Why in the hell am I seeing horror-themed commercials so close to Christmas?
More so, why depict customers as being terrified of your product?
Stoopid commercial!!!
Two women on cliff-tops on opposite sides of a canyon. Woman B is squinting. This is an ad for glasses.
Woman A shouts to woman B “Do you need new glasses?”, then comes the sales pitch. Woman B shouts to woman A “How did you know? Can you see me squinting?”
Now, keep in mind, they are trying to sell glasses, and right about now would be the perfect place for Woman A to reply, “Fuck Yes! I can see a pimple on a gnat’s ass with these new fucking glasses, my eyesight is so Goddamn Awesome now!”
What does she shout? “No. I’m telling everyone”. Fucking brilliant.
Maybe I’m heartless, but I find this Shriners Hospital for Children Christmas commercial really annoying. Almost as bad as Kars-4-Kids.
Shriners spots do have a tendency to get more annoying the closer they are to Christmas. At least they stopped having the kids pretending to come up with their own ideas for these things
Speaking of kids, when are they going to let Alec be an adult? The guy is pushing 20!
Yeah, I would buy those.
Yeah. and Kars for Kids has been called scammish or misleading.
There was/is one spot where he introduced the kid I thought was going to be his replacement. Did I mention that one here? Because in that spot they sort of start bragging about how many surgeries they’ve had and get a bit competitive about it.
I think Alec can continue to be a spokesperson for the hospital. He’s engaging and intelligent. Marlo Thomas is a spokesperson for St. Jude’s Hospital for Children and she sure ain’t a child.
Sure, but they really ought to leave the blanket-hawking to the actual kid.
I saw one commercial where he showed how he can drive and shit. Had his own van. But not lately. Maybe the Shriners decided he should perpetually be a kid?
Kaleb. He teams up a lot with Alec.
No one can say “a dour a bull” like Alec. 
For some reason, I only started noticing Shriners commercials in this area within the last couple of years. The energy/attitude is a refreshing change from typical commercials featuring sick kids.
Wow. You get very different commercials from us.
I find the Shriner’s commercials annoying, too. Way too over-the-top sweet. And Alec needs to go…
Yeah, I’m in the handbasket…
Alec can knit you an adow-wable blanket for your handbasket.
marlo thomas is continuing her father’s sponsorship of st. jude. the commercials usually have parents and children, with the sponsor doing the tag at the end.
shriner’s traditionally had children be the spokesperson.
And maybe, just maybe, if they stopped having him say that word it wouldn’t look so much like they are trying to keep him a child.
Yes yes, Shingles doesn’t care. And apparently neither does excema. Or maybe it’s ulcerative colitis. I forget. *
Tired of the guy in a sweater vest trying to teach people to be cool. It was sort of funny when they announced the premise, and we saw people visibly becoming less cool. But since the sweater vest guy, now it’s not really people turning into their parents. They aren’t changing their behavior. They were never cool to begin with. They’re just bigger dweebs than he is. I think it’s just an ego trip for him. “See, I’M the cool one.”
- Skipping obvious punchline.
I don’t think I have ever seen a Shriner’s commercial.
None of the stuff he wants them to stop is bad.
I want to live on your planet. Unless you have Kars4kids instead?
Yeah, the Dr. Rick commercials have worn thin. But for the rest of our lives, my husband and I will be saying, “We all see it… We all see it…”