There’s an insurance company which is running a series of ads featuring people who don’t understand what a deductible is.
They have some person at an outdoor location, explaining to the camera that they made all their payments on time, for years and years, and then they spun out on some ice, or something, and now “THE COMPANY WANTS MORE MONEY!”
OK, first of all, technically, the company doesn’t, the mechanic who fixes your car does. And second, as someone should have explained to you when you bought your policy, your monthly payments will be higher or lower depending on your freely chosen deductible. Yes, that’s right: YOU CHOSE THAT DEDUCTIBLE. In fact, most companies do have “$0.00” as a choice for deductible, but then your monthly premiums (payments) will be higher. Choose a high deductible, like $1,000, and you get lower payments, but you may be in trouble if you are at fault in an accident.
Is a commercial where the people featured are demonstrably more stupid than the target audience effective?
And couldn’t you make essentially the same point (the vanishing deductible, and first accident forgiveness), without making your actor look like a bubblehead?
And who thinks their insurance agent is their friend? You see him when you take out the policy, and e or snail mail the payments thereafter. If you see him after that, it’s because something bad happened.
That horrific one with what looks like a pregnant guy, but it’s not and it’s worse. Some sort of fiber-y product, I think.
But I agree, I don’t like the one with the chick who implies that she feels having insurance makes it okay to hit people with your car because why else would you have it? Hmm.
I hate all of the aforementioned car insurance commercials, especially the one where the wife talks down to her husband as if he’s a two-year-old, and the one with the Asian woman whose bangs hang down into her eyes. She’s just annoying.
Also the one for opioid constipation where the woman carries around a brown suitcase full of poop. Just ugh.
Same goes for the Charmin commercials where the bears discuss how it leaves you so clean you can wear your underwear two days in a row. Ewwww.
Apparently cell phones use colored marbles and bowling balls for something. There are two different companies with commercials like that. My cell phone doesn’t use marbles or bowling balls so I don’t even care what they’re talking about and there are way too many of those stupid commercials on.
I don’t watch much TV but dislike commercials that don’t seem to have anything to do with the product. At times I had no clue what the commercial was even supposed to be about…I’m supposed to buy what now?
Personally I find the internet ads far more annoying than any commercial.
I can’t believe so many people are willing to discuss how clean a brand of TP gets their asses and further, they’ll go commando to prove it. Um, ok, whatever. Not that it’s persuaded me to try their product.
Just in general, I really really hate commercials where men are portrayed as incompetent morons considered disdainfully by their obviously superior wives. To me, those ads are as offensive as the old Geritol ad with the tag line “My wife - I think I’ll keep her.”
I’m very bitter over miracle pill commercials (where you have to nag the doctor if it’s ‘right for you’) where the afflicted pill taker is surrounded by a big loving family or a big supportive jolly group of friends. All of them capering on the beach, sharing a swell time, smiles and loving looks a-plenty, all so pleased the miracle pill is improving or extending their loved one’s life. Cancer? Alzheimers? Elephant Man disease, crotch rot, plague? well, bubba, you won’t have to go through it all ALONE. Bullshit. some of us ARE going to go through it all alone. Some of us are going to stand in line getting a hideously expensive prescription and then go home to sit and wonder when we’ll die.
I wish for a hundred cars to fall on top of the head of the Hormel Pepperoni (Pepperon-a) guy one hundred times! It’s a mortal sin to change the blessed pepperoni to pepperon-a, as if we don’t get the “My Sharon-A” connection. He’s constantly out of tune and looks like Waldo on meth.
I’ll bet the guy in the Land Rover commercial will think twice before offering to take an icy-looking blonde woman and her team of sled dogs across an obviously shallow Alaskan river again. The dogs showed more gratitude for his help than Miss Frostycrotch did. They are probably more pleasant in bed, as well.
YES… I was buying some stuff to make quick pizzas at work for lunch, and refused to get Hormel Pepperoni because of that commercial… it forced me to by Armor brand.
I think that’s the reaction we’re supposed to have to him. Clearly that’s the reaction all the adults in the commercial are having. Kinda like how we were supposed to be annoyed by the camel who was making a big deal about Wednesday.
Agree on the “going commando” commercials. Seriously, do people wear underwear because their toilet paper doesn’t work well enough? I don’t think that’s why people wear underwear. Maybe in 1263, when people never washed their outer clothes, and TP didn’t exist, but not anymore.
Dear gawd I’m glad I live in technologically advanced times.
I eat a low carbohydrate diet and don’t eat most meatballs. They’re usually around 30% breadcrumbs. I make mine with parmesan cheese and almond flour instead, but nobody else does.
It’s also got to do with total calories. The woman has a plate of food, and it’s probably nutritionally and calorically balanced for weight loss, because if she loses weight, she might be able to bring her type II diabetes under control. She’s fairly heavy, and she probably can’t help herself to anything that’s in the serving bowls on the table, not even the salad if it’s dressed. That’s probably the whole point of showing us that she’s going to the table with a full plate, instead of serving herself at the table like everyone else.
BTW, I like that the commercial found an actress who is heavy but still attractive, and in fairly good shape, keeping up with the kids on some Wii game.
I hate the “Dealdash.com” commercial with the heat of a thousand suns. For some reason, they run ads promoting an auction site for morons on channels like BBC America and the Science channel which are, at least in my fond imagining, aimed at a slightly more intelligent audience. And they run the damn advertisement constantly. It’s like the goddamn Zika virus of commercials.
That’s a pretty bad one. You could pull people off the street and chances are they’d have better acting skills, plus that one woman has one of the worst wigs I’ve ever seen. Now, it’s none of my business if a person wants to wear a wig, but I’d think that in the case of a TV commercial, costuming would put her in a more convincing one.