I’m an ex-smoker so I guess I should be “Yeah, stick it the Big Tobacco!” but, nah, they’re annoying as fuck. And the stupid little half-truths in them for emotional effect (“Tobacco contains urea, just like cat pee!”) annoy me from a rational standpoint.
Meh.
What’s the deal with the Rooms-To-Go commercial with the Sophia Vergara and the spastically spinning furniture?
How about that auto commercial played on Veterans day where they praise the “Real Heroes”- those "heroes’ being the characters on Mockingjay.:rolleyes:
Or Jennifer Aniston showing she has no idea how real people live with her “Nitemare” ad about showers and such on board her flight?
I’ve seen that commercial at least four times, and I DVR and FF most shows, so I don’t see all that many commercials. Each time it is on - for Air Emirates, no less - I wonder how many people that commercial can be relevant for. Bewildering.
Yes, let’s run a commercial that just reminds everyone that travel’s getting better and better for the 1%, while the remaining 99% of us are treated more and more like cattle.
The Mazda commercial, featuring a young man out enjoying a drive in his new Mazda3, on a 2-lane windy road with a solid double yellow line, when a police car starts to overtake him on the left.
Then the cop is glaring at him, looking out the driver’s window, and the young man is looking at the cop out his passenger window. You can see a dotted white line on the road. And now the Mazda is driving in the left lane, as if this were a freeway.
Then it cuts back to where the cop has finished passing on the left and the young man sighs in relief. He is back on a 2-lane windy road but this time with a dotted white line (could be one side of a freeway but you can’t see the other side).
Questions: did the cop pass on the left or on the right? Or both at once? Is the cop car really an electron passing through two slits at the same time? And when did the windy 2-lane road turn into a freeway without any warning? These are all minor points, of course, but they really interfere with my, um, enjoyment of the, er, commercial.
I hate that Arco commercial with that annoying, ugly young woman who fights and kicks the ass of those guys in the back alley in her imagination, when in reality she is standing at the gas pump.
God I hate the dialogue and that woman.
I wonder where she changed into her robe if there’s no showers.
Print ads are the same way now. The reason is that these international airlines make all their money on first and business class, and compete on it. They only reason they have steerage class is that they have extra space on the plane.
What is the last ad you saw that claimed that normal flying was fun? Even Madison Avenue doesn’t think we’re stupid enough to believe that.
Just saw a Calphalon commercial where a lady is chopping some veggies, then proceeds to casually shove the knife back into the block without cleaning it. WTF??
This one is more perplexing than hate-able. HTC has a new phone commercial that is obviously based on the Apple 1984 commercial. It shows some young dude sprinting over a table full of dummies into a park filled with foliage and beautiful women. The captions are “Be Loud”, “Be Bold”, “Be Free”. Which would be a very powerful message if the phone wasn’t, unfortunately, also advertised as running the new release of Android, Android Marshmallow 
Who thought that Katniss Everdeen needed a Dodge to defeat the Hunger Games?
smh…
And to run that ad on Veterans day calling the imaginary Katniss and crew “true heroes” is beyond tone deaf.:dubious::rolleyes:
I just saw a commercial for a fucking Ford Explorer that claims, “Mother Nature can’t stop us”.
Yeah, you go ahead and think that. Let me know haw that works out for you.
If you want to drive I won’t stand in your way.
I hear you, but it’s not like Ford Explorer ads are aimed at environmentalists. Their target demographic consists largely of people who not only don’t care about the environment, but often seem to be outright antagonistic towards it.
Sure, but if Mother Nature wants to, she could chew up a Ford Explorer and spit it out. That’s the complaint. Mother Nature absolutely CAN stop one.
No argument.
Remember what Dena Dietrich told us! :eek: