There’s a commercial for life insurance where the husband wakes up in the middle of the night after he had a bad dream about his children, so he decides to go check on the kids who are all sound asleep. In the next scene he’s sitting in the kitchen (in the middle of the night!) poring over some information about a life insurance policy, his concern over this being the apparent impetus for his bad dream. His wife, who got up with him rather than stay in bed, talks about the life insurance as well. Unless she’s plotting to cash in on his death (I watch a lot of shows on [del]CourtTV[/del] TruTV about guys whose wives murder them for the insurance money), her more realistic response would be, “For Christ’s sake, Harold, can we talk about this in the morning?! Let’s get some sleep!”
Not to mention the total lack of realism. In real life, it would take 5 minutes to find the DVD case, then another 5 to find the headphones. Then the three year old would cry because she wants to watch Strawberry Shortcake, while the five year old would insist on Finding Nemo. When you finally decide what to watch, you must spend yet another 5 minutes to locate the disc, insert it, have it rejected because it has mysterious goo on it, and then have to clean off the mysterious goo with spit and your t-shirt. At long last, the DVD is on, and you can get going, at which point the children become immediately bored and start poking each other. Then the three year old will cry because she suddenly remembered she wanted to watch Strawberry Shortcake. The five year old will also cry for whatever reason she can come up with. At which point you blow a gasket and scream that if one more person whines there will be no popsicles after dinner tonight.
“The box says I’ve been fucking your sister.”
She reminds me a lot of the other Talking Box commercial with the tax thing where the lady makes her husband actually talk to the box that the Turbo Tax software came in. Shrill box women suck.
Probably because the Mac ads always revolve around something equally as niche as editing home movies or creating picture slideshows to send to Grandma.
I’m sure gaming is equally as popular (if not more so) than those “fun” Mac things.
There’s one on here for some kind of kitty litter. The premise is that the litter is so effective that even the cat can’t find the litter box.
It’s a sure bet no one involved in the production of that commercial has ever lived with a cat with urinary or behavioral issues. The absolute very last thing I want in relation to those animals is for them to have the remotest, slightest doubt in their wee little brains as to where they are supposed to urinate.
There’s a new one right now where it starts with a toddler making a mess and how the paper towel will fix it. I’m ok with that, toddlers make messes. But then goes to something like “if you let your husband do the dishes on his own” and then implies that she’s going to have to redo the dishes after he’s done…
that’s insulting to the husband in a stupid way. It’s insulting to the wife for having married (and then having children with) someone too stupid to clean a dish. How is this a selling point? Are there really people who see this and think it’s true to life? Aren’t they then deeply ashamed of themselves?
I love this commercial! If I were still single, I’d definitely use this tactic.
I think we’re supposed to believe that the girl who’s garnering all the attention is the plainer of the two and that her amazingly attractive friend is being ignored due to the bacon aroma. But in truth, both girls are drop dead gorgeous and would be attracting every unattached male in the room even if the purse contained a week old trout instead of a chalupa.
All while driving down the highway at 60 mph, I trust? 
(You gave me a very good giggle.)
That’s why when the kids were younger we didn’t have a DVD player in the van. If they were bored, then they bring books to read.
So cat litter commercials should be made keeping in mind cats with urinary or behavioral issues?
I mean, maybe that commercial is kind of silly, or sending the wrong message, but I’m not sure at all it’s because of THAT…
I can’t stand most commercials for cleaning products, or more specifically, the ones featuring Mom running around the house spraying and wiping everything in sight with chemicals of all descriptions, protecting her kids with this vain attempt to sterilize the home to the level of a hospital operating room.
I also hated one that isn’t on any more, from Mazda (I think). To show the appeal of its entry-level car to teenagers, we got to see a carful of them zooming along, laughing and chatting with music blaring. Every time I saw it, I thought “road hazard.”
Some internet stock trading outfit is going all 1997 on us about how conceptually thrilling it is to push a key and actually buy stock in a real company. :rolleyes:
Spot A: Large Asian family gathered around computer chanting “DAAA-DY. DAAA-DY. DAAA-DY.” Daddy pushes key. Rejoicing ensues.
Spot B: Smirking goateed idiot at computer. “I just bought 100 shares of Shengdao Energy…Can you believe it? Shengdao Energy. In Hong Kong.…That’s CHINA.”
Why am I not catching the Fever here about how all-fired exciting it is to buy stock online, and about the fact that Hong Kong has publicly traded energy companies and is (whoa dude!) in China? Am I one of the jaded digerati?
I don’t know if it’s on “regular” radio, but I listen to A LOT of online radio and I have had numerous HD Radio commercials burned into my brain:
“Hey, it’s your radio… you’re not at the store buying an HD radio right now, right? RIGHT?”
The one with the “iTunes tagging” is especially lame, too. Is there anyone on earth who is stupid enough to need “have a song magically appear in your iTunes” when you’ve heard it once in your car? I guess it’s not a terrible idea–I mean, you could obviously just google the song if you aren’t sure of its name but you know ANY of the lyrics–but is it really something so special that you need to use it as a main selling point for the product?
Don’t I know it. I dropped my cable TV several months ago and haven’t really missed it, but I was staying with family a week ago and got my fill of TV. By the end of the week I wanted to punch this smug jerk in the teeth. I suppose they’re trying to push the idea that you can trade in international stocks, heretofore something nobody cared about (different story now that the dollar’s tanking, I guess), but online daytrading is old, old news. The attitude is pathetic.
Are you talking about the video that recently came out showing a trooper hanging his dog off a deck by its leash and then kicking it repeatedly? If so, good on Mr. Easely.
There’s a commercial for the cereal Fiber One with Honey Clusters that annoys me. This customer in a supermerket starts badgering the stockboy and store manager about where the fiber is in the cereal, pointing out, among other things, that there’s nothing that “looks like twigs”. I just can’t help but feel that the customer has some very incorrect and outdated notions about fiber and fiber-rich foods.
Probably Euell Gibbons’ grandson.
There’s a certain high fiber cereal that does look like twigs…and tastes like them too. 
Another automotive related one from a few years ago. It’s a dark and stormy night. Mom’s driving a minivan through ligtning flashes, bucket of rain, and a howling wind. Every so often she steals a worried glance at the two tykes asleep in the back seat as ominous music plays. Then she gets a big look of relief on her face as she pulls into her driveway with the house lit up like nobody’s business. What were they selling? Batteries.
Excuse me? Unless you’re camping at The-Middle-o-Nowhere Park or something like that, you’re someplace when you climb into the car – your sister’s house, the mall, a gas station. Some place where if the battery’s flat and you can’t start, there are people there to make phone calls, give you a jump, or do something else so you’re not stuck in a parking lot, no matter how stormy it is.
Yep, that’s the one.