In the department of Excessive Creepiness, the ones where your car’s dashboard develops cartoon eyes and the steering wheel starts talking to you. If that happened to me, it would be straight off to the crusher with it.
The screams would be horrifying…
:eek:
Another of those stupid “real people, not actors” Chevy commercials. In this one, the guy dumps a tool box into the bed of a competitor’s pickup and they show the hole in the bed that results. Then he dumps it into the Chevy’s bed, and they show one of the non-actors looking at it, but no closeup of the damage. :smack: Pegs the stoopid meter.
I’m becoming more and more annoyed by the ads that tell us about (a) how bad it is to be constipated when all around you are apparently shitting their brains out, or (b) how much fun it is to take a regular dump and how this toilet paper makes it a joy!
And because of the great toilet paper, you don’t have to wear underwear.
And the commercial is stupid because the bears in it go commando.
There’s a Swiffer sweeper commercial in which a family gets a new dog. I don’t hate it for any reason except they named their dog Lulu. It reminds me of the Honeymooners episode in which Norton is sleepwalking and wandering around calling out for his dog.
“LULU! LULU!”
A family sits around deciding what to have for dinner. Pizza, mom & dad and a kid agree. In walks the 20 something teenage daughter. “NO I WANT SALAD, WE’RE GETTING SALAD RIGHT? :D”
Instead of the parents rightfully telling the brat the fuck off and just who the parents are in that house, cut to Domino’s announcing that they now sell salad so everyone can get what they want.
Because no pizza place has ever sold salad before, right? Frankly, I think it’s weird that it’s taken until 2016 for Domino’s to offer salad. But that’s not the point. The point is the bratty daughter and the parents enabling her bratty behavior annoy the shit out of me.
These ads for Devour frozen foods (Food You Want to Fork) really make me lose my appetite.
- YouTubeThese ads for the TLC channel featuring a woman so hopelessly addicted to their shitty reality shows she can’t look away from the screen as she blindly fumbles around daily tasks with the most droolingly idiotic grin plastered on her face. Now, I dislike that channel and have little respect for the people who consume their product, but I still think it’s pretty bad form for TLC to so blatantly tell their audience exactly what they think of them. And to use such a clear insult as advertisement no less!
A regular dump would be nice, at least once in a while. I generally have rather “soupy” ones, no matter what I try to do to change that. Changing my diet doesn’t work. I almost always have to take Imodium before I leave the house if I’m going anywhere.
How about the new Bertolli olive oil ad, with the mispelling? It’s the one with a couple dancing in the kitchen as they make dinner. The text over says, “Add your own flare”, which assume is for alerting poison control. I emailed them, and they responded that they are looking into it.
I have no idea what the commercial is advertising…something insurance-related maybe? Alex Trebek says, “The lock I’m talking about isn’t the one on your door.”
Then why in the hell does the commercial keep showing close-ups of people turning deadbolt locks???
Try Probiotics.
Or the new IBS drug, that might cause diarrhea AND constipation!
LOL!
Waiting on the one that also causes incontinence for the trifecta.
Colonial Penn.
It’s a metaphor for locking in insurance premiums.
Except they continually try to upsell coverage.
The Frito-Lay commercial where it’s treated as astounding that a dad could competently make a sandwich and put it into a paper bag.
It’s 2016.
I know that there is still often an imbalance in who does the majority of the parenting. But it shouldn’t be surprising that a man has the ability to competently feed his child. It should especially not be shocking to anyone under the age of 10 that dads can make lunches.
Yes, the Chevy “real people” commercials are full of cringe. The woman seeing the cars rising on a big elevator and saying “Oh my gosh, it’s going up!” is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen. I can believe it’s a real inane reaction, but why is it in the commercial? Are they selling elevators or cars? It seems like the engineers that made the elevator just wanted to show off their creation. Video of that moment: https://youtu.be/Uo5iB8SDp4w?t=38
Agree. Nothing really wrong with the woman’s reaction. It is a cool platform system, and provides a neat visual. But it has nothing to do with Chevy cars or trucks. I pay more attention to the apparatus than the vehicles.
Have you seen the one where non-actor guys are asked to saw a board in half and are given the choice between a hand saw and a power saw? Incredibly, every one chose the power tool to do the cut. The voiceover announces this fact with an air of authority and pride. Because it clearly demonstrates…I dunno what.
There is another where the Real People are asked to guess which automaker has won each of several awards (or something like that). The Real People are shocked and awed that Every Single Winner is a Chevy. Hint to Chevy: It may be a bad idea to portray folks as surprised when they learn you have won awards.
mmm