Honest to pete, I was watching one of the latest of those Herbal Essence shampoo commercials today and it sounded to me like the woman was having a climax while shampooing her hair with this shampoo. This just seems totally wrong to me, on more than one level!
First, why would/should a shampoo make anyone so … excited?! Second, even though my children are well into their teens, if they were younger, I think they’d be wondering why the woman was moaning and carrying on over a shampoo. And a young child might even ask about it. How is a parent to explain something like that?
Yes, I know, it’s just a commercial, but honestly it’s gotten to be one of the most annoying ones out there. I wish that their ad folks would come up with something else to sell the product.
Oh oh, this looks a bit rantish–if this needs to be moved to the 'pit, go ahead.
Well, I can see the point of the rant. Those commercials are like a discussion of Heidegger during a dog-on-leg session. It’s impossible to ignore the obnoxiousness of their unsubtle campaign to equate female orgasm with shampoo.
It’s just embarassing- it’s a kind of masturbation by lather, it’s like watching someone get off by picking their nose.
Also, it’s very disturbing to the continuity of whatever show I happen to be watching when it comes on. One minute Hitler is invading Poland- and the next I am the unwilling voyeur to a shampoo fetish- and then back to Poland for the surrender…
IMO they should stop airing these commercials. I have hurt myself twice now trying to cringe and roll my eyes at the same time. If I should happen to simultaneously reach for the remote I could fall into an existential quandary and implode. I don’t think my cat could survive without me. He would certainly expire from hunger before he’d stoop to opening the cabinet door himself or drinking water from the leaky faucet.
I hate those commercials. First of all, they’re a rip-off on the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally. Secondly, the joke is ancient by now and they need a new punchline.
For years I wouldn’t even buy Herbal Essence because of the negative association I had with the commercials. However, a few months ago they had the shampoo for sale in our bonus store so I reluctantly bought it. And I love it!
Banish them to the Pits of Hell!! I’m sick of them, too…especially that new one with ex-Ally McBeal what’s-her-name. If I wanted my neighbors to think I watched porn, then I’d rent porn, dammit!
Ditto on the Arby’s commercials along the same lines. Some woman getting uncontrollably aroused by her “appetite” whilst sharing a meal with her children at a fast food place just doesn’t make me want to give them my money for some reason.
Maybe I’m getting old, but the whole “look how we can equate this to orgasm” schtick is really annoying and puerile. It’s like trying to sell Jello Pudding by emphasizing its resemblence to diarrhea. Heh-heh, snicker-snicker. Funny when you’re a kid, maybe. I guess I’m not in their marketing demographic anymore.