More stupid commercials!

[Superdude]

I have the TV on right now, and they just showed a commercial for NationalCollege, starting out with this poor schlep (whose name is eluding me, but I think it was Joel) sitting on a couch.

VO: “Joel just got some great new apartment, blah blah blah (not an exact quote). But how long can he get by on just a part-time salary?”

They then go on to extoll the values of their college.

But I’ve always wondered something: Why in the name of God would Joel move into anything more than a slum on a part-time salary? Doesn’t he deserve what he gets? And doesn’t the landlord stupid enough to rent to this boy deserve to have to go to court to have him evicted?

Wanna name some others?

[tremorviolet]

There’s a series of local commercials for Time-Warner cable. They’re all bad and horrible acted. The worst on is for video on demand and has the guy going, “So we went to the video store and they were all out of comedy.” Yeah, the video store didn’t have a single comedy video anywhere. And the way he says it is soooo smarmy. ARGH. Can’t you find a way to promote video on demand that doesn’t assume I’m a moron?

[saramamalana]

There’s a commercial for those fancy space-age mattresses. The voiceover says things like “Do you have trouble sleeping at night?” or “Do you wake up feeling achey?” The one that irks me is “Do you feel like you need a nap in the daytime?” Well when else do you expect me to nap? If I “nap” at night, odds are pretty good it’s gonna be for 8 hours in which case I call it “sleep.”

[Dewey_Finn]

I don’t understand the current Levi’s ads. One shows a dog chasing after a woman and biting her jeans. She pulls off the jeans to get away from the dog, who then brings them back to the guy, who puts on the same jeans. So what’s the message? That the guy wants to wear ladies’ jeans? Or that she left his apartment wearing his jeans?

Another one has the guy use flowers as a ruse to enter a woman’s apartment (former girlfriend, perhaps?), so he can retrieve the jeans in a tree outside the second-floor window. What’s the backstory here?

[ivylass]

@Dewey Finn

Another one has the guy use flowers as a ruse to enter a woman’s apartment (former girlfriend, perhaps?), so he can retrieve the jeans in a tree outside the second-floor window. What’s the backstory here?

They had a fight and she threw his jeans out the window. He had to play nice to get back into the apartment so he could retrieve his jeans from the tree branch right outside the window.

I hate the ones where the customer is saying, “Beep, boop, beeeeep” to a clerk, who’s playing Automated Phone Attendent. For God’s sake, the person is right in front of you. Don’t act like an idiot.

[Ethilrist]

@ivylass

I hate the ones where the customer is saying, “Beep, boop, beeeeep” to a clerk, who’s playing Automated Phone Attendent. For God’s sake, the person is right in front of you. Don’t act like an idiot.

umm… I think that’s a whoosh, there. The idea is that sometimes, even though you are talking to a real person, they’re so chained to the company track that you might as well be talking to a machine.

Be that as it may, I agree. Stupid commercial.

Our current family game is to watch commercials and come up with the wrong response to everything: “Well, I certainly wouldn’t want to eat food that was so hot it caused me to breathe fire!” “Hey, I can save all kinds of money on a cellular plan: DON’T BUY ONE.”

[Zsofia]

@Dewey Finn

I don’t understand the current Levi’s ads. One shows a dog chasing after a woman and biting her jeans. She pulls off the jeans to get away from the dog, who then brings them back to the guy, who puts on the same jeans. So what’s the message? That the guy wants to wear ladies’ jeans? Or that she left his apartment wearing his jeans?

She stole his jeans, that’s why she looks kinda rueful at the end when he puts his jeans back on. The dog chased her down to get them back, that’s why she didn’t fight real hard - the dog was in the right.

As if they’d fit.

[ouryL]

How bout that Taco Bell commercial where the friend of a comatose patient says “The last time I saw him he was going…hmm…hmm.hmmm” while pantomiming eating a burrito. Yeah, right. I still wonder how that got past Standards and practices?

