The ads for the new TV show Quantico have me feeling vaguely stabby. They’re not even trying to be subtle; the voice over goes something like this: “They’re in the best shape of their lives, they’re living and training together, they’re going to have lots of steamy sex and maybe occasionally catch a terrorist or so if we can figure out how to do that while showing as much skin as possible under current FCC guidelines”.
I think it’s a Sears commercial. They do a little montage of various appliances with the last being a microwave. The timer on the microwave goes from 2 to 1 and there’s a ding sound. What microwave on the planet dings at one second left? It just irritates me.
I think that’s the one where his mother then says in a patronizing tone, something like “It’s okay, we know you’re going to change the world”.
Maybe it does it just to taunt people who try and open the door right before the timer 
I don’t know who the morons running DirecTV’s ads are but evidently they have no idea that their client has merged with a cable provider.
Meineke: man is wearing a backpack loaded with camping gear. He’s listing to his wife a string of places to take the car for regular maintenance. She hands him coffee and says good luck.
Oh, wait, they’re suggesting he is preparing for the adventure to take his car all of those places. I thought he was going away for a week long camping trip in the woods and was reminding the wife of the car chores that need to be done while he’s away.
If he’s going in his car, why does he need a backpack?
Because while the car is in the service area on a lift, the owner will be camping out in the waiting room.
There’s a local car dealership commercial where the guy is bragging about his low, low prices or whatever, and says, “Just don’t take my word for it!” Every time I hear him say it, I think about how he’s actually telling us that he’s a liar. Otherwise, he’d say the more familiar, “Don’t just take my word for it!”, which means, “Go ahead, check it out for yourself!” Maybe I’m too pedantic, but god, that bugs me.
I loathe and depise commercials for the latest stoopid reality shows with dumbass losers seeking their 15minutes of fame. Oxygen TV ima no longer looking at you. Girls wanta play football, cool, but wait you send them out in their underwear wearing shoulderpads and helmets, and it’s supposed to be taken serious? And all the other RT offshoots starring desperate selfabsorbed navel gazing sloppy shallow bottom dwellers who’ll do anything on camera.
that and that AFLAC goose, wish he’d get cooked well done.
You hate the commercial for the show, or the show?
Hyundai “D-Fence”
It’s not so much the commercial, but it is using the Cardinals. Now, that IS the stadium, but it does not have trees like that around it. That looks like it was filmed in Minnesota or something. And there MAY be houses that look like that, with yards like that somewhere in Phoenix, but chance are not.
So why did they half-ass the production? The shot with the husband on the phone looks like it was filmed here, but the guys and D fence is obviously filmed somewhere else, as was the house. Why not just shoot the whole thing here?
We were wondering if there were different versions for different markets. Anyone else get this one with different teams in their area?
Two more:
So someone, possibly the owner’s daughter, dresses up the dog in a tutu, so the owner has to “remacho” the dog, and take it for a manly car ride. Which looks like it goes for about 3000 miles. I guess we can’t have sissified dogs.
Papa Murphy’s Re-bold your man
Apparently, playing with your daughters isn’t “manly” enough. You must be remachoed, too.
What year is this? Maybe these would fit in the 50s or something.
The clone-like Liberty Mutual ads drive me nuts. Stand an ordinary looking person in front of the Statue of Liberty. (Clever! Liberty. Liberty Mutual. Get it?) Have that ordinary person recite a pet peeve about car insurance and how Liberty Mutual is so much better.
In theory, a classic ad. In practice, it is ineffective because the small number of Liberty Mutual ads produced are replayed with such frequency, it looses its punch. It’s a bore.
The minute I see a person standing in front of the Statue of Liberty, I’m gone. Off to another channel, because I could recite the ad verbatim if I stayed on that channel, and that makes me feel like I watch too much TV. Which I probably do.
The Progressive insurance ad with “Flo” playing all the parts and arguing about seeing her in an ad. I don’t get the point; and its obnoxious.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the series of Charmin commercials about “Enjoy the Go”. What an infantile euphemism for “take a shit”. Do you have to “go”, little Billy? I hope you enjoy the “go”! Yuk.
With me, when the Liberty Mutual ad comes on, I strangely find myself paying attention to other things than the hypothetical insurance situation the speakers present. I wonder, for example, if the ads were shot in Battery Park because we see the Statue and New Jersey in the background. I also noticed that the one ad with the cute girl holding the latte cup talking about deductibles was shot during the spring in contrast to the others were filmed during the winter. In any case, I’m not listening to the ad’s content thereby rendering it ineffective.
This weekend, I had the TV on low in the background while I was doing some work in the kitchen. I kept hearing one ad that started with a gravelly voice saying something like ‘‘umma DAWG’’. Curiosity finally got the better of me…
It’s a woman in a Duluth Trading Company commercial; she’s saying ‘‘I’m a doll’’ in an accent so terrible that it has to be fake. She proceeds to describe her surroundings in similarly sarcastic terms – her well-worn truck is a fine car, her tough-looking horse is a fine steed, and so on – to show how content she is being rugged. Would a little attention to sound quality have hurt though??
Why do all the people in the Panara bread ads eat like fucking pigs? Maybe its to show me that this product is slop intended for people of low breeding and lacking in civilized comportment.
Got it. Won’t be buying that shit.
Ugh. The chick with the salad. At least the other character sort of called her on it, but still, gross. Does not make me want to try it.
Great. Once again, snobbery raises its ugly head. 