died in 1964 (or the following year whatever it was) and the purpose of going there is that she was named for a Grandamother that she knew nothing about and got curious, thereby finding a connection on living 4 NY blocks from where her grandmother lived in 1930. I knew my Grandmothers up through my teen years and could not tell you that much about them.

[Larry Mudd]

Originally Posted by salinqmind

... would taking this pill really make you plan your dream trip across the world?

Long flights present a specific risk for DVT, so that isn't very far out, really.

[phreesh]

Originally Posted by Waenara

There's a commercial I've seen too much of lately. It's for a company called Acorn Stairlifts - they install chair lifts than run along the stairs in your house, so people with mobility issues don't have to worry about falling. Seeing the commercial even once is annoying (high cheese factor, low production values, lackluster testimonials), but the other day I ended up seeing it about a dozen times when I was watching a movie on tv late at night, and the ad run during every. single. commercial. break.

Their tagline is not exactly original - "Give your life a lift with an Acorn Stairlift!". But the funniest part was the quotes from "actual customers" - who knows, they might even be real customers. Expected stuff like "I'm the king of my own castle again!" or "Now I don't need to worry about falling down the stairs". But my favorite was from a customer who said "my Acorn Stairlift was definitely more affordable than moving!" All I can say, is that if that's the highest praise you can offer, it's not much. Seriously?! Can you imagine if it wasn't more affordable than moving? Would anyone at all ever buy it?

OMIGOD! Are you in Calgary? I PVRed (thankfully) 'Little Miss Sunshine' off of CBC a few weeks ago and, yes. Every. Single. Commercial. Break. Had that one. And it's Loooong. Like almost 2 minutes. My heart goes out to you for suffering through it.

[Inner Stickler]

Originally Posted by Mister Rik

What's up with those links? Every one of them wants me to open the videos in QuickTime instead of playing like a normal YouTube video.

It's formatted for mobile devices. Delete the m. at the beginning of the link and it will open just fine. See?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ZzSziH8Io

vs

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ZzSziH8Io

[Mister Rik]

Originally Posted by Spectre of Pithecanthropus

How is it possible to grow up knowing so little about your grandmother, when she lives in the same city? And when said grandmother is still fairly young during your childhood? It's not like she's 95 years old and lives in a distant nursing home.

I missed this when the thread was new. My best friend, as well as his father, have both lived in this town their entire lives. Yet it wasn't until I happened to move into a house on a particular street, and my friend mentioned it to his dad, that his dad said, "Oh, hey, I was born in a little house on that street!" My friend was 42 at the time; up to that point, I guess his dad had simply never thought it important to drive the family down this street and point out the house he was born in (yeah, the little house is still there - it's an old neighborhood).

[Troppus]

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

The one that's driving my husband nuts is a car ad where a dad is teaching his son how to throw a ball. Guess dad wants his son to be picked last too.

Dad doesn't realize he's terrible; he's just upholding the tradition. That's the gist of the ad: the VW is a more reliable influence than the meme that dad is the best person to teach a son how to throw a ball.

[Rucksinator]

I think the latest crop of Arby's commercials are bad. (Not annoying, just that they are pretty weak if you think about it for a second.

The gist is that they are better than Subway because they slice their meat at the store. (No mention of when and where the bread is baked.) Of all of the steps involved in turning grain, plants and animals into sandwiches, when and where the meat is sliced is pretty far down the list in terms of importance, IMHO.

[Tangent]

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

The one that's driving my husband nuts is a car ad where a dad is teaching his son how to throw a ball. Guess dad wants his son to be picked last too.

Originally Posted by Troppus

Dad doesn't realize he's terrible;

I think that commercial's hilarious! When the son makes a terrible throw and the dad is praising him for it, you think the dad is just trying to be encouraging and supportive. Then the dad throws...

[Skypist]

I irrationally hate this ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slv3KqY6p6E

It's probably not really that bad, but it doesn't make any sense to me. It's an ad for the Droid DNA phone through Verizon. Some guy is sitting there with the phone strapped to his chest in a sci-fi looking setup, and his DNA gets augmented. He's got all these wires on him and inside his ears, and his fingertips light up. WTF? The tagline is something about how it's not an upgrade to your phone, it's an upgrade to you. No it isn't! Having a new phone with a touch screen and a certain brand of head phones isn't going to make you bionic! Just annoys me and boring as hell to watch, too.

