Heh. I’m never that impressed by claims of “we’ve been in business since the '80s!” The 80’s weren’t all that long ago, really.
And I say this as someone who was born in '87.
The insurance ad where the guy “gags a little” - and all their other ads with that guy. That is one annoying sumbitch.
As it stands, it’s the beer for broke college students.
First off, what bartender asks, “do you care how it tastes?”, when someone orders a beer? How about asking, “What beer would you like?” Second, he says he doesn’t care how it tastes. I guess he’s just looking to get shit-faced. Third, I hate the way the woman mocks the male CUSTEMER about his “purse”. I don’t have a purse or “carry-all”, but my pants pockets get pretty bulgy. I can see why a dude would have something like that. WTF business is it of hers to judge the guy?
finally, I’m not a beer drinker, (I DO like wine coolers, guess I’m a pussy), but doesn’t Miller Lite suck?
I don’t know how it tastes, but yeah, I find these Miller Lite commercials really offensive. There’s at least two or three, all suggesting people who don’t like THEIR beer are crossdressers, or maybe gay, not real men. Come to think of it, “pussy” is just the perfect term.
I actually really like those commercials, especially the Packer fans. But I thought about this very same point, and it occurred to me that what they’re selling is the ability to watch your team even when you live across the country from it. A Viking fan living in Green Bay, or a Browns fan living in Pittsburgh, is not going to have as much difficulty seeing his team as a Miami fan in Boston or a Redskin fan in Dallas. That’s why the only real actual rivalry that they’ve portrayed in the ads is Washington-Dallas.
Or so it seems to me.
Gonna give a huge third (fourth?) about the annoying AT&T commercials with that stupid song and the stupid orange whatever. The commercial itself I guess isn’t bad, but I’ve seen it 2.6 million times for the past 3 years it seems. Just keeps going on and on and on.
The Mcdonalds “not til I’ve had my coffee” commercial is ok til the end where he tells the cashier to be quiet. Why else are you there but for coffee? Shut up.
I just saw another one I hate. The Bounce dryer bar. “It’s just one less thing I have to worry about in my busy life”. Really? You worry about the 2 seconds it takes to grab a dryer sheet and fling it into the dryer with your clothes? Maybe you do a couple loads of laundry a day, so that’s 4 seconds. Ooh, you could be using all that time for something more important!
Couldn’t they find a better selling point than how much time it saves? Like all those used dryer sheets ending up everywhere or going to landfills. Show someone wandering around with a dryer sheet stuck to their back. Show birds tangled up in dryer sheets. Show the savings of buying the bar as opposed to a box of sheets but stop telling me how much time it saves in their busy lives! It’s bullshit!
I work in marketing and this is exactly what I’d say to the client. Bad selling point.
Another vote for Miller Lite. Their current ad strategy is that you must be gay if you don’t drink their beer. Are they selling beer to twelve year olds?
I’m gonna pull the plug on that little F*cker “Space man Stu” and watch his head explode in space as he’s looking at the stars. God McDonald’s how much money have you spent to air this commercial during every commercial break for a month.
Amen! Even back when I was 7 and played this game, it was punch-buggies… as in Beetles… you can’t go punching someone over a GD Jetta! Of course there weren’t ‘New’ Beetles back then, but I doubt we would have allowed punches for the New Beetle.
The AT&T one I hate is with the “Dumb Dad” ™ who can’t find his “internet cord” so the daughter tells him it’s invisible, then when they’re out at a cafe they tell him “It’s a really long cord” and the dad goes “AAAAH!” like “I am so hip to that!” Should that guy be walking around without a safety helmet?
I haven’t seen that one, but it does sound terrible!
Yes, he should be, and then it should rain hammers.
I think it’s actually because you’re a bird who got tangled up in a dryer sheet.
Really? This one is awesome.
Boniva by Sally Fields
Taco Bell commercials are usually a ton o’ hate. Like the one where the guy asks for the special cashier to give him some sort of special deal, that is on the menu for everyone. It is the dumb white guy epitomized.
That’s the plan, but their lobbyists haven’t closed the deal yet.