Commercials That Make You Say WTF?!

No. That’s not what he said, and clearly has absolutely nothing to do with what he said. Did you actually watch the ad in question?

I did and I came to a different conclusion. I didn’t see anything resembling rape. Different strokes I guess.

The news Arby’s “Good Mood Food” commercial.

Douchebag guy singer: Caaaaatttt people, daaaawwwwwwgggg people.

Women standing next to airport metal detector, hands up, getting searched: We all look the same way nude.

I’m generally not fazed by mind-blowingly inane commercials anymore, but this one completely confounds me. I can only assume that the table-thumpers are friends of the McDonald’s CEO and the commercial was their wedding gift.

The music in the table-thumpers commercial just makes it worse. “Is there chocolate? Is there whipped cream?”
It’s as if McDonald’s is saying, “Seriously, is there? We have no idea what the hell we’re selling here.”

Those two brats pushing the Pillsbury Toaster Strudels. I don’t know who is worse, the gloating pusher or the pig who grabs half of it.

Beyond all others: The Kia commercials with the hip-hop hamsters. Message: “Our target market is inner-city hoodie-wearing rappers and guys whose sole function in life is saying ‘ungh – c’mon’.”

Just who are these rodents supposed to represent?

I thought so.

Apparently you have decided to go with “that”. :smiley:

I love the hamster commercials. I always bop along with them.

What were those commercials? All I see is an explanation that they didn’t realize it would be offensive. I don’t even know what “Groupon” is.

My current notice: the Virgin Mobile commercial where they are advertising their “crazy” speeds by showing a girl in obsessive stalker mode, camped out in a tree overlooking her new date’s bedroom and talking about how her lightning fast phone speeds allow her to spy on him more efficiently. A second one has her hiding in his bedroom closet. Yep, that’s right, a smartphone service advertising that their product is aimed at stalkers who use social media to harass their victims. SCORE!

I love that song. I even went and bought the mp3 after having been reminded of it by that commercial.

I have no idea how it’s supposed to get me to buy a car though.

I’ve seen commercials for toilet bowl cleaners from Lysol and other companies arguing that their product is necessary to deal with the danger of germs. But we’re talking about a toilet bowl. Even if it’s completely sterile and contains only distilled water after I’ve cleaned it, it’s going to be really gross as soon as it’s used. So who cares if there are germs there?

Another weird one is the commercial I saw last night for NYSE Euronext, pointing out that Motorola trades on the NYSE. Presumably they’re suggesting that the next time I’m contemplating taking my company public, I should do so on the NYSE instead of the NASDAQ. I’ll keep that in mind.

Hardees has the stupidest rhyme in the world in their current ad campaign-they rhyme the word “food” with “food”. Since that ad is a terminal earworm I’m not about to go to Youtube and listen to it just to get the exact quote.

I found an article about it with the video of one embedded:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Groupon-Super-Bowl-Ad-Fails-Badly-115480369.html

For me, the one that bugs me the most is this State Farm ad:

“Call our agents! We’ll talk over you and never let you get a word in edgewise!”

I love those! They certainly don’t make me want to buy the product, but they’re creepily fun!
Need to dispose of a body? There’s an app for that!

Are you sure that’s not the Arby’s commercial that I posted about above:

I have the same issue with the commercials that tell you you need one of those touchless soap dispensers. Because you don’t want your kids to get germs on their hands … which they’re about to wash anyways. :confused:

It’s especially annoying because there’s a perfectly believable alternate reason to have one of those - so that your kids don’t get all the gross messy goop that’s on their hands all over the soap container and sink. But they never use that angle.

If you have an identical twin brother with a wife or girlfriend, and you pretend to be your brother in order to have sex with her, you are committing rape no matter how enthusiastic she is. The principle is pretty simple.

The thing I like best about the Hamsters commercials is that at the very beginning they show a street sign that reads “Hamsterdam.” I prefer to think that was an intentional shout-out to The Wire.

While I absolutely hate the commercial in question and anything else that essentially glorifies the use of deceit to get laid, but I also fail to see where this becomes rape.

Is there a law somewhere that actually defines rape to include sex that is consentual, but only because the woman was misinformed?