# Yet more puzzling commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709 "2010-11-15T05:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/81 "2010-11-17T01:35:51Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > It is so wrong that there is a commercial that makes me want to smack a child. This one does. > > The other one with the kid that looks like he is being bullied (Parker?) I am embarrassed to say that I want to smack him too. I don’t get this commercial either. And yes, I feel like smacking Parker. Especially when he sticks his tounge out at the other kids. Snotty Brat! What’s wrong with challenging a school mate to a race home? Why are we supposed to thin the challenger is a bully and then feel sorry for Parker? and then doesn’t Parker cheat and drive home in his car with his mom? or does he run all the way home get into the car where is mom is waiting for him and then immediately leave? and them mom is like, “oh there you are?” where was he supposed to be? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/82 "2010-11-17T01:50:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Can switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? Do woodchucks chuck wood?” Come on, say it five times fast: How much money could Geico save you on your car insurance, if Geico _could_ save you money on your car insurance? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/83 "2010-11-17T13:31:16Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I don’t get this commercial either. And yes, I feel like smacking Parker. Especially when he sticks his tounge out at the other kids. Snotty Brat! > > What’s wrong with challenging a school mate to a race home? Why are we supposed to thin the challenger is a bully and then feel sorry for Parker? and then doesn’t Parker cheat and drive home in his car with his mom? or does he run all the way home get into the car where is mom is waiting for him and then immediately leave? and them mom is like, “oh there you are?” where was he supposed to be? It’s pretty obvious that the “I’ll race you,” and “Oh, there you are,” quotes are dubbed a bully threatening Parker, and the Mother either sympathizing with him, saving him, or is unaware that he’s being bullied. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/84 "2010-11-17T14:57:29Z")
> [@YamatoTwinkie](#): > > My guess is that they were initially going for a explicit “kid being chased by bullies” narrative, but then halfway through the creative process, someone thought that people were going to be offended by it, so they reshot some scenes to turn it into a “race you home!” story that makes absolutely no sense. That’s exactly what I thought when I first saw the commercial - that it was a narrative about a kid about to be beaten up, then, because of the bullying news over the past month or so, at the very last moment the ad agency lost its nerve and hurredly reworked the already-shot commercial so that it could be construed as a race home. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/85 "2010-11-17T21:28:58Z")
> [@JimmyFlair](#): > > I think it’s for “go to meeting dot com” - it’s super crappy cell phone quality footage of two jackasses doing inane things, but one of them apparently endears himself to the VERY IMPORTANT CLIENT. Something involving sushi I think? > Everything about it suggests a thrown together assignment in a first year marketing course in the worst community college in America, and everyone involved was very, very, high. > I saw this gem multiple times while watching CNN on a sick day, and it damn near inspired me to drag my flu-addled self back to the office. Bleh. > > Oh yeah, and as for that Highlander kid, let me steal a doper’s most excellent phrase - he makes my smackin’ hand tingle. The Gotomeeting ad actually, was a winning contest entry. The first few (meaning many) times I saw it, I thought the company’s marketing department had lost their collective minds, especially with the pron film music, but it does grow on you. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/86 "2010-11-18T07:29:39Z")
I just stopped by so I could get in line to smack that Highlander kid. Once for every commercial they use him in. And, agreed: Somebody cut his hair. And make him wear mixed-up Garanimals as punishment. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/87 "2010-11-18T07:39:23Z")
Oh man, there is this commercial out there by some big cell phone provider, I don’t know who? But…But I swear I have enhanced epileptic firinhgs and experiences with their commercial’s strange frame rate. It makes me physically and palpably neurotonic sick. It’s that towhead Germanic skater dude rep with the family at the football game, crowd, and cheerleaders. Anybody know this Psychotronic commercial I speak of? It definitely is weirding. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/88 "2010-11-18T07:42:51Z")
I can’t figure out if it’s disjointed psychotronic bitrate and solute nature is the nature of the program video or the hardware. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/89 "2010-11-18T08:00:47Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > The narrator talks about how Mandy booked her trip through Orbilocity or whoever, while Mandy’s boyfriend somehow got so tired searching for ticket prices on other sites that he fell asleep and missed his flight, so now Mandy is there by herself and fortunately found Raoul, or whatever his name is, to console her, nudge nudge wink wink. > > Setting aside the ridiculous illogic of the whole scenario, I guess I’m just a bit nonplussed that the advertisers actually think “book your tickets through us or your slut girlfriend will cheat on you” is some sort of effective marketing strategy. This one annoys me so much. Quite apart from the “Your girlfriend is a slutty ho who will gladly leave for a vacation without you” pitch (which I agree is inane), why was the guy looking for tickets _the night before the trip_. Surely the tickets and hotels and whatnot would need to be booked by then? Sure, it could be for a different trip, but then that rather undermines the whole point of the ad. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/90 "2010-11-18T08:05:05Z")
