Another "what were they thinking?" commercial thread

I’ve hated those ever since first came out.

I’ve always thought it looked like a very curvy lady’s butt.

To me they look like a big Z, which makes me think of Zale’s. I can’t remember which jeweler actually sells them.

State Farm is actually very highly rated.

I actaully think that is a very cool ad. Nice to see a slightly older, slightly out of shape guy just being himself in a booze ad. They usually feature dudes that I’d card before allowing them to drink.

He’s actually kinda macho cool. :cool:

Yeah, I don’t get too much of a weird vibe with the Folgers ad, but that Kay one is a little creepy.

I hate the smell of Febreeze- what works to get the smell of Febreeze out of things?

I couldn’t either so I looked it up and apparently lots of places sell them. To me, aside from not being my taste, they look incredibly cheap and I’m always distracted, wondering why the lovely and classy Jane Seymour is hawking them. Well, she actually designed them so I guess what I mean is, why has the lovely and classy Jany Seymour created such a substandard item.

I can’t believe I omitted from my OP the schlocky Chanel No. 5 ad, with a scruffy Brad Pitt spewing pretentious nonsense. On the (scruffy) face of it, sure I get why they’d have the arguably “sexiest man in the world” as their spokesman. But I’m so busy first thinking" who wrote this crap?" then “how many takes before he could keep a straight face while saying it?” and then I’m downright irritated by the way he says “. . .my* luCK*; my faTe…”. But what really makes me wonder what they were thinking is, does anyone think of anyone but Angelina Joilie when they see this? Are we *supposed *to be listening to his love letter to her or are we supposed to think he’s speaking abstractly or, if they think we’re really stupid / delusional, that he’s somehow speaking to us, the viewer?

I had to look it up…it’s Kay. :smiley:

They have one “open hearts” necklace that has wings…that one reminds me of those Ancient Roman phallus pendants.

But did you learn that from their commercials?

Progressive has now stolen the “we can hear customers (and only customers) sing our jingle anywhere and transport an agent to them” idea. In a recent Progressive commercial Flo materializes on a dark deserted road for a customer in need. Flo and customer engage in a conversation laden with sexual double entendres. Yuck. No one wants to be hit on by Flo.

Two words: Skittles Pox.

Ewwwww…

A bit squicky.

:p:p:p

For me, it’s this series from AT&T touting their UVerse service. The set up is the same: tween kid lectures little kids on how good they have it with DVRs and the like aplenty, because when they were kids they didn’t have the technology. Unfunny and dull? Yep. The weird thing is that the tween comes off as morose and depressing, while the little kids come across as entitled douches.

If that’s what happens when you subscribe to AT&T, keep out of my home please.

Understatement.

Oh yeah, that stuff smells worse than what it’s supposed to cover up.

Well, I thought it was perfectly charming, as I remarked to my sister in bed last night.

There’s a commercial for Alexander Keith’s beer that drives me nuts every time. If you listen carefully to the YouTube link, you can hear a low-pitched moan or yowl that starts at 0:03. Why does that bother me? Because it’s exactly the same sound my cat makes when he’s angry and warning another cat to F*** OFF! So the first few times I heard it, I thought my screen door was going to get ripped up again…

I love this guy, who either has never used a Q-Tip before in his life, or has a bunch of broken glass in there.

Her name is Flo. She dresses in all white, and her bright red lipstick really stands out.

Reminds me of a used feminine hygiene product.

I will never buy their insurance.

Hence the name “Flo.” :smiley: