But the saleswoman has such a cute smile! It’s like I’ve seen her somewhere before.
It’s for Xfinity. She’s their new commercial spokesperson. She does another one where she’s using a voice remote to watch TV shows and it turns out she’s in an Xfinity store hogging the remote. Then a guy in line asks her to give someone else a turn and a guy is delivering a “pizza for Amy”. She says “I don’t have my wallet,” and the guy in line behind her starts digging into his pocket to pay for her pizza.
Then there’s the commercial that says “They may look alike, but a Labrador retriever and a golden retriever are two very different dogs, with different nutritional needs.”
Um, no, I don’t accept that. Now if you said a Chihuahua and a Great Dane have different needs, I might accept that, given that a Great Dane could eat kibble the size of the Chihuahua. But two different breeds of retriever?
Then there’s the Trip Advisor owl, sitting around in his bathrobe. OK, that might make sense when he’s sitting in his hotel room, but now they have him out and about town wearing the stupid bathrobe. Going on a helicopter ride in the bathrobe.
And you have no problem with the idea of an owl taking a helicopter ride? He has wings, goddamnit. He can fly himself around, although he probably needs to lose the bathrobe.
There are so many damn commercials with owls. There’s Trip Advisor, WGU University (until recently), Xyzal. Then there’s the one for America’s Best eyeglasses and contacts. I though owls were supposed to have very sharp vision. Seriously, someone needs to call an owl exterminator.
I saw a Xyzal one today (with owl), so that campaign may not be over with.
But, good point. A lot of owls. They must score well with focus groups.
If you already have such dislike of owls, never play the N64 Zelda games;)
This Kraft cheese commercial annoys the fuck out of me. In response to a kid in the commercial saying: “mom! Billy is blinking too loud!”, the voiceover says “You don’t need any more hormones in your house.”
What the fuck does being immature have to do with hormones?? Not a damn thing.
Just as baffling is that someone thought it would be a good idea to use Enya’s “Only Time” in a mac n’ cheese commercial. Every time I hear it, I look over at the TV expecting to see some kind of ad for a 9/11 retrospective.
Why is the Jimmy Dean sausage commercial being narrated by Jimmy Dean? from beyond the grave? It’s creepy.
Also creepy, icky, and sticks in my craw: KY Jelly lube commercial with some woman crowing how ‘women are standing up for themselves!’ In the boardroom! In the bedroom! Like, they aren’t just doormats any more, they are like, well, womens libbers! You go, girls! Stand up for yourselves! tee hee! And it’s ok to demand respect, and hey, while you’re crowing it’s swell to not want to be humiliated and belittled and assaulted, it’s also ok to demand lube, too - it’s natural to go dry, women! don’t worry about looking unexcited when you’re being pounded by a man and not gushing down there. it’s ok to lube up. Stand up for your rights!
Meh, he’s on vacation. He’s staying in hotel rooms, too, and who would let an owl do that? In other words, he’s being a human, except humans don’t go on tours of the city wearing their bathrobes. At least normal ones.
My husband is also very creeped out by these commercials. I’m glad I can now tell him they come from old commercials. He was mostly creeped out by how they got dead Jimmy Dean to spontaneously shill for sausage.
What’s even creepier is the line from some of the commercials: “The eggs are from real chickens. The milk is from real cows. The sausage is from Jimmy Dean.”
Um…ewww.
You get really worked up over stuff like this, don’t you? :eek:
So what??? Doesn’t anyone ELSE get worked up over it? It’s stupid and demeaning, and I feel I should say something. It all passes over those little tiny heads who don’t see it, or care, are more excited over toilet paper commercials. Meh.
Jack Links really should find someone taller to wear a Sasquatch suit.
Hendrick Automotive, a dealership with many locations around here, starts all of their commercials the same way…a shot of the dealer’s logo, with a lady breathily saying “Hendrick” while a chime plays. Creepy, mildly annoying, and a pretty good indicator that they’re probably not looking for my business.
Another dealership chain, Leith Automotive, has a commercial dedicated to their highest-end luxury lines, which happen to be situated near each other on Capital Boulevard in Raleigh. The commercial rambles on and on about this part of Capital being a little slice of Europe. I can’t tell if they’re trying to be funny or not.