Is there such a thing? When I bought my new car, there were 50 miles or so on the clock. Just rolling it on and off the carrier to deliver it the dealership is going to put on a few tenths.
But my basic point still stands. As restrictive as those rules are, it could be done. Maybe the Quaker State guys know that their oil is such crap that even if you jump through all the hoops, you still have no chance. If they had faith in their product, they’d promise you’ll make it, and stake their money if you didn’t.
I’ll second this, and specifically nominate the women who can’t wrap their hair up in a towel after showering, and need some specially-designed towel to do it.
Slight highjack, but Excedrin is aspirin. It also contains acetaminophen (which is the active ingredient in Tylenol) and caffeine, but it has aspirin, too.
I love the commercial for the egg cracking device, which features folks smashing eggs all over the kitchen counters, range, etc. Talk about a solution in search of a problem!
Also states they will pay the Kelly blue book value for your car, If you take the government mileage average the car will be 21 years old with 250000 miles!:rolleyes:
She’s apparently a real doctor (at least, that’s what the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen says). The non-blinking is still creepy as all get out though.
What about the dumbass who can’t use a flashlight without falling out of the row boat? Dude, who goes fishing in the dead of night, without a camping lantern? That’s for that stupid hat with the lights on the brim. When I was a kid, I would have laughed at people wearing that. (I still would, just not in their face)
Or the idiots who are struggling to reach up and water their plants. Hello, it’s called a stepping stool. Use it!
(The people in the cooking device commercials shouldn’t even be allowed anywhere near a kitchen)
“As Seen On TV” commercials are the best ones for Darwin-Awards-To-Be.
I nominate the “Nationwide is on your side” dufus with his backpack, shadow puppets, and mannequin-like facial expression.
Some of these may be perfectly reasonable products that I will now not be caught DEAD purchasing or supporting because of the stupid commercials!
(I have to say I do like the credit-card-carrying Vikings, and the woman who taught her dog Mr. Butters and her cockatiel to sing the hits of the 80’s.)
In an odd way, the actress in that commercial has a sort of sway over me (she’s not particularly attractive, but I guess that I really like her voice or something) as every time I see the ad, I really, REALLY want a little taste of something sweet…
No discussion of stupid people in commercials can be complete without the “Suzanne researched this” lady. It was an ad about a wife hectoring her husband into buying a house they couldn’t afford, which aired at almost exactly the same time that the housing bubble began to implode. On some of the financial boards I read, “Suzanne researched this” is still used as a sarcastic response whenever someone has a stupid get-rich-quick idea.
It’s people like you who are killing this economy, with your “do-it-your-own-damned-self” independence, as opposed to shelling out $19.99 (and if you call in the next ten minutes, we’ll give you two-for-the-price-of-one!) for these finely crafted pieces of [del]shit[/del] quality merchandise.
To the OP: dumbest people in a commercial? I nominate any smiling, cheerful woman who cleans her entire house with some cleaning product, only to have her dirty, rampaging family come in and totally trash her house.
Her reaction? Shake her head and smile in an “Oh shucks/darn!” kind of way, and again break out her bottle of name-brand cleaner and go back to work of making her house spotless again.
Just once, instead of her long-suffering sigh and acquiescent smile, I’d like to see a glare of righteous and deserved anger, followed by a cut scene of her chilled out in a recliner, glass of wine in hand, while her thoughtless family scrubs industriously, like galley slaves, and casting fearful, furtive glances in her direction.
Well, there is that Digiorno where the wife is upset about the messed up carpet. The husband tries to pass it off on a pizza delivery guy, but when she finds the box the husband and a friend wind up having to clean the carpet.
Yeah, she does have something. I recognize her from a series of Glad commercials a few years ago, and she played Joyce DeWitt in a TV movie about the behind-the-scenes stuff at Three’s Company.
I knew that I had seen her somewhere before, and in this moment of candor, I suppose that I should admit that I think she is actually very attractive, albeit in a somewhat unconventional way.
Her and I would do terrible things with that Bear-Sheriff cake. Terrible, frosting-related things…
Yes. This. Dear ad-husbands everywhere: you are no longer an infant, and your wife is not your mother. You are financially independent enough (presumably) to marry and buy your own house. You have gained the necessary intellectual and gross motor skills to clean up after yourself. SO FUCKING DO IT.
My own nomination? Anyone and everyone involved in those stupid iRenew bracelet ads. It’s a plastic fucking bracelet, people. It does not do anything. There is ZERO scientific evidence that it has any effect whatsoever (beyond that of a placebo), and it is blatantly obvious snake-oil. It pisses me off so much because anyone who has even a basic understanding of science would see that this is bunk.