Another four “Hoppers” commercials, something anime, and skin care.
Disney/Pixar, make it stop!
Hey Spoons, are you tryina be as annoying as Hoppers commercials right here in this thread?
Actually, I kind of want to by a Hopper now and I don’t even know what the fuck it is.
I’ve only seen one ‘Hoppers’ ad, and it seems a little creepy.
What’s going on in the Turbo Tax ad where the lady is stressing about her taxes, then she joins a cartoon group and starts signing about something that only 37% of filers qualify for? Then it ends with “This is taxes!” WTH.
I think those Hoppers commercials are multiplying like rabbits.
Saw an ad for an eczema medication this morning. Sorry, I don’t remember the actual med or too many details since I think I blocked out a lot, but it was pretty awful. It was sort of a dark parody of those ASMR style cooking videos-- if you don’t know what I mean, it’s videos in which someone quietly, without talking, makes some delicious-looking thing that’s panko-breaded and fried to a golden-brown, then runs the blade of a knife over the coating with a pronounced ‘skritch-skritch’ sound to show how wonderfully crunchy it is. It’s almost a visual / audio meme or cliché by now in cooking vids.
So this commercial prominently displays the back of someone’s hand covered in red, scaly eczema that they’re scratching, with a very pronounced ‘scritch-skritch-skritch’ sound that goes on way too long. I don’t remember if it was specifically said in a voice-over or implied, but the clear message was “you need to see and hear this”. No, I really don’t. It’s not as if it was a charitable fund-raising commercial for eczema victims, like those Sarah McLachlan animal commercials-- it’s for an eczema medication. If I have eczema, I already know what it’s like to have it, and why I need the medication. If I don’t, I don’t need to be seeing and hearing that. Now those food videos with the knife skritching across the golden-brown breading will be unwatchable (and unlistenable).
Good Lord! Does it also show skin flakes flying. You know, for the full eczema experience.
Not sure-- I looked away pretty quickly after I saw the one hand start to scratch the red, scaly back of the other hand. But I failed to mute it, so I could not avoid hearing the terrible ‘skritch-skritch-skritch’ sound 
That one is really bad! Its not the visuals so much as that sound! Ugh. And no, there’s no white glakes, it’s gone way past that to red and raw.
That sounds so much worse than an annoying eczema (or some other itchy skin condition) commercial that I’ve seen exactly once…it featured quick cuts between an adult woman and a small child scraping away at scaly skin while the woman sang a breathy, slightly off-key version of “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” with altered lyrics about “the very itchy Tyler.”
No thank you.
Ha! No, just venting a little. If I see “Hoppers” commercials again tonight, or in the future, I’ll just shake my fist at a cloud.
Your tub’s wall is higher than your knees? No wonder you can’t get in!
There are many people for whom having to step over a bathtub wall is a problem. It can be difficult to hazardous. Both of my parents were unable to do it near the ends of their lives.
Brings to mind the episode where experienced cops at the scene blandly tell Columbo what it looks like after a guy covered some hard and slick porcelain with plenty of soapy water: “Takin’ a bath, slipped, hit his head. Yeah, happens all the time … We’re thinking that’s how he might’ve bought it … Wouldn’t have been the first one, either … foot slips out from under him, and wham, down and out.”
I mean, sure, you could say the point is that Columbo realizes it’s a murder that got made to look like an accident; but, in a way, the whole point is that the setup only works because it makes perfect sense that it could happen just like that; that’s kind of what taking a bath is.
I think you’re all missing @Skywatcher 's point… Unless that tub is ridiculously deep, the dude’s knees ought to be folded high enough to be visible. Or, of course, unless the image is just AI slop.
One I’ll add: There’s some really annoying dude who’s been doing GoDaddy ads lately. I assume he’s some sort of celebrity, because nobody would tolerate him if he weren’t. Those ads are bad enough, but now the same guy has started showing up in Wal-Mart ads.
I was referring to the tub that got replaced. It goes by quick but if you pause it right at the beginning, you should be able to tell where his right knee is by the way the leg is bent. It’s below the tub’s rim. That’s either one small guy or one deep tub.
Our tub’s wall comes to approximately ¾ the way up my shins; if we had that guy’s original tub, I probably would have difficulty getting in as well.
The original tub has got to be AI. Note how the rail is a perfect match to the new tub.
Having to step over a knee high wall is going to be hard for many people who arn’t elderly or disabled in any way. That’s why most tub walls aren’t knee high for someone of average height (maybe for me, but I’m only 5 ft tall). I can’t imagine why someone would spend thusands of dollars to renovate a bathroom and add a walk-in tub that you have to sit in while it’s filling and draining when a couple of years down the road they might need to do it all again for a roll-in shower.
After I broke my leg, I got a shower seat. It’s just a matter of sitting down, and then swinging my legs in. Can’t take an actual bath, but I never took many of those anyway.
? Did you watch the commercial?
The new tub is 3-4 feet deep. It has a door. It’s like a walk in room.
Now you want to complain about how long the user has to sit in, in the cold house, before the tub fills, yeah, I’m with you.
I can’t find the commercial online but there is one in the United States for either Fan Duel or Draft Kings’ app-based casino that ends on the painful tagline, “It’s the funnest fun you’ve ever funned!” And somehow I doubt that it’s any fun at all.