I actually like the Burger King commercials. I would only go there for breakfast when running late or on road trips as it was the only option left. McDonald’s has magnificently bad service (at least around here), Wendy’s always ends in multiple runs to the bathroom, and Taco Bell is unspeakably foul. Burger King always had excellent service with acceptable food. Now, because of their new commercial, I am much healthier as I can no longer conscionably patronize their establishment. No more fast food for me!
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*Edit: reading about the Meth PSA reminds me how obnoxious I find some of the anti-smoking PSAs in New York. Particularly, the ones that threaten you with gangrene and loss of limbs as a result of smoking.
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His fucking stump fucking twitches! It is the grossest thing I have ever seen on TV.
On the subject of credit card commercials, does anyone else find that Mastercard commercial with the woman singing “My Favorite Things” to be really bizarre?
They show her engaging in a bunch of expensive hobbies like racing vintage cars, taking anti-gravity flights, and fencing in fancy locales.
So either she’s incredibly wealthy, in which case I assume the commercial doesn’t apply to me, or she’s abusing some absurdly high credit limit and is in debt up to her eyeballs, in which case her lifestyle is horrifying.
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The diamond commercial where the guy gives his wife/girlfriend a huge diamond and she almost has an orgasm right there, with the implication that the size of the diamond is proportional to the amount of his LOOOOVE for her and to the number of blowjobs he’ll be getting afterwards.
Oh wait, that’s all of them.
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Diamonds. She’ll pretty much have to.
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that guy with the annoying voice who is always trying to sell you crap. cant remember his name but hes currently selling some putty crap, a knife sharpener, and who knows what else. the only thing I want from this asshole is a device that mutes his voice permanently.
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(edit) remembered after post Billy Mayes is his name.
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Is it just my imagination, or has he toned it down a bit? He didn’t seem nearly as…yelley in the new putty something or other commercials as he used to be.
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Is it just my imagination, or has he toned it down a bit? He didn’t seem nearly as…yelley in the new putty something or other commercials as he used to be.
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I was thinking the same thing. Still loud, of course, but not as …
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I’m going to have to go with the “Life Takes Visa” spots, where the popping and rocking twentysomehtings come to a complete halt when one of the borg pulls out a checkbook to pay.
Fine, we get it, life moves faster with credit/debit cards, the first spot was mildly clever, but now they are just stretching to find situations to use.
Plus the music and the dancers want make me really punchy, which is better than stabby, but only by a little.
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Good one. Yes, I hate the Visa ads. I’ve actually purchased things with cash - and believe me, it is much, much easier.
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McDonald’s commercials have always been lame.
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Not all of them. Mmmmmm, I’m loving it.
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- This drug will murder you. This seems less like a commercial and more like something that the company was sentenced to do, because the entire point of this entire commercial break-eating advertisment is to explain, over and over, that this drug will give you cancer and cause sudden death. But - scolding tone again - some people think it’s still worth it. So the whole point is that this is basically a murder drug that will kill you, but it’s worth it because you’ll feel better before it murders you, and you’re a stupid fucking baby for not being on it already.
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Lawyers must love you, you just slurp that sewage up, don’t you?
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I’m going to have to go with the “Life Takes Visa” spots, where the popping and rocking twentysomehtings come to a complete halt when one of the borg pulls out a checkbook to pay.
Fine, we get it, life moves faster with credit/debit cards, the first spot was mildly clever, but now they are just stretching to find situations to use.
Plus the music and the dancers want make me really punchy, which is better than stabby, but only by a little.
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Another thing I noticed in that one: apparently everybody just carries their card loose in a pocket so they don’t have to waste time looking through a purse or wallet for it.
I’ve also seen a new Domino’s commercial where the husband informs his wife that they have 30 minutes until the pizza arrives, then suggestively adds “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” (and suddenly is wearing nothing but a barely-fastened short robe) His wife looks at him and says “What are we going to do with the other 28 minutes?”
And then there’s the whole series of V-8 commercials where people get bopped on the forehead with the heel of someone’s hand because they aren’t eating vegetables. Especially the one where the wife keeps doing it to her husband until he finally says, “You can do that all you want, but I still don’t like V-8.”
