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Um … OK … :eek:
One of the tampon/napkin makers has a campaign based on having a “happy period.” My wife blows a gasket every time one of those stupid things comes on. She’s written to the advertiser twice, and both times she’s been told their focus group reactions were positive, so they’re sticking with the theme.
A few years back there was a commercial for shampoo. A woman on an airplane went back to use the lavatory to wash her hair in the sink. As the shampoo was completely organic, she started having an “organm”, shouting “YES! TES! YES!” As she was doing so, her elbow hit the intercom switch, so she broadcast her organm to the entire cabin. She then exits the lav with a satisfied look and dry hair, and gets odd looks from the other passengers.
Let’s forget the myriad logical errors in this, odd looks from the other passengers. Were they thinking “What the fuck kind of shampoo gives one an orgasm?” Nope. They were thinking “What the fuck kind of airline installs an intercom in the lav?”
Who the hell washes their hair in an airplane lavatory?!
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One of the tampon/napkin makers has a campaign based on having a “happy period.” My wife blows a gasket every time one of those stupid things comes on. She’s written to the advertiser twice, and both times she’s been told their focus group reactions were positive, so they’re sticking with the theme.
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Aaaarrrggghhh! I really, really want to kick in my TV screen every time one of those ads comes on! And if I actually have my period when I happen to hear one, I’m very tempted to gun down everyone in the advertising agency!
In fact, there was a thread about this some time ago, and a Doper whose name I can’t remember right now opined that “the only way those things’ll make me have a Happy Period’ is if they figure out how to infuse them with time-release Vodka”, which made me LOL.
Damn near every car makers is guilty of this, as well as a few tire makers. Showing cars careening out of control sideways across a roadway. Yeah, that sounds like ever so much fun.
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These ads are so bad, I’m not even sure who’s doing the advertising, but I think it’s Sonic (a chain of drive-in burger shops out here). They always have a couple in the car, and the couple is always completely unattractive and argumentative. Why would i want to be like those people and eat there?
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I commented to my wife just the other night that there must be something in Sonic’s food that makes you stupid.
There’s a cell phone ad here (no idea which one) where dad is telling the kids they can each have 5 free numbers, making a total of 26?! One of the teens corrects him, then he and mom belittle the kids and tell them to stay in school.
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Where is CPS when you need them?
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There’s a cell phone ad here (no idea which one) where dad is telling the kids they can each have 5 free numbers, making a total of 26?! One of the teens corrects him, then he and mom belittle the kids and tell them to stay in school.
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Where is CPS when you need them?
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You’ve misinterpreted that one. Dad says it makes 26 total. Kid corrects him, dad says the kid is wrong and walks away. Mom then says, “This is why you should stay in school.” This is just another “stupid dad” commercial, although it’s more extreme than most. I gues it would be “actually retarded dad.”
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When the Levitra ads first came out they didn’t use the phrase “male enhancement” It was just this ex football player (or coach?) talking about “getting back in the game” they never say ANYTHING that isn’t extremely broad or vague. The images are of him tossing around a football so I just figured it was for arthritis or something.
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Yes, but he threw the *football * through a tire swing. wink wink nudge nudge
Doesn’t that just make you want to go out and bone someone you love?
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Damn near every car makers is guilty of this, as well as a few tire makers. Showing cars careening out of control sideways across a roadway. Yeah, that sounds like ever so much fun.
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Well, to a lot of us, it is, except for actually being out of control. If a whole movie can be made based on the concept, it must have its fans.
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It couldn’t have been 34. Watch the ads again, everybody’s sleep number is divisible by 5. I think their market research said that labeling the knob 5, 10, 15,… 100 looked more adjustable (and more expensive) than 1-20.
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Middle offspring has one of these. He says the numbers represent the % fill of the air mattress. I’m assuming he read the instructions.
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Yes, but he threw the *football * through a tire swing. wink wink nudge nudge
Doesn’t that just make you want to go out and bone someone you love?
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Obviously, it was too subtle. I still think they should have kept the establishing bit with the guy trying to shoot hoops with a half-deflated beach-ball.
Do the ones that say “copyright theft is a crime” on DVDs and videos count? Especially since the only people that see those adverts warning you about piracy and the terrors it will unleash have, usually, just bought the movie.
Going along with what kh.4 said, the ones that crack me up are the anti piracy ads that say something like, “Would you steal a car?”
Because it is at that point that my roommate and I look at each other and say, “If I could download a car off of the internet from the comfort of my own home and more than likely get away with it, you can bet your ass I would.”
We’re probably just bad people with no souls, but needless to say, that ad doesn’t quite work on us.
Dumbest ad, though? Let’s go with the classic, “You could be a little bit pregnant” pregnancy test commercial.
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Going along with what kh.4 said, the ones that crack me up are the anti piracy ads that say something like, “Would you steal a car?”
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And sort-of related, I love the ads for a movie on DVD. The same movie you’re currently watching, but on VHS. Hey, dumbasses, you think if I had a DVD player and/or the rental store had the DVD in stock, you’d need to advertize it to me?
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A few years back there was a commercial for shampoo. A woman on an airplane went back to use the lavatory to wash her hair in the sink.
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Hey, tdn, have you developed a British accent? 
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These ads are so bad, I’m not even sure who’s doing the advertising, but I think it’s Sonic (a chain of drive-in burger shops out here). They always have a couple in the car, and the couple is always completely unattractive and argumentative. Why would i want to be like those people and eat there?
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See, I like those ads. Not for the food, so it falls into the ineffective catagory for me, but I think that woman is sexy.
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Hey, tdn, have you developed a British accent?
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Quite.
You just get hotter every day. 