Yeah, but you know the only reason he picked up the kid first was so that the little cretin could help finish detailing the car after driving it home through all the slush and salt. 
I have never seen the “Cashmere” advert, but I have heard an incredible amount of protest about it. So that campaign is having the reverse of the intended effect.
As many have noted, jewelry ads are painfully bad. I’ve bought jewelry before, and my observations are:
- People might ask you about carats, cut, and price. Nobody gives a ripe shit about where you got it from.
- If the person you purchased it for cares, you’ve made a poor choice in partner. Unless it’s Tiffany’s.
- I don’t think people gab independently about where you bought the rock, and think of you as being somehow more enlightened or evolved.
These ads are on the same level as boner-enhancement ads… making people care about things that don’t matter that much. But there’s some dumb-ass guys out there who can’t figure out what their GF/wife wants, so he’ll be at Kay or Jared on December 24 at 5:59 pm.
I’m not sure if you guys get the Best buy Ads where the Sales guys are selling products by refering to them by the suposed reaction they’d get. For example over here we have a “Oh I can’t believe you did that” or you can get the “Oh My God I love it”
ANger inducing stupidity especially when they have a suck up to your boss gift and a sales guy trying to convince a guy that a plasma TV will get the biggest reaction when in real life all I’d get is
“You spent how much for that? What’s wrong with teh old set… I don’t see any difference?”
Personally, my favorite diamond ad is the fake one from Family Guy: “She’ll pretty much have to…”
Um, what? :eek:
How do you know the woman doesn’t work? At what point does a wife, working or not, become a prostitute within her marriage? Is the husband a prostitute too? How do you know that he has to work late? How do you know that it’s necessary to support her lifestyle? How do you know it’s “her” lifestyle, and not his, or theirs?
Damn, you must have watched a 30 minute version of the 30 second spot I saw. And your 30 minute version was apparently directed by Ingmar Bergman.
Me, I hate the Best Buy ads that make it clear Christmas is “all about the presents!” In addition to the obnoxious teenager one listed above, I hate the one where the family pulls up to Grandma’s house and just yells “Merry Christmas!” at her without stopping, so they can race back home and open their Best Buy gifts. Yeah, that’s the spirit of the season, all right.
Come to think of it, this would be an appropriate ad for Victoria’s Secret now, too.
I dont watch much TV but when I caught a glimpse of the Best Buy/Grandma’s house clip I was disgusted.
Those stupid diamond commercials make me nervous cuz I’m thinkin: omg, I hope my bf doesnt think that I want or expect a diamond! Bling doesnt do it for me. Besides, if it was an engagement ring, please dont pop the question on Christmas (or Valentine’s Day)!
I miss seeing the Budweiser Clydesdale horses though - that’s what Christmas should be about: family, food, and alcohol! 
Oh, and religion if you’re religious.
I hate the current Sears ads in which it’s no longer enough to buy a gift or two. No, instead you’re supposed to do a whole fucking makeover of your daughter’s bedroom or your dad’s workshop or whatever. Hate them.
I hate all the Best Buy commercials…just because something is in a bright blue Best Buy box (and can you really get your purchases from there packaged like that, anyway?) it’s automatically going to be the perfect present. Riiiight. How do you know your husband didn’t buy you the Collected Superbowl Highlights Video set?
Which reminds me of the guy shopping at Lowe’s for his wife and asks one of the female staffers to pretend to be his wife. Because of course all women have exactly the same tastes in presents…and apparently the best thing to get your wife from Lowe’s is a gift certificate so she can pick out her own present. :rolleyes:
the Wal-Mart commercial about how they’re opening more check-out lines “just in time for the holidays” makes me see red. I don’t think I’ve ever been so angry at a commercial. Fuck them for always understaffing their stores, and fuck them for acting like I should be grateful that for once they’ll have enough people working. And you know what? I don’t even believe them. So not only is that commercial smug, it’s probably a lie too.
As of last year, you could buy the wrapping paper. (If you were at the Best Buy on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh last December, and saw a girl wrapping a CD changer in the back of a Jeep…that was me.)
That it’s a big fat lie has been my experience so far.
My sister actually got a van for Christmas a couple of years ago. However, she bought it for herself and only because the previous family car blew up a week before Christmas. She did insist on a bow from the dealer, though, because “If I’m going to make a major purchase like this around the holidays, it better have a bow on it.”
To keep in the spirit of the thread: diamond commercials can go die now. Especially Jared. Jared can die twice.
Ooh, another one. That Radio Shack commercial with the freaking kids singing. I don’t like listening to a bunch of kids singing badly. I keep hoping that RC Transformer will transform and kill them all.
Since that annoying Wal-Mart “opening new checkout lines” to the Carol of the Bells has been mentioned…
The equally as annoying Walgreens commercial, where wife is berating husband in the car for buying his [boss?] what looks to be oven mitts. She makes fun of his wrapping, he castigates himself for the stupid idea… and in the time of one red light, returns from Walgreens with apparently a new present in their “special” gift wrap bag. Ugh.
- I, personally, would very much appreciate new oven mitts.
- I would also very much not appreciate someone buying me a gift from freakin’ Walgreens, instead. That’s just about one step up from picking up something at the Kwik-E-Mart.
- Walgreens checkout workers move in slo-mo. That must’ve been the longest red light known to mankind.
That’s the commmercial I came in to mention. That line just makes me cringe and has pretty much doused any desire I might ever have had to check out that store.
Why the hell hasn’t Tim Horton’s fired their ad agency yet? Their ads have been terrible for years(of course, they hardly need to advertise now that they’ve convinced us all that there’s nothing more Canadian than drinking Tim Horton’s coffee).
Their latest ad tells us how the best gift you can possibly get somebody is a Tim Horton’s Gift Card. Nothing like a couple of cups of coffee on you to say that you really care. :rolleyes:
Oh goody! I’ve been meaning to rant about the Betty Crocker commercial where the kid browbeats (“He’s gonna leave! He’s gonna leave! He’s gonna leave!”) his dad into baking sugar cookies for Santa. The dad should’ve baked them to cinders and given the brat coal cookies for Christmas.
That’s actually Beyonce!? Man, I caught that on American TV this past weekend and assumed it had to be some generic unknown who happened to look like Beyonce. My actual thought process watching the ad was: “She’s pretty good looking… dances well, too… too bad she’s doing this crap… hope she gets a break from this.”
The ads for any damned jewelry store in existence; a special place of dishonor for Kay Jewelers, however.