Okay, I admit it may be the fact that I’m at home recuperating from surgery this week, and I’ve had nothing to do all week but watch TV. But the bazillionth viewing of the Shredded Wheat commercial just pushed me over the edge today. I have developed a violent hatred for this commercial, and although the rational me says it’s just a harmless ad, I just couldn’t take it any more. I blame the pain meds, but I just logged on to the Post Cereal website and sent them a comment:
I have just seen the commercial with the little Shredded Wheat guy for the billionth time this week, and I just have to break down and ask…what exactly is the animated Wheat congratulating the office worker guy for??? He SPOTTED a million dollar account? He didn’t GET the account. He just SPOTTED it. So, what you’re saying is that he CLAIMED A SALES LEAD? And for this, a little animated Wheat Man proclaims him a hero. I guess I’ll be expecting my company to throw me a parade the next time I bring in a random sales lead.
Could the crack team of ad writers you’ve got not come up with something worthy of praise to feature in your commercial instead? I don’t know…maybe the guy could actually accomplish something instead.
In short, my comment is that this commercial irritates the crap out of me. Please take a look at it again, and I think you’ll see what I mean. In the meantime, I will continue my mission of not purchasing any Shredded Wheat. I sincerely make it a point to not reward companies who insult my intelligence.
Okay, I feel better now. Well, actually, I’m still in pain, but at least I got the Shredded Wheat thing off my chest. Thanks for letting me share. I think it’s time for my meds.
I’m always annoyed by ads using talking food products that want you to eat them. I can forgive the M&M’s ones because I don’t think the red M&M really wants to be eaten. My boyfriend hates the one where the baby mini-wheat is wearing his dad’s huge shoes but dad’s feet are tiny. I just tell myself that those shoes actually belong to full-sized shredded wheat man that mom mini-wheat is fooling around with and dad is too pussy-whipped to confront her about them.
There’s a couple of other commercials on right now that annoy me. One is for Walmart, saying how cheap it is to buy your home office supplies there that you won’t mind when your naughty, selfish crotchfruit waste tons of your office supplies! Hey, it’s cheap, go ahead and teach them to be wasteful, disrespect your belongings and hate the environment.
Yes, I heard it the way StGermain did, that he spotted an accounting error made within his company that could have cost them a million.
Even that sounds a little contrived though. Why not admit to insider trading and with the feds bearing down they need to “shred” all their incriminating paper. So “shredding” is good for you, just like eating shredded wheat!
Wait…accounting error??? You mean I’ve been mis-hearing it the whole time??? :smack: Okay, this changes things, then. Now I can just be annoyed at the Shredded Wheat people for producing a commercial feauring a little animated character with poor enunciation. (Maybe I can follow up with a second message to them!) Seriously, I always thought he was saying, “you spotted a million dollar account in there.” Seriously. Well, on the bright side, now I can actually look forward to seeing that commercial again just so I can listen again more carefully.
Oh, and StGermain, thanks for the kind wishes. My family has been taking real good care of me…especially the daughter, who reminded me (as she headed out the door) to keep my phone near me, in case I fell down and needed to call her for help. Yes, I can just feel the love!
I always want to see the human in the commercial to just grab the shredded wheat character and pop him right into their mouth. I mean, that’s their purpose, right? To provide nutrition. With agonized screams to accompany the crunchy goodness.
Sorry to hear you had surgery, glad you are recovering. When I was recovering FX had continuous commercials for Sons of Anarchy. They made me nuts and I learned to hate that show.
As if I don’t already feel bad enough about having y’all point out my mistake to me…now I’m plagued with the mental image of the Shredded Wheat Guys penis!!!
Not to worry, though. I’ve moved on, and I’m now shifting my rage towards the annoying Hide and Seek girl in the Red Robin commercial. Her unbridled smugness when she realizes she can trick all the other kids makes me want to pelt her with an unending barrage of Red Robin burgers. Why, oh why are the commercials that really bug me on some kind of hellish schedule that requires me to see them at least 1,563 times each day???
Yeah, I really can’t wait to get back to work. I’ll be happily back at my office on Friday morning, where I can obsess about the really important things in life…like who stole my favorite pen, etc. And hey, maybe I can claim a good sales lead on my first day back!
On somewhat the same topic, is the miniwheats mascot voiced by Billy West? I can’t find confirmation on the net other than people wondering the same thing.
I love the Shredded Mini Wheat Man. I think he’s adorable. I like the one where they’re all sitting in hot milk, acting like it’s a hot tub. I realize that they’re making a cute little character out of something meant to be eaten, but I’m OK with it cuz they don’t show the carnage.
