I hate the spider commercial just for the scream; there had to be another way to show shock and fear that’s just as funny, no? I don’t find it sexist, a man and a woman both react strongly to the spider. Any yelling or screaming makes me change the channel, happy, angry or sad; it almost makes me nauseated if I can’t turn it off fast enough.
The Kit Kat commercial makes me dive for the remote as it sounds to me like bones breaking.
Wouldn’t lifting the lid shut off the washer?
Not if there’s a giant spider on it.
Just in the interests of full disclosure, if a giant hairy insect suddenly appeared either on the table, or on the washer, I too would scream like a little girl, loudly (while wacking it with my shoe).
Maybe this should be in a thread by itself…but it seems slightly related.
The commercial for one of those energy drinks, where the guy is not a morning person. His wife or girlfriend likes to exercise in the morning, he didn’t join her until he started drinking said energy drink. And now that he has, she shoots him a look like she is royally pissed at him for joining her. WTF?
Is this a negative stereotype or what? Why on earth would she be pissed at him? Why would the ad makers assume she’d be pissed and show her to be so?
So we come away from the ad learning that if we drink the energy drink in the morning, our wife/girlfriend will be pissed at us all day. Sign me up for that relationship.:rolleyes:
I hate the phone commercial, one, because it’s stupid, and two, because I think it’s trying to ride the coattails of this other, much better commercial.
The wife is pissed because that was her ‘alone’ time, and (IIRC) the husband was completely taking over the (designed for one person) exercise space.
If he wants to get up early, that’s fine - but he’s messing with exercise equipment schedule, not so fine.
But the wife shouldn’t be so passive-aggressive - just tell him to exercise some other time.
Yeah, too passive-aggressive for me. The minute he snatched the remote out of my hand, all the passive would have been drained from my aggressive and I’d have warned him to stop snorting coke so early in the fucking morning if he didn’t want his nuts squashed.
Like that goddamned kid who took his sister’s toaster strudel. She was nice enough to share it with you, why you gotta snatch it all and tell her to eat the nasty poptart you were going to eat in the first place?
The screaming spider-phone doesn’t bother me at all.
My old ones would not stop. I have a front loader now which locks, so that isn’t an option.
On further review, and prompted by another YouTube commenter, I’m wrong. At the beginning of the ad, there’s a shrimp cocktail on the table near the woman. At the end, that glass is in the woman’s hands, now empty, as though she grabbed it and dumped the contents.
There’s dialogue?
The ad I saw didn’t state their age, and they look and act as if they’re in their late teens (at the oldest) to me.
Well duh, that’s what I do when I google stuff. That is, type in “how to…” and then read what it says on the screen. People don’t have to be “stooopid” to slightly panic and try to make the solution too complicated.
Right yes, I GET that. My point was that sometimes people (for real, and not just in ads) try to make a fix too complicated or technological, just because some people tend to go for the complex, rather than because the ad company was trying to play on stereotypes of ditsy women. Hell, that’s a bad habit of mine, come to think of it. Of course, I probably AM ditsy, but that’s a different story. 
I hadn’t yet gotten to the TimeWarner commercial posts when I saw comments about sexist. You know, as in, “only girls would scream at a spider”? May have been, maybe not. I’m too lazy to go back and look.
…and she’s making out with Ms Righty Tighty from this commercial.
And somehow they live next door to the washing machine girls.
Seriously. My credit card would be maxed before I even realized what the hell they were selling.