[snowthx]

I am glad they finally are getting around to promoting short, bald, well-dressed guys as party animals, as is the case in that Bud Lite commercial.

And why does each and every luxury car commercial feature such serious-looking people with a serious-sounding voice-over? Maybe that is why I do not crave such a vehicle; I am not serious enough.

[TonySinclair]

Originally Posted by Skypist

Just annoys me and boring as hell to watch, too.

That sentence reminds me of an ad that they run during golf tournaments a lot. The fact that I have no idea what company it is, or what product they are trying to sell, shows how ineffective it is, since I've seen it a hundred times --- or at least, I've been watching TV when it was on a hundred times, but I tune it out after it starts.

There are no people, and no voice-over, and unless I missed it a hundred times, no depiction of the product (it might be insurance or something). It's just some kind of Greek columns going up and down, vaguely like the opening in Game of Thrones, but way less interesting, and pounding music that sounds vaguely like the big finish of a symphony, except it just keeps going. I think it's at least a minute long, and that's all that happens.

[AuntiePam]

Originally Posted by snowthx

I am glad they finally are getting around to promoting short, bald, well-dressed guys as party animals, as is the case in that Bud Lite commercial.

And who is that guy? He looks a bit like Paul Shaffer (Letterman's bandleader).

[TonySinclair]

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

And who is that guy? He looks a bit like Paul Shaffer (Letterman's bandleader).

I would guess you're talking about a guy named Pitbull. I can't say why exactly, but he creeps me out.

[Snooooopy]

Originally Posted by Troppus

Dad doesn't realize he's terrible; he's just upholding the tradition. That's the gist of the ad: the VW is a more reliable influence than the meme that dad is the best person to teach a son how to throw a ball.

That's amazing. I didn't take that meaning from the ad at all. As far as I could tell, the father is intentionally teaching his son to throw like a wimp because if he taught him to throw correctly, the kid might dent his precious, precious car with an errant throw. (I will admit, my scenario doesn't explain why the father doesn't just move the car to a safer spot or choose to go into the backyard to toss the ol' ball around, but commercials are meant to make a point, not be rigorously logical in how that point ends up being made.)

[What the .... ?!?!]

The H&R Block ad in which the lady claims to have read all 900 pages of the Obamacare bill.

[Turek]

Originally Posted by Troppus

Dad doesn't realize he's terrible; he's just upholding the tradition. That's the gist of the ad: the VW is a more reliable influence than the meme that dad is the best person to teach a son how to throw a ball.

Originally Posted by Snooooopy

That's amazing. I didn't take that meaning from the ad at all. As far as I could tell, the father is intentionally teaching his son to throw like a wimp because if he taught him to throw correctly, the kid might dent his precious, precious car with an errant throw. (I will admit, my scenario doesn't explain why the father doesn't just move the car to a safer spot or choose to go into the backyard to toss the ol' ball around, but commercials are meant to make a point, not be rigorously logical in how that point ends up being made.)

No, neither one of those is the point.

The voiceover at the end says:

The durability of the Volkswagen Passat. Pass down something he WILL be grateful for.

The point is the Passat will still be around when the kid starts driving, so the dad will able to pass down the car to him. And the kid will be grateful. He won't, however, be grateful for the fact that the dad passed down his inability to throw a ball.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by What the .... ?!?!

The H&R Block ad in which the lady claims to have read all 900 pages of the Obamacare bill.

I think it was the tax code.
Anyway they said she read it, not that she understood it. Big difference.

[Uncle Jocko]

Originally Posted by TonySinclair

I would guess you're talking about a guy named Pitbull. I can't say why exactly, but he creeps me out.

And he used to appear in Dr Pepper commercials, right? Every time I see him in this latest beer commercial, I can't help imagining the new hot drink in South Beach clubs is a mix of Dr Pepper and Bud Light, called a "Pitbull." Ew.

