Was the line “workshed?” 
“You’ve got your kids, pets, husbands!” as if they’re all mess-makers who can’t keep the house clean. :smack: And those commercials that have a mom smiling while the kid makes a horrific mess–an opportunity to use your paper towels! Woot! :dubious:
Hah! It deserves that kind of dubbing treatment I think.
(In Army of Darkness, on the commentary track, Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi joke about how loud the word “Workshed!” is due to bad overdubbing or something. It sounds more like Kirk Russell saying it than Campbell.
There used to be (or still is?) a commercial for Valtrex which was the same kind of thing. It showed two drawings of human figures and one had a whole bunch of Vs in it, which represented Valtrex, and then the other had just a few of the first letter of some inferier herpes medication, which clearly demonstrated that Valtrex is more effective, what with all those Vs.
Are you in my head? I was going to start a thread about Geico specifically about this commercial. It makes NO SENSE.
First, why is the money looking at you? You have stalker money? And these people look bemused, like “oh neat, it’s looking at me.” Shouldn’t you snatch that shit up?
Worse yet they’re now on radio. Fucking stupid commercial. And I hate the techno remake of “Somebody’s Watching Me.” It’s like they got the cheapest knock-off artist to cover the song. They couldn’t pay Rockwell for the rights to the original? Cheap bastards.
But they can make more caveman ones. Those are brilliant.
That bitch with the fucking trash bag… she deserves a good cock punching. Take it out, you daft bint, and stop waiting for “Coach” to rescue your dainty ass. The face she makes is punchable as well.
I’m not so much infuriated as confused by the current one of these set in the family van. Older son is in the backseat and ask Mom for some minutes. Mom asks what happened to the ones he had. Older Son says he threw them out. Mom gets annoyed as she reminds him again that these are rollover minutes and they were still good.
Cut to Older Son staring at Mom.
Cut to Mom staring at Older Son.
Cut back to Older Son staring at Mom.
Cut back to Mom staring at Older Son.
Cut to Younger Son staring at them both.
Uhhh…what’s the point of all this staring? I keep expecting a tagline but the commercial just ends without anyone saying anything more. Did they inadvertently buy fifteen seconds of airtime but only write a ten second script? Was there a director on set saying “…and hold the stare…and hold…and keep holding it…”
The blank uncomfortable staring all around probably isn’t supposed to convey the message that dysfunctional families buy this product but that’s the impression I’m left with.
See, I love it. She snaps at her son, “Saving minutes…” and he interjects with an attitude, “…saves money, I know.” She gives him the glare o’ doom like she’s tempted to force-feed him the minute chips in her hand, and he shifts uncomfortably.
Man, I LOVE the mom-stare and did not know it was a feature of a dysfunctional family. If that’s the case, every mother I know is in a dysfunctional family.
Yes, I like the staring contest and how the son finally has to look away.
This. As in “I want my money and I want it NOW!”
Had cell phones not been toys of people with way more money than we had when I was a kid I can see my mom being a lot like the mom in those ads about the minutes. Heck, if I had a kid I’d be like her! The ad mom is far more like a real mom than any mom I ever saw in an ad before.
What I want to see is a commercial that starts like one of those and turns into a commercial for a firearms training course as the late burglar is body-bagged and hauled off.
My problem with these commercials is that they are flat out lying -
rollover minutes expire - they become useless/worthless if you dont use them.
The commercial should be about how the kid wants to use the rollover minutes but cant until they’;ve used up all of the current new minutes.
Saving minutes saves no one but the cell phone company money.
But I love the mom stare - the little quiver on the chin is perfect.
Especially in this one! I laughed my butt off, because I know I’ve done the same kind of thing with my kids, as did my own mom with me and my siblings!
It’s pretty clear to me that we’re meant to see this family as dysfunctional, or least tense. The son’s is clearly trying to wind the mom up, and she’s staring at him for three reasons. One, she’s just realized that he’s been deliberately throwing her money away out of adolescent rebellion; two, because she wants him to know that she knows; and three, because she’s just decided this siatuation is best resolved with murderous violence and wants to keep an eye on him till they get home so she can disembowel him in the privacy of her own home.
But the mom’s cute, even when she’s angry, so it’s cool.
Mi Chiamo Stan is great. It’s especially funny if you’ve lived in the Quad Cities. I mean, there has to be some payback for having lived there.
So true. I especially hate the Magic Eraser one where the mother is talking on the phone and doesn’t realize that the kid is drawing on the walls. I would still be in the corner recovering from an ass-paddlin’.
I don’t think the AT&T mom/family is meant to be dysfunctional. She’s a mom with teens, though I personally have never had teens I’ve seen enough of my siblings and other people’s teens to know they are an aggravating rebellious lot.
Going back to the Febreze one, or pretty much any air freshener, I hate when people spray their air fresheners and the lean in and take a big sniff. You can’t do that, you’ll sneeze.
Levi’s - Go Forth. WTF people?! This is the most overwrought commercial I’ve ever seen, using an original recording of Walt Whitman reading “America,” with lots of dark, artsy images. It is at once ridiculously earnest (for selling jeans, for Pete’s sake!), and creepily off-putting.
I hate the idea of filling my house with chemicals more than I already have to. Anything with chemical air fresheners is icky to me.