There’s a series with talking pets, too, for Chewy. Most of the pets are jerks. I’m not really sure that’s the best way to appeal to pet owners.
Wow, I think you’ve found the right actress!
It’s no secret that I loathe prescription drug advertising, and I sure hope nobody decides it’s a good idea to make a direct-to-consumer ad for THIS. It would be worse than those Peyronie’s commercials.
I just saw a commercial for some sort of topical botox type of thing – a product that you spray on your face to tighten up those wrinkles. The name of the product that you squirt all over your face? Xeomin … pronounced, “ZEE-men.” I swear it wasn’t a parody. This company is asking women to put Xeomin on their faces to improve their complexions. Who’s Vice President in charge of Marketing? Andrew Dice Clay?
Is it just me, or does the dark haired woman in a lab coat in the ProNamel toothpaste commercial sound exactly like Christina the blond shower remodel spokesperson?
Yes! She does. I was out of the room when I first heard that commercial, and I was sure it was her.
Vocal fry! That’s the key. They both vocally fry every word they say and it’s like a power drill into my frontal lobe.
Same with me, sort of. It has come on a couple of times during a show my wife is watching, and I’m looking at my phone instead of the TV, and I expect to hear “Hi, it’s Christina!” and then I look up and, “nope.”
It’s more than that. She sounds just like her. People with vocal fry don’t all sound the same.
It’s not just you. I’m wondering if it is a combination of common background and popularization of vocal fry among the current generation of spokespeople/performers.
That’s still a thing?
Given that these things can run $800, I’ve decided that guy is actually unintentionally subversive, not dumb.
Yeah. I love Andrew Weissmann, but I’ve been seeing/hearing him a lot on the TV lately, and he has horrible vocal fry. It surprises me, because he’s a middle-aged man (bordering on old; he’s 65) – not the usual demographic for vocal fry.
I don’t get the “Sixt” ads (Rent THE Car!). When you rent a car, do you fret that it’s “boring?” Thank God for boring, the last thing I want is unpredictability in transportation that I’m usually using in an unfamilar place because I have to be somewhere on time. It’s like they are begging people to drive like maniacs.
ALL of the prescription medicine commercials. First (as I think I posted earlier, though maybe it was in another thread) they tell you what they’re for at the beginning, and then rarely mention it again. So I never know what the drug is for.
But the names! I want to call all of the actual names ‘adaba-diba-dab’. The trade names? I’m still waiting to hear one called Sosumi.
Seriously. How do they come up with these semi-pronounceable words that don’t have any relation to the name of the ingredients?
Moderate to severe symptoms. 
On the subject of drug commercials, there was one I wasn’t able to fast-forward through quickly enough the other day which is driving me nuts. When they started listing the possible side effects near the end one of them sounded like something I won’t mind having. Unfortunately, at the time I didn’t think to reverse my DVR to check on what the drug was, or what it was supposed to be for; it wasn’t until later that I tried to remember, and drew a complete blank. And of course I haven’t seen it again.
I interviewed a graphic designer who’d designed some innovative packaging for a new prescription drug. I said the name was clever, too, and she beamed: “They didn’t have a name for it yet, so I suggested one and they chose it!”
I heard one today I could have sworn was “Uvalde”.