It’s a year old but I just saw it on TV for the first time yesterday. A supposedly anti-whooping cough ad.
If you only listen to the first part the message is “whooping cough is fun!” It’s only a bit at the end that gives the Bad News (but leaves off “death” for some reason).
Not especially annoying as these commercials go, but there’s an Allstate commercial featuring a woman who’s supposedly their most careful driver or something. She’s backing into a parallel parking spot extremely slowly and cautiously, and the narrator is helping her out: Narrator: “lot of room still” (she backs up a couple inches) Narrator: “still a foot to go” (backs up another inch or two) Narrator: “You know cars have backup cameras now, right?” Driver (scornfully): “Those are for amateurs”.
Uhh, you are about as amateur a parallel parker as I’ve ever seen, lady.
I think that is the point, though.
Should I recognize who Linda (or her friend) is?
I didn’t know them. Are they known actresses?
Molly Shannon from SNL is Linda. It’s already reached hate-it level here.
Well the hate-ahs have their own agend-ah.
Thanks. I thought she looked vaguely familiah, but I couldn’t place her.
This commercial makes me want to place her in the grave.
Just don’t put her in the old Indian burial ground. Sometimes dead is bettah.
We stream YouTubeTV, so I don’t know if that affects what commercials are shown, but on MSNBC, they endlessly run one for Real Housewives of Dubai featuring 5 tall, gold-gowned women sneering at the camera (despite their facial expressions, I know they’re sneering…) It seems to be bad ad placement - I can’t imagine people who watch All In with Chris Hayes are the types to watch cheesy reality shows. I suppose I could be wrong.
Nah.
It wouldn’t been my pick for a pertussis vaccine ad, but it does get your attention.
Death is a rare outcome for adults (who the ad is aimed at). There have been an average of about 15 deaths from pertussis annually in the U.S. in children in recent years, most of them in infants. Regardless, it’s a miserable, often prolonged disease.
One thing they might have mentioned in the ad is that vaccinating adults against pertussis protects vulnerable babies who may be close contacts.
Not a commercial I find annoying, a commercial I don’t understand. It’s for Michelob Ultra and it’s a girl in a tennis outfit dancing across a court holding beers toward a guy, also dressed for tennis, who sneers at her and takes a beer. That’s it. I see that commercial (a lot) and go ‘huh?’. Is there supposed to be some deeper meaning here? Maybe the lyrics to the song mean something? What am I missing?
The guy who only trusts his key to Meineke. And he does the uncomfortable looming while the Meineke techs work on his car.
She’s doing a victory-dance strut for the same reason he’s got that look on his face: she just beat him at tennis — and she’s now handing a peace-offering beer to him, to match the one that she’s about to enjoy, so they can have a drink together and all’s well.
Picture an old fashioned incandescent light bulb turning on over my head. Of course! And also, duh!
It’s been around in my market a few months, so it might have been mentioned already: the Burger King commercial with Evander Holyfield. I don’t really understand why I hate it so much, but when that first guy appears I groan and think about changing the channel for 30 seconds.
I still hate the True Classic t-shirt guys. Just skeevy and repulsive.
Sorry for the total hijack but I have just got to tell this story. I had a friend in college who drove his dad’s late 70s Mercury Grand Marquis. This car was huge! (It was a dark gray color and he used to joke he should paint big white numbers on the hood, like an aircraft carrier.)
Anyway, one weekend were headed for a concert and a bunch of us piled into “the boat”. Street parking was limited when we got there but he found an open parking spot that was barely bigger than the car. As he pulled up alongside the car in front, preparing to parallel park, everyone else in the car was telling him there was no way he was going to squeeze in there. He backed in slowly, until he felt the slight thump of contact with the car behind him. He cranked the wheel over and slowly pulled forward until he felt the slight thump of contact with the car in front. Backed up a bit to straighten it out and threw it in Park. As we all got out of the car and stared in amazement at his parking job, he just grinned and said “That’s what five mph bumpers are for!”
My dad referred to that as “parking by Braille”.