It was for Pepsi. All of their Superbowl ads that year were pretty good.
That’s odd. I was with a mixed group of teenage girls and boys the other day, and somehow the conversation turned to menstruation. The girls seemed to have no problem discussing it around boys, nor were they fazed by the adult male who was also in the room and heard the conversation. In fact the boys were the ones who were disgusted and wanted to change the subject.
Anyway, I always disliked that ad for milk with the dog licking his lips thirstily after eating peanut butter off a spoon. It disgusted me, so whenever the ad came on I turned away. That’s not a good way to make people want your product!
There is a radio ad in the area that yell’s “Stop!” in a variety of languages. If ind it annoying in the extreme and still am not sure what they are selling, although it has the “feel” of car commercial.
My phone has an alarm clock function, so I just assume most of the otheer modern cell phones do too. So I just wonder why the guy doesn’t just use the function on his phone if he’s going to be so embarasses to request a wake up call on a non hotel phone. I doubt the hotel would even comply with his request.
My phone also has a “rescue ring” function, where you can program it to be called at a certain time to bail out of a blind date or other potentially unpleasant situation. That could be used as a wake up call too.
The one that bugs me that I see in the movie theaters all the time (and don’t get me started on the half-hour of commercials before the movies…) is… Hrm… Movietickets.com. It has a bunch of -total- morons talking about how -anyone- is smart enough to use movietickets.com. They act like they have a collective IQ lower than their body temperature, and thus make me sit there and think, “Huh. Total morons use this service. Yeah, that’ll make me want to do it!”
Definitely those Carl’s Jr. “Don’t bother me, I’m eating” commercials featuring the dripping [ketchup? mayo? special sauce? whale semen?] complete with retch-inducing sound effects of mastication and whatnot. Yeah, I totally want a burger that’s thrown together so carelessly that excess fixin’s are dropped and squirted around a 30 ft radius from my person.
There were a ton of commercials like that, too. I cannot pass a Carl’s Jr establishment without nightmarish smack-crunch-chew-slurp-much-smack sounds replaying in my head. I don’t know anyone who found them appetizing.
I’m especially puzzled by the new Coors Light ads. There are two couples sitting down to dinner, presumably on a date, and the guys notice another woman sitting at a table across the room. When they order, one of the guys “cleverly” orders using his phone number and then says his name. The woman at the other table writes it down and the guys toast each other.
I’m not sure what Coors Light is trying to do with this commercial. Are they targeting womanizers? Maybe they’re going for the key homewrecker demographic.
This is also along the lines of the “What happens here, stays here” campaign for Las Vegas. If you read Bill Simmons on ESPN.com he goes off on what a bad idea the campaign is, because it alerts girlfriends/wives that Vegas is wild and crazy.
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I definitely missed that part. Ick.
Well, I was a teenager in the late 80s and early 90s, so the current crop of teenage girls may have totally different ideas about discussing their periods. It’s been quite a few years since I was embarassed by the simple fact that I get periods.
As for the bedwetting kid, I mostly notice that ad because of the cute dog. And do consider that there are a few older kids (including kids that age) who still wet the bed for no obvious reason. My brother was one of them (oh please don’t let him read this, I don’t think he lurks here). He finally outgrew it. There’d be no point for the mom in the ad to punish the kid for bedwetting – though putting the stuff straight in the dryer would be another story! Ewwww!
Another one that caught my eye on the side of a bus - an AIDS awareness campaign.
“One in 500 people has AIDS. One in 250 people know they do.”
So everybody who has AIDS knows it, and a lot of people who don’t think they do? How more aware of AIDS can you get?
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White meat? What’s wrong with the DARK meat? Are they saying that white meat is better than black meat? What are they, racist? McDonalds afraid of the black meat? They afraid their girlfriends will like it better? What is white meat, anyhow? Little tiny nuggets? (audience laughs hysterically)
Now, white people walk all stiff and shit, like this …
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Seriously, several months ago I saw a billboard for the new “white meat” Chicken McNuggets. It showed several smiling white children. Uhhh …
Leaving aside the gratuitous rockery, white meat is generally considered to be the good stuff. It’s also worth noting that McNuggets have always contained light-coloured meat. Saying they’re now putting it in is an admission that they’ve been deceiving their customers for twenty years or more.
Two comericals that have always bugged me:
The HP commercial where you see two guys in a small restaurant and a computer pointer picks one of them up and drags him through a couple of tables and out the door. It then drags him over a car and throws him into a paddy wagon. It ends with HP say how HP technology used by law enforcement. I all ways thought they were endorsing police brutality.
The other is the Dell commercial where everyone is going to boot camp and Dell says you don’t need to learn these fancy terms, just call them and they will tell you what they needed. Yes remain stupid and let our salesmen show you the right computer.