I recently had a realization while sitting with a friend, sadly, watching television. We started noticing that nearly every commercial we saw ended with someone laughing. I’m serious. It was frightening. Most of the time you don’t hear them laughing, you just see their face, like the product they’re schlepping is so amazing they’re all of a sudden overwhelmed by bliss. When they don’t laugh, they usualyl smile. Once in a while, you get the sexy look instead.
Note that this, ironically, is not the case in commercials that are supposed to be funny.
It’s been blowing my mind for a week now. Thought I’d share.
I’m always bugged by commercials for feminine hygiene products that show women playing tennis, and riding horses, and going to parties and having a grand old time. They never show the woman collapsed on her couch in her jammies, eating potato chips dipped in chocolate icing and channel surfing.
Those ladies are fond of laughing in their commercials as well. Although I do not have the necessary equipment for that famously enjoyable monthly event, I’m sure the pony ride is quite out of the question.
Also, ads seem to enjoy the women dressed all in white in white rooms when they’re talking abuot teeth or medicine. Not as infuriated as the OP, but noticible nonetheless.
Any woman here ever wear white pants, shorts, skirts, whatevers when they have their period? I wouldn’t even if I had a stuck pig size tampon and one of those enormous overnight pads on. Uh uh. No way. You never know, after all, when you are going to have an equipment failure of some kind.
What drives me nuts is that whenever somebody takes a bite of a hamburger (or most anything else) and chews they are always faking it. I mean, seriously, how many takes do they have to do? The actor can’t actually swallow a bite of hamburger each time, or they’d be sick, and besides that, they’re not going to show a half-eaten burger on the commercial, so they’d have to bring in a new burger for every take. Sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes you have to look closely, but it’s always fake. I wish I didn’t have to look closely, but I always feel compelled to do it.
I get tired of tampon & pad commercials anyway. I know, I’ve been scolded for this, but goddamn, I just don’t want to see even blue liquid pouring into a pad on TV. I can find them perfectly fine in the grocery store, thankyouverymuch. And your blondie actress is not going to convince me to change brands.
There’s an advert I remember for tampons that addressed this. It went something like this - It started by showing a woman sky diving and the female narrator goes “With xxx tampons you can go sky diving!” It then cuts to various other sports.
It then cuts to a woman on a sofa in her jammies watching t.v and eating chocolate. The narrator then adds. “Or, you could always just stay home…”
Yuck. I think wine spitting is unpleasant enough, but food? Ugh!
Bugger that, anyway. I’d just eat the burgers. Of course, this may be why I’m not going to be confused with a model or actor any time soon. (Well, maybe a transvestite Robbie Coltrane…)
Thank you.