The Nationwide commercial:
“Five callers ahead of us Jimmy”,
You’re welcome, you unfeeling, disrespectful basterd. Nice example to set for your son, dick.
Actually it’s six callers ahead of us.
And you’re not helping.
Still makes me think of Jimbo, Pasquale, and Rose’s mother from Rose is Rose.
The ad is not for a company. It is for a trade group that promotes using a Certified Financial Planner - CFP. the point is that anyone can give you financial advice so make sure you find someone who has thier CFP certification to make sure they know what they are talking about and are not just a repackaged DJ.
Kind of like the ads that promore using a REALTOR to buy or sell a house rather than just any real estate agent.
Why is there an actor dressed like Prince Albert in the Hotels.com commercial?
Do you have Prince Albert in the can? 
No, but my refrigerator is running.
This is almost certainly how it was pitched in development. “Gimme a McCauley Caulkin-type kid…with a long beard…yeah, that’s the ticket!!”
Some radio commercial with a guy bitching about the size of steaks these days and how he goes to a restaurant and orders two 8oz steak dinners to make one real meal because of his awesome retirement account.
I always just think “Well, enjoy your brief, artery-clogged retirement. I assume your family will appreciate the inheritance.”
How can you be sure?
No, no, no. Kermit is imploring us to “Be Morty.”
It’s a stealth ad for Adult Swim’s new show “Rick and Morty.” (Mondays at 10:30pm!)
Or he could be speaking bad Spanish, and asking that we all “be morté” (be dead)
Or maybe the secret ingredient is Soylent Green…
Post hoc ergo propter hoc, eh?
Other insurance company, Brand X, only has the power to instantly transport your mother to wherever you happen to be… which is… still really pretty impressive and useful, actually.
Yeah, but mom is gonna be pissed when you take out part of her kitchen when you teleport her to you.
The best thing about threads like this is how easily some people are willing to criticize and disparage an ad that they clearly didn’t understand in the first place.
Sounds like a fault on the ad agency’s part.
I agree. I FF through most ads, and I don’t really listen to the others except by accident, and even most of those, I’m not watching because I’m up making a sandwich or posting here or something. So yes, if you have to pay close attention to see the distinction, e.g. between a company and a trade group, then the ad is very ineffective, especially when the distinction is presented while some guy is dancing around like an idiot.
To take another example, there was an ad that ran for several months last year, with no spoken words at all. It was just music that vaguely reminded me of the old Karl Jenkins diamond commercial music, but more jerky and annoying, with some kind of graphic that snaked around the screen. I saw it begin a hundred times, and not once did I watch it long enough to see what it was trying to sell.
I guess it might work in a movie theater, where you pretty much have to watch it, but not on TV.
I’ll raise you this one. Talking mime - freaky? Not as freaky as the talking baby.
Food Lion has been running a series of radio ads in which The Lion provides helpful tips on how to save money. In a recent one, he disses extravagant cruise, saying “nothing beats a dip in the kiddie pool”. Umm…a kiddie pool, by my definition, is a small unfiltered pool positioned well away from the much larger pool; I always thought they were a bit nasty. Am I to assume that most people don’t have strong negative thoughts about kiddie pools? And wouldn’t a lion view a kiddie pool as a buffet?