Not as insulted as those Medicare supplement ads that feature brain damaged old people all with oppositional disorder.
GEICO provided my first insurance coverage. Switched companies after they decided we had been making too many insurance claims – only one of which was our fault – and using their roadside service too often.
Or the life insurance ads with ‘actors’ who wouldn’t even be welcome in a small-town church Christmas play.
How about the insurance ad about: “You’ll all be dead one day” and the couple on the couch looking stunned at the camera.
Hehe, not really pertinent to the subject of commercials, but my wife and I have matching t-shirts that say “Someday We’ll all be Dead!” in a hippie-dippie design with butterflies and flowers on it. So, that commercial’s probably just as ineffective as you think it is.
Well, some commercials do have solid acting. For instance, I can easily believe that the woman in all those Tovala ads is, indeed, too stupid to figure out how to follow the directions on a conventional pre-packaged meal kit.
Well of course. You’re supposed to be thrilled to pay for the privilege. Actually using the privilege costs extra.
The ad for SpeedyCash is particularly befuddling, not because of the message, but the imagery used. The message is that there are three ways to access them - by phone, internet, or in person.
But the phone they show is an old tabletop rotary dial model from the 1970s, the computer they show appears to be from 1993, and the view for going to the store is a cartoon.
I think it’s probably a clue to their prospective clientele - old people who think of those images as their default mental image of those items.
This is not all that different from GEICO’s reasoning behind trying to double our premium.
We once had an insurance company drop us because we hadn’t made a claim in a very long time, and were therefore “due.” The whole industry just sucks.
The new Lume ad with the woman sniffing her underarm grosses me out.
Better her underarm than a random stranger’s.
True dat.
Better than her smelling her own buttcrack.
People pay money to see that.
IIRC, it’s one of the inane Charmin commercials that gives a visual demonstration of the tissue’s cleaning properties via the colored liquid as bodily fluid test. In this case, an arm is wiped by “the other brand”, showing the remaining skid mark. Not sure why a smear of pretend feces disgusts me more than a sanitary napkin saturated with pretend menstrual blood, but it does.
Better than sniffing a stranger’s bum, I guess.
(Oh wait, they’ve already done that one.)
I would just like to say that I strongly prefer the original Pepto Bismol “Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea” song:
To the (heh heh) watered down and completely inferior remake.
Yeah, re-imagine it without the English accent, replace the organ at the end with horns or synths. But you can’t remove that awesome (and entirely appropriately bubbly) bass line.
Isn’t that removal the whole point of Pepto-Bismol?
There’s a new video, sung to the tune of (hang onto your seats) “We Built This City” where a woman sings, “I fixed this toilet/on video!”
I have no idea what the company name is, nor do I have any big desire to find out, although it did appear to be a plumbing company that made “house calls” via FaceTime.
It’s for a home repair app service. They have several ads with other over played songs and dancing