You would think their ad people would have learned something from those Orville Redenbacher commercials…
And speaking of guacamole, I’m strangely fascinated by Wholly Guacamole and their dancing ingredients. I’ll actually stop fast-forwarding to watch that commercial.
Activia commercial, bunch of bovines sitting around talking about their innards and yogurt like an old fashioned conscious raising group. Or a ‘rap group’ with the youth pastor at some lame church. Ending with an offkey “activIA”. I just see red.
The marketing people at AT&T are making some odd decisions. Another example: the AT&T commercial in which a woman in an office looks down in alarm as water is rising. (The bad decision there: not pulling that ad in view of the recent floods and associated deaths in the US south.)
As she watches, the office has now turned into a set of tropical islands, each with its own coconut palms and office workers, surrounded by a gorgeous turquoise sea. But, it’s AT&T to the rescue! …and soon the waters recede, the sun fades and is replaced by fluorescent lighting, and the workers are now back in their gray, dreary cubicles. (This bad decision should be obvious: AT&T will change the beautiful-and-exotic into the dull-and-commonplace. Huzzah!)
They’re required, but some sound inane. (“Tell you doctor if you have heart disease” - shouldn’t he/she KNOW that already?) But the funniest/worst is for Anoro Ellipta, a COPD med that’s a combination of umeclidinium and vilanterol…
“Vilanterol may increase the risk of death in people with asthma, but the risk in people with COPD is not known.”
In other words, “We know it can kill you if you have asthma. But we don’t know if it can kill you if you take it for the condition this drug was made to treat.”
The “Pedicure Egg” that shaves off grody heel calluses.
The woman who uses a competitor’s foot product emits a piercing scream – as if she’s being murdered.
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Those cannibalistic cereals aren’t frosted mini wheats, they’re cinnamon toast crunch.
And they’re not Kellogg’s, they’re General Mills.
[/QUOTE]That makes me feel better. I don’t eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Here in Jersey shady lawyers run an incessant “Has Your Vaginal Mesh Failed? Sue! Sue! Sue the Bastids!”
“Vaginal mesh” makes me envision that mesh-y stuff used to repair drywall faults. That would really hurt in, erm, private areas.
Blech x a zillion
And I could very happily live out the rest of my life without knowing that Risperdal causes boys to grow breasts. Another shady lawyer “sue the bastards” ad.
AT&T: Our coverage is so good, you’ll never get to take a vacation - ever.
“An eye for an eye, that’s what Dad always says!”
“Now, I never said that.”
Yes, too true (and the Tropical Islands commercial can only serve to remind the 52-weekers of this sad fact of modern life).
By not watching TV and using Ad blocker’s I successfully avoid most of the bad commercials.
That whole commercial is weird and I don’t really know what they meant to accomplish. I think the basic theme is “Play the lottery and you’ll be able to do something totally crazyrich like have a whole Sea World built in your living room. Rich people live like that lolz.”
Which, if that IS what they meant to leave you with — the whole thing about her being really exasperated with him is… what, trying to introduce a different joke? The “home life will still be a constant struggle, the poor wife with the difficult life”? Are we supposed to sympathize with her in the situation of asking her husband in the fish tank what he wants? Relate to her having the horror of having to slightly raise her voice to be heard by a guy IN a scuba tank underwater and behind presumably a foot of plexiglass?
You could even take the same basic premise (hell, the same set), and rewrite that one to make it work. Just flip it. Wife asks what do want for dinner? Husband says “How about lobster?” Wife says “Unbelievable”… because we see now that means she has to hop in their giant tank they have from their lottery winnings and pick out his lobster. That would make more sense AND be different/amusing.
Even more fun. They shysters around here have been running ads about some drug or procedure having led to death or some other even worse outcome. “If these apply to you, call J. Phineas Loophole now.”
Especially if it killed you, I guess.
I hate commercials that promote a specific hospital. I don’t have any choice which hospital I go to! I have to go to the one which my doctor or surgeon uses.
In addition, some of the ones advertised are internationally recognized, prestigious hospitals in very high rent districts. Yeah, even if I could choose to go there, like my insurance would cover anything.
I don’t understand the point of these.
Also the ones about catheters that they keep running on the Game Show Channel. Ugh. Between the Catheter Cowboy and the old lady going on about her “smooth catheter” (Granny, are you okay?) I just want to change the channel.
Also, speaking of the Game Show Channel and other off-brand cable channels–is anybody else sick of that weird-looking guy advertising “WEN” haircare products?
Some of those catheter ads go on waaaaay too long. Why do we need lingering closeups…can’t the company just produce a brochure or website for their potential customers?
Srsly. I get that there are certain medical items (catheters, incontinence underwear, etc.) that people need, and it’s great that they can get them discreetly and inexpensively through mail order. But do they really need to advertise them on TV?
Yes, you can tell when they expect that the audience demographic for the channel/show you are watching is dominated by older-cohort who are feeling the mileage catch up, can’t you?
Aleve every twelve. So the difference is even more noticeable.
And Danny Trejo as Marsha and Steve Buscemi as Jan was a trip.
I have always hated Cancer Treatment Centers of America commercials, and thought they smelled a little like quackers to me, but the latest one, where they tell you how in addition to managing your diet, and patting the hands of your family members (unlike those other hospitals, that just provide, you know, medical care), Cancer Treatment Centers of America will PRAY for you. Oy. Sarah Hyland, Judy Collins and Bette Davis could not collectively manage the eyeroll that requires.
A frequently-run commercial around these parts has a voice listing some of the many ailments resulting from asbestos exposure, then saying “if you or anyone in your family became ill or died as result of asbestos exposure, you may be eligible for compensation. Call _________.”
I mean, they have to know that they just solicited calls from the dead.