Yeah, it should go “Would you like one with fewer taste or more”.
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What about all those mollyfocking Carls Jr. ads, constantly touting that they are the home of the 6 Dollar Burger!!! while showing aspiring Gen Xer assholes/douchebags stuffing their face with a hamburger that supposedly costs more than a full, sit-down meal at a decent diner?
I notice that their new ads are taking pains to say that the 6 Dollar Burger!!! now actually sells for about 3 bucks. I guess shouting at the top of your corporate lungs that your product costs twice as much as what all of your competitors food goes for is not the wisest strataegy these days, eh?
In the Bud Light commercials I keep waiting for the bar owner to come out and tell the bartender, “Insult another one of my customers and you’re out of job bitch, your job is to sell drinks and make people feel welcome, not to act out the high school frustrations you never resolved.”
One in the series is especially stupid. A guy asks for a light beer. The bitch asks if he cares about taste. Frustrated by such a stupid question he replies, “No.” So she gives him the off brand. I don’t get it. If she is so damned obsessed with Bud Light, why, when the man says he doesn’t care what brand she serves, does she serve him the off brand? An excuse to insult him I guess. And the insults in that commercial are so clearly homophobic that I wish the advert would just come right out and say it: “If you aren’t putting a Bud Light bottle in your mouth you might as well put a hard cock in there, because men who drink other light beers are clearly homosexual. You don’t want people to think you’re a fag do you?”
I heard there were 6-dollar burgers available in this thread?
BMW had a douchy commercial around Christmastime. It showed various scenes from a man’s childhood in which his parents were buying him some kind of luxury or entertainment item. But in each scene the little punk is angry that his folks aren’t buying him the most expensive version of said toy. Cut to today, and he finally gets to buy the ultimate luxury item. His life is fulfilled. He can wipe from his memory his scarring upper-middle-class childhood, and show his parents for buying him the $1,500 guitar he never played instead of the $6,000 one he’d never play.
They even make the guy look like a douche. Botoxed face and hair-club-for-men coiffure, popped collar and too small sweater. I know that BMW’s have a reputation for being douche-mobiles, so I guess they have just come to embrace the image and play to their demographic.
Hasn’t the Six Dollar Burger always only cost $3 or $4? Wasn’t that the point of the name, that it is a cheap burger that’s as good as the expensive burgers you’d find at a real restaurant.
What about anything with Denis Leary? Just because I don’t have a Ford pickup it doesn’t mean I’m a sissy, dammit! :mad:
When you put it that way, it’s sort of ironic because Beamers are far from the most expensive vehicle out there.
For what it’s worth obfusciatrist, I’ve seen the Six Dollar Burger going for greater than $6 around Los Angeles, at least in the wealthier zip codes. Especially the exotic ones, like the Guacamole Bacon one, which was over seven bucks. This was just for the burger itself, not for a combo.
But you are right, they were strictly less than $6 for a while until prices crept up.
Yup. I think he was the Toyota Highlander brat all growed up.
SMACK!
Should I point out that these commercials are actually for Miller Lite? Or does that matter? 
The rotoscoped Charles Schwab ads with investors who want steak-level service for hamburger-level commissions. I feel like I should be the one getting the commission fee for putting up with the whining that passes for conversation from these jerks.
John Slattery had been doing luxury car ads. He doesn’t behave as an asshole in them, but, given the fact that he got the gig by playing Roger on Mad Men, he carries the vibe that he could be one with the slightest provocation. Go ahead, since the ad puts you in the seat nesxt to him: suggest that his car is proof of income disparity in America, and imagine his reaction.
I thought the Mayhem guy in the Allstate commercials was the ultimate a-hole. They guy who plays him, is really HOT, so he gets away with his a-hole-ness.
Well he *is *Mayhem.
I don’t know if Mayhem counts for this category. The point is to avoid mayhem, or rather, to buy their car insurance so when you run into the inevitable mayhem, you won’t be dealing with it on your own.
No one’s trying to tell you that you should be *like *Mayhem, or drink what Mayhem drinks or buy what Mayhem buys.
(And he *is *weirdly hot, isn’t he? Not at all my “type”, and I’m not sure I’d think he was attractive in other roles, but I think it’s the total confidence in this one that makes my engine rev. Cocky is cute, dammit.)
The one that I remember is for an iPad or related tablet. The woman spouts all of its advantages, then says that she paid more for her sunglasses. You want me to trust your consumer advice after telling me that you paid $130 for a pair of sunglasses? Prescription glasses with all the trimmings cost less.
It was for the new Kindle.
Is Miller Lite even legally considered beer? 
The Sonic commercials always come to mind for me, where they have the two guys in the car with at least one of them being a complete tool. I honestly think Whataburger produced and paid for them, it’s the only explanation.
The commercials that always grated on me are the ones where someone goes to a competing restaurant to order something they know they don’t have, like a commercial some time back where a guy goes to a drive-through called “Just Burgers” and keeps trying to order a chicken sandwich or whatever. Look, Ree-Ree, it’s called “Just Burgers”, take the hint. :rolleyes:
ETA: Maybe it’s because I haven’t seen any of their commercials in the last five or six months (yay AFN), but Axe never struck me as being a particularly douchey brand. They just tend to put lots of hot chicks in their deodorant commercials. Even Gillette’s done that one (or was it the other brand, I forget.)
Also, Old Spice. I really feel like I should be annoyed or offended by the people in those commercials, but they’re just *too danged awesome and entertaining *for me to get upset.
There’s a n M&M ad in Britainwhere the woman orders her bloke to get her a snack while she just sits in her arse watching TV, whereupon he wrestles the reluctant giant M&M into a bowl for her to eat alive, and the woman just rolls her eyes at him because (as the M&M also complains) he didn’t get a bigger bowl.
Seems the target demographic is rude, lazy cannibalistic slave-masters. If it’s doing well, I’ll be worried.
I couldn’t believe that Toyota kid when I saw the ad last time I was over in the States. Is it actually appealing to anyone?