I started seeing a commercial for Glock. (I can’t find a link to it on line, but I did find out there is a whole series! Some with R. Lee Ermey, so they must go back quite a while. Still, this is the first one I saw in the wild, so to speak. I think iut was on the Olympic channel, during figure skating! Just in time for Christmas! Nothing says peace and love like handguns. )
As an early-adopter of the “plastic handgun” I’m not bothered by guns or gun commercials in general, but the one being shown is more like a beer commercial. It shows families doing family things, and the gun doesn’t get shown until like the 20 second mark. Until the gun shows up, it’s as generic as every “ask your doctor if ___is right for you” commercial. Very strange.
This commercial for Nestle Toll House chips amuses me, because of the tagline “The Original Way to Share Love”. I thought the original way to share love involved genitalia.
They’re the same couple on House Hunters, looking at $5m houses, while he’s a street performer and she teaches basket weaving to underprivileged wombats, complaining about paint colors and the fact the marble bathroom floors won’t match their $500 bathmat.
A current car commercial is using a horrible, sappy, treacly song with lyrics including “blow a kiss into the sun.”
Every time I hear it, I picture John Belushi grabbing the guy’s guitar and smashing it against a wall.
My two favorite commercials that were gun related were long ago. One is the classic ad for Master Locks which shows one of their laminated steel locks hanging on a hasp. After a few seconds the lock gets blasted by a bullet and swings violently before settling down seemingly undamaged. Then the tag, “Master Locks” appears.
Followed a few months later but what seems to be the same commercial. But this time the lock is blasted into pieces and only the shackle remains swinging there. Then the tag, “Sierra Silver Tip”. Ha ha!
That couple just does not appeal to me. I mean, they are handsome, cultured and live in an apartment with a $3000 a month view. But they seem, I don’t know - superficial.
My latest annoyance is the Progressive ad about people turning into their parents. Okay, most of the things they list are actual annoying things, like talking on speaker phone while in a public place, or giving someone unsolicited advice, or not knowing how to silence a phone for the movies. But then they put in guy whose big problem is … he likes to read books about submarines. And? How is that a problem?