Originally Posted by Rick

I think it was the tax code.
Anyway they said she read it, not that she understood it. Big difference.

It's definitely the Affordable Care Act she claims to have read. Her point is that it has big effects on your 2012 taxes, so she's on top of it for you. Is that really true, by the way? I didn't think many aspects of the ACA would be a factor in taxes for last year.

But then I haven't read all 900 pages either ("It took me a week!").

[Uncle Jocko]

Originally Posted by TonySinclair

That sentence reminds me of an ad that they run during golf tournaments a lot. The fact that I have no idea what company it is, or what product they are trying to sell, shows how ineffective it is, since I've seen it a hundred times --- or at least, I've been watching TV when it was on a hundred times, but I tune it out after it starts.

There are no people, and no voice-over, and unless I missed it a hundred times, no depiction of the product (it might be insurance or something). It's just some kind of Greek columns going up and down, vaguely like the opening in Game of Thrones, but way less interesting, and pounding music that sounds vaguely like the big finish of a symphony, except it just keeps going. I think it's at least a minute long, and that's all that happens.

Insurance company. I think. Or perhaps an investment company. Yep, really effective ad.

Similarly, the ads for the investment firm Edward Jones rub me the wrong way. You hear these voice overs of customers saying how wonderful it is that their financial advisors actually listen to them, and if you feel the same you need to "join us." That doesn't sound too bad, but the visuals of these Ed Jones customers make me feel like a worthless member of the working class. They all have these haughty expressions, looking down their noses at the viewer as if the fact we haven't jumped on board to invest our inheritance and trust funds with their company already is just so distasteful. Rubs me the wrong way, it does.

[Casey1505]

Originally Posted by TonySinclair

Come on now, they didn't say that. They said they'd tape a cheetah to her back.

And he HAD been giving it a lot of thought...

[FairyChatMom]

The latest on the top of my annoying commercials list is webuyanycar dot com. It's not particularly heinous, but it annoys me. Purely visceral reaction.

[Jophiel]

Originally Posted by Jackmannii

I despise ads that use interviews with allegedly cute kiddies who want (or don't want) more money or faster cellphones.

I like the "two things at once" ad though. Just for the way he shuts down that little girl.

*Watching a boy shake his head and arm simultaneously*
"I can do..."
"Hang on, I'm watching this."

[Finagle]

Well, the new American Airline ads are pretty stupid. Various people in various activities suddenly stop and gawk slack jawed into the sky while a pale miraculous glow lights up their features. And eventually we see a shot of an American Airlines jet with a brand new paint job (and presumably logo, as if we remembered what the old one looked like).

Yep, typical corporate bullshit. Your company has been bleeding money for many quarters, so why not piss away millions of dollars re-painting logos and buying new stationery?

[ShadowFacts]

This GEICO ad featuring Eddie Money is ear-splittingly horrendous and just sad. I can't imagine the direction going on:

"Eddie, bug your eyes out like Igor." ??

"Eddie, we need more of a deranged, homeless guy feel." ??

"Eddie, sustain that note off key longer. And louder." ???


Worst commercial ever. Poor Eddie.

[Irishman]

Originally Posted by NDP

I really have nothing to say about this ad except that after they dismiss the idea of taking a cruise they see a travel poster of an arch bridge in front of a waterfall and decide to go there. ...

Anyway, the message from that commercial and the second one (where the couple end up driving up the Pacific Coast on Highway 1 near Big Sur) is that taking a vacation on a cruise or an island in the South Pacific would not give them the opportunity to take a scenic drive in the automobile that's being advertised.

And it's a direct response to the cruise line ad where the couple remembers last year, where they are mysteriously camping in the woods and trapped in their car by both a bear and a cougar, simultaneously trying to get their food. Now a couple says "cruise no" and instead goes for a long drive in the country, and presumably camping.

Originally Posted by Stink Fish Pot

Here it is: Miller lite pop can top ad.

Interestingly, you say it's the Miller commercial with the extra vent, but the David Cross gag says it's Coors that has that feature.