[ouryL]

@Zsofia

She stole his jeans, that’s why she looks kinda rueful at the end when he puts his jeans back on. The dog chased her down to get them back, that’s why she didn’t fight real hard - the dog was in the right.

As if they’d fit.

That was part two, the first part had him getting his previous pair out a tree after giving her flowers.

[Dr.Rieux]

@ouryL

That was part two, the first part had him getting his previous pair out a tree after giving her flowers.

I didn’t realize it was the same people in all three commercials.
Now it almost makes sense.

[saramamalana]

Except they’re not the same people.

[jayjay]

@ivylass

I hate the ones where the customer is saying, “Beep, boop, beeeeep” to a clerk, who’s playing Automated Phone Attendent. For God’s sake, the person is right in front of you. Don’t act like an idiot.

I don’t know. The one where he goes into “Hold” mode and starts singing “Queen of Hearts” drops me to the floor laughing every time.

[Superdude]

Heard another today, this one on the radio.

It’s a series of ads for Sam Swope, a local automotive dealer. Their slogan is, “nobody walks away.”

Well, duh. Most people show up in their own cars that they’ll trade in. If the deal doesn’t go through, tey drive the same car home.

I’m thinking about taking a bus over there one day, and when they recover laughing at the prospect of selling ME a car, walking away.

Then suing for false advertisement.

[ivylass]

@jayjay

I don’t know. The one where he goes into “Hold” mode and starts singing “Queen of Hearts” drops me to the floor laughing every time.

I have to admit, that one makes me giggle too.

They’re Citibank commercials, and I wish they’d go back to the identity theft commercials. Those were priceless.

[Gatopescado]

I’ve noticed a few different commercials that use massive head trauma as an advertising gimmick. Whats with this? People getting hit in the head with golfballs and televisions falling on thier craniums? Does this make me want to buy stuff? Hell no!

The recent FedEx ads where the idiots come in and want to ship stuff to FunkyTown or other such fictious places- the message I get is that stupid people chose FedEx.

[Mister_Rik]

I have a problem here. A bit of a dilemma.

You see, years ago I made a promise to myself that I would never purchase any product that was advertised with a really stupid commercial.

But, I really need to get a cell phone.

You see my problem, don’t you?

[LilyoftheValley]

@jayjay

I don’t know. The one where he goes into “Hold” mode and starts singing “Queen of Hearts” drops me to the floor laughing every time.

Me too! Especially how he starts midway through a line.

[Agrippina]

@saramamalana

There’s a commercial for those fancy space-age mattresses. The voiceover says things like “Do you have trouble sleeping at night?” or “Do you wake up feeling achey?” The one that irks me is “Do you feel like you need a nap in the daytime?” Well when else do you expect me to nap? If I “nap” at night, odds are pretty good it’s gonna be for 8 hours in which case I call it “sleep.”

There’s a commercial for one of those portable mattresses where it’s supposed to show the stablity of the mattress and so they show a family jumping up and down on it. What dorks.

Another mattress commercial shows a woman jumping up and down and showing an undisturbed glass of red wine in the corner of the mattress. Thank goodess there’s a mattress out there for me, becaise I too like to jump on the bed with wine and not have it spill over.

[ltfire]

@Dewey Finn

I don’t understand the current Levi’s ads. One shows a dog chasing after a woman and biting her jeans. She pulls off the jeans to get away from the dog, who then brings them back to the guy, who puts on the same jeans. So what’s the message? That the guy wants to wear ladies’ jeans? Or that she left his apartment wearing his jeans?

Another one has the guy use flowers as a ruse to enter a woman’s apartment (former girlfriend, perhaps?), so he can retrieve the jeans in a tree outside the second-floor window. What’s the backstory here?

I watch the dog commercial to the end every time, just to see those perfect hips and minimal panties, and keep hoping for the camera to zoom in.
But, that’s just me, apparently.

[Steve_MB]

The stupidest one I’ve seen lately is the “adrenalitis” Toyota truck commercial. Somehow, I have the suspicion that glandular failures in real life aren’t very amusing.