What about those Sprite commercials where Kobe Bryant and other highly paid celebrities tell us to ignore highly paid celebrity endorsers and to drink Sprite.
“Four-out-of-five dentists surveyed recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.”
Well, no shit, Sherlock. And, if this so-called “survey” is true, every fifth dentist is a moron. Furthermore, the inference from the premise that most dentists recommend sugarless gum over gum containing sugar to the conclusion that any dentist recommends Trident gum over any other sugarless gum is clearly invalid. Even if the premise is true, the conclusion need not be.
I don’t understand the Capital One credit card commercials. Supposedly, using this particular card keeps “problems” away from you. Problems that hound you if you use some other credit card.
Let’s review reality:
A Cap1 credit card can be used for many purchases.
Purchasing with said card means that you will get a monthly bill.
If you do not pay the balance in full, interest will accrue.
If you do not pay on time, bad things will happen to you and you still owe the money.
So, how does this differ from every other credit card?
The commercial makes it sound like there is some advantage to using the card. Especially the one where the husband (or is it the wife?) is being pursued by “interest rates.” He complains; other spouse suggests use of the Cap1 card, and the interest rates disappear! Yeah, sure–like Cap1 doesn’t charge interest. :rolleyes:
Beer commercials where people go to all sort of ridiculous and expensive lenghts to scam free beer. It would be so much cheaper and easier to just go to the market.
Haj
20 gallons would be about 160 lbs. Add 20 for the tank itself, and it’s still nothing two adults would have problems with.
The Levi’s commercial (was it wrangler) that used CCR’s “It ain’t me” while it actually was trying to invoke nationalism.
One of my favorites…the incredibly wrongheaded woman.
Most recent example: Beer commercial. This guy’s girlfriend calls him at work describing a role-play they’re going to do tonight. One of them is going to put on a blond wig and french maid outfit. That night, she opens the door…and discovers that he’s wearing it as well. And she closes the door on him.
Good lord. In terms of kinky, freaky, weird sexual practices, a man in a dress is nothing. Furthermore…I hate to belabor the obvious, but this must be said…what’s the big deal when it all ends up on the floor anyway?
Sometime before that, another beer company gave us this little scene. A couple making out, getting hot and heavy, when the phone rings. They let the answering machine take it. Someone calls informing the man of the late status of a couple supposed pornographic movies. The lady immediately walks. And of course, it was just a prank by the poor guy’s astonishingly inconsiderate buddies to get him to the bar.
Now, astonishing ethical lapses aside, doncha think this woman is, well, unbelievably freaking stupid? If I run into one, the hell with dating her, I want to sell her the entire state of Florida!
rmbnxs - I remember this one! My high school statistics teacher actuall mentioned it. He said that what this weird statement means, in effect, is that 1 out of 5 dentists is greedy and deliberatly recommends tooth-damaging gum to get more business.
DanielWithrow - I know. It’s amazing how shameless (and pointless) they can get. One of them fetured a rave scene where one of the dancers collapses, presumably due to dehydration. The text, in its entirety: “Ecstacy…so where’s the love?”
Um…if you go to a rave, make sure there’s plenty of water handy, and don’t hang around with total jerks who won’t even stop to help someone who collapses on the floor. Problem solved. Where exactly is the anti-drug message here?
I remember ads like these being on a few years ago. I always viewed them as parodies/satires of other celebrity endorsed ads though.
Exactly! I mean, what happens if I ask my doctor about Drug X, and it turns out to be a treatment for erectile disfunction or something!!!
D’uh!
The Master speaks.
I haven’t seen this ad, but it sounds like they might have making the ‘two women at a party in the same outfit’ joke. Had it been done that way, I think it could have been funny.
Oh, my favorite is this infomercial.
I can’t remember exactly what the product was, but it was some sort of special automotive engine treatment solution which you added to your oil or gasoline or something. One of their claims implied that this treatment will let your engine turn over on the first turn of the key in sub-arctic temperatures. To demonstrate, they froze an engine solid in a block of ice and asked the gaping on-lookers for their educated predictions. “No, there’s no way that engines gonna start. Nope. No siree. I’m a monkey’s uncle if that engine turns” Comments of that type. After building the tension a bit, our presenter (might even have been Bob Eubanks) gives the go-ahead and, voila, the engine turns over first time. Whistles. Cheers. Gasps. Coronaries. Speaking in tongues. It’s as if Jesus has returned for his second coming.
Have we spotted the problem yet? It can be a bit tricky, and I only caught it the second or third time I saw this infomercial. Ice, while looking impressive, is not cold at all for an engine. Have you had serious problems starting the car at 32F (0C)?
There’s a similar commercial for security systems that shows a husband and wife leaping out of bed when the alarm goes off, getting all adrenalized, calling the security company, etc.
In the real world, of course, when the alarm goes off, the husband sits up, rubs his hand over his face, and says, “Fucking cat.”
Then the wife rolls over and pulls the comforter up to her chin, mumbling: “I did it last time.”
And the husband grunts and curses softly as he shoves himself out of bed to shuffle groggily down to the keypad to deactivate the alarm.
Yeah, but wouldn’t it get in the way of the mechanical operation of the engine? Special oil or no, I really don’t think that an engine dipped in water, then frozen (that’s what you meant, right? Not that it was in a hollow section of Ice like David Blaine was) is going to turn over.
Well, I would assume there was no water/ice inside the engine itself. At least that’s the assumption I’m going on.
There’s amother beer commericial that really gets my goat. There’a a coupla guys playing with each other’s balls and getting sweaty when one of them says that drinking beer is a great way to quench their thirst. Uh, alcohol DEhydrates - you shit brained morons
Sure, Tapioca, but beer does relieve thirst, does it not? I sure as hell know that on a hot summer’s day, nothing beats cracking open a cold one. It may dehydrate you in the end, but quench a thirst it does.
I want to throw a brick through the set when I see the one for a brand of toaster pastries…
Kid A meets kid B and A trades his yucky old brand of toaster pastry for kid B’s nice new brand. A asks B what he does with all of those yucky old toaster pastries, whereupon they open up B’s locker and about 200 pounds of uneaten yucky old brand fall out.
1- What the hell is the matter with kid A that he can’t ask his mom to buy the brand he’d rather have?
2- If the brand advertised is so damned good, why does kid B trade it away?
3- Why in the hell does kid B squirrel away all of the old yucky brand that he has no intention of eating?
Don’t even get me going on beer ads. All these gorgeous babes are not going to throw themselves at your feet just because you buy a brand of beer. It has been my experience that most women prefer mixed drinks to beer anyway.
IIRC, the fifth dentist actually recommended quitting chewing gum.
Source: Zillions, a children’s consumer magazine put out by Consumer Reports back in… mid 80s? And my faulty memory.
Okay, looks like we all hit that one like someone mentioned a spilled coffee lawsuit.