Oh, okay. I was thinking a “chair rail” was some kind of mobility assist device that was a rail for a mobile chair, like stair lifts.
Calvin: Look, it says right on the box, “Part of a wholesome, nutritious, balanced breakfast.”
Hobbes: And they show a guy eating five grapefruits, a dozen bran muffins…
I don’t know if these ads are on cable, but I get inundated with them on my tablet apps - some miracle gelatin bariatric weight-loss recipe that’s apparently all the rage these days. Yeah, I’m sure in a week you lose 20 pounds and your skin is now taut. Whatevs…
The most recent one that I’ve seen, tho, starts by showing an impossibly skinny Asian woman and the caption is something about how thin Korean women are - I keep sound off, so I don’t know exactly what’s being said. Anyway, the woman they show walking across the screen (in profile, of course) looks like she can’t be more than 3" front to back at mid-torso - OK, maybe 4".
Is that even humanly possible? I’ve never seen a skeleton that narrow, and I can’t imagine all of one’s organs crammed into such a small space. Naturally, I’m inclined to think it’s AI generated. But, dang, talk about promoting an unhealthy body image!! All with the help of sugar-free Jello and apple cider vinegar and I don’t remember what else - just to look up those ingredients, I had to google this miracle [someone] doesn’t want you to see…
Isn’t it amazing how many products they don’t want you to know about?
Also how many problems can be solved by the use of “one weird trick”
And why are the tricks always weird?
In Michigan we are being absolutely inundated with ads for Perry Johnson for Governor, a businessman who is running as a total trump acolyte. He describes himself as an outsider. He says Michigan needs a strong Governor ‘like President trump’. He says he will eliminate the state sales tax by going through the state budget line by line and eliminate waste ‘like trump did with DOGE’. Yeah, that whole DOGE thing really worked out well 
He says by eliminating the sales tax every Michigander will save $4747 a year. Hmm, twin 47s… I wonder how he came up with that number? Oh and, he calls Republican Rep. John James, who will be his likely primary opponent, a ‘two-time loser’.
It’s surprising to me that someone is running so strongly as a trumper-- I’d think that in these upcoming midterm elections Repubs will be downplaying any association with trump. Maybe Johnson is going hard as a trumper to try to win the primary, and will downplay his trumper credentials in the general election if he wins the Repub nomination.
Very small, but another Spectrum ‘true confessions customer commercial’ where he says they got Spectrum ‘when we found out we were pregnant’. Infuriating. I’m not alone, there are complaints in the youtube commercial comment section.
There’s a Vrbo ad in heavy rotation on Hulu right now. Mom and teenage daughter are in the hot tub. Dad (who is presumably the one actually paying for this rental) walks up and cheerily asks, “Got room for Dad?”
Daughter glares at him with a look of utter contempt and snarls, “Think again, Bruce.” Dad slinks away as Mom shakes her head sadly.
The nasty little brat and her doormat parents infuriate me every time.
Sneering contemptuous teenagers are common enough irl, why would anybody want them in their commercials? They are the opposite of funny.
Taking money from your pocket to theirs, nothing else is needed.
In CA it is Tom Steyer.
I always thought that wasnt the best name they could have picked…
Flo and her Progressive co-workers need to fuck off from the improv theater if they keep obnoxiously suggesting prompts about insurance (which nobody in the audience or onstage clearly wants) and can’t possibly leave work at the workplace.
I know they’re advertizing characters and that’s what their purpose is–I just don’t care. Also I’ve seen it too many times.
Thank you for calling this one out and describing it so accurately! I hate that f-king teenager - If I were the dad I’d be all “okay, get the f**k out of the tub, a**hole!” and then jump right in. Chalk that ad in the “Commercials that make men look like idiots” column. F*ck VRBO!
And why is she calling him “Bruce”?
Or the mom. Why didn’t the mom kick the teenager out of the hot tub?
Or, “Okay, I am checking out, I paid for this, bye!”
I have not seen the commercial in question but if it helps, imagine that she’s the breadwinner here, perhaps making big bucks as an OnlyFans model. Does that help to make it more palatable?
Most of what I watch is on my DVR, so I’m generally fast-forwarding through commercials (unless something catches my attention for some reason). Recently I’ve seen more and more that the exact same commercial will run multiple times during a single break. Planet Fitness is one of these, but recently I sped through at least three repeats of an Outback commercial where (as far as I can tell) somebody apparently nails a job interview and celebrates by going to Outback and jumping around. Is this the new marketing strategy: beat people over the head with your commercials?
Speaking as an ad person: very likely not.
I’m going to guess that the shows you recorded were on cable channels, particularly the smaller/less-watched channels. Frequently, advertisers/media companies will buy a bunch of commercial spot time on a particular cable channel (and maybe a particular time of day or day of week), but that’s all the control the advertiser really gets over placement.
If the cable channel only had a couple of advertisers who bought space on that channel, on that day/daypart, it means that the same ad (or at least the same advertiser) shows up on every single commercial break.
My wife tends to watch certain cable channels for hours at a time (such as the Hallmark Channel), and it gets really tiresome to see the same 3-5 ads again and again.
Believe it or not, I’ve actually seen those commercials, despite not being in Michigan, or even in the United States. My cable package includes a Detroit station, on which I typically watch “Jeopardy!” and other things occasionally.
So I’ve seen the Perry Johnson commercials. My first thought was, “Is this guy for real? Trying to sell himself as ‘Just Like Trump’?” And a $4747 savings? I will agree that Perry Johnson commercials are annoying.
“Challenge accepted, Bella.” Removes shirt and climbs in right next to her.