Another swing and a miss in Progressive’s search for a Flo replacement.
I thought the first TV dad commercial was funny (the one with the man and his father and the “This isn’t a competition”) but it is a one commercial joke and all the subsequent ones were weak.
The girl in the first ad you posted looks deformed. I’m hoping it’s just her top that’s making her look so odd.
Really hating the My Pillow 2.0 ads, tho I think it’s compounded by my dislike of the spokesjerk.
It is clear to me from their latest commercial that Dunkin Donuts does not under stand what a ‘Dunkin run’ is. Only one person goes. Duh.
Even if I didn’t know his other associations his method of shouting even though he’s being recorded with modern technology annoys the crap out of me.
Yep, “TV Dad” no bueno.
I really hate the return of the talking babies add for Etrade. I don’t need adults talking like babies (Haribo) or babies taking like adults - especially being “single and ready to mingle”.
Tide’s new amazing child proof packaging – to close, twist until it clicks! Congratulations Tide, you just invented the lid.
There is an ad that runs locally - I’m not sure how nationwide it is - for Jacuzzi Bath Remodel with Christina. There is nothing wrong with the commercial as it just a expositional shill for a bathtub you slip over your existing bath tub or some shit, I don’t even know… I digress.
The reason I can’t stand this ad is Christina’s voice. Every sentence ends on a up-lilt, like it’s a question - nay, not every sentence, every phrase - expect for the last thing she say which ends in a vocal fry that rattles the fillings in my molars. I can’t explain it any better, so I tracked it down on YouTube so everyone can suffer through this torture.
LOL my wife saw a similar ad with some other woman and said “She’s not nearly as annoying as Christina.” Yes, her voice drives me crazy too? Every sentence sounds like a question?
And just as an aside, I saw a promo for some new show on HGTV with Tarik and (I assume) his new wife, and all I can say is, boy he sure does have a type, doesn’t he?
LOL. She has the most annoying voice in the universe.
Exactly what I said the first time I saw that ad.
The way the narrator says the word ‘achiote’ in the Chipotle Chicken al Pastor commercial drives me bonkers. It’s not his super Caucasian accent either. Or maybe it is because there is no ‘d’ in achiote yet he somehow manages to stick 2 in there. Ugh!
My father would have killed us sisters if we had done that shmear thing.
I just saw for the first time a Polident commercial in which a woman, sitting on the couch watching TV with her family holding a bowl of popcorn, suddenly announces in a plummy British accent, something like “perhaps we should apply the Polident before we tuck in”. Then switches to an American accent to talk to her family.
I wasn’t quite sure what the heck was going on until the tagline “If your mouth could talk, it would choose Polident”. Ooookay…so if your mouth could talk, it would have a British accent? And, thing is, your mouth can talk. The commercial really means “if your mouth was an independently conscious entity with its own agency…”. It comes across as someone with multiple personality disorder, or brief demonic possession. It’s pretty creepy and off-putting.
I looked it up on YouTube-- couldn’t find that exact one, but turns out it’s part of a series. Here’s one with a man at a BBQ about to eat, that’s just as creepy as the popcorn one (except this one is from New Zealand, so his actual voice is not as glaringly different as the “Polident voice”, at least to my provincial American ear):
At least a couple of Domino’s ads have taken heat in this thread, but I haven’t seen any mention of the one where various people are rushing away from their normal activities to grab a pizza (i.e. woman who can’t even finish drying herself from the shower and storms out of the house wrapped in a towel, another who drives her riding mower into the street to get to Domino’s etc.
I’ve never been able to stand ads showing customers abandoning activities (and sanity) in a mad rush to acquire a product. This dates back to the days of “Dodge Fever” ads. If memory serves, Taco Bell has recently been running ads around the same theme. “I’m gonna blow up a promising relationship because I’ve gotta stuff my face with these crappy enchiladas.”
What’s worse is that this ad campaign wants people to order ahead!
What is this commercial selling: a young Black female astronaut comes back from space, and realizes she dropped her car keys on the moon. She operates her car using a phone app. That’s all I know.
It’s a PSA to remind you to not take your car keys to the moon or attach them to the outside of your space suit.
But, last time I did that, I just got a replacement key from the dealer. No big deal, no app needed…
… and uses a lot less rocket fuel than other solutions.