So pandora keeps running this weird vaginal suppository ad on my metal channel. It is so bad to be blasting great songs then have to sprint to my keyboard to turn the volume down every few minutes to not be blasting vaginal suppository ads into the neighborhood. Its gotten so bad that I might actually cough up money to upgrade to pandora plus or prime or whatever the hell it is to get rid of all commercials.
Interesting side note, the commercial in question never comes up on my wife’s country channel. So I guess only skanks with vaginal stank listen to metal.
Ads for The Book of Mormon. Invariably, you hear them sing the one line “The book of Mor-or-or-mon. AH!” and the commercial ends. You get a short commercial for something else. And then the same damn commercial for The Book of Mormon is played AGAIN.
That was also for Lyrica. The first time I heard it, I found myself snarling at the commercial that the woman obviously didn’t pay attention in middle school health, or she’d have known that. I can’t find a video for it, either.
And here I was, all ready to Google vaginal suppositories, to figure out what that product might be (I was thinking yeast infection medication for women who never sneeze); anyway, laughed so hard, I started to black out.
That’s pretty bad, but I don’t think it comes close to the unpleasantness of the one where they demonstrate that using Priceline will help you avoid accidentally committing incest. I gotta say, I’m rather disturbed to discover that Priceline has a whole SERIES of this stuff. It was bad enough when I was under the impression that the commercial I came in to complain about was a one-off deal. Where is William Shatner when you need him?
I thought about that as well. But I’m sure as hell not going to go look into it. Someone else can if they wish. I think it’s called Koani or some such?
As has been pointed out, it’s not the Audi driver who splashes the guys.
But yeah, that one where the guy drives like a maniac through a residential neighborhood bugs the crap out of me. Then the girl on the bike, whose correct reaction should be to yell, “Hey, Asshole, slow down!!” instead has a spontaneous orgasm when she sees it’s an electric car. Wha??
There’s also a BMW commercial where a young lady backs into her ex-boyfriend’s driveway with the tailgate open and stops short, thereby dumping out all his stuff. They show her with this devilish smirk that I guess is meant to be playful and sexy, but all I can think is, “What a fucking bitch!”
Why do advertisers think that watching people acting like jerks will make us want to buy their products?
When I was reading Mad Magazine in the early 60s, I got the impression that advertising copywriters drank martinis all the time, and this skewed their perception to the point that they couldn’t write sensible ad copy. My parents belabored me for relying on the magazine’s articles, but considering some current commercials’ content, I have to wonder.
Agreed on all points, with this added observation: If you’re trying to sell your crappy for-profit diploma mill over other crappy for-profit diploma mills (or over real colleges, for that matter), you may not want to include the line “A degree is a degree.” :smack:
I think (though I admit I’m not sure what points the commercial is trying to make) you have it backwards. “A degree is a degree” is a main selling point of University of Phoenix, as in why go to the time and bother and anguish to apply to a real university when you can sign up for UofP. Hey, a degree is a degree. But, yeah, the commercial is annoying, particularly the insipid song and singing style.
I’m guessing it’s a bit harder, and takes more effort, than getting into Phoenix. I could be wrong.
My point wasn’t about attending online. It was about the process, getting accepted, doing classwork, etc. A degree is a degree, no matter where you go seems to be the point they are trying to make.
