# Commercials may have finally hit rock bottom **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198 "2022-10-13T17:04:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/321 "2024-03-06T17:03:07Z")
I was looking on Amazon for some baby powder and ran across “Happy Nuts” powder (or cream) for men. Another ad had this description: “Friction Defense for Balls, Groin, Private Parts and Butt”. Truth in advertising, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/322 "2024-03-06T17:07:57Z")
Sounds like the commercials for Lume deodorant. “Pits, privates, butt crack.” ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/323 "2024-03-06T17:34:02Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > diarrhea ads > > I haven’t seen these, who is buying diarrhea? A long, long time ago, when I was a Cadet at the Royal Military College of Canada we had a salmonella outbreak. And at the start, before I knew that there was an outbreak, I reported to the medic one morning and asked him what he could give me for a case of diarrhea. His reply: “How about five dollars? But seriously Sir, just joking and could you please list everything you ate for the last 48 hours?” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/324 "2024-03-07T02:08:39Z")
Perhaps in response to the Lume product, I’m seeing commercials for Secret brand “whole body” deodorant, though the commercials avoid saying exactly where it’s to be used. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/325 "2024-03-07T02:15:56Z")
I give you slingers. Seen quite often on CNN. Special underwear for men with hammocks for their…well…balls. The ad shows a pair with 2 eggs nestled in the hammock. And a beautiful hand model cradling underneath. So cute. Then the next ad was for Cadbury eggs. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/326 "2024-03-07T02:22:15Z")
There was a magazine ad showing a female silouette. It highlighted the private area. My first thought is, Really? They are trying to convince women they smell bad down there again? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/327 "2024-03-07T12:55:09Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > There was a magazine ad showing a female silouette. It highlighted the private area. > My first thought is, Really? They are trying to convince women they smell bad down there again? Have you seen the ads for Secret Whole Body Deodorant? They’re incredibly unsubtle about where you can use it. Here’s a long version I haven’t sen on TV: > [@](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlUwoDQFiw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlUwoDQFiw) In the short version I’ve seen, it starts out the same way, but at the end the Lady Gynecologist days something like “You can use it from your head to you…” …and it looks like she’s going to say “feet”, but then we cut to the self-confessed Stinky Lady from the start, and she’s spraying the stuff into the front of her pants held open. This is an even shorter version: > [@](#): > > [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KpaO1WYTbus](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KpaO1WYTbus) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/328 "2024-03-07T15:25:56Z")
The thing that gets me about that commercial is that the message seems to be that pubic hair is a natural part of being a woman, and is all around great, Yay girl power! But if that is the case then why are you bowing to the patriarchy by shaving them off. It seems a bad way to sell razors. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/329 "2024-03-07T15:37:52Z")
Haven’t followed thread, but surely this has been mentioned already, but if not: **Commercials may have finally hit rock bottom** _Finally?_ ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/330 "2024-03-07T16:08:47Z")
Shaving does make you feel clean. Of course, I always nick myself. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/331 "2024-03-07T17:12:13Z")
Not that I’m trying to defend that commercial, but I think the message is supposed to be self care your own way, shave, no shave, yay. But I guess it is weird that it’s a razor company. On another note: I’ve become convinced lately that if we all took balance of nature, prevagen, washed it down with that green stuff, and finally guzzle down a big heapin’ glass of cow colostrum, we’d live forever, and not forget shit all the time. Of course we’d be much, much, poorer. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/332 "2024-03-08T03:02:10Z")
you haven’t lived until you heard pro wrestling legend Jim Cornette do a spot for manscaped personal care products in his podcast…although he is pretty crazy in all his “ads” if anyone wants to hear i think they’re on you tube i can link if ya want ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/333 "2024-03-08T15:52:47Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > **Commercials may have finally hit rock bottom** > > _Finally?_ That’s how I felt as a kid when I read that two of the most recognizable Americans were Madge the Palmolive spokes-manicurist (“You’re soaking in it”), and Mr. Whipple… “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin!” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/334 "2024-03-08T19:11:02Z")
Better Mr Whipple than those damned bears. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/335 "2024-03-08T19:28:26Z")
Amen! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/336 "2024-03-08T19:45:15Z")
> [@digs](#): > > That’s how I felt as a kid when I read that two of the most recognizable Americans were Madge the Palmolive spokes-manicurist (“You’re soaking in it”), and Mr. Whipple… And now barely remembered; supplanted by Flo and Lily. Dick Wilson, who played Mr. Whipple, has a pretty long list of credits on IMDb. I recognized him in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in _Our Man Flint_. Made 504 commercial for Charmin, bomber pilot in WWII, married 68 years, lived to 91. Nice work if you can get it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/337 "2024-03-08T21:05:42Z")
I think we all have that. It’s called soap. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/338 "2024-03-09T07:46:51Z")
Wasn’t Madge the Wicked Witch? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/339 "2024-03-09T13:57:26Z")
No, but Margaret Hamilton did some ads for Maxwell House coffee. In a NYC subway, I saw a huge poster of her offering a cup, looking very witchy. Some unsung hero had scrawled under her: _“How about some COFFEE, Scarecrow?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198/340 "2024-03-09T14:51:15Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Haven’t followed thread, but surely this has been mentioned already, but if not: > > **Commercials may have finally hit rock bottom** > > _Finally?_ There’s always going to be a lower bottom to ads. At some point, a genius is going to come up with a universal system to bombard Internet users with smell-o-vision (excuse me, Olfactory Virtual Reality Technology), and the Stinky Lume Ladies will be even more dazzling. Sure, [implementation is voluntary](https://www.olorama.com/movies-and-videos-with-smells)…for now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198.md?page=18)