This may be something that only I notice but when people swipe credit cards in commercials , they always swipe it with the strip in their hand, the absolute wrong way!
I know it’s to show the name of the card but still, it’s obviously wrong.
This always bugs me too, along with the many commercials in the history of commercials that assume if you save X amount of money buying something at a discount, you MUST immediately spend that same amount on something else, often frivolous, useless, or even harmful (such as a falcon). What, then, is the point of saving the money in the first place?
“What will you do with the money you save?”
Um… save it.
Buick LaCross commercial, dad driving daughter and date to a dance (hey, 5 ‘d’ words!) and he tells the car what songs to play. Has there ever been a commercial in the history of commercials where teenage kids are NOT obnoxious sullen assholes, embarrassed by their parents? MY kid, with a few exceptions, was never like that.
The dad in that Buick commercial is ultra-creepy, too. The kids are headed to a junior high dance, for cryin’ out loud!
Yeah, that’s a dad that totally warrants being embarrassed over.
The Chevy Silverado commercial brags about how quiet it is by claiming that “It is second to nobody. And by nobody I mean Ford and Ram.” Uh, doesn’t that mean you’re second to Ford and Ram?
The latest commercial for the local Quitline is just gross. They show a person squeezing a bunch of pus/goop out of the aorta of a ‘32 year old smoker’. Of course it’s usually shown at dinner time to boot.
How about that goony Jeep SUV commercial with the singer: “I love you, California…” :rolleyes:
I keep hearing a radio commercial, i don’t know if its local or national. It starts with line:
“You can’t see me because of radio, and i can’t see you because i’m totally blind”
The odd phrasing and questionable logic just clang off of my ear everytime such that i don’t even know what the commercial is for, as i spend the rest of the ad thinking about how weird that first line sounds.
It’s for non-24 hour sleep disorder, which overwhelmingly effects the blind. Yeah it’s an odd commercial, but how else do you reach the blind outside of radio?
Heh heh heh:
There is one that I have seen twice today that shot to the top of my hate list. Two people are interviewing a car, and the stupidity of that aside they ask a question that I have trouble even listening to because it makes no sense, but the paraphrase if I am parsing it at all…
“Do either of you have a sticker price that is the exact same as your fuel mileage?”
What the hell does that mean?
I keep seeing this commercial for Belvita Breakfast Biscuits and it’s getting really annoying. Also, Belvita sounds almost exactly like Velveeta. Why would you name your product something that sounds almost exactly like another product?
snerk Belvita runs ads on a local radio station…the ads are read by an announcer who isn’t well-known for his enunciation anyway. I thought he was talking about Velveeta for several months after the ads started running. While it struck me as odd that he seemed to be talking about a cheese product in relation to breakfast, some people (my coworkers) seem to think that cheese is a vital component of every meal.
The line is “Do either of you have a starting price exactly the same as your gas MODEL?”
They’re interviewing hybrid cars and emphasizing the fact that for that particular car, there’s no price difference between the hybrid and the non-hybrid (ie, gas) model.
It’s not?
I once watched some of them polish off a block of Kraft Extra Sharp Cheddar by 9:30 AM. That’s just not right. 
Every time I hear that commercial, I immediately think “Even if you weren’t blind you still couldn’t see me. ‘Radio’, remember?”
(I’m in the Chicago area by the way if that helps with the local/national question)
To me, read/heard literally it means that if he weren’t blind, he could see you EVEN THROUGH THE RADIO. :eek: