I’ve seen commercials for THREE different kids’ charities (all with adowable witt’l chill’ns) giving the EXACT same blankies as a premium if you donate.
My tablet has been inundated with ads for soft, stretchy pants for seniors. I have no problem with the product, but there’s a scene of an older woman struggling to pull up and zip her jeans before trying these miraculous unisex pants with zippered pockets and elastic waist. One would think that at her age, the woman would know that jeans come in lots of sizes and she’s not limited to that pair that won’t zip over her butt. I put that right up there with the woman who can’t pour spaghetti into a strainer without spilling it all in the sink.
Oh, and there’s another scene where they’re demonstrating how breathable the fabric is by showing steam passing thru. Except they demonstrate on the crotch of the pants, and all my juvenile mind can conjure up is steamy farts.
Yep, that’s the one. I’ll even give them a pass on the adowable blanket…but that singing is grating enough to make me look for the remote. (I manage to avoid Kars4Kids, but I’ve heard that their commercials are even worse than what I’ve encountered.)
The feet. D: I really, really don’t need close-ups of all the feet. And on that subject, why in the hell does Lume lady have to shove various body parts in front of her camera to emphasize where her product can be used??
There’s been a string of commercials on YT recently about how certain persons “stopped paying for car insurance, and did this instead!” What are they doing instead? Buying insurance from a different company, of course. It’s required by law, after all.
There’s a Sevierville tourism commercial running right now featuring a bear, a bass fish, and an eagle talking about all the wonderful things you can do in Sevierville and the nearby Smokey Mountains. I just figured out what is bugging me about it. The animals are not speaking with an Appalachian accent. They all have what sounds like Eastern accent .
For some reason, this made me think of old commercials for The General, featuring a panicked uninsured woman scurrying down a hall while muttering to herself, “Just point and click! Point and click! Point and click!”
New one showing a bearded fat guy sliding down a snowy slope as he snarfs down one cracker after another. Then, to make it even worse, he loses his clothes as he slides through someone’s cabin. It almost made me nauseous on the first viewing, then they showed it again 10 minutes later. How is this supposed to sell your product?!
Which is my point: they don’t have enough commercials with new kids. What are they going to do, keep running Alec and Kaleb segments after the guys are dead?
One really, really hopes that some kind of restrictions will be put on AI at some point…otherwise, I’m imagining computer-generated versions of these kids in future commercials. (Not so much of a leap when you’ve seen how quickly people fall for AI-generated pictures on social media.)