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This reminds of the cell phone commercials where the father is furious his kids are wasting cell phone minutes (and raising the bill).
In the first half of the commercial, his teenage daughter calls to tell him she got an A in Advanced Physics. He yells at her for wasting peak time minutes.
In the second half, his son drives the car through the garage door and the father yells at him… for making ten calls on his cell phone that month in one day.
Hey dumbass! If your teenage daughter is pulling down an A in Advanced Physics, she’s likely a super genius, and will no doubt go on to a hugely successful career that makes big bucks. And your idiot son just drove through the garage door, that will obviously cost more than 1,000 call in a single day on his cell phone.
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It’s deeper than that. This stupid commercial demonstrates that it is OK in Hollywood and Madison Avenue to portray fathers as idiots. Watch TV for awhile with this thought in mind, and you’ll come away convinced.
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Dude’s more annyong that the Prograssive cashier lady. What the hell happened to the old guy? Did he die?
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I always thought he was kind of cute. One time when I said so, my son rolled his eyes and said it was obviously a twenty-something guy in a mask. Oh, well. I’ve never tried to look it up because I really don’t want to know.
My peeve ad is for that new HP thing for computerphobes. You hook it up to your phone line and emails “AMAZINGLY” print out on their own.
The radio ad I hear every damn day is a teenagerish girl stating that communicating with her Grandma used to be so hard, what with having to actually go to the post office, buy a stamp, put it in the post box “and who does THAT nowadays?”
I want to email a photo (cuz they’re big on the fact that photos will AMAZINGLY print out on their own!) of the one finger salute to the chowderhead ad person who thought it would be a good way to advertise.
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My peeve ad is for that new HP thing for computerphobes. You hook it up to your phone line and emails “AMAZINGLY” print out on their own.
The radio ad I hear every damn day is a teenagerish girl stating that communicating with her Grandma used to be so hard, what with having to actually go to the post office, buy a stamp, put it in the post box “and who does THAT nowadays?”
I want to email a photo (cuz they’re big on the fact that photos will AMAZINGLY print out on their own!) of the one finger salute to the chowderhead ad person who thought it would be a good way to advertise.
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I can see finding the ad annoying, but it doesn’t seem like a particularly bad piece of advertising to me. Seniors are often paranoid about technology, and do feel “out of touch” both with the tech and with their families. This ad seems to hit all the right buttons, no?
Just saw a commercial for (I think) some travel group. Every time the man tries to talk a jack hammer goes off. I turned it off before I found out what they were selling.
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I can see finding the ad annoying, but it doesn’t seem like a particularly bad piece of advertising to me. Seniors are often paranoid about technology, and do feel “out of touch” both with the tech and with their families. This ad seems to hit all the right buttons, no?
-FrL-
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Actually, the first time I heard the ad I asked my mom if it was something she would like.
No, what irks / annoys / drives me nutty is the bit about just how HARD and old school it is to put a stamp (OH! It’s so dificult to put it in the upper right corner! What if I put in in the middle? This is too haaaard!!!) on a letter and put it in the mail (I have to OPEN the mail box? OMG!!11one!).
It’s stupid.
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Just saw a commercial for (I think) some travel group. Every time the man tries to talk a jack hammer goes off. I turned it off before I found out what they were selling.
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Whichever is the one with the lawn gnome.
(Grandpa voice): “Making a list of what we need to get high speed internet: New computer more memory… [whatever else]”
You’re getting a new computer to get cable modem (or whatever he was planning on using)? If that needs a new computer because yours is so old, then so will Verizon DSL. And if you’re getting a new computer, why do you need more memory? Won’t you have ordered it in the new computer?
This is back to the school of “oh, those impossible [devices]” advertising, showing people struggling with the most mundane tasks, whereas the new product is SO MUCH EASIER.
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“Angel” is about heroin addiction? I always thought it was about suicide.
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Nope, there’s no question about it being about heroin. On the CD, there’s multimedia stuff (or at least there was back when Quicktime crap on CDs was all the rage) in which she’s talking about the song and it being about heroin addiction.
I don’t buy the Kutcher camera shennanigans. Here’s the commercial and the camera never goes anywhere private, just passed off from girl to girl as they photograph one another in innocent poses. In fact some older woman chuckles good-heartedly at the scampy hijinks of today’s youth. There’s nothing to indicate that anything scandalous happened except for Kutcher’s out of place reaction.
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My entry for this category is a Walmart ad which (in my area) shows after 11:30 pm. Employees are happily stocking shelves, running cash registers, etc, to the sound of Harvest King’s Dancing in the Moonlighthttp://youtube.com/watch?v=-j_D8qZKlIM.
Why do I hate this ad? First, I work 2nd shift at a Walmart superstore. I leave work after 11:00 pm. Half-an-hour later, at home, I turn on the tv & see the ad. I just left there. I want to forget where I work for a little while, ok?
Second, “Dancing in the Moonlight” was a favorite dance/good time song for me back in the day. Why’d they have to mess with it?
Thanks for letting me vent.
Love, Phil
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I’ve never seen that on tv, but omg, ugh. And double ugh.
We’ve got this one dumbass radio commercial in Ireland, from the food advisory board. It always gets played during the summer; barbeque season, y’know. Basically saying make sure to cook your food correctly, not to contaminate your food, all that. Basically, it consists of this guy… talking… really solemly… about how he… gave his mates food… poisoning… and how they got… really sick…
Seriously, it sounds like he’s explaining how he was drink-driving and knocked down a child. Whereas anyone I know that poisoned someone with shitty cooking would be like
“Hey! Shitbird! I cooked a steak for Vinny the other day, an’ it gave him the shits for a week! Yeah, I know! Old shitty pants V!”
Two reasons: (1) The ad’s played aprox. 50 times/shift where I work on in-house tv, so I hear it over&over&over ad nauseum (sp?). (2) I raised two kids. At the end when the kid sings, “I’ll love you 'til the end of time!” I’ve been known to add (not too quietly at work), “until dad says “no” to the next pricey toy the brat wants!”
Go Phone ad part 2: Another thing I hate about that ad is that it teaches kids if you keep after dad he’ll give in (evidenced by the line, “I can’t take it any longer…if you want…”
I guess it really teaches that dad’s a wimp w/more money than backbone. What a lesson for kids!
I like that one. You recognize the dad and the song, right? That’s the world-famous Meatloaf doing a parody of his (probably) biggest hit, Paradise by the Dashboard Light. That’s why the words are a little over-the-top.
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I like that one. You recognize the dad and the song, right? That’s the world-famous Meatloaf doing a parody of his (probably) biggest hit, Paradise by the Dashboard Light. That’s why the words are a little over-the-top.
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Yeah, I like that one too. If that isn’t meatloaf’s actual son or relative then that was excellent casting. I love the little head bob and lip sneer he does when meatloaf is singing.
any commercials with screaming brats make me want to drive a hammer-drill through my skull, but the current commercial I hate is the one with the two rapping teens at the Taco Hell drive-through
Who cares about your stupid rap, JUST SHUT UP AND ORDER ALREADY!, geez, the poor drivethru attendant could have filled two orders in the time it took you to get to the point!