Originally Posted by sitchensis

You have never heard of shotgunning a beer?

Shotgunning needs the extra vent at the other end of the can (toward the bottom) so the air flows in to allow the beer a smooth departure. Putting that little vent on top puts it right next to the drain opening, which is just effectively making the drain opening a bit bigger. Works okay if pouring slowly, but for shotgunning it's just going to make a leak down your shirt.

Originally Posted by Rick

Well let's talk about this. One story on a building is about 12 feet. a 300 foot deep hole is 25 stories in the ground. You are building a hotel with 25 levels of underground parking, or are you such a moron that you are building the entire project upside down?

Maybe they're making an "environmentally friendly" hotel, i.e. it doesn't obscure the local view? Or maybe they're catering to the apocalypse bunker crowd.

Originally Posted by AuntiePam

The one that's driving my husband nuts is a car ad where a dad is teaching his son how to throw a ball. Guess dad wants his son to be picked last too.

Originally Posted by Snooooopy

That's amazing. I didn't take that meaning from the ad at all. As far as I could tell, the father is intentionally teaching his son to throw like a wimp because if he taught him to throw correctly, the kid might dent his precious, precious car with an errant throw. (I will admit, my scenario doesn't explain why the father doesn't just move the car to a safer spot or choose to go into the backyard to toss the ol' ball around, but commercials are meant to make a point, not be rigorously logical in how that point ends up being made.)

I like that commercial. At first, it looks like your typical "kid is bad and dad is teaching him how to play catch". Then you see that dad is also horrible at catch. Then comes the punchline about passing on the car along with the bad ball-playing skills. If you listen, the dad is saying everything right. His instructions are correct. he just isn't much better at execution than his son.

Originally Posted by Rucksinator

I think the latest crop of Arby's commercials are bad. (Not annoying, just that they are pretty weak if you think about it for a second.

The gist is that they are better than Subway because they slice their meat at the store. (No mention of when and where the bread is baked.) Of all of the steps involved in turning grain, plants and animals into sandwiches, when and where the meat is sliced is pretty far down the list in terms of importance, IMHO.

Yeah, their "Guess where Subway cuts it's meat? Way across the country in this plant, and then they ship the processed sandwich meat to their stores. Arbys is better because we slice our meat in the stores." You know who else slices their sandwich meat in plants prior to shipping them to stores? Oscar Meyer, and pretty much any grocery store brand sandwich meat.

And they act like it's some giant surprise they're revealing. You know, I never thought about it, but it's not like I'm shocked -- SHOCKED!, I tell you.

[Drunky Smurf]

Originally Posted by ShadowFacts

This GEICO ad featuring Eddie Money is ear-splittingly horrendous and just sad. I can't imagine the direction going on:

"Eddie, bug your eyes out like Igor." ??

"Eddie, we need more of a deranged, homeless guy feel." ??

"Eddie, sustain that note off key longer. And louder." ???


Worst commercial ever. Poor Eddie.

I actually like this commercial because he looks crazy.

[What the .... ?!?!]

Originally Posted by Rick

I think it was the tax code.
Anyway they said she read it, not that she understood it. Big difference.

Nope.... it was the Obamacare bill. While I understand your point, you have to understand it to apply it to your clients which she says she will do.

The next observation is there probably isn't much that applies to the Average Joe anyway. All she has to do is tell him that if he currently has insurance to expect the premium to increase big time.

[ShadowFacts]

Originally Posted by Drunky Smurf

I actually like this commercial because he looks crazy.

Yeah, I get that he's supposed to be a little crazy for the joke to work. It just seems to me like he needed to be <---> this crazy, but got <--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> this crazy instead. He looks like Igor on crack.

