I’ve seen a couple of those commercials on youtube. Another lady is dancing around, apparently ecstatic she dropped the weight of a bowling ball from her innards. ![]()
How about the Lume deodorant commercials? The woman talks about how long Lume compared to other deodorants keeps the funky butt crack stink from raising its ugly head. Then she demonstrates (luckily with just her hands!) how to apply it in your butt crack.
Consumer Cellular ads.
First is Smuggy McSmugface following people around and saying things like, “Now that Mike has retired, he has vowed to never work for someone else. He has quit his corporate phone plan and uses Consumer Cellular.”
Um, non-sequiter?
Then there’s the ad where some old coot breaks into song, and the help desk lady tries to sing along. At least they quit showing that part, but no, the guy’s singing is not beautiful.
Guys in blue suits with scruffy beards are apparently the best spokespeople. There’s a scary looking one who parachutes into people’s lives for some reason. Another is an obnoxious guy who looks (to me) just like the principal from Ferris Bueller.
for me, the calls never stop all year around …
Okay, there’s this family of melon-heads who keep getting concussions. I’m not saying anything, but these could just be unreliable narrator takes. What do we know about Mr. Melonhead? Does Mrs. Melonhead have any other bruises on her rind? What about Junior Melonhead? Pretty accident prone, I’d say. Listen, what would be wrong about getting the Fruit Protective Services involved is all I’m saying.
Late response - but she is driving now - they just got in the car to find the seats wet, the replay is about who left the sunroof open (presumably) overnight.
I’ve seen the Geico commercial with the couple who live next door to an umpire dozens of times. And every time I’ve thought the woman who plays the wife isn’t a very good actress. And at the end, why does the husband say “He’s done this to me before”? It makes no sense!
Then tonight, for the very first time, I happened to be looking at the screen during the first one second of the commercial, when a caption identifies them as Ken Griffey Jr. and his wife (not an actress). Okay, now the line at the end makes sense. But don’t advertisers know that people just don’t pay that close attention to commercials anymore? They needed to make it more obvious who he is.
And yes, I’m a baseball fan, but I don’t know Griffey Jr. on sight.
They have eyes, but no mouth. Yet they speak. That’s a pretty good trick, for a melon
Are they able to scream?
Yes, Medicare commercials are the spawn of Satan. But the “Martha” commercial takes it to another level.
I just saw that for the first time yesterday - and all I can say is that if some company thinks that’s what 75 year olds are like, I’m not calling them.
Local traffic accident lawyer, Jim Adler, “the Texas Hammer”, has a new commercial. His shtick is hammering the big trucking companies for running over you. In the new commercial, he is carrying a sledgehammer, climbs on to a big rig that is driving down the road (cheap CGI) and comes up to a big red safety stop botton on top of the truck. He’s going to hammer the truck for you, but he doesn’t swing the sledgehammer. Instead, he jams it down on top of the button head first. Looks like he doesn’t even know how to use a hammer.
Okay, admittedly he’s old, maybe he’s not strong enough. Then there is a second version with his son, who now shares the firm and the nickname. Well, the son is doing the same commercial, and it looks like the same CGI with his face on the suit. And guess what? He doesn’t know how to use a hammer, either.
God I hate that commercial - all of those kinds of commercials. Why do they have to SCREAM?
The “I’m too much of a spoiled toddler to eat actual fruits and vegetables” and “I’m too stoopid to figure out how to read directions and punch a cook time into a microwave” commercials have been increasing frequency to the point where they seem like a low-rent version of Ludovico Technique torture.
The “Martha” here has a different number: 800-948-8309.
Heck, I’m only 41, and I was offended by the portrayal of elderly ladies in that commercial. It reminds me of a print ad that used to run in our electric co-op’s magazine - some stripped-down PC being marketed to seniors as a machine that “just works” without the user having to do any “confusing pointing and clicking.”
Hehehe, I kind of like his Spanish radio ads. “YO SOY JIM ADLER!!”
And 800-234-5059.
Also 800-208-3975. Why does “Martha” have so many different numbers?