There is one commercial that is currently irking me to no end; it’s the one for a car company (BMW, I’m thinking… I’m not sure which one, but it’s an expensive foreign car). It starts with a woman adjusting cameras (in the parking area of her company?) to focus on this car, then she goes to the water cooler and starts drinking cups of water. The viewer sees her drink cup after cup of water, tossing the used cups into a trash can, which is quickly filling up, while looking at something in the distance. WTF?! She wanted to see her new car all the time?! So she contrives trips to the water cooler to be able to look (and might I add those are some -longing- looks!) at it, all day long?! Maybe I’m dense… but I just don’t get that! The only thing this commercial does for me is to annoy me, to the point where I want to smack someone (the person who thought up that ad, maybe? :D).
Anyone else got commercials that they can’t make heads or tails of?!
Also a car commercial (maybe for the same car?) that shows a couple in sunglasses driving a car in the desert, spinning big circles in the sand etc. Then the car stops, the driver gets out, and she’s using a white cane. So I guess we’re supposed to figure the woman who was driving the car is blind. What exactly is the message that’s supposed to convey?
There’s a commercial for the Buick Century that I just don’t get at all. It starts at night, with some strange, instrumental, New-Age sounding music while we look over the exterior of the car. A man in a suit comes in and peers in the window of the car, and then the camera pans away in a flash to some buildings like in Batman and shows us a shot of a skyline. What are we supposed to get from this commercial? It’s associated with weird music? People look in the windows? It drives well in the city at night?
The irony of this is that I own a Buick Century … although I bought it used and it’s 10 years old. The new ones do look much better though.
Little Nemo I think that one is to say that driving that car is such a great expierence you should find hot blind chicks and allow them to drive you car in a safe area.
The one that bugs me is for Yellow Book. Yellow Book is some form of the yellow pages and one guy is traveling around (in the same town or other places I don’t know) and he is calling back to two cow-workers and say how much more popular Yellow Book is then what ever version of it they work for. As the men start to fear for their one of them postualtes that they will be luck to end up working on poles. Then as the hilarious comic ending to the spot the guy at the hotel asks horrified “with Pidgeons?” Cut to shot of pidgeons cooing.
First off I pretty much use on-line yellow pages. Secondly this ad seems to be for people who buy ads in the yellow pages so what percentage of a television audience could the ad really target?
Well, it is a print ad, but it vexes me, so I am adding it.
It is for Cannon office something or other and the premise is a series of tollbooths, with cars waiting. Except for one lane, dubbed “Karen’s lane” because Karen implemented some great office whatever so she gets her own lane. The thing that vexes me is that Karen still has to pay the toll! If Karen is great enough to have her own lane then she shouldn’t have to pay.
By an amazing coincidence I once tried that as a pick up line with this gorgeous blind woman. But when I offered to let her drive my car, she screamed, “You insensitive bastard! I’m blind! I can’t drive a car!” Then she threw her drink in my face, hit me with her cane, and sicked her guide dog on me. A half hour later, we’re making out like weasels in our host’s spare bedroom. The dog was howling outside the door the whole time. She told me later its mother had been killed by a weasel. We went out for a while but the relationship ended when she moved to Detroit to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a topless dentist. True story.
I don’t know what car it’s for, the guy looks like James Spader. It shows a woman getting ready for her wedding, James Spader in a car speeding, one would assume, towards the church. He finally gets there, the bride is at the alter with the groom and everyone just looks at James Spader when he comes in.
I don’t get it. Is this one of those “to be continued” commercials?
Astro, thanks (LOL!) for reminding me of the latest 7-Up commercial; that one is definitely annoying, senseless -and- extremely tasteless. Do you think that one day, we’ll have ad-free tv?! Maybe?
That one is insanely stupid. My son (who’s 6) finds it a riot. He loves that last part about the pigeons. He’ll repeat it for hours. "With pigeons?!? “coo coo”
Maybe 6-year-olds are their target audience. :rolleyes:
I’ve always liked this one! When the commercial starts you think that “James Spader” is trying to get to his own wedding on time, but the twist is that he is trying to get to the church to stop the wedding! That’s why everyone turns to look at him…he’s the ex boyfriend. So romantic!! You can just fill in the blanks as to what happens next.
The commercial that makes the least sense to me must be for a local company or something–it’s so damn cheap!
A guy is in a hot tub with two women when a third shows up and starts bitching him out. Evidently she’s his girlfriend. But then the ad goes into this spiel about how easy it is to get a payday loan from this “money store” type place. Finally, we’re back to the hot tub with the guy and all three women happy. So, girlfriend is cool with the menage-au-quatre set-up as long as he borrows enough money to… ? (And what then on pay day when he’s broke again?)
My first thought when I saw the commercial was: “Okay, a rip-off of…er, homage to… The Graduate.” My second thought was: “I wonder if he’s there for the bride or the groom.”
By the way, the “James Spader” guy is Kevin Rahm, currently in Judging Amy.
I know I shouldn’t be bothered by stupid things like commercials, but THIS ONE BOTHERS THE CRAP OUT OF ME!
I actually came to start a thread on this idiot commercial, and, naturally, it’s the first one I thought of when I saw the OP. It is completely senseless! I actually don’t hate it as much now, because I thought at first that both the woman and the man were blind. It also doesn’t work well because the first few times I saw it, I didn’t pay attention to it until the end, so I was clueless as to what happened the rest of the time. It finally showed up when I was taping a television show, so when I recognized the end, I rewound it and watched the entire commercial from the beginning.
However, I have no clue what car it is advertising. If advertisers are making annoying, senseless commercials, they should at least associate the product with the commercial.
(And what then on pay day when he’s broke again?)