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I actually like the Burger King commercials. I would only go there for breakfast when running late or on road trips as it was the only option left. McDonald’s has magnificently bad service (at least around here), Wendy’s always ends in multiple runs to the bathroom, and Taco Bell is unspeakably foul. Burger King always had excellent service with acceptable food. Now, because of their new commercial, I am much healthier as I can no longer conscionably patronize their establishment. No more fast food for me!
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Now see. Around here the least consistency in quality and slowest service goes to Burger King. I suspect it may have to do with the franchise managers, your areas has good ones, mine just don't seem to give a frack.
Right there with you on the cutting down on fast food though. Lost about 15 pounds since I did.
Put me down as another one in the hate column for the celebrex commercial.
The soft soothing voice that sounds like it should be coming out of a suicide booth in Futurama, going on and on and on about how this product could kill you in horrific and painful ways, and as a minor afterthought.
Use this product.
Yeah, that makes me want to use it. This product is so dangerous that 90% of the commercial is devoted to the side effects. :dubious:
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I’ve also seen a new Domino’s commercial where the husband informs his wife that they have 30 minutes until the pizza arrives, then suggestively adds “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” (and suddenly is wearing nothing but a barely-fastened short robe) His wife looks at him and says “What are we going to do with the other 28 minutes?”
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Who is the wife in that commerical? She looks so familiar.
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This was what I came to post. The little bit of homophobia in the first ad–“They might as well call it Burger Queen”–was the icing on a huge cake of awful.
Also, that damn John Mellencamp truck ad, mostly 'cause that cheesy song is stuck in my head on endless loop and it’s driving me crazy.
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I wasn’t going to slog through the 7 min commercial I found on youtube so I haven’t seen this part, but why is this homophobic as opposed to misogynistic?
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
That, my Dopers, is the all-time worst commercial. At least they took it out of rotation to hawk their other, equally ineffective, rip-off homeopathic remedies. Yet that commercial bored its way into my brain such that whenever I see any of their products advertised, that is all I hear.
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…And for sheer tastelessness, the pregnancy test ad I caught last night that announces that their product is, “the most high-tech thing you’ll ever pee on.”
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Sounds like a challenge, doesn’t it?
I like that one, it makes me laugh.
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The only one I hate more is the Jarvic cholesterol one, but I know that’s been pitted before.
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If you dislike the commercial with Robert Jarvik, MD, pitching Lipitor, then you may be pleased to learn that it’s being investigated by a Congressional committee.
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I wasn’t going to slog through the 7 min commercial I found on youtube so I haven’t seen this part, but why is this homophobic as opposed to misogynistic?
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Can’t it be both? Actually I was just going by the attitude of the people who said it. The way they said “Burger Queen” sounded like they were saying “Burger Fag.”
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Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
Head On, apply directly to the forehead
That, my Dopers, is the all-time worst commercial. At least they took it out of rotation to hawk their other, equally ineffective, rip-off homeopathic remedies. Yet that commercial bored its way into my brain such that whenever I see any of their products advertised, that is all I hear.
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I’ve only ever seen it twice, while visiting someone who has satellite.
And that’s twice too many times.
I know these are meant to be national ads, but I cannot pass up on mentioning Eastern Motors.
Stop the madness. Please.
Belvedere maybe? It’s some kind of liquor. Hip party, lots of chic people and the lowlife sonuvabitch guest goes over to the wall of the house he’s been invited to and DRAWS A FREAKIN’ MOUSTACHE and/or GLASSES ON A VERY NICE ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING!
AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!
You completely worthless, scummy jackass! That paining’s worth more than your miserable self. That’s your thanks to the soul kind enough to be your host? What’s next… are you going to hold a lighter to the apartment’s sprinkler and trash the entire abode or something? AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH! Then he does that too!
Yeah, put this idea in the minds of young people you’re trying to sell alcohol to. Belvedere, you’re a bunch of losers and I’ll cheer the day you go out of business.
That commercial simultaneously baffles and disgusts me. The “lowlife sonuvabitch” is Vincent Gallo, which is just a big heapin’ helping of “Huh? This is who you want your product endorsed by? Seriously?”