# Just saw the most inspirational ad **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951 "2016-07-15T02:48:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/1 "2016-07-15T02:48:16Z")
apparently it’s already at least three weeks old first video in this link: > **[Old Spice](https://www.youtube.com/user/OldSpice)** > > Old Spice has 75 years of experience helping guys improve their mansmells with deodorant, bodywash, antiperspirant, hair and fragrances. > > http://www.oldspice.com “Linda?”🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/2 "2016-07-15T14:00:36Z")
Possibly the most incomprehensible ad … ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/3 "2016-07-15T14:09:22Z")
I watched it twice, thinking I must have missed something. Or everything. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/4 "2016-07-15T14:41:45Z")
Well that’s a very . . . \*odd \*way to illustrate the concept. I mean,I get it - after having watched it three times- but its weirdness, which borders on unpleasant, kind of drowns out the message. **Eddie** , are we being whooshed? If not, can you please elaborate? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/5 "2016-07-15T14:56:29Z")
There’s a _concept_? It did remind me of a _Seinfeld_ scene discussing shrinkage. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/6 "2016-07-15T17:04:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > There’s a _concept_? It did remind me of a _Seinfeld_ scene discussing shrinkage. Or a commercial about nothing 😛 I _think_ the idea is to show the interviewee literally becoming the boss (the slogan is "smell 'em who’s boss). They shrink or liquefy or whatever the hell is happening and then crawl / ooze (?) under the table and into the other’s chair. The only thing I can’t figure out it who was on the stronger drugs; the person that dreamed this up or the people who approved it :smack: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/7 "2016-07-15T18:37:50Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > The only thing I can’t figure out it who was on the stronger drugs; the person that dreamed this up or the people who approved it :smack: Or the Doper who finds it “inspirational”? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/8 "2016-07-16T02:00:45Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Well that’s a very . . . \*odd \*way to illustrate the concept. I mean,I get it - after having watched it three times- but its weirdness, which borders on unpleasant, kind of drowns out the message. **Eddie** , are we being whooshed? If not, can you please elaborate? Well, not sure how anyone’s being whooshed - certainly no need to try extrapolating any heavy conceptual message or anything from it, lol. It just simply exudes awesomeness. Which is a very, very beautiful thing.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/9 "2016-07-16T02:11:50Z")
Now, \*this \*is inspirational. What it inspires me to do, I’m not sure … [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVlvnCOUqog) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/10 "2016-07-16T02:41:07Z")
[quote=“Rick\_Kitchen, post:9, topic:759951”] Now, \*this \*is inspirational. What it inspires me to do, I’m not sure … [/QUOTE] whoh - ok…that was totally and regrettably disgusting. thinking of at least three idiots I’m sending that to. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/11 "2016-07-16T02:49:08Z")
I liked it, but what I do is the incomprehensible clothed in the inspirational. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/12 "2016-07-16T05:12:52Z")
Because it’s important that Uranus be peach-scented. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/13 "2016-07-16T07:26:09Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > It just simply exudes awesomeness. Oh, it exudes something all right. I’d hardly call it awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/14 "2016-07-16T11:36:53Z")
It’s clever. Obviously, if you don’t like it, it’s probably not directed at you. Old Spice has been doing these surreal/goofy/freaky ads with an “ultra-manly” vibe for a while. I like them, some more than others, but get it that they aren’t for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-saw-the-most-inspirational-ad/759951/15 "2016-07-16T14:52:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Oh, it exudes something all right. I’d hardly call it awesomeness. The irrefragable awesomeness of the power exchange. You gotta love it!