I think the “he’s for every one of us” part is supposed to refer to the new Pixel camera on the phone. It has good low light capability, so no need for a flash.
The KFC carolers commercial, one of the guys has some really freaky bug eyes.
I rarely watch commercial television any more not so much because of the commercials – which are bad enough – but rather because during the program the bottom quarter of the screen is taken up with an all-flashing, all-scrolling (all-singing if they thought they could get away with it) banner extolling what’s coming up next or worse, what you’re watching right now (which I already know).
I do get exposed to commercials on YouTube which are mercifully short and/or can be skipped over. The problem is the same commercial comes up over and over and over again. Currently at least a third of them are for State Farm insurance wherein a guy is hand-watering a perfect bed of flowers while he nods at his perfect son, ripped in a Speedo on a diving board, his perfect wife painting a portrait of The Dog, and his perfect daughter putting the finishing touches on some topiary while a State Farm rep schmoozes in his ear how they can protect all of the nice things in his life.
Then there’s a flip-cut to reality: The flowerbed is scraggly weeds, Son is decidedly chunky, in board shorts and executes a gawd-awful dive, Wife is taking a cell phone video of the dog chasing its tail, and Daughter is lighting into a dead tree with a weed whacker, raising a cloud of debris.*
In a similar vein, a woman is on a beach in flowing gauze while a guy next to her is blowing smooth jazz on a sax and Fabio runs his jet ski up onto the beach brandishing a bottle of champagne. I think SF is pitching their banking services so you can save up for a perfect vacation or something.
*I think. Mercifully, this is one of the ones you can skip and I generally don’t get past the diving board.
I’m watching the Mythbusters marathon and I guess the Sci channel doesn’t have a whole lot of sponsors, because they’re running this damned Cadillac commercial at what feels like quarter hour intervals. The commercial features women who are having way too much fun driving what appears to be a bog-standard SUV while an upbeat song apparently featuring the lyrics “Got a booty like a Cadillac” plays. At one point in the commercial, the young women from the car are skate boarding alongside the car (including, I think, the woman who was driving, which makes no sense). Anyway, without in anyway displaying any unique features or qualities of the car, the tag line is “Making driving joyful again.”
Dunno what would make driving a car “joyful”, but based on the ecstatic expressions on the young ladies in the car, Cadillac has apparently gone well beyond heated seats.
No, really? I thought most people wanted to spend as much money as possible, just because they can.
:smack:
The Amazon Alexa Music commercial (mostly heard by me on IHeart Radio - which is where I put it to lull me to sleep) where “singers” are shouting out lyrics, no… screaming at the top of their lungs. Anyone there heard of microphones? My blood pressure goes up every time I have to endure that sh*t.
As an aside, the Sprint guy is approaching creepy to the Verizon guy.
We don’t have Jack in the Box here, so I looked it up on youtube: Do the Pannido! I thought it was hilarious, ‘men at twerk’! I happen to think women shaking THEIR giant ass cheeks, twerking, are just as ‘wrong’ as the men.
OMG, that fucking song every 5 minutes! And it’s sticky. Above I described it as Wham! meets The Pussycat Dolls at a rave. EVERY! FIVE! FUCKING! MINUTES!!!
The newest abomination is the NFL Post season commercial. Too long and too fucking annoying.
What are they chanting “Get ready…for God?” The first time I thought it was a religious commercial.
Who thinks these are good ideas? Or am I just too old?
At least I won’t be watching football any longer. Thanks, Green Bay.
“We ready for y’all” not be ready for god!
What is commercials y’all mentioned about? 
Thanks, I guess.
During Fox NFL coverage, they ran these bumper promos where the TV voice would say something like “Want to learn more? Alexa - who is the leading scorer?”
Were these supposed to actually trigger TV watcher’s Alexas to answer the question? Did millions of people suddenly get the answer to the question from their own in-house device?
And why doesn’t that scare them into getting rid of it?
No, Alexa did some kind of update to their software to recognize if something is coming from the TV. IIRC they did that because news stations were doing reports on her and would, in the context of the story, have some kind of “alexa, buy paper towels”-type of comment and millions of peoples’ Alexa’s actually ordered that product.
Whenever that happens on my TV (it happens a lot because my dot is literally underneath my TV) she usually turns on, and then turns off right away. She was triggered by it once, but that was the first time in probably 50-100 times.
There is a promo for one of the animal channel’s new show where the narrator starts with a dramatic “Don’t breathe! Just try to survive the night!” and I think how the narrator doesn’t know what is needed for survival. I do not know why dumb things like this bother me so much.
Like one of those men’s health supplement commercials when the guy says “Researched to fight weight gain! Not once or twice but 7 times!!!” What is that supposed to mean? How do you research a drug to fight and why are you doing it so many times?
Actually, the more studies done, the more likely the predominant results are correct. A single study could have anomalous results just from sheer chance.
What do the studies say about breathing? It is necessary to survive the night?
More research may be needed. ;)
But how do you research to fight weight gain?
“Free free free free free. Free. Free free. Free!”
My she shed is on fire…:mad: