That stupid bimbo in the juicer ads. “AREN’T YOU GOING TO TURN IT ON!” she shouts, above the din of the machine. “IT IS ON” comes the reply.
I can fit TWO carrots in here!!
I’m sorry but I fucking hate how incredibly false those type of adverts are, like the product being advertised is the best thing since the wheel or electricity!
They are virtually as bad as the spoof one on the simpsons - “you got all that [pointing at a glass into which two drops of orange juice have dropped] from just twenty seven oranges??”
Yes, I am sure that American advertising doesn’t hold a candle to that superior “Isle of Man” programming we’ve all heard so much about - “Nigel’s Insta-Haggis Boiler,” for example.
I love the one for the countertop rotisserie deal where Ron Popeil has to don gigantic gloves so that he can remove the chicken from the roaster WITH HIS HANDS. Nuthin to it! I use a normal oven and have never had to pick up a roasted chicken with my hands.
My in-laws gave me this rotisserie for Christmas, and it comes with the monster gloves and big elastics and I can’t remember what else. It was a major effort to assemble the thing and all I could think was “I’d have to take this all apart to wash it!”
I fear it might get “broken” when I move next year.
And, yeah, I love the infomercials where the host gets absolutely orgasmic over whatever the heck he/she is selling. “But wait! There’s MORE!!” :rolleyes:
My favourite bit is where the host sweeps away a whole tableful of utensils and gadgets that are no longer needed now that you have the new handy insta-thingy.
But my utensil drawer does look a bit like the one where all the things are knotted together like a box of wire coat hangers.
Another common thing in these commercials is the “X-ing out” of what you will not need once you buy the product being advertised, or the “X-ing out” of the higher price you’d have to pay if you bought it somewhere else.