Some grubby looking guy, who looks vaguely like Russell Crowe’s demented brother, walks stooped and without swinging his arms, across a narrow street full of people wildly celebrating something. The centerpiece of their parade is a giant illuminated boat. There is a close-up of a reptilian eye, which might be his. He crosses the street, goes into a bar, has a drink, and leaves. I think the idea is to sell rum, but I don’t know how this commercial will do that.
To be fair, it sounds like the creative team behind what you described drank a lot of rum, so maybe they know what works.
UNLESS they talk about riding the dog like pony being “frowned upon in THIS establishment.” That makes me laugh EVERY time!
Freaky!
Thanks, though the grammar snob in me notices I should have said magical incantation and not magical incarnation. 40 lashes with a wet noodle.
I wouldn’t touch a Dart with a bargepole, but I have to confess I love the loopiness of that ad campaign.
One AT&T commercial has the wife declare, “Just the other day we were saying we wanted a tv experience that fit our lives!”
Really? Were you rattling off phrases no human has said, ever?
The voiceover talks about the history of the family that started the Bacardi rum company, and how they emigrated from Cuba at one point, and some other stuff about how they still make high quality rum after all these years or something. I don’t really see what that has to do with a nighttime parade or only going to have one drink, or the song in the background (“Do I Wanna Know?” by Arctic Monkeys) but then again, I’m not an ad executive. Maybe if I had a few shots of rum first…
The parade floats in the Bacardi ad vaguely match what the narrator is discussing…for example, when the Prohibition is mentioned, there’s a brief cut to a float featuring men smashing barrels.
There’s some annoying ad running lately (I think it’s for some stupid car or something) with literal treehuggers in it. Yes, people literally hugging a tree. :rolleyes:
The stupidest disclaimer I’ve seen lately is in some commercial, heaven only knows for what as I sure don’t recall, with a couple spending time together. The girl is all optimistic and happy, the guy a total grump. The girl says something about some great day they had while carving their initials into a tree, while the guy says something grumpy. As the girl is talking DISCLAIMER at the bottom something like “Remember, in real life carving initials in trees is not cool!”
[insert vomit smiley this board needs but doesn’t have here]
Ooo, just remembered another one – I’m really surprised that the one with the women shrieking over the new iPhones hasn’t been pulled due to complaints.
Stupid car commercial for some cheap import: he’s riding thru the street, playing Mony Mony at eardrum blasting levels. This is super rude, and even illegal in some places. And it says nothing about the car.
Now, the Lincoln ad with Matthew McConaughey is kinda cool, especially if you notice he’s* actually watching the road!*
Btw, a pox on every radio commercial that incorporates traffic sounds. Why the f*** would they do that?
I despise those!:mad::mad::mad:
I don’t get the commercial with the hipster with the Camry driving through a wedding and escaping with the bride in the back seat grinning like a loon. “I bought a Camry and it gave me the confidence to speak up at a wedding, thus forever ruining the lives of the groom, the bride-to-be, and myself.”
Let’s face it, The Graduate notwithstanding, running off with the bride is something only a completely self-absorbed schmuck would do, and there’s just about a zero chance that it’s going to have to good result.
There’s a similar commercial where some chick buys a Camry which leads her, in some mysteriously unexplained leap of causality to buy B.B. King’s abandoned guitar in a storage room auction. So their theory on why one should buy a Camry seems to be: “If you buy a Camry, you’ll be able to drive places and do things. Totally unlike any other car on the market.”
In real life, btw, the above scenario would have been “I bought a Camry and then bid on a storage auction and I had to take it all to the dump so now my new Camry smells like mold, mildew, and someone’s unwashed underwear.”
He never even blinks.
But I’m sure driving around in a semi-psychotic state, doubtlessly plotting detailed revenge fantasies, is equally dangerous.
Yeah, it’s somewhat OK to talk to the bride-to-be after she makes a surprise announcement: “Look, dont marry that douchebag, he is all wrong for you and I have loved you ever since we met!”
But another to hijack a wedding. Not having the guts to say anything until that late is a bad sign, not a thing of joy. And having her decide that fast she was all wrong- not a good thing either.
This will NOT end well, and NOT a happy thing.
Yup. Any commercial they run every single darned break rubs me the wrong way real fast. It took me a long time to figure out who the commercial was for. I probably saw or heard the name when they first started airing it but all the repetition caused me to tune it out. Every so often I’d think. “What’s that stupid commercial for?” For a long time I was leaning toward Carl’s Jr. or maybe Sonic. Just finally found out the other night it was Subway.
The other commercial I find annoying is the one I think is for Progressive. With the pretentious, alcoholic, obnoxious insurance packet-box thing ruining someone’s wedding. At the beginning of it, he says, “Ever since we launched {some product thingy I can’t and don’t care to remember,} my life has been cray-cray…” There’s something odd about the way he says “launched.” I couldn’t figure out what he was saying for the longest time. My mind kept interpreting it as “lost,” though, judging from the context, I knew that couldn’t be right. I’d spend the rest of the commercial trying to figure it out rather than grabbing the phone and eagerly calling them. Stupid commercial and stupid mascot.
And did I tell you that I loathe the term, “Cray-cray?”
Now, you kids, get off my lawn.
The latest commercial annoying me is running on cable OnDemand. It’s for CBS’s late night programming, Late Night and the Late Show. It has David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, and a smattering of guests all making a serious of sound effects noises. Damn, that’s annoying, and the thing with OnDemand is that a) you often can’t fastforward, and b) they repeat the same ads every commercial break, so you have to watch the damn thing 6 or 7 times through a 1 hour show. Mute. Definitely Mute.
I can’t tell what the ad’s for, I’m too busy thinking “That guy looks like Matthew McConaughey. Naw, it can’t be him. Is it him? It sure looks like him. Hmmm. Would he really do a car commercial? Naw, it can’t be him. But it sure looks like him.”
Okay, maybe if she was the love of your life, and you left on a business trip and got hijacked by Somali Pirates and everyone thought you were dead, but you finally escaped and returned home after years missing to find your girlfriend was just about to marry some other dude, and it was your one chance to get there before the wedding and let her know you are really alive, so you borrowed someone’s Camry and drove over there like a maniac.