# WTF is this commercial?!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834 "2008-02-08T19:12:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/1 "2008-02-08T19:12:26Z")
We see a big muscular black guy bench-pressing a barbell, and a little girl is standing beside him slurping a beverage through a straw. Her fingers are covering up half the label but if you look really close, you can briefly see the words “Mighty ???k.” I’m assuming it’s milk, but it’s really hard to tell. The next thing we know, we hear this awful, horrible heaving/moaning/screaming sound coming from the little girl. We then see that she is lifting up a huge barbell. The sound she makes is extremely disturbing, like she’s being murdered or tortured. Then the commercial abruptly ends. No words on the screen, no announcer saying what the commercial is for. It’s really strange! I’m assuming it’s supposed to be funny, and supposed to be for milk, but it’s not only confusing, but really disturbing - the sound the girl makes is really really disturbing, as in, creepy child molesters will probably get their jollies off it. It’s also very annoying. Anyone else seen this? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/2 "2008-02-08T19:52:48Z")
It’s the new Animatronic RealDoll commercial. That little girl is a mannikin. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/3 "2008-02-08T20:24:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] It’s the new Animatronic RealDoll commercial. That little girl is a mannikin. [/QUOTE] They have an animatronic version now? Guess it’s time for an upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/4 "2008-02-08T20:35:19Z")
[This one?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkiAjHPrN3Y) It’s Shaq for Mighty Milk. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/5 "2008-02-09T00:39:49Z")
Oh come on, that’s cute. And it makes perfect sense. The milk made her strong. ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/6 "2008-02-09T01:50:06Z")
Thanks for the link. Nope, didn’t find it creepy. Sorry. My son has a weekly play date with a family of 3 boys (8, 5 & 2). They make sounds almost identical to that about 4 to 5 times / hour in the course of normal play. Usually superheroes or martial-arts based pretend play. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/7 "2008-02-09T07:53:41Z")
Thanks for that link! See, at the end of that commercial, it says, in big letters, “MIGHTY MILK.” So It makes sense. But the commercial I keep seeing does not have any such ending or explanation. So it’s weird… ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/8 "2008-02-09T09:58:21Z")
Our cable company frequently cuts from national to local commercials at not quite the right time. There are some of which we’ve never seen the end, and some never the beginning. Perhaps yours is doing the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/9 "2008-02-09T10:03:32Z")
[QUOTE=gwendee] Our cable company frequently cuts from national to local commercials at not quite the right time. There are some of which we’ve never seen the end, and some never the beginning. Perhaps yours is doing the same thing. [/QUOTE] You’d think there would be penalties for doing that: They’re effectively preventing the companies paying them ad revenue from getting what they paid for. That said, it would be really funny if one day, they just randomly intercut commercials to create a Dada orgy of consumerism. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-this-commercial/436834/10 "2008-02-09T21:13:47Z")
[QUOTE=gwendee] Our cable company frequently cuts from national to local commercials at not quite the right time. There are some of which we’ve never seen the end, and some never the beginning. Perhaps yours is doing the same thing. [/QUOTE] That’s what I thought at first, but it happens every single time, and I’ve seen it dozens of times. So it seems to be on purpose. I still think it’s creepy, the way that girl is moaning and screaming… :dubious: