I always mentally answer “Why? Is she standing behind that hot girl?”
The one that always bothered me was the woman grabbing the half eaten sandwich out of a trash can and eating it. Watching someone eat garbage doesn’t make me want to buy your sandwiches. Actually, it always made me feel slightly sick to my stomach.
They all floast down here.
The one that bothered me (wow, Quiznos seems to have commercials that bother a lot of people) was the one from a few years ago about the sandwich guy who was so obsessed with making the perfect sandwich that he neglected everything else in his life–including his pet bird, shown dead in its cage.
Yeah, Quiznos–way to make me want to buy your sandwiches. :rolleyes:
I did like the Spongmonkeys, though. But then, I was a fan of Rathergood before the commercial came out, so they weren’t a complete shock.
I’m sorry, were you saying something? That chick is hot, but “floasted”?
I had never seen that sub from the trashcan commercial before. Ugh. Though the guy is mildly amusing. “I can’t believe you’re doing that. Ooh, is that turkey, can I have a bite?”
Yeah, Quiznos definitely does not know how to make their sandwich commercials appealing.
This could actually be an anti-commercial. They’re admitting that some people start eating their food, then throw the rest out; and the only people who’ll eat it are so desperate, they’ll eat out of the trash.
Here’s a commercial where there has been no thought beyond the absolute minimum: this is a cell phone service provider ad where the cell phone screen is badly cracked, so much that it cuts his finger every time he swipes across it. The message of the ad is that now, with this provider, you don’t have to wait two years to get a new phone, you can replace it any time. You’d want to replace a phone with a cracked screen, right? With an upgrade? Surely that is the only other option, besides cuts and bleeding, right?
I guess the guy bleeding all over everything never knew that you could actually repair a phone, that you could always do this at any time, and that this would be (a lot?) cheaper than buying a new phone.
Roddy
Is it cheaper? For the level of damage?
What bugs me about that ad campaign, they say “Upgrade when you want, not when you’re told”. Then you read the fine print: “Upgrade up to twice a year, after 6 months”. Wait, that puts a limit on how many upgrades and a limit on how soon. So you still are constrained to “when you’re told”, it’s just there’s a shorter limit and a bit more flexibility.
Sounds a bit like Marriott Edgar:
Beer commercials that want me to stay thirsty. I’m looking at you, Most Interesting Man.
Just saw this one today – don’t know what it was for, because I was too busy trying to wrap my brain around their mistake. A paraphrasing:
No they fucking well don’t. They either say “Stop and smell the roses” or “Wake up and smell the coffee”.
Whoever the ad guy was in charge of that one needs a serious slap.
EDIT: Found it – it’s for Glade.
Must be the same guy who gave us “the 800-pound gorilla in the room.”
This isnt selling cellphones; its selling a lifetime call/text/data plan. Who would benefit from this service more than a zombie?
Strictly from this particular female’s point of view, Old Spice smells good.
You could also just put a cover on the screen.
ING Direct: Donkey - YouTube This ING Commercial to me makes absolutely no sense.
Well, you’re right. I can only say I was so freaked out by the ear going ‘splat’ that I lost track of the subject.
The main point seems to be “no one likes having their time wasted”, which is true. Being able to open an account in 10 minutes with 1 pound (it’s British, so that’s not a measurement of weight) means not wasting time on your whole life history and irrelevant details.
I kinda get the connection about asking all that information, and then deciding the investment is too meager to be interested in accepting the investment.
The whole part about a donkey with a carrot tied on a stick to his head as incentive, then the donkey wants to “invest” his carrot to a mole for safe keeping, then the mole doesn’t think it’s worth his time, then the donkey eating his carrot? Yeah, that part is bizarre.
How about that Time Warner commercial where the kid wants to watch TV? His dad is watching a game and tells him “Play outside.” Yeah. We can see the pouring rain outside. The dad says, “A little water never hurt anybody.” (!) Later in the commercial the kid wants to go outside; now Dad says “Not in this weather you’re not.” Makes no sense at all.
The new one for Ford trucks with Dennis Leary shouting about “torque” and “mileage.” WHen he says “torque is what opens your beer”, there’s a graphic of a wrench opening a beer bottle by turning the wrong way. Then when the graphic for gas mileage comes up the E and F on the gas gauge are backwards.