the Godaddy commercial with Lyn Slater. The sun glasses make her look like a giant praying mantis and the set looks like something from an old kids TV show called Time Tunnel.
There’s one for Facebook Groups which has Mets fans and Yankees fans attending a ball game together. Sure, it’s easy for Mets and Yankees fans to get together. They don’t play in the same league, much less the same division. Just put the Yankees fans together with some Red Sox fans, and see what happens.
Not sure why it should bug me so much, but I’m highly annoyed by the Symbicort ad featuring a kid’s birthday party that inexplicably has a “three little pigs” theme.
Beloved Grandad is portrayed as the big bad wolf, see (he’s even wearing wolf ears to drive the point home), but he has trouble getting up enough breath to blow out the candles on the piggie-house birthday cake, and little piggie-ears -wearing grandchild makes a snarky comment about Grandads’s wheezing, which causes Grandad-wolf to launch into a tedious explanation of what Symbicort does, with the help of a friendly female cartoon doctor, who for some unknown reason is also shown as a wolf. Has to be one of the most ridiculously strained metaphors ever.
Plus it doesn’t sound to me like that is actually a kid’s voice saying, “Let’s blow out the candles together.”
This Alexa ad feat. Whitney Houston. Gah!
I’m not sure what an 80s style animated disembodied mouth screaming a horrible* song has to do with selling a music service, but it annoys the heck out of me. And it does it LOUDLY!
*IMO
There is a commercial for some mood altering drug or other where a girl who is the lead singer for a rock band is so distraught at being on stage she has to walk off and go sit down. She takes her pill while the rest of the group just stands there and the audience looks puzzled. Finally she returns to cheers and finishes the set. Really? You are so uncomfortable being on stage you have to walk off? How did you ever get started as a singer?
Dennis
I think that commercial is for a drug to treat an intestinal disorder and the lead singer has to go off to use the bathroom repeatedly. Until, of course, she takes this great new drug that addresses the issue. (Of course opiates also can address some intestinal issues, but with some unfortunate side effects.)
That one is for ulcerative colitis/Crohn’s.
There’s a weird one for some sort of Migraine meds, with a Mom and her daughter, playing Pirates together. This confused me, and I asked around. No one could remember their parents playing with them like that. Sure dad would play catch, take me to ball games, fishing, and yeah we did do board games as a family.
But my Mom or dad dressing as a pirate or whatever? Unthinkable. That’s what my friends were for.
It kinda made me sad that this little girl had no friends her age to play with.
I just saw a commercial for Michelob Ultra that is all whispers and taps. I’m not sure what the actress says but I found the sounds just barely within hearing (but not comprehension, what did she say???) to be annoying
Yes! That one is so bizarre.
I guess it’s an attempt at asmr.
ASMR. It’s all the rage on YouTube.
Autonomous sensory meridian response. “ASMR signifies the subjective experience of “low-grade euphoria” characterized by “a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin”. It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention contro.”
That’s Zoe Kravitz. Daughter of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravits. Most recently on Big Little Lies.
Oh, that explains it!
I’m getting a chuckle out of mixdenny’s interpretation of the stomach drug. Her bandmates are like, “OMG, does this crazy bitch gotta shit again?”
Gag, I was going to post this one too. The girl is way too old; if she was three years old it might make sense, but the girl in the ad is too enthusiastic about playing pirates.
Anyone else even mildly disconcerted by the guy whose body parts are falling off, as he sits down and tells Alexa to turn the TV on for him?
Raises hand, which promptly falls off
Even though he’s a zombie…
I am, but maybe not the way you’re thinking.
As there are no actual zombies, this commercial is for normal folk. Normal folk who are obviously so fucking lazy they can’t even push a button on a remote! People who turn all their physical action over to an anthropomorphized machine that they are being trained to think of as a person.
Next thing, they’ll be turning over thinking to the machine. “Alexa, I have pain in my lower gut.” “You need to go pee.” “Alexa, I can’t get my socks on.” “Socks first, then shoes.”
Orwell wrote about the nightmare of constant imposed surveillance by Big Brother. Now people willingly pay money to have the same thing. Orwell wasn’t distopic enough.