There’s an Infiniti Q50 commercial that’s irritating me right now. It’s called, accurately, Distracted Driving and features this complete fucking menace driving a Q50 while his mind doesn’t just wander but goes on a several month walkabout. The tag line of the commercial is:
“It’s instinct to protect leaves you free to drive.”
The problem is, the guy in question isn’t driving. He isn’t capable of driving a bumper car at the fair, much less an automobile, and his general competence level makes me wonder how he ever managed to afford anything more pricey than a Schwinn (which he’d immediately drive over a curb). I get it that drivers might occasionally get distracted, but this commercial is glorifying it as a way of life. The tag line might as well be “Go ahead and text your buddies – we’ll take care of the road.”
I don’t want to be surrounded by complacent drivers – I want to be surrounded by drivers that are devoting every synapse to making sure that their car and my car don’t occupy the same space at the same time.
There is a Nissan commercial that makes me get all stabby.
It shows a guy with some Nissan shitbox driving with the windows down and the tunes cranked to 11.
Everyone starts bobbing their head in time to the music and smiling.
In reality the only people that do this are douchebags that only listen to totally shitty music, that none of the surrounding drivers want to hear.
There’s a Sam Adam’s commercial with a stupid guy trying to sound intelligent. It’s a testimonial commercial were the hatted hipster, after tasting the beer, says he’s been selling himself short. He obviously means he’s been selling the beer short. Why they kept his dumb ass in the commercial is beyond me.
Yeah, I hated that one for the same reasons. In a similar vein, there are the commercials for cars with backup collision sensors and whatnot, usually showing clueless WASP backing quickly out of the driveway with a vacant smile on their face, only stopping the car when an alarm goes off warning them that they’re about to hit something… instead of, you know, turning their heads and checking their mirrors like the rest of the plebians.
There’s a commercial for some version of Jack Daniels where a dude intones, “This is the order ordered by the Order, making it the order of the Order. So, to the Order, we raise the order, hoping we’ve said all this in the correct order,” pausethinknod
I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t find that all that convoluted. I can only assume the brand is marketing towards morons with a thing for homophones.
Oh how I hate that commercial. Talk about someone who shouldn’t be behind the wheel of anything! An accurate tag line would be “… leaves you free to space out behind the wheel if you can’t pay atten… SQUIRREL!”
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The commercial where the guy is backing into his garage, and there’s a box of toys at the back, with a stuffed bunny staring helplessly at the oncoming bumper. The backup cameras let him back all the way back to 1mm from the bunny’s face. Whew.:mad:
Okay dumbass, even if the backup sensors/camera is that good, what happens when you put the car in park and let your foot off the brake? The car rolls backwards 2 inches an bumps into your crap, and scratches up your bumper.
The Outback Steakhouse commercial touting their Moonshine BBQ, “infused with the sweet taste of moonshine”. WTF? Moonshine tastes like scalding kerosene.
Will somebody deliver a flaming shot to the head with a holy-water-hollowpoint silver bullet to the La Quinta Inn “stupid presentation of literal metaphor” commercials that continue to stagger across the land like half-rotted zombies?
I just started seeing a commercial which is so reassuring in its message: that the ONLY people subject to suffering from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) are those whose first names are four letters long. Yes, it’s the “Breo Ellipta” medication-commercial in which a series of men and women claim:
“I’m J.A.N.E. and I have C.O.P.D.”
“I’m D.A.V.E. and I have C.O.P.D.”
“I’m K.A.T.E. and I have C.O.P.D.”
…I’m so lucky to have a name that isn’t four letters long!
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Since the World Cup started I’ve often seen this McDonald’s FIFA ad featuring a guy in a street basketball game head-butting a basketball and each time it makes me cringe and say, “Ow!” Because there have been a number of recommendations to restrict head-butting the ball in soccer because of the danger of concussions and brain damage, having your company air an ad where someone head-butts a bigger and heavier object seems rather ill-timed to say the least. Also, as anyone who’s been on the receiving end of a badly-aimed pass can tell you, getting hit on the head with a basketball hurts and that ad just reminds me of that fact. I’m just glad McDonald’s didn’t try to do a similar commercial set at a baseball game.
I don’t even remember what this commercial is for. It’s a group of business women, I think dressed in beige, and another woman is off to the side, selling them on something. And at the end, the woman in the middle crosses her arms, and doesn’t do it right. I’v never seen anyone cross their arms like that. I just want to slap her.
The ‘10 year anniversary party’ eHarmony commercial, with the way too happy couple going at it, prone on a sofa in the next room. Like, join eHarmony, and you, too, will be bangin’ your spouse like a screen door in a hurricane after 10 long years. And the equally happy horde of guests observing, and that horrible creepy old man who owns/plugs the company! :o
It’s probably the AT&T commercial with the group of women and one man who appear to be a Century 21-type of company (what with the matching blazers and Can Do Attitude). The joke is that the women all have the Can Do Attitude down, with simultaneous fixed smiles and crossed arms, but the man is playing catch-up. (An obvious appeal to female customers/business decision-makers.)
I’d guess that the awkward crossed-arms of the woman in front might have been an accident of many takes (in which the reaction of the male member of the team was the most important element, so the makers of the commercial weren’t paying as much attention to what the women were doing).
Had to look that one up. They’re not actually banging when the people come in, but they do keep making out.
Had to look it up, too, to see what you meant. She does this weird arm think to keep both her hands visible. All the others do it normally, but she’s kinda awkward.
