In one sad interpretation, this does make sense. Grandpa is confused – he knows that the rest of the family has gone to pick up the food, but he can’t remember what he asked for. Grandson, who has been left behind to keep an eye on Gramps (who has been acting stranger and stranger lately), tries to explain that he asked for macaroni & cheese, but Grandpa doesn’t like this, since he has started thinking about mashed potatoes. The teenaged grandson doesn’t have much experience dealing with confused older people, so he begins to argue with Grandpa instead of gently reminding him about ordering the other side. The commercial that we see begins at this point. This provides an explanation for the grandson’s “What are you doing?” surprise at the headlock; they aren’t used to wrestling around this way, or the grandson wouldn’t have reacted with such surprise. Grandpa needs a medical evaluation – he’s forgetful, confused, agitated, and growing violent. The KFC ad execs seem to have forgotten the Alzheimer’s Association contact information which belongs at the end of the commercial. The Colonel is probably spinning like a yardbird on a rotisserie in his grave.
And where does that box of Just for Men come from, falling out of the sky on that desert island? You would think rescuers would have something much more useful for that poor guy. I also enjoy the football players in that spot - all the elderly quarterbacks who have to worry about gray hair …
No!! It’s Farmers Insurance! University of Farmers? With the great J. K. Simmons as the professor? Those commercials are pretty good, although I got tired of the one with the giant jack-in-the-box crushed by the falling space capsule.
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That commercial is STUPID! Makes no GAWDDAMN sense!
I have to admit that I watch a lot less TV nowadays and I’m less likely to see annoying commercials. I am pretty tired of the un-Flo Progressive commercials, with the 70s guy looking like one of the Dukes of Hazzard. He now stalks people and awards them cash for not killing each other on the road.
The baby with the goatee driving the sports car is horrible.
I’m not repulsed, but curious about the production values on the local ambulance chaser commercials. Is there a science behind their ads? They are incredibly cheesy and seem to strive to keep the low production values. Are the eternally hard on their luck attracted to those ads or something?
This one: - YouTube (AT&T 4G)
I so want to give that couple the Dexter treatment.
Because they are cheap bastards, and unwilling to spend one more penny than absolutely necessary. Them, and local car dealers. I actually edited some Kansas City “Boots Williams” car commercials for legendarily awful producer Colonel Billy. He was so cheap that he would shoot his footage MOS (silent), with the featured people just flapping their lips.
There is a recent ad for Wal-mart steak, it goes like so:
Man:We invited real people to this steak dinner, now we will tell them the truth!
Man:You all just had steaks from Wal-mart.
Crowd:GASP!
Woman:But it was so good I ate all of mine!
WTF is the point of these ads? Super WMs have carried a full grocery selection forever, including meats. Why this sudden effort to convince me WM has edible cheap steaks?
Why would anyone assume WM steaks were terrible?
Wal-Marts are just departemnts stores in much of the US.
Okay, i just now saw this commercial for the very first time, but I already hate it.
As my sixteen-year old daughter so aptly put it: “Resealable wrapper???!!!??? EEEWWWW!!!”
Walmart has opened a Walmart Express right by the Chicago stop of the Brown Line here in Chicago, and it’s mostly a food store.
On the other hand, assuming reasonable processing, handling and shipping beef is beef. The grades are almost entirely about marbling which is determined via visual inspection.
And Wal-Mart has apparently come up with their own grading system and is marketing the new beef as “Choice Premium”. No doubt it is still Choice in USDA terms. I’m sure that if it were USDA Prime, it would be labeled as such.
The ones I can’t stand recently are the Toyota ads where the salesman comes on like a college sports recruiter. It doesn’t help that the guy looks just like Jerry Sandusky.
What were they thinking?
The animated Abilify commercial with the woman and her depression (which for some reason is an umbrella with eyes). FIRST they have the woman struggling with her depression, at one point doing the classic “the wind is blowing my umbrella away” struggle - if the umbrella is your depression, wouldn’t you WANT to have it blown away by the wind? Why struggle to KEEP it? .Then they have the obligatory “Talk to your doctor” note, so the animated doctor comes out, starts talking, then shows depressed woman a film, which is a film - of herself talking. What the fuck? TALK TO YOUR PATIENT!
IIRC in one of the commercials a kid actually says who the person is.
I believe he is an old (presumably famous) basketball coach who is recruiting kids to Toyota.
“Coach T” is entirely fictional.
Current Capital One ads combine two revolting aspects - the leering, smirking pitchman and cutesy cute widdle kids.
I’m not surprised that the infants keep trying to do him physical harm. I’d try to brain the nimrod myself if given a chance.
I just saw one the other night that I really hate: the commercial for BMW’s free maintenance service where the service guy tells the women there’s no cost and she assumes he’s not charging her because he wants to sleep with her or date her or something. Yes, let’s please have more car related commercials where the women are really, really stupid and clueless.
Two words: “Depot Time”.
The premise is that they are serving WM steaks where someone would expect premium quality steaks. Like the Folgers “we secretly switched their expensive coffee for Folgers crystals, let’s see if anyone notices.” It’s trying to say that WM steaks are not the cheap, gristly, tough, tasteless block of chewy tough meat you expect, but an actual steak you can eat and enjoy.
Uh, it’s not like you swap out the used tampon and put a new fresh one in the package for later. The point is you can put the used tampon in the resealable wrapper, so that you contain the mess so you leave a cleaner package for the trash bin.
Ewww! I haven’t seen the commercial but that photo is super-creepy! :eek:
WM Steaks were featured on Masterchef the other night. I though if they mentioned that the steaks were from WM one more time I’d have to start punching some walls. I had a moment of hope when they switched to commercial but - no relief to be found.
Most are, but the one where the Girl in 4E or whatever pops in on the couch, sign me up! You can even keep the hot tub.
The DVR has to rate as one of the all time great inventions. I hardly ever watch TV in real time anymore, I’ll make every effort to record the show and zap through commercials.