Complaints about the string of side effects for medications seem a little unfair since, if the drug companies had their way, they sure as hell wouldn’t include them.
I’m not saying that listing the side effects is a bad thing (I’d rather they didn’t direct advertise prescription medications at all) but they’re not there because of a creative misfire.
Eh, I kinda enjoy the one where he steals a flask of coffee off the counter, then goes out to the rental lot and says “…and I don’t have interact with anyone if I don’t want to…(breezes by a couple of smiling attendants)…and I don’t want to.”
But I suspect my smarmy and sarcastic nature has something to do with it.
This plague has spread to California a long time ago, so don’t feel special. Notice that they never say what the money for your car is going to do for kids? Except pay to run more horrible commercials? It really would work well as an ad for duck tape - as in using some over their mouths.
I read that these ads have done really well for them in that downloads of the game have skyrocketed. So expect more. As for me, since I’d never download or play the game or any like it, I figure an ad for such a thing with Kate Upton is far superior to one without her of someone like her.
Since when is the irritating, endlessly self-promoting and annoying Mindy “pretty”?
In the Bay Area we have been getting radio ads from a financial service company (whose name I have expunged from my memory) saying don’t be a sucker with a money market account, use our system which will get you 10 - 14% return with “no market risk” - just like Warren Buffett. I actually went to the website of the company and found no clue what they are pushing. But high interest rates with supposedly no risk is one of the ways we got into the recession.
The home equity people - “take free money out of your home!” are equally evil.
I’m fairly certain everyone must hate the Buick ads, whether it is the little old lady squealing an orgasmic “Oh My!” upon seeing the inside of the vehicle, or the people who comment that their neighbor must have gotten a raise because they bought a Buick, or the one where the woman cannot find their friend’s Buick in the lot because they have fixed notions about how dull and uninteresting Buicks are.
I get it. But what an odd advertising pitch this is. The reason to buy a Buick is to impress others and the new models really aren’t ugly like the old ones were.
The other thing that the Buick ads suggest is that Buicks are now indistinguishable from every other car in the market. Is that something to be proud of?
And Buick is aggressively chasing the youth market also- like every other car manufacturer. Ignoring the fact that the over 50 demographic is large and wealthy.
There’s an ad for some medication – not sure what it is, but by taking it the lady is able to travel all over the place. The ad illustrates this by showing the lady smiling vapidly in front of various landmarks…and it’s painfully obvious from the camera angles that she’s just standing in front of a green screen. I don’t really expect the whole crew to travel to each location just for a few seconds of film…but when a local car dealership can afford better green screen work than a pharmaceutical company, something is wrong.
The drug company must use the same travel agent as the Daily Show.
I’m sick and tired of his NAPA Can of Know How ads.
Also Sick of the Midas Talking Yellow Hand.
Ugly, attractive, annoying, whatever. If the genders were swapped I have serious doubts that ad would ever have gotten the green light.
Chronic migraineur here. You. Cannot. Imagine. I had between 20 and 25 headache days a month and was in the walk-in-clinic for treatment to break particularly awful ones about twice a month.
Botox is a life-saver for me. And the only side effect I’ve had is a wrinkle-free forehead, and a bit of a brow lift. However, I’m unable to move my eyebrows and indicates, um, thought. :dubious:
/hijack
Good to hear it is working for you!
The ones with the guy who makes the very tall hats; the red-headed woman who clones herself; the librarian who’s still alive and active at age 180+.
Funny, I remember all these bizarre gimmicks, but have no idea what the commercials are for. So what’s the point?
This will be local to Northern California, but I hate the Toyota commercial where every car is the “Buster Posey” of it’s class. They just keep repeating it. I love the Giants and Posey is a great player, but that commercial is really, really annoying.
Yeah, the one with the sunshiny hand talking to the guy in the car is creepy, but I can’t remember what’s it’s for either.
I always think of Chico’s as the store that caters to overdressed ladies of a certain age.
People eating burgers as big as their heads … in slow motion…
Yeah, shove that oversized hunk of meat in your flapping yap and let’s watch you chew like a squirrel.