I’m not dismissing your opinion. If you want to try to turn me on to submarines, by all means, go ahead. However, left to my own devices, there are other things that hold my interest. Submarines are not near the top of the list.
I can’t believe people are being so triggered by a commercial. I get what the advertisers are going for because I find books about submarines to be boring. There, I said it. It effectively conveys the trope about people turning into their parents. That’s all it is, just a trope, and I find it to be somewhat humorous.
However, I’m not going to hijack this thread anymore. This thread is about commercials you find annoying, and I’m not annoyed by it.
Ugh, sounds plausible. They have the ads for Poise that say something like, “She drops off her kids even though she’s making a drop-off in her pants.” Really jarring.
I don’t know why, but that guy saying “BLUE” is hilarious to me.
It’s definitely startling, and it’s the first time I’ve seen a reddish liquid used in such an ad, but I can relate to what they’re talking about… It’s refreshing to see a commercial that recognizes that not everyone’s period is a dainty little trickle.
The Samsung ad showing a football player smashing into people and things off the field (including a surgeon in an OR during an operation) is offensive and moronic.
I’m mildly annoyed by the Toyotathon ad out now, where Jan has three fully giftwrapped cars that she rips the paper off to show us.
Why are the cars giftwrapped *before * they are purchased? How are customers supposed to shop them?
Why select the giftwrapped cars for the TV ad? I know, it’s a dramatic Christmas reveal, it still annoys me.
There’s a guy sitting in the previously wrapped car. How did he get there? Was he just sitting in the car when the workers came by and nobody noticed him? And he just stayed there and let them? Was he taking a nap in the car or something?
She says she’s going to get it wrapped for him. How is he going to get it home? I know they can haul it on a truck, but they have to drive it out of the showroom, don’t they?
And if they do wrap it again, will he still be inside?
So many pointless questions.
And speaking of the Toyotathon ads, there’s also the one where she is talking to a customer, he leans on a sign, and a wall opens up to reveal elves making the car.
Even if the cars are made by Santa’s elves, why does the wall have the capability to open like that?
Why would they rig a secret feature to a random sign in the middle of the showroom floor? That’s destined to be opened accidentally by customers.
And shouldn’t the elves be at the North Pole anyway?
Do you remember the original Toyotathon commercials? (Gee, how many years ago were they?)* They featured the main actor leaping into the air and clicking his heels. After a few years of those (apparently popular) commercials I recall the one that actually referred to the guy by his real name!
*Looking it up it has been 41 years of Toyotathons.
I thought a similar thing about that commercial - WTH - I ain’t letting my kid pick-up a dirty rag doll from a parking lot and getting all cuddly with it. “Throw that dirty thing in the trash!” I say!
My new horrible commercial is this one from Wawanesa Insurance - those with misphonia watch at your own peril…(I literally have to mute this commercial every time)…
This Mountain Dew commercial is pretty stupid. The cowboy taps the horse’s hindquarters and a cooler full of Mountain Dew comes out of the side of the horse. I’m not drinking any soda that has been that close to being inside a horse’s ass.
There’s a 30 second “Happy Honda Days” commercial where the main line is “I volunteered for an amateur magician” and you keep thinking there’s going to be more to the joke but no, the commercial just ends with the main character in a box that’s about to be sawed in half. No punchline, no reveal, no ending.
