Yeah, but…
With the exception of “Mayhem” and possibly the Light Beer ad (the douche is the guy who *doesn’t *use the product, although the bartender is a bitch), most of the commercials mentioned here seem to be presenting the assholes, jerks, and dick-wads as the consumers of the product being advertised.
What’s that supposed to make me, the potential customer, think?
“Hey, that guy’s just like me and he’s using product X! So I should use it too!” *Nope. *
“I want to be just like that guy, so I should buy that thing!” *Nope. *
I have noticed that in the early commericals, they just played their joke and the ad ended but more recently, Sasquatch gets the last word. I think they realized how douchey it was and this was a correction.
You obviously haven’t met some of the people I work with.
I like the Mayhem commercials, just because the guy cracks me up. “I’m a teenage girl!” drives car into another car, walks off He’s too over the top to really get upset by.
Also, I’ve bee to some pretty decent places where $6-7 got me a nice burger, fries, and a drink. Dunno where the dividing line between “Fast food” and “Diner” is for you though.
Did I mention the Sonic commercials? I think I’ll mention them again. The obnoxious guy in the car always annoyed the hell out of me.
There’s this one Tide commercial where everyone in it is an a-hole.
The dad doesn’t like his young daughter’s short skirt, so he wipes grease on it as it’s drying on the clothesline. A-hole.
The mom gives dad dirty looks when they discover the dirty skirt and she washes it in Tide. A-hole.
Daughter leaves house wearing now cleaned skirt, rubs dad’s head tauntingly on the way out. A-hole.
Rapper goes on about girls in short skirts “shakin it” and how he’s gonna “make ya mine” during the whole commercial. Creepy A-hole.
Some may say, well, how’s the mom an a-hole? Well, same as the dad, she’s completely disregarding anything the other parent has to say on the issue of the skirt. Clearly dad finds it inappropriate, mom finds it appropriate, and damn it, they’re not going to come to a consensus or anything, nope, just going to each do their own thing and if the other parent doesn’t like it, forget you.
Yeah, it’s just a silly commercial, and I’m overthinking it. Whatever. I’m just sayin, them people being portrayed? Assholes.
Eh, the dirty look from the wife is justified, the dad is being petty and she’s having to clean up after him. The two of them not going bash brothers and teaming up to make their daughter wear a longer skirt (or heaven forbid, wear pants) is a different issue.
But why would I go to a bar like that? I mean, a coffee shop, sure, but a bar?
I don’t think so. Someone did a collection of the ads and in each one the pranksters get physically abused in some fashion or another. Maybe you saw “short commercial” edits or something.
I know things are different in the US, but $130 seems extremely reasonable for a decent pair of polarised-lens sunglasses here, especially if they’re from a well-known, decent brand.
Dad just doesn’t want to get a woody when his daughter walks by.
I guess you and I have different expectations from a pair of sunglasses. It’s my impression that even cheap shades come with polarized lenses. Of course, I don’t wear sunglasses. Since I wear glasses for vision, it does me no good to shop for sunglasses. I currently have frames with custom clip on shades. Last set was that way too. Keeping up with a second set of prescription glasses and then having to trade them out is too much hassle.
This commercial came on just as I was reading this post!
Add me to the masses who want that snobby little brat to die…and who are confused about who this ad is supposed to appeal to. I mean, if it were some supermodel sneering at inferior cars then that would be obnoxious but would at least make some kind of sense. But who buys a new car to impress a little kid? And is there any little kid who’d be more impressed by a $35,000 car than by, say, a $300 Xbox or even $3 of candy?
slight hijack, referring to the Miller Lite commercials: if I have a choice between Miller Lite and a beer with less taste, you’re damn right I’m taking the one with less taste.
Suffice it to say that not all sunglasses are created equal and the more expensive ones really are worth the money, especially in places like Australia where people spend a lot of time wearing sunglasses outside.
I dunno man, you’re gonna have to justify that one to me. And none of that cockamamie “It blocks radiation from space” nonsense like what those folks who sell Monster Cables try to pass off on consumers.
I tried explaining that a page or two back, but no one seemed to notice. Prescription sunglasses are expensive and $130 will get you a very cheap pair that might not survive very long.
I wasn’t talking about prescription sunglasses, though- I’m talking about “off-the-shelf” sunglasses for everyday use. You can get a perfectly functional fair of sunglasses for around $20-$30- but for a “Good” set (from a reputable brand) $100+ is not only reasonable IME, but definitely worth the money.
OK, well, I think of myself as a man who appreciates a good pair of sunglasses. I spend a lot of time wearing them (particularly when driving), and I have to say that the glare reduction and view clarity that is apparent to me through something like a pair of Serengetis or Maui Jims is far superior to that in a pair of K-mart brand sunnies. Sure, the K-mart sunnies will do exactly the same job at blocking UV rays (by law they all sunnies here have to meet certain minimum specs in that regard), but there’s a noticeable difference in things like “Product Quality” with the cheaper ones IME.
Also, in my experience, there’s different effects of having polarised lenses- I had a cheap K-mart brand-type set about 18 months ago and they made things like tinted windows and mirrors look slightly psychedelic. I’ve also found some sunglass lenses are too dark, some frames bend out of shape too easily, and so on.
To be fair, one of the three best pairs of sunnies I’ve owned was a set I bought for $17 at a Walgreens in San Francisco, so I’m not saying you must spend three figure sums of money on a set of sunglasses or else they’ll be complete rubbish- but in my experiences in Australia and New Zealand, the quality of a decent set ($80+) of sunglasses is far enough ahead of the cheaper stuff to be both noticeable and (IMHO and IME) worth the extra money.
