Not that I know of. And while I’d be happier to think otherwise, I’m not convinced that the Upton ads are an intentional tongue-in-cheek play on those rather than just “Boobs sell!”
The first one was hawt. Now it’s gotten uncomfortable, like a hot model walking around a cosplay convention.
I liked the commercials a lot better when I thought she was just some hot model with no acting talent that they hired at the local agency and squeezed into a chain-mail bodice. Not sure why. Maybe it’s the “you hired the very top person in her profession in the world right now and you got this?”
Also, I’m waiting for the day when processors and graphics cards get to the point where they can actually render the 3D graphics so that they look like the commercials. The commercials (especially Clash of Clans) make the games look incredible, but then you end up pushing blurry sprites around a touch screen.
Yay! A fresh dumb commercials thread! I’m in!
The point of these ads is truly creepy. The teenage chicken to trying to sneak out on a date with the rebel motorcycle-riding … French fries? So they can … mate, and give birth to these tasty chicken strip/tender things? Ewww.
Although the teen chicken muttering “I told him not to honk” and then sassing her dad with “Dad! Arrggh!” is kinda funny.
Do you remember Jan didn’t start out as the Toyota receptionist? She was just a “regular” spokesmodel in some Toyota ads - I specifically recall one promoting one of their vehicles as excellent for families with kids, so there was a kid in the ad (implying Jan was a mother), and she was also wearing like 6-inch spiky heels or something. Rawr.
Toyota decided to make her a showroom receptionist worker bee. Not the same.
“Ed-u-ca-tion Connection.” “Get matched for free!”
Yeah, disturbing. The guy peering in the window and bursting into song to answer our poor heroine’s lament. Although she is a hottie - especially when she puts her finger beside her cheek as she’s pondering her future …
As long as the Toyota ads reminded me, my contribution is the Nissan ads with the young, hip, besuited spokesman talking about their great deals as Nissan models go shooting by, sliding impossibly close to our stock-still young fellow. The CGI blending the man and the vehicles is distractingly awful. It’s all I can see anymore.
Some of the worst are commercials with non-stop side effect disclaimers. Shouldn’t the doctor go over that shit with you when he writes the prescription?
Yes! Thank you! She is TERRIBLE as an actress!
Seriously, I do a little community theatre/semiprofessional/instructional video acting, and it pisses me off no end that someone with that little talent got a paying gig in a national commercial. She stinks! “Tattoos don’t change,” with that little pouty face … arrgh!
The point is for the ads to bypass the doctors and speak directly to the patients. “Sick? Uh oh, better try our new wonder drug or you could be dead within the hour. Ask your doctor about Foomonex!”
My current most-hated commercial is that stupid thing for toe fungus meds that has the animated big toe (still attached to the rest of the foot) in a football helmet, somehow holding a football even though it has no hands.
And it has a face. A stupid, grinning, dudebro face.
I want to stomp it every time I see it.
Where do they find the guys for the boner meds ads? Is there a specific ad pool for the skeeviest men in America? These guys almost always look like they’d be found cruising your local school playgrounds, or crouched beneath your bedroom window holding a straight razor.
I may have said this in a different thread but-- why take a boner pill and then sit in separate bathtubs? This image has become Cialis’ trademark symbol and it’s so stupid.
The New York metropolitan area has 20 million people. You don’t think there are one or two with a car they could donate?
That’s required by the FDA. That’s why most pharma ads are 90 seconds to 2 minutes long…there’s a lot they have to get in.
The dark haired one? Jane or Janet or similar? I’ll watch her commercials all day and night. Especially the one where the customer brings in a lizard and loses it. She gets up on a table and screams.
They are the guys who failed the “Trivago” audition.
Seriously, that Trivago guy has got to be the skeeviest guy on TV. They even tried to clean him up, but he still looks skeevy.
I am completely with you and Catfish on this one. I HAVE to change the channel/mute when these come on…and they come on so very often.
Clearly Liberty Mutual thinks they’ll maximize profits by attracting eternal-adolescents-who-are-none-too-bright—apparently a coveted customer demo in the car insurance biz. (It probably IS more profitable to deal with customers who are not smart enough to be able to hire a good lawyer in the case of disputes, and that sort of thing, I suppose.)
But when those dimbulbs stand there in front of the Statue of Liberty, all petulant and cross-armed and "I am going to SCHOOL you, insurance companies, on what is owed to ME!!"…I vow never, ever, ever to do so much as even get a quote from Liberty Mutual.
I, just yesterday, made a FB post about those new commercials where he takes off his SUV perp trench coat but he still looks unsavory. I was trying to figure out what it is about him that creeps me out so much. Was it his crooked posture or his unshaved bumface that did it?
Every single one of the “Hail to the V” commercials for various cooter perfumes.
Title loan ads – any of them Scam,scam,scam!!
I don’t recall the brand name, but there is this hair dye commercial that starts out with a smoking hot redhead … who decides to go blonde.
Why? Dear Og, WHYYYYYY?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!
The first set of ads in particular, where he’s got his shirt tucked into his belt-less jeans. It’s like his torso is too long or his legs are too short. We called him Johnny Long-Torso.