IIRC, the pillagers initially represented other credit card companies, specifically their exorbitant fees and interest. Initially I thought the pillagers were quite funny because the makers of the commercial set up the attacks so well. For instance, when a man was having lunch at an outdoor cafe, when the pillagers run up from behind and set up a catapult under his chiar. But I suppose they’re a bit played now.
In case this isn’t rhetorical, a lot of anti-depressants surpress sex drive a lot and this disinclines people from taking them. So it is a selling point to young sexually active depressed folks that Wellbutrin potentially minimizes this side effect.
Better yet, what kind of idiot dunks a flaming item of any type into a glass full of alcohol? Admittedly Bailey’s ABV is so low that is not likely to catch fire, but don’t try that trick with a glass of Everclear.
Oh and the disclaimer on the Jeep commercial kills me every time. It actually says “Dramatization. Vehicle not suitable for underwater use.” Well shucks, I guess we’ll have to spring for that glass bottom boat ride after all!
Note to self: Do not read SDMB while eating. 
Whay annoys me most about this commercial is they don’t actually eat the marshmallow! It ashuold flash 'A sense of discovery," and then have the dumb bitch take a bit out of it, or something. They all just assume that a flaming marshmallow dipped in Bailey’s will taste good.
How about:
At 17, I was imprisoned for murder
… OK
At 19, I was alone and heartbroken
… still in prison?
At 21, I almost drowned
… still in prison?
At 28, my memory was erased
… so how did you manage to remember all that other stuff?
At 30, I was in Neverland
completely lost me here
Maybe she has a thing for Michael Jackson? But… she’s female… and 30!
Dude, she’s Kate Winslet and those things are all movies she’s been in.
“At 17, I was imprisoned for murder” - Heavenly Creatures
“At 19, I was alone and heartbroken” - Hamlet
“At 21, I almost drowned” - a littel move called Titanic
“At 28, my memory was erased” - Eternal Sundhine of the Spotless Mind
“At 30, I was in Neverland” - Finding Neverland
I thought it was briliant because the very first time I saw it, it was compelling and creepy (good music). Then when they revealed who she is, :smack: . It all makes sense.
I think these are references to movies the actress (Kate Winslet?) was in.
IIRC, Wellbutrin has a rare, but not all that rare, side effect of causing spontaneous orgasms in women. Maybe the advertisers are trying to spin the side effect into a positive, ala the “Erections lasting over 4 hours require doctors attention” side effect spin of one of the erection drugs.
As a woman who takes Wellbutrin, I can say this has never happened to me. And I’m a little upset about that. :mad:
Maybe you need to increase your dose. 
Maybe – it’s just that the commercial has a real “dollar store/infomercial” feel to it, and the NotCilletBang company has a prestige name (which I can’t remember at all.) It’s one of those household product companies that’s been around for seventy years or so, and has the resources to make a normal, attractive-looking, non-crap commercial.
Do they show their product being consumed at all? That would be unusual, wouldn’t it? Beer is for holding onto while laughing and having a good time in Commercial land. Same with liqueurs, right?
Speaking of liqueurs, there’s a commercial for an amaretto that makes me ill. Nice looking lounge with attractive people having a good time. Behind the bar, there’s nothing but this one particular brand of amaretto. Inexplicably, the bartender has his hands full, because people can’t get enough of it. “Amaretto martini, please!” “Amaretto margarita!” Then one impossibly hot woman pushes her way though the clamouring crowd and makes her desire known: “Amaretto on the rocks.” The bartender gives her a look that is at once appraising and approving. Clearly, this is a woman of refined tastes.
Ugh! Don’t get me wrong, there’s a place in the world for an amaretto – I’ll even buy 'em from time to time. But the presentation of an (apparently idealized) world in which it’s good for everything up to and possibly including bathing makes me feel nauseous. It’s not rational, but I look at the brand they’ve been pushing this way now and think “‘On the rocks!’ That’s disgusting! Ah well, maybe some Frangelico for the occasional special coffee, then.”
My favorite part of that ad is the disclaimer that you should not drive or operate heavy machinery while taking Ambien until you are sure how it affects you. If it’s a sleep medicine, why would a sane human being even think they could drive or operate heavy machinery while they were asleep??? If it doesn’t make some individuals sleep, then why would they keep taking it???
My favorite commercial in the OP category though is a radio ad that is currently running in our local market. It’s an ad for BellSouth’s “new” 411 service, that lets you pay good money to get the same information you can get for free from Google or Anywho. The scenario is that a husband is going up to the attic to get a suitcase, and his wife is downstairs shouting instructions to him, including “Don’t forget about the loose floorboard…” followed by crashing sounds. The wife is then scrambling madly to find the handyman’s phone number to come pull her husband out of the attic floor, and hubby’s suggestion is to use 411 as he is being attacked by a squirrel whose abode he has just invaded.
Ummm… I think the first digit she should dial in this case is 9 instead of 4.
I also love the medication that warns “side effects may include dizziness, drowsiness and diarrhea.”
Those are not three side effects you want to have simultaneously.
Practice, practice, practice…
Eve said
Okay, I get why you wouldn’t want all three side effects at the same time, but wouldn’t drowsinesss be a side effect that someone taking a sleep aid want?
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
There was this anti-fungus medicine commercial. Of course at the end they list all potential side effects. The regular ones: upset stomach, dizziness, etc. And then in the middle, as if they were trying to sneak it in, LIVER FAILURE.
Now, I can understand not wanting to have fungus on your toes, but c’mon, is it worth liver failure?
I figured that whoever’s voice that was was supposed to be some recognizeable celebrity, but darned if I had a clue. Thanks for cluing me in, that’s not the first celebrity endorsement I’ve failed to recognize as anything special…guess I’m just not the target demographic
They also don’t mention that in the process of curing the toenail fungus, the medicine makes your existing toenails turn black and fall off. Then you grow new, pretty toenails. The whole process takes months. Since this isn’t a side effect, it’s the actual desired process, I guess they don’t have to mention it.