The Tampax Pearl commercial where there’s a leak in the boat and the girl takes a tampon and sticks it in the hole at the bottom of the boat. The part that skeeves me is the close up on the string end of the tampon sticking out of the bottom of the boat, swelling with moisture. Blech.
It skeeves me even more than the guy sucking on dog teats.
I just saw that commercial a couple of days ago I I went EWWW! Didn’t think I could be the only one who thought it was icky.
They were lupine teats, not canine teats. See, lupine = funny while canine = not so funny.
I haven’t seen this one yet. Is the boat in the Red Sea?
Then that damn red tide rolled in…
And this ad was screened in America? We’ve always been told American TV ads are conservative and non-risque. Things have changed?
I saw this yesterday and found it somewhat disturbing. (Besides, I sure hope she has another tampon on her, otherwise she’s screwed!)
In the past few years ads for tampons and pads and stuff have gotten almost disturbingly frank about what they are for. We ALL know what they’re for.
But the worst part is, you just KNOW some idiot is going to try to stop a leak in his boat with tampons and then sue when it doesn’t work!
As anybody who reads Maddox would know, bad douche commercials (his words) are just something you have to put up with in life. At least they’ve abandoned the whole ‘feminine freedom’ theme.
Actually, that might be a nice change - combining a ‘back to basics’ approach with the new trend of ‘stupid cack’. Picture this: there’s a chick riding bareback on some mighty steed, and the horse gets shot, so she whips out a tampax and tapes it to the wound… no more bleeding! Hops back on and off she rides. The slogan could be: ‘tampax… it works just as well on YOUR blood’. Sure, it’s offensive and stupid, but when the alternative is that much more retarded, I think we’re dealing with the lesser of two evils here.
Irreverance aside, I actually wish the ads would be LESS obscurationist. We know what they’re for, so I wish the ads wouldn’t insult us with all this unnecessary crap. Be straightforward!
Still not as disturbing as those Kinder Bueno ads in the UK where the candy bar talks like a Vietnamese prostitute. What the hell were they thinking?
What, it says “me love you long time” like in Full Metal Jacket?
now picturing a Hershey bar standing on a streetcorner shouting, “Two dollah! Fuckee, suckee! Me rove you rong time!”
As to tampon/pad commercials, I think the manufacturers need to disclose where they’re hiding the alien women…you know, the ones that bleed blue…
I thought this was going to be about the recent Pepto Bismol commercial. A group is dancing to a song about different health problems and when they say diarrhea one of the women dancing grabs her ass. Makes me wonder which planet the people who develop these commercials live on.
Oh, I don’t know. Hardly a week goes by when I’m not in a boat that suddenly starts filling up with water from a condom sized hole in the bottom. All I have to do is reach into the handy box of Kotex I have stashed in my purse, and plug the hole!
And I’m a guy! It must be even easier for women!
I got a mailing of tampon samples when Always started making them. I have kept the whole mailing cos it was so much fun 
I show it to people who don’t believe me when I describe it.
The box shows 3 girls out partying and smiling for the camera, one of them “flipping the bird” at the camera, and the text says “Up Yours”. :eek:
There was a court case a long time ago that set a precedent that television and radio were not protected by the first amendment. We could be outraged or we could get our constitutional travesty’s worth and just ban these commercials.
<hermann: I haven’t seen this one yet. Is the boat in the Red Sea??
<Revtim: Then that damn red tide rolled in…>
Har har har… I found those extremely amusing! <snorts>
The one that really bugs me is the damn toilet paper commercial with the bears. It’s like I GET IT, ok???..I get the lame reference…geez…what did ad execs do? Sit around thinking…"hey I got a brilliant idea, Fred…Do bears shit in the woods? THEY DOOOOOO! Let’s use that??? And someone got paid for that. And those bears’ happy sappy “gonna take a shit” smile as they head behind some little shrub…well…it just tweaks me.
You know, there are some things out there that we know we need, are aware are available and know where to purchase. The most essential facts about the products are all that need to be advertised (if at all). Plugging a boat with a tampon??? Huge WTF??? Just thinking about it gives me that not so fresh feeling and I think maybe I need to call my mom or my therapist.
Iteki: Alright, now I’ve GOT to see a pic. Please?
“Red Sails in the Sunset…?!”
Hey, what about the one were two very sweaty people pop up in the front seat of a very small car (The new Mini?) and comment on how much bigger it is than it looks. Then a second girl pops up and agrees with them! It always hits me as kinda nasty. I think it’s because thay all have that “Now that we’re finished, I’m a little embarresed 'cause I don’t really know you very well” look, know what I mean?
I could live without the Imodium ad where the guy is in the hottub, too.