[Finagle]

The Lincoln Motor Company has been running this sort of surrealistic ad filled with feel-good imagery about their cars and process. But it's all very perplexing and filled with examples of bizarre engineering practices.

a. Pretty girls opening up suicide doors on a car. They call them suicide doors for a reason. None of Lincoln's current cars appear to have suicide doors.

b. A manta ray swimming through the same luxury car. Just let it be said that if you're ever in a situation where a manta ray is swimming through your car, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

c. A manual gear shifter that disappears. Does it retract into the console? Or are they advertising that they have automatic transmissions? Because I'd sort of expect that. (Actually, they apparently moved the shifter buttons to somewhere near the radio. Sounds like an engaging driving experience.)

d. Someone probably famous drumming on their factory floor. I bet OSHA is 100% behind that.

e. Later on, there's a rain of jackhammers. There's probably a reason for that. Apparently it's quiet inside the car. Up until a jackhammer falls through that panoramic moon roof.

f. Then there's a crash test where the air bag comes out of the driver's chest. This sounds only slightly safer than a Ridley Scott alien.
Maybe it's coming out of the seat belt? Better hope you haven't twisted it, then.

So, does the commercial make me want to buy one of their cars? Nope. Hire the guy that films their commercials for my next avant-garde sci-fi flick? Maybe.

[simster]

Originally Posted by Snooooopy

That's amazing. I didn't take that meaning from the ad at all. As far as I could tell, the father is intentionally teaching his son to throw like a wimp because if he taught him to throw correctly, the kid might dent his precious, precious car with an errant throw. (I will admit, my scenario doesn't explain why the father doesn't just move the car to a safer spot or choose to go into the backyard to toss the ol' ball around, but commercials are meant to make a point, not be rigorously logical in how that point ends up being made.)

Thats how I took the commercail - he was teaching the kid to throw horribly to prevent any possible injury to the car that he can't stand to be away from.

[Kimballkid]

I don't get why they are 'introducing' The Lincoln Motor Company when it's been around for a long time.

[Death of Rats]

Originally Posted by TonySinclair

I would guess you're talking about a guy named Pitbull. I can't say why exactly, but he creeps me out.

The first time I saw that ad, I pointed to the screen and said to my wife "That is why you do not invite your recently divorced dad to your party"

Would not have guessed he was a Pop singer/rapper/something.

[cjepson]

I'm neither a Christian nor a Satanist, so I have no dog in this hunt, but I was still rather bemused to see that Mercedes Benz has apparently come to the conclusion that it's time to start using Satan to sell cars in America.

[Nars Glinley]

This commercial guarantees that I will never buy a Hyundai.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfchvQJPbw

[NoClueBoy]

Originally Posted by Nars Glinley

This commercial guarantees that I will never buy a Hyundai.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfchvQJPbw

There have been a whole series of these (and other stupid spots) for a couple of years now. Interestingly, the guy behind those commercials is otherwise fairly normal. (at least in business settings)

[Gabing Gaboing]

The commercial that I currently can't stand is the one for the Comfy Pillow or whatchacallit. It's a pillow with memory foam and gel beads and makes all your back problems go away.

First I can't see why anyone would sit in her kitchen "for hours" as the woman claims. I like sitting as much as the next guy, but I can't see sitting in the kitchen unless they put a Lazy Boy and a big screen in there.

The worst, though, is a man who speaks to us next to the cab of his "truck" which seems to basically be a pickup. He claims to have driven it for something like 30 years, then tells us that thanks to this pillow, "my back feels great, and my bottom feels great!" Bottom...really? It turns him into a soccer mom or a four-year-old. Next he will tell us all how he goes potty all by himself.

[ioioio]

Originally Posted by TonySinclair

Come on now, they didn't say that. They said they'd tape a cheetah to her back.

I don't understand how that would work. Wouldn't it make more sense to tape Grandma to the back of a cheetah?

[Finagle]

Originally Posted by ioioio

I don't understand how that would work. Wouldn't it make more sense to tape Grandma to the back of a cheetah?

I'm certain that if someone taped a (presumably angry) cheetah to your back, you'd be moving as fast as the laws of physics and biology would let you. Right up to the point where the cheetah succeeded in ripping out your spine. Something tells me that kid doesn't really like Nana -- she probably stiffed him last Xmas.

[TonySinclair]

Originally Posted by ioioio

I don't understand how that would work. Wouldn't it make more sense to tape Grandma to the back of a cheetah?

Drat! I knew there had to be some subtle flaw in the plan.