I’m not usually one of the offenderati, but I saw an ad for the movie Sausage Party the other day that seemed tone-deaf as shit. It’s an animated sausage talking about how grills kill, while someone takes a knife to various screaming and struggling foods (a tomato, loaf of bread, etc.).
Um…you guys know this kind of stuff is happening right now to real people, right?
There’s a local pitch for an air conditioner repair company that starts with a woman frantically fanning herself with her hands while the voice-over says something about how awful it is to be too hot. Except the woman is wearing a long-sleeved sweater. No wonder she’s hot!!!
Idiot.
Apparently Priuses are cars for thieves and scumbags. Hey, degenerates need transportation too, ya know.
I’m getting really annoyed by the guy in the GE commercial that is running during the Olympics. The one in that tour group, or whatever it is, who is talking to the female jet engine mechanic. I guess his comments are supposed to be either funny or clever, but they come across as neither.
I wasn’t paying close attention, but that commercial confused me. All of GE’s latest commercials are stupid.
There’s a commercial for a washing machine that lets you insert clothes after the cycle has started. The man hands the woman a dirty cloth, saying “I hope that’s mud!” She puts it in the machine and then smells her fingers. If it’s not mud, what the shit is it?
I gag every time I see it.
ETA: And here it is on youtube
That Entresto commercial. Bunch of lively old farts hanging onto every scrap, every minute, of wonderful beautiful life by their fingernails, long past their sell-by dates. Supposed to be heartwarming. And there’s that awful awful ‘Tomorrow’ song.
Anyone got a link for this one? I haven’t seen it and I can’t find it.
I want to kill every person in the ad agency who created that “sun will come out tomorrow” earworm ad for that fucking drug company. I loathe that goddamn song. Come to think of it, I’ll include the drug company employees who approved it in my killing spree.
Please see #966
Sounds like a good intro to the PSA about somebody getting distracted by their phone and getting into a crash as a result.
Yes, not to mention that when you take their drug you’re GUARANTEED TOMORROWS.
GUESS WHAT, ASSHATS, NO ONE IS GUARANTEED TOMORROW.
I half like those commercials. Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard come across as nice likable people who I would like to be friends with. And because of the ads, I’m probably more likely to go see their movies & tv shows. So, they and their publicists & agents are doing great with these. The problem with the commercials is that I have no clue what brand of appliance they’re shilling for.
Just what is supposed to be so funny about people saying “Whaaaaaaaatttttt?” This is totally idiotic, and its use in commercials gives me the dry heaves.
Dairy Queen, you are especially reprehensible for doing this over Strauss’ “Thus Spake Zarathustra”. Not in the least bit funny.
This one for United Healthcare. Two women are lounging by a backyard pool searching on their phones for nearby urgent care clinics, because their husbands are about to try pole vaulting into the poll and are certain to hurt themselves. Because we all know that men are such idiots that they can be relied on to seriously injure themselves, and their long-suffering wives must take care of them.
I’ve never seen this. I have to wonder who would pay extra for such a feature. How often would you even use this? You’d only have a short time in which to throw in whatever you forgot, otherwise it wouldn’t get the full cycles.
If there is a bigger asshole in commercial-land than this guy, I haven’t seen him.
Why would you want such a bag-O-douche schilling your product?
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I dunno, I kinda like him. Hey, he’s got Twizzlers hair, cinnamon roll hands, and a Cheetos beard!
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And what kind of bank name is “Fifth Third Bank”. Is it the 7th bank? The 53rd bank? What?
It was a merger of the Fifth National Bank and the Third National Bank over 100 years ago.