I hate the new KFC commercial with the kid and his friend eating dinner with the parents. The mom asks the friend what he wants and he’s being shy and polite about it and she says, “You don’t have to be so polite.” And then when he calls her by her first name she says, “Oh, it’s Mrs. Barber to you,” and the kid gets all embarassed and the family laughs.
The main thing that I hate about it is the mom telling the teenage kid he doesn’t need to be so polite. Yeah, that’s horrible, a polite teenager—anything but that!! :rolleyes:
I most despise that Volkswagen commercial where the couple is looking at a sedan, thinking about buying it. From a balcony behind them, the new owner of the car is sounding the alarm whenever the couple gets too close. When asked if he wants a “SOLD” sign put on the car, he declines, choosing instead to be a sadistic asshole.
The first Comcast commercial with that brunette who never took a breath during her talk. Geez. I wonder if she’s a Comcast exec. Anyway, they did feature a second commercial of her where she slowed down a bit.
Where the black guy rents a car for his mom who’s totally impressed with the luxury and affordability, and maybe its progress to represent a black guy as being as insipid and coyly cutesy-poo as a whiny mamma’s-boy white guy, or something, but *damn!
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But I think Barak Obama is to blame, so I’m voting for Hitler.
There’s a NYS Department of Health PSA I saw on the tube the other day that bothers me. I can’t say I hate it, because it really seemed like it would be pretty effective and for a good cause, but it did make me cringe.
It was a reminder that people should wash their hands after using the bathroom. The schtick was having the guy carry a urinal around with him, to show his dirty hands. And people were reluctant to shake hands with him, for some reason.
All very good.
Then they end with a line like, “Because germs are getting stronger, everyone needs to clean up.”
Yeesssss. Let’s ignore that one reason that germs are getting “stronger” is the ubiquity of anti-bacterial cleansers in situations where they are not necessary, and push more people into using the stuff, increasing the evolutionary pressures on the bugs. :rolleyes:
Sorry to drag this back out, but I saw one last night during the NCAA game that made my girlfriend and I drop our jaws. This Liberty Mutual ad with a woman in a wheelchair going to vote that ends with…Every day millions of people choose to do the right thing…Here’s a company that does the same thing."
Um, what’s the right thing? Voting? Oh, no, sorry, it’s people with disabilities choosing to live full lives, which of course most of them don’t because those with disabilities can’t live normal lives :rolleyes: . Look, look at the girl in a wheelchair! She does stuff! But it’s harder! Good for her!
Kia has a commercial for their Spectra that bugs me every time. Different drivers are pulling into gas stations and having a hard time remembering where their gas tank is located. They’re dragging the hose from this side to that side of the car looking for the tank.
We’re supposed to believe that they fill up so infrequently that they’ve forgotten where the tank is.
Here’s a tip sporto, look at your gas gauge. There’s an arrow pointing to the side where your tank is. Maybe they think Spectra owners are just stupid?
That explains it, then. Kia seems to be determined to make sure that everyone knows that their ad company thinks that only an idiot would want to drive their cars.
The best part is … some nimrod managing to get his car perpendicular between two rows of pumps! Just how bad do you have be at driving to accomplish that?
Comment by 9yo daughter after seeing this commercial: “They need to take away that guy’s driver’s license.”
…drive me nuts! here I live (Boston area), there are at least three furniture chains constanly running ads-you get up in the morning, and theres the fat ugly couple (“Bernie and Phyll”) screaming at you to buy their cheap furniture.
Just heard one today from Subaru, boasting that 95% of their vehicles built in the last 10 years are still on the road.
So that could mean that half of the cars they built in 1998 have managed not to fall into such decrepitude as to be beyond repair. The other half is rusting on tire blocks, totaled in accidents, stolen and chopped up, etc.
I would be much more impressed if they could say that 95% of the vehicles that left the factory in 1998 are still running.
