Anyone have any of these? For me, it’s that Pepsi commerical with the guy sitting at the sound mixing board who can’t quite get the mix right. Then he takes a drink of Pespi, sez “that’s the flavor,” dances in his chair like an epileptic in the middle of a seizure. The camera zooms into one of his monitors, and it now has a crowd. The camera spins back, and his booth has two people rapping in it. It reminds me of REM’s Losing My Religion for some reason. Guy drinks a Pepsi, then is in some kind of psuedo-Machavellian video. Huh?
There’s a commercial for that microwave-version Macaroni and Cheese (which sucks, by the way) that shows a little girl being bratty to her older brother, and her older brother being bratty back. They aren’t being particularly clever or cute or anything, or lauding the properties of the product. They’re just being stupid little snots , like young siblings have been doing since the dawn of time.
I don’t see why this commercial would make anyone want buy mac ‘n’ cheese.
Maybe the idea of the macaroni and cheese one is that if you give it to your kids they’ll stop bugging you.
I dunno. I once got a lateral ad no-one else did - it was a cat arching its back and hissing at a bottle of vodka. I was the only one to figure it was because cats sense spirits. Lolly lolly lol. Other than that I never much liked the Guinness ads since they dumped Rutger Hauer. Those were excellent. I loved it when he was sitting by an aquarium wall with a dolphin behind it, and just said “It’s not easy being a dolphin”. I later found out from a documentary that it’s not easy because you can’t drink Guinness as a dolphin. I didn’t get it. Loved it anyway.
Or how about the Diet Coke ad where the guy is doing laundry, and he goes on about how his SO’s worn-out flowered panties are comforting, because they remind him of his mother’s laundry? That one just made me cringe. Actually that whole ad series is just a little off.
I ‘get’ these commercials, but I really wish I didn’t: I’m talking about the Kotex adds where against a backdrop of frolicking women, the voice-over discusses how a period normally comes “at the end of a sentence.” All the while, a perky bright red dot dances and bounces across the screen. Blaargh! Do I need to be whacked over the head with such symbolism? Maybe I just don’t get it because I’m not in the target demographic, but I find it hard to believe that men or women look forward to having a sing along ala ‘follow the bouncing ball’ with an embarrassing blood stain.