Your right, they’re doing the same as the state.
“Sssuch…a…sssoft…stooool…”
That has disturbed me to the point of insanity. There. I am insane now.
But you have such lovely, soft stool…
Hooray, poop!
Hold on. I missed this…WHAT???
Don’t worry your li-uhl 'ead about 'im, guvnah, 'e’s 'armless.
The Burger King commercial where the king is in bed really freaks me out, but my all-time most horrifying commercial is the Creepy Little Welch’s Girl. (shudder!)
The new GEICO ads: the Little Richard and Charo ones are funny as all get-out, but the Burt Bacharach one is just plain creepy.
I haven’t seen the Burger King “peep-show booth” ad lately–I hope they had the sense to pull that atrocity!
And the award for the worst new fall show promo has to go to “Ugly Betty”. I’m not PC by any stretch of the imagination, but even I’m offended on multiple levels by it!
Re the Red Stripe ads: the new crop (including the foot doctor) are way inferior to the last bunch–I loved the “helping our white friends dance” ad!
Oh man, I love the “Hooray Beeeeeer!” ads! They make me think of those crazy Emerald Nuts commercials that ran during the Olympics. I loved those too.
Two guys are standing around in some sort of factory setting. One of them is eating Starburst. He accidentally drops the package of Starburst into a nearby barrel of chemicals. He reaches in to get it, but when he pulls his arm out, it’s gone! Dissolved by the chemicals! So he sighs deeply and reaches in with the other arm … .
There’s also an extended version that ends with him standing there with both arms missing while the second guy rolls up his sleeve and starts to reach in.
They do that here in Mississippi, too. A state with a majority-black population.
-Joe
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It’s horrifying in the sense it makes me want to stick my head in that Starburst vat just so I don’t have to hear it anymore.
That Starburst thing is just awful!
They’ve been gone for a while, so I’d forgotten about them, but the Sneaux shoes commercials are just painfully stupid.
Have you not seen the one for the new VW Rabbit? I thought that one was freakin’ hysterical.
Nitpick:
Mississippi is 60% White.
I like the ads, I think they are beneficial because they remind people of the reality that driving is one of the most dangerous things you can do.
Now whether they would make me buy a VW is another thing. Too pricey for me for what you get.
Virginia has a sticker that some/all convenience stores put on their gas pumps that talks about the penalties for driving off without paying for gas. It portrays a black male state police officer and a young white female “criminal.” That one always catches my eye.
Horrifying? Maybe not, but I detest ALL commercials featuring cars, or trucks, driving around on windy roads to rock music. Add in those annoying “Dr. Z” ads too.
In short, I hate all car ads EXCEPT for the VW ads where the cars get wrecked.
I just hate cars, basically.
The recent VW ads don’t bug me all that much. Now, as to whether VWs actually are safer in accidents that other cars, I have no idea. Certainly I wouldn’t have liked my chances in my old '75 Rabbit.
OTOH, the ad that creeps me out the most right now is one for Gatorade, with the heads of various sports figures (although Derek Jeter is the only one I recognize) digitally grafted onto kid’s bodies. Basically, this uses the same technique as in the film “Little Man”. I could avoid that one just by not going to the theater, but the Gatorade thing turns up about a dozen times whenever I try to watch the Astros play.