There’s an ad for a car company - I think it’s Toyota - where a mother is covering her young son with every possible piece of protective sports gear you can think of. Catcher’s chest protector, hockey pads, football helmet, etc. Heck, for all I know there’s a kevlar bulletproof vest and a full set of plate armor buried in there.
Finally she hands him a tennis racket and he staggers off camera. The voiceover says “We know – you can’t be too protective.”
I always want to scream back at the television “Yes you can be too careful! That’s the whole problem with so many parents these days!”
I have reached that awkward age where I actually have a favorite toilet paper. I tolerate the bears, because I know that they do defacate in the woods, but wouldn’t grasp the function of toilet paper without a lot of evolution taking place beforehand.
You made me laugh. Out loud. In a library. Full! Of! Win!
I has just become aware of the stroke-faced woman in the Eyelash-Growing Medicine that Brooke Shields hawks. (Eyelash-growing? Really? This is a problem?) There’s a blond near the end of that commercial about to blow out candles on a birthday cake - although if the medicine works that well, couldn’t she just bat her eyes at the cake and the breeze would extinguish the flame? Just as she gets ready to blow, she shapes her mouth into what I assume was supposed to be O but actually turns out to be D (turned backwards) - only half her mouth moves! Now I can’t unsee it. I watch The View in the morning on Hulu, and they show this freaking commercial everyfreakin’day. Drives me nurtz, I tells ya!
Well, it’s like how Botox is now used for cosmetic reasons and not just medically-based treatments for various muscle conditions. They found that some glaucoma-treating eyedrops had eyelash growth as a side effect, so time to write up a proposal, present it to the FDA, test, and presto, new ‘cosmetic’ prescription drug.
That stupid commercial for the sliding door thing that prevents drafts.
The lady bends down to pick up the “leading brand” bean bag to place it back against the door and then puts her hand on her back like she hurt it. WTF are you bending down for? JUST KICK THE FUCKER BACK AGAINST THE DOOR YOU DUMB BITCH!
The very best thing about this commerical is listening to all the scary side-effects…and knowing that the FDA just slammed the company for downplaying the adverse risks. And here before reading that I already couldn’t think of a stupider drug with as serious side effects…
A huge chunk of the LOLcat loving, posting-kittens-n-puppies on youtube, and random-equals-funny types that make up “the Internet”. In that respect, I was surprised by how calculated their appeal was.
Ummm… they are combining cuteness of little girl with demonstrating the ease in which a 7 year old can produce content using Windows 7? Seems pretty standard marketing stuff to showcase the idea that Windows is for everybody while implying that Mac is for elitist snobs like Justin Long. In at least one ad she even did the “I’m a PC” line.
Not to mention it displays the near unanimous praise of the early release of Windows 7. (And, having the release candidate installed on my main machine for 6 months, I happen to agree with the reviews…it’s the best OS Microsoft has ever made, by far.)
There’s a Levi’s commercial that I’ve seen twice now that scares the living crap out of me.
It’s got weird, scratchy music, shaky camera work on black-and-white film, and subtitles scrawled across the bottom by someone who can barely hold a pen. The first time I saw it I thought it was for some dystopian, post-apocalyptic horror movie and then the “Levi’s” logo appeared. It doesn’t make me want to buy jeans. It makes me want to crawl into a concrete bunker until the radiation levels go down.
The ‘remixed’ slapchop commercial. It’s the basic commercial but it’s supposed to be like a technoish remix, with them repeating sections over and over. Everytime he says ‘slap your troubles away’ I just want to slap him and see if he goes away.
The shamwow commercial. 'Buy a shamwow because you’re going to spend 20 dollars a month on paper towels anyway!" Who in hell spends 20 bucks a month on paper towels? I doubt we’ve spent that in the last 3 years.
The dumb dads/husbands in the other paper towel commercials who can’t cook and knock over the pasta sauce and let the kids spill a whole jug of orange juice and leave it for the mom/wife to clean up when she gets back from SHOPPING!!!
I also love the AT&T rollover minutes mom. Very realistic.
So very much yes!
Clorox has a commercial trying to make doing the laundry seem like a sacred trust handed down from your foremothers to you, but only if you’re female. It’s kind of like the “Mom, do you ever get that not-so-fresh feeling?” commercial for a bleach. We can only speculate that the reason women do the laundry is that the husbands are too doofy. Either that or women just love doing menial work for their families so much that they insist that only they should handle the family’s soiled undies.
There’s a whole series of creepy radio adverts to tie into the Levi’s TV commercials. Like, I can’t remember it off the top of my head but it’s like some avant garde thing about how they got grass stains by twining together rolling down a hill that makes you want to drive off the road into a telephone pole to not have to listen to it anymore.
