Hehe, I loved the Onion’s euphemisms. Two of them:
Cap’n Bloodsnatch, and…
"It’s that time of the month" when “I’m not at my best” because "my vagina is bleeding."
Regarding colour…
If I remember correctly from my past experience in design and that kind of jazz, the reason for this is simple - note too that they do the same with diaper commercials…
Red reminds people of blood (well, fuck yeah, what do you think is coming out of my uterus when it’s bleeding? Soylent green?) and the networks don’t want anything to do with it, basically because it “would be way too gross.”
Yellow reminds people of urine, making your “nice and fresh!” product not so appealing.
Blue is apparently the most neutral, cold colour that looks “clean.” Look at all the cleaning products out there right now that are a lovely shade of blue…
I want commercials that show women with intense cramps, and bloody huge clots, and mood swings. No one in their right mind feels like riding horses, running on the beach, and dancing when they’re bleedin’ and retaining water like camels in the freakin’ desert on a 4 day trek.
Bleh.
E.
Or perhaps the more appropriate–to this thread–quote:
Your life will be more worthless than a truckload of dead rats at a tampon factory.
All except the douche and FDS ones at least.
magdalene
One, why would you hope that any men, gay, Canadian or otherwise, would notice tampon ads. Two, if people notice the ads by being utterly disgusted or even mildly grossed out by them, how is that a plus for the client? Seriously, I have never understood ad agencies when they say they’re pleased that people remember the annoying commercials, because I would think that “brand recognition” would be secondary to “brand recognition coupled with feeling of intense disgust or unpleasantness.” And I hate those red dot commercials. Hate hate HATE them. They make me wish I were a woman specifically so that my failure to buy them would actually mean something.
racinchiki
Yeah, that’s a great idea, let’s try that!
As if we don’t get bombarded enough on a daily basis with the disgusting things our bodies excrete, have y’all seen the toilet paper commercial that couples dialog like “get clean where it counts” with about 50 butt shots? Subtle much?
If this type of commercial does become as prominent as tampon ads and the like, I hope there isn’t a drive to make them more blunt. Do we really need a Tinactin commercial that starts off “Does your crotch burn like a summer BBQ? Has the constant scratching caused your balls to look like someone took a power sander to them? You need our product!”
quote:
Originally posted by Abe Babe
My favorite of all time was a douche commercial (Massingil, I think) that had a mother and daughter gardening and the daughter asks her mother if she as ever had “that non-so-fresh feeling”
I liked the fake ad on South Park (can’t remember the episode):
“Oh, honey, it’s just part of growing up…”
“No, mom: like you know in The Shining when the elevator doors open?”