It looks like the stuff I clean out of my snail and shrimp tank. it’s Algae 1 with “functional mushrooms” and “essential co-factors”, it must be good!
Omg, I just saw a commercial for Scientology with David Miscavage talking. He says something like if you haven’t looked into us, we are not what you expect.’
I feel dirty!
I know what you mean. That man should be an institute of higher attitute-changing. With really nice dorm-mates.
First time I saw that, I thought it was Wasabi. My only thought was, “More, Please!”
There’s one for Salesforce, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software that I have to work with as a fair portion of my job requirements.
Matthew McConaughey is dressed as a cowboy, standing in the middle of a virtual likeness of an old west town that’s constantly shifting and changing. He says “If AI is the new wild west, is data the new gold?” Then the tagline “Your data is your data” appears as McConaughey walks down the street of the shifting, glitching town, as his own ‘avatar’ also shifts, changes and glitches. That’s it.
It’s dumb on so many levels. I barely understand what the commercial is about, and I work with the damn software. Anybody who is not aware of Salesforce is going to come away with basically zero new info.
For one thing, the analogy doesn’t make sense. The ‘wild west’ had little directly to do with searching or mining for gold. It would have made more sense if the setting was the Yukon or San Francisco in 1849, with McConaughey asking “If AI is the new gold rush, is data the new gold?”.
Then the tagline. Nothing like a nonsensical tautology to drive home a sales point!
The shifting, glitchy nature of the graphics is supposed to illustrate the fact that it’s a virtual world, but it only reminds me how glitchy and difficult to work with the actual software is.
And finally, the fact that SF clearly spent some big bucks to hire McConaughey and a CGI shop to make a commercial that’s playing constantly on Peacock is just another indicator that the platform isn’t going away anytime soon 
ETA: I was originally replying to ‘not_what_you_d_expect’ with another post that would have been actually related to their post, then changed my mind, but forgot I was still replying, if anybody wonders what my post has to do with theirs. I don’t see any way to edit out the connection to not_what_you_d_expect’ in edit mode.
Are you going to heaven or not? There’s a commercial now that’ll direct you to a website that’ll tell you. For real. I’ve thought of going to the site to find out how the people who run it can figure out if I’m hellbound (like I need an outside source to tell me this) but I’m afraid I’ll get Jesusland cooties in my 'puter.
I’ve been so bad that the only thing that would be an appropriate punishment would be the Twilight Zone hell, where a white suited Mr. French is my butler and I’m tortured by an endless stream of show girls and intoxicants.
I always yell, “No! And neither are you.”
Chilkoot Pass?
You’d be surprised how quickly this becomes Blase.
I’m missing a reference here (any help appreciated), but am reminded of Brent in The Good Place. From a Wiki:
He is last seen on a monitor in the architects’ office still participating in his ongoing testing on attempt number 15,724. He is expressing surprise that it is bad to tell women to smile, “even if it genuinely makes them more attractive”.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but this bears repeating:
I hate the patched-together audio in many commercials, usually ads for meds. Criminey, if the “real people” giving testimonies can’t get thru a single sentence without you having to splice it all together, maybe you should bite the bullet and hire a pro. Seriously, are we supposed to be fooled by the unnatural flow of words or are we to think “Wow, they love the product so much, they can’t get thru their lines without breaking down in tears!!”
Hate it with a white hot hate. I wish I could find a specific example…
I can’t think of an example either, but I know the style of which you speak. My guess is that it’s done to give the ad a more documentary-like feel, and thus seem more credible. Maybe it works on dumb people.
My latest pet peeve is commercials made to look like social media videos. For gods sake, why are you showing a vertical video on a horizontal TV??
At least it seems they’ve gotten away from the commercials where 10 people read a sentence, and then it’s edited so that each of them say one word. Hard to describe, but just so tedious.
There’s a couple of very effective ads. With no words said aloud. Just big words. One by one. I find them, at least quiet. The ads are for disturbing things tho’
Except one. It may be regional. The words spell “I AM METH” and they show very good looking people who are in recovery, supposedly.
The words scenes are littered with names of people from letters in the big letters. It took me a few times to realize it was Meth they were referring tom
They even made a Twilight Zone epi about it.
Blase who??
Ba dump dump!
Johnny Blase, the Ghost Rider
If they want to do “real people giving testimonies” commercials, they really need to find a better bridge between individual experience and general applicability than “my moderate-to-severe hemorrhoids/halitosis/hangnails/whatever”. All it does is make the speaker look like an idiot who doesn’t bother to find out about their medical condition.