You’re flingin’ flangin’ correct!
(sorry about the ugly link, I’m on my phone)
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frD6yrV2Dy0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
A minor thing that I can’t stop noticing now is whenever they show a credit card being used in a commercial, they swipe it right-side up through the machine so you can easily read the logo on the card. That’s not where the magnetic strip is!
Bolding mine.
The whole point of the commercial is to let people know they can call up and talk to a real actual person 24/7, that’s why dummy is calling in the middle of the night.
I knew I wasn’t the only one!
I thought I was the only one!
Big box store ads which show every single customer (and there are lots, in the crane shot) being walked around by a blue shirted employee. I don’t know about you, but I spend my time in these stores alternately fake-texting on my cell phone so as not to make eye contact with the vultures while I’m looking, and searching the suddenly deserted aisles for assistance once I actually want to buy something.
That is hysterical! But I kind of love these kinds of ads, just for their snarking and laughing factor…
YES!
And in NPR stories, as well.
Personally I hate lawyers that advertised on television.
I heard one the other afternoon while I wasn’t paying full attention, and the satisfied client said of the attorney, “He’ll fight for your right…” which I of course finished, mentally, as “…to party.”
You may want to rethink that ad, dude.
I was just in the Shop-Rite today, and every few minutes that damn Can-Can song would come over the PA system. I was getting a prescription, and the poor druggist said, “I hear that damn thing all day, then I get home and turn on my TV and there it is again. I *dream *that fucking song.”
Ok, this is a Liberty Mutual ad and I found unrealistic (and a tad offensive) as a disabled person. Under the theme of “just doing the right thing”, it features a young woman seeing a blind woman approaching a doorway to a public building and that young woman opening the door for her (and in turn others). The blind woman, sensing her whereabouts with a cane/stick, ends up just walking though the open door unperturbed. She simply shuffles away, as if none the wiser to the good deed that was just done on her behalf.
A blind woman who is out and about in the world is not going to be approaching a doorway and not be aware of it. Additionally, they are not going to be unaware that the door has been opened independent of any effort on their part.
In the most annoying non-jingle I hear on the radio, there is a woman with a better voice than the non-tune deserves singing about Mattress Firm being a good place “to get a gray night’s sleep.” I’ve heard it a million times. She doesn’t say “great,” she says “gray.” This, combined with the lameness, the fact that the jingle is only one line and isn’t really a jingle because it doesn’t rhyme and isn’t catchy in the least, the tune doesn’t resolve, and it’s repeated way way way way way too often, has made me switch from any radio station playing this ad. It has caused me to bring CDs into my car so I won’t have to listen to commercial radio at all. Thanks a lot, Mattress Firm. Now I will never hear any new music ever again. Also, I will buy my next mattress ANYWHERE else. Possibly even Walmart.
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Can we roast the E-Trade talking babies over open spits already? It’s bad enough hearing the actual ads, but now the football pregame show just now had one on there giving his “expert” advice on the game. Let me say it one more time: TALKING BABIES ARE FUCKING FROWNED UPON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT!
If I ever get my hands on the guy who came up with the idea for cartoon mucous characters I’m going to break his goddamn neck!!!
There’s a diaper commercial - cartoon babies coming down the runway turn their buts to the audience and WHAT? There’s some kind of explosion in the diaper - am I supose to think that if the diaper wasn’t so good the audience would be sprayed with pooh?
Also - those toilet paper commercials claiming ‘fewer pieces left behind’. I didn’t realize this was even a problem and it’s gross to think that there might be people walking around with toilet paper stuck on their ass.
Thats commercial irritates me as well…everytime I see it I just wanna throw the television out the window!
There’s a radio commercial for Right Size Smoothies that introduces their pitch by saying “Did you know that women over forty need to spend an hour at the gym every day just to maintain their current weight?”
No, they don’t. They really, really don’t. It’s not a function of age, gender, or time spent exercising that solely determines whether you gain or lose weight. If they’re gaining weight, they need to eat less.
At least they seem to have retired the cartoon toenail virus and his flip-top toenail bed. shudder
It has been alluded to a couple of times already, but the State Farm ads with the guy (Jerry?) irritate the heck out of me. As someone who’s worked in insurance for 25 years, I can assure you that if you’re the sort of driver who regularly runs your car up telephone poles or ( as in the more recent set of ads ) crashes your car into your own garage, we don’t want you as a customer! Your agent undoubtably heaved a sigh of relief when you went with that “15-minute insurer”, and would be overjoyed if she never heard from you again.