Whaddya mean? How about the Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott commercial where Joe tells Ronnie about the solution to burning problem he is having, just apply two fingerfulls of…
Of course I don’t remember what they were really advertising, but it sure got my attention at the time.
And besides, haven’t we reached the point where we’re pretty brand-faithful? I don’t forsee a tampon commercial getting me to switch from Tampax to o.b. (even though those o.b. ads were preeeetty catchy: " . . .keep it simple, and set yourself free . . . "). I do like the Tampax commercial for the combo pack, with the rainy day outside going from Super, to Regular, to Light. Clever stuff, that.
A male friend of mine is convinced the cable company knows I’m a female subscriber; he claims he never sees ads for tampons, douche, hygeine sprays, maxi and mini pads, or “personal lubricant” (DeLube, anyone?) unless he’s at my house.
BTW, catsix, “sitting on a phone book for a week hoping I didn’t have to stand up”? ROTFLMAO
(My apologies for sloppy bracketing)
like sometimes when you blow your nose into a tissue and put it in your purse and then later, you’re reaching in for your lipstick or something and it gooshes…
On the OP, news flash: Guys know about our girlie parts and the leakage from within. and if they can’t deal, then they’re probably staying up too late on a school night in the first place.
I wish I had The Clapper hooked up to my TV whenever these come on.
“Tampons, Tampoffs, Tampons Tampoffs, Tampons!”
It was an Energizer Bunny commercial. And I think it was more than a few fingerfuls–looks like they were going to slather it on in great…ack…handfuls…blargg…
Yeah, and those commercials that compare pads to diapers aren’t going to make me switch over to the dark side- er, to tampons.
I think they’re kind of creepy but what are you going to do? Incidentally, wouldn’t it be really weird to have to think these commercials up?
Dragging this back to the OP, my wife and most of my friends who are Trekkies are women. (Wife once sent Shatner a portrait of him she had painted. He never got back to her.) The sponsors seem to know their audience.
OTOH, she is convinced that too much knowledge of feminine hygiene “will turn a guy queer.”
Survey says— NNNH! It was for TiVo, which hired those two as ad execs.
I worked at the agency that produced that commercial, and it was a huge fight for us to get the color red and the word “period” by the network censors. “We can’t show that on TV! Gasp!” Well, shit. Why are we buying time on your network again?
The thinking behind the campaign (known internally as Red Dot) is that women are tired of watching fey scenes of walking on the beach, windsurfing, and horseback riding in menstrual product commercials, because nobody much feels like fucking windsurfing when they are on the rag. So the ads play to the misery and annoyance of Aunt Flos visits. If even gay Canadian men are noticing these commercials, then we were doing our job!
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*Originally posted by Coldfire *
**I know what you mean. The other week, I saw a tampon commerical during a commercial break.
A commercial break in the live coverage of the Formula One Grand Prix of Malaysia.
There ought to be a law, dammit. Me and my friends immediately agreed that racing should only be interrupted by commercials for beer, razor blades, new cars, and dirty mags. **[/QUOTE
I watch Formula One.
I usually get up during the ads to do stuff, but apparently that commercial was for me.
I will do a better job paying attention next time so as to not waste the advertisor’s money.
hmmm, maybe we can combine the two things…
Tampax proudly introduces:
Team Orange Panty Liners!
Massengil brings you:
Mika Hakkenin Summer Rain Douche.
(catch phrase:who would know the smell of fish better than a Fin?)
Revlon announces Michael Shumaker Lipstick (in Ferrari red, of course)
Michael: yah, das ist goot lipschtieek for vinners!
(Ralph playfully nudges michael’s head)
Well, it kinda makes sense, doesn’t it?
After all, most Star Trek fans are pussies.
Which sounds kinda weird, now that I look at it…
Anyway, I saw black pantie-liners the other day. Can someone fill me in on why this product is now available? Am I missing something here? And on a similar note, why are feminine products made with bleached cotton/paper? Is natural cotton/paper colour such a big turn-off that we must perform environmentally harmful procedures for sparkling white maxipads? [/hijack]
I’ve seen the commercial for the black pantylines too. They are making them black so they blend in with the black underwear, you know, in case you want to wear see through jeans.
I can’t be sure but I think they are all made that way because we are always told to use white toilet paper, but I’m not sure why it has to be white.
If you’re someone who suffers from allergies, you probably already know that, say, Dimetapp exists too. And you probably know that Coca-Cola exists, if you are a person who requires liquid intake at some point during your day. Not to mention bleach - everybody knows bleach exists. Do you ever see a commercial and stand up shouting “OH MY GOD! I had UTTERLY NO IDEA that one could buy PULPLESS ORANGE JUICE at the GROCERY STORE!” I guess there just shouldn’t be any commercials at all then.
[Nick Rivers]Okay, okay, you’re right, some thing are better left unsaid![/Nick Rivers]
High five to wring for the obscure quote.
As for the color red, PLEASE, for the love of all that is good and holy, let them NEVER switch from that benign blue water they use for everything. I have to deal with red soaked tampons and pads 7 days out of every 28 already . . . I do NOT need to see them every time I turn on the damn television.
back atchya Podkayne for recognizing it!
If everybody had a 12 gauge and surf board tooo, they’d be surfin’ and skeetin’ up in Maliboooooooo, ‘cause it’s totally bitchin’ ridin the waves and blasting pigeons…
One night, several years ago, Mrs. Smegma and I are watching TV. On comes a Massingil<sp?> ad: A woman and her daughter are sitting in a rowboat. Daughter turns to Mom and says,–At this point Mrs. Smegma breaks in and says, “Do you smell fish?”
I love that woman.
[hijack to butt ailments]
My current fave is the series of hemorrhoid remedy ads that show various people squirming uncomfortably while at a concert, wedding, whatever.
And I’ll never forget the Tuck’s Medicated Pads™ commercial that shows a burning match being extinguished with the pad----Fssssss!---- I still laugh when I think about that priceless little gem!
[/hijack to butt ailments]
featherlou, I started a thread about black pantiliners sometime before the board hiatus. It was quite a vigorous conversation, IIRC.
But I really resonated to your first post. When I was nursing, I always wished that they’d show a breastfeeding ad during the superbowl, or sometime when it would be seen by MEN. Because one of the keys to making breastfeeding easier for moms is making the general public think it’s a normal process–which it is.
Here in Sweden things are a little different…and quite
entertaining at times.
There is a particular commercial for tampons where a
woman is out dancing at a club and goes to the toilet
while this guy that has been watching her follows to
peek through the conveniently placed holes in the bathroom
walls of the disco…after the pitch about the tampon
the woman holds up one and the voiceover says (in Swedish,
which makes it more laughable to me) “it has a rounded
top…guess why???” and then she proceeds to poke it
through the hole and into the guys eye…!
I had never seen a feminine product ad take this approach
before…they did the black pantyliner one about a year
ago…it too was funny.
American in Sweden and laughing…