That one right there is my number one reason for not having kids. Best ad ever.
Here’s a Link for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
And a quadruple finger flip? You’re giving us four? I think you’re confused, it’s “High five,” ya jackass.
Oh, come off it. People are complaining about kids, with or without lisps, being used to sell products. Many people, myself included, get annoyed when we’re expected to say “aww, how cute” whenever someone under 18 is presented in media (TV shows, movies, commercials, etc.). I don’t hate kids, I hate kids as a marketing concept.
How long did your kids do all of that?
There must be something that made you respond so harshly.
I hate kids as advertising props too. I ALSO hate douche commercials, tampon commercials, Trojan condom commercials and ANY cosmetic commercials (THOSE make me want to PUKE!)
What I hate even more is people that bitch and whine about the whiney assed children throwing tantrums when I’m in the store with my kids. I actually had one (childless) woman today ask me if I BEAT my kids because they are so well behaved :eek: I LOL and told her “no, I trade in the bad ones every 6 months!!” 
FYI my 19 year old STILL stammers, my 4 year old can’t say his Rs or Ss properly because of a palate problem and on occasion still wets himself when we are out and he gets scared. What made me reply so harshly? People seem to be badmouthing kids a lot lately and I for one am getting REALLY sick of it. I mean DAMN people, it’s not the KIDS fault some dumb shit director thinks whiney kids are cute. 
I submit that the real enemies are the people who love those commercials. Bastards.
Who’s badmouthing kids? Read the fucking OP:
You seem to agree that the director is a dumb shit, so what the hell is your objection to the sentiments expressed in this thread?
The commercial that drives me absolutely apeshit every time I see it is for Pledge or somesuch product, and it features a charming little scamp named Mark who is running around writing on walls and furniture with a magic marker. The tag line is something like, “Mark marks. For everything that Mark marks, use Pledge!”
Yeah, Mark’s gonna have some marks, alright. Hand-shaped ones all over his ass!
Yeah, Mark wouldn’t be marking anything in MY house. He’d be sitting on a chair with those filthy hands tied behind his back for the next couple years. The little SHIT.
But turn that same, obnoxious, spoiled, rude child into an animated Disney character and we (as a society) eat it up. Look at how popular and loved the movie Lilo & Stitch was. And I loathed it for precisely that reason. I wanted to smack the everlivin’ shit out of that snotnosed little brat. But that’s why hollywood producers put obnoxious children in commercial advertising – they know it sells! How sad is that? It’s our own damn fault.
Who’s bad mouthing kids? This quote from the OP doesn’t seem to be aimed at the director:
Not sure what the system is in the US, but here in NZ, if you object to an advertisement (TV, radio or magazine), you can write to the broadcasting standards authority with a complaint. By law if a certain number of letters are received for the same ad, they have to remove it. It used to be a suprisingly small number - not sure how many any longer. When I was at uni, there was an ad for Blackeye computers showing a woman with a back eye. We got around 30 people to write-in complaining about this kind of portrayal of woman and how it that it was normalising violence towards women. The ad was taken off.
I just saw one such commercial tonight. It was for Zar woodfinish, I think. The mother is standing in the foyer of the house, with wood floors, a wooden bannister and wood furniture, when her little boy bursts in from school and just throws his backpack on the floor and runs upstairs…the mother then talks about how the woodfinish hold up so well to “this little guy…” (puke) then the kid runs back down, she hands him his jacket as he runs back outside, and the mother dutifully picks up the backpack and takes it upstairs, as he extols the virtues of the woodfinish.
Damn, if I had come home from school and just thrown my backpack on the floor in front of my mother, I would be in deep deep trouble. The commercial just perpetuates the role of the mother as stay-at-hole housekeeper and servant for her little brat.
Yeah, but those kind of complaints (at least here in Canada) are considered by whatever broadcasting standards there are. An ill-advised commercial that has a woman with a black eye has a greater legitimacy than just screaming “Fuck, I hate the Snuggles bear, would you take the fucker off the air??? Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!”
I have a deranged hatred of some noises that most people are oblivious to. I… can… not… staaaaaand loud lip-smacking, slurping etc. twitch… twitch… maniacal eyes… twitch
There is a series of soup commercials with a “dopey dad”, “precocious kid” and “wise mom”. I one of these, the little fucker (okay, he’s about twelve and probably taller than me, but still) is not only slurping loudly, but he’s making “nyum… nummmm. nrrrrmm. myummm nyum” sounds while he is eating. I have to turn of the set so I don’t kick it in.
If I sent in a formal complaint, “That kid is making noise eating soup!!!” …
I’d likely just get a back a form letter that said “Uhhh,… Yeah. Okay. Right.”
See, this is one of those things I don’t get. Ok, an amazingly annoying advert is going to make me remember the brand name, but it’s also going to make me NEVER buy that product as long as I live because they irritated the fuck outta me.
One that piss me off the most are the ones that make unbelievably stupid comments:
Pampers Baby Wipes - Because Babies feel the world through their skin.
WHAT? As opposed to adults who have lost all sensation? WTF?
Oh, and quit giving the kids spoons seven times the size of their heads which they have to hold with both fists just so they can shovel goddam yoghurt all over their faces.
I. LOATHE. THAT. COMMERCIAL. Makes me want to slap that kid. Repeatedly. Glad to see I’m not alone in my hatred!
Oh, you’re not alone.
You’re SO not alone.
Oh man. That is easily the funniest thing I think I’ve seen this year. Thank you.
I haven’t seen the Robitussin commercial, but there’s one that makes me grind my teeth that nobody’s mentioned yet. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser commercial, where the spokeswoman sees a kid scribbling all over a wall with crayons and just smiles indulgently. WTF? If somebody saw my kid drawing on my walls and didn’t say anything, I’d be pissed.
I agree on that unspillable cough syrup commercial, too. How does somebody teach their kid that that is acceptable? I’d have gotten my ass smacked for that.