And he HAD been giving it a lot of thought…
The latest on the top of my annoying commercials list is webuyanycar dot com. It’s not particularly heinous, but it annoys me. Purely visceral reaction.
I like the “two things at once” ad though. Just for the way he shuts down that little girl.
Watching a boy shake his head and arm simultaneously
“I can do…”
“Hang on, I’m watching this.”
Well, the new American Airline ads are pretty stupid. Various people in various activities suddenly stop and gawk slack jawed into the sky while a pale miraculous glow lights up their features. And eventually we see a shot of an American Airlines jet with a brand new paint job (and presumably logo, as if we remembered what the old one looked like).
Yep, typical corporate bullshit. Your company has been bleeding money for many quarters, so why not piss away millions of dollars re-painting logos and buying new stationery?
This GEICO ad featuring Eddie Money is ear-splittingly horrendous and just sad. I can’t imagine the direction going on:
“Eddie, bug your eyes out like Igor.” ??
“Eddie, we need more of a deranged, homeless guy feel.” ??
“Eddie, sustain that note off key longer. And louder.” ???
Worst commercial ever. Poor Eddie.
And it’s a direct response to the cruise line ad where the couple remembers last year, where they are mysteriously camping in the woods and trapped in their car by both a bear and a cougar, simultaneously trying to get their food. Now a couple says “cruise no” and instead goes for a long drive in the country, and presumably camping.
Interestingly, you say it’s the Miller commercial with the extra vent, but the David Cross gag says it’s Coors that has that feature.
Shotgunning needs the extra vent at the other end of the can (toward the bottom) so the air flows in to allow the beer a smooth departure. Putting that little vent on top puts it right next to the drain opening, which is just effectively making the drain opening a bit bigger. Works okay if pouring slowly, but for shotgunning it’s just going to make a leak down your shirt.
Maybe they’re making an “environmentally friendly” hotel, i.e. it doesn’t obscure the local view? Or maybe they’re catering to the apocalypse bunker crowd.
I like that commercial. At first, it looks like your typical “kid is bad and dad is teaching him how to play catch”. Then you see that dad is also horrible at catch. Then comes the punchline about passing on the car along with the bad ball-playing skills. If you listen, the dad is saying everything right. His instructions are correct. he just isn’t much better at execution than his son.
Yeah, their “Guess where Subway cuts it’s meat? Way across the country in this plant, and then they ship the processed sandwich meat to their stores. Arbys is better because we slice our meat in the stores.” You know who else slices their sandwich meat in plants prior to shipping them to stores? Oscar Meyer, and pretty much any grocery store brand sandwich meat.
And they act like it’s some giant surprise they’re revealing. You know, I never thought about it, but it’s not like I’m shocked – SHOCKED!, I tell you.
I actually like this commercial because he looks crazy.
Nope… it was the Obamacare bill. While I understand your point, you have to understand it to apply it to your clients which she says she will do.
The next observation is there probably isn’t much that applies to the Average Joe anyway. All she has to do is tell him that if he currently has insurance to expect the premium to increase big time.
Yeah, I get that he’s supposed to be a little crazy for the joke to work. It just seems to me like he needed to be <—> this crazy, but got <--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> this crazy instead. He looks like Igor on crack.
The Lincoln Motor Company has been running this sort of surrealistic adfilled with feel-good imagery about their cars and process. But it’s all very perplexing and filled with examples of bizarre engineering practices.
a. Pretty girls opening up suicide doors on a car. They call them suicide doors for a reason. None of Lincoln’s current cars appear to have suicide doors.
b. A manta ray swimming through the same luxury car. Just let it be said that if you’re ever in a situation where a manta ray is swimming through your car, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
c. A manual gear shifter that disappears. Does it retract into the console? Or are they advertising that they have automatic transmissions? Because I’d sort of expect that. (Actually, they apparently moved the shifter buttons to somewhere near the radio. Sounds like an engaging driving experience.)
d. Someone probably famous drumming on their factory floor. I bet OSHA is 100% behind that.
e. Later on, there’s a rain of jackhammers. There’s probably a reason for that. Apparently it’s quiet inside the car. Up until a jackhammer falls through that panoramic moon roof.
f. Then there’s a crash test where the air bag comes out of the driver’s chest. This sounds only slightly safer than a Ridley Scott alien.
Maybe it’s coming out of the seat belt? Better hope you haven’t twisted it, then.
So, does the commercial make me want to buy one of their cars? Nope. Hire the guy that films their commercials for my next avant-garde sci-fi flick? Maybe.
Thats how I took the commercail - he was teaching the kid to throw horribly to prevent any possible injury to the car that he can’t stand to be away from.
I don’t get why they are ‘introducing’ The Lincoln Motor Company when it’s been around for a long time.
The first time I saw that ad, I pointed to the screen and said to my wife “That is why you do not invite your recently divorced dad to your party” 
Would not have guessed he was a Pop singer/rapper/something.
I’m neither a Christian nor a Satanist, so I have no dog in this hunt, but I was still rather bemused to see that Mercedes Benz has apparently come to the conclusion that it’s time to start using Satan to sell cars in America.
This commercial guarantees that I will never buy a Hyundai.
There have been a whole series of these (and other stupid spots) for a couple of years now. Interestingly, the guy behind those commercials is otherwise fairly normal. (at least in business settings)
The commercial that I currently can’t stand is the one for the Comfy Pillow or whatchacallit. It’s a pillow with memory foam and gel beads and makes all your back problems go away.
First I can’t see why anyone would sit in her kitchen “for hours” as the woman claims. I like sitting as much as the next guy, but I can’t see sitting in the kitchen unless they put a Lazy Boy and a big screen in there.
The worst, though, is a man who speaks to us next to the cab of his “truck” which seems to basically be a pickup. He claims to have driven it for something like 30 years, then tells us that thanks to this pillow, “my back feels great, and my bottom feels great!” Bottom…really? It turns him into a soccer mom or a four-year-old. Next he will tell us all how he goes potty all by himself.
I don’t understand how that would work. Wouldn’t it make more sense to tape Grandma to the back of a cheetah?
I’m certain that if someone taped a (presumably angry) cheetah to your back, you’d be moving as fast as the laws of physics and biology would let you. Right up to the point where the cheetah succeeded in ripping out your spine. Something tells me that kid doesn’t really like Nana – she probably stiffed him last Xmas.
Drat! I knew there had to be some subtle flaw in the plan.