It’s at a high school football game… that commercial. I love watching local High School Football in person, but this commercial was kind of the nail in the coffin of that experienc. I might hurl to watch my Comets take state. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/91 "2010-11-18T09:00:50Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > There’s a new [commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX5rwqgIcAo) for the Nissan Juke where the businessman has to get donuts for the meeting. He jumps through the donut store window, drives recklessly towards the office, etc. > > It all makes a certain amount of sense, except that he’s inexplicably wearing what looks like orange women’s shoes with no socks with his suit. 😕 I have no idea, but I like the redhead co-worker at the end. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/92 "2010-11-18T10:15:56Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Those Cialis commercials bother me. If it’s a product about Intimacy, then howcum they’re in _separate_ bathtubs? I just tell myself that Cialis has nothing to do with sexual potency. It’s a mood behavior drug for old people, that just enables you to stand being in the same room with that bitch/bastard you married 30 years ago, without killing them. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/93 "2010-11-18T10:43:32Z")
Almost all of the food ads I’ve seen in the last couple of years have advocated cannibalism by making the food sentient and anthropomorphic, but at least they generally _want_ to be eaten. The current M&M ads, however, have M&Ms the size of a six-month old baby being dragged kicking and screaming out of the cupboard. The woman who’s about to eat them starts the commercial by demanding that her BF get her a snack, and then rolls her eyes at him for not being able to fit the enormous snack in the bowl. Rude lazy people murdering sentient beings who are fighting for their lives? Yeah, they’re just what I want to be like. The other day I saw some M&Ms in the shop and considered getting them, remembered that ad and got a Snickers bar instead. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/94 "2010-11-18T12:35:39Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > The other day I saw some M&Ms in the shop and considered getting them, remembered that ad and got a Snickers bar instead. That’ll show those bastards at Mars, Incorporated! Good thing your money went to the makers of Snickers, which is, ummm… Mars, Incorporated. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/95 "2010-11-18T13:44:25Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > “To the cloud” – not bad ads but they’re overplayed. The “To the cloud” ads aren’t bad, but it’ll take an inexperienced person at least an hour to edit images together like that. Normal people would just take another picture. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Can switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? Do woodchucks chuck wood?” I love this commercial. What I hate is those stupid Highlander ones. The kid refusing to get in a station wagon annoys me and the kid needs to be slapped. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/96 "2010-11-18T14:44:53Z")
I think what pisses me off about the Highlander commercials is that the ‘embarrassing’ cars are all 15 to 20 years old. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/97 "2010-11-18T15:55:04Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > It is so wrong that there is a commercial that makes me want to smack a child. This one does. > > The other one with the kid that looks like he is being bullied (Parker?) I am embarrassed to say that I want to smack him too. I watch this commercial every time hoping the bullies catch him for once. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/98 "2010-11-19T16:51:14Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Oh man, there is this commercial out there by some big cell phone provider, I don’t know who? But…But I swear I have enhanced epileptic firinhgs and experiences with their commercial’s strange frame rate. It makes me physically and palpably neurotonic sick. > > It’s that towhead Germanic skater dude rep with the family at the football game, crowd, and cheerleaders. Anybody know this Psychotronic commercial I speak of? It definitely is weirding. > [@devilsknew](#): > > I can’t figure out if it’s disjointed psychotronic bitrate and solute nature is the nature of the program video or the hardware. > [@devilsknew](#): > > It’s at a high school football game.. that commercial. I love watching local High School Football in person, but this commercial was kind of the nail in the coffin of that experienc. I might hurl to watch my Comets take state. It’s the new Alltel commercials with that Chad Brokaw guy… not just that one but a whole series! Tell me I’m not crazy, I can’t be the only one who notices the naueseating framerate and cinematography of these commercials? Something is seriously odd about them and they all make me varying degrees of sick. Reminds me of the movie “Gladiator”…when I saw that in the theatres I developed strange pains in certain parts of my body and became sick as well. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/99 "2010-11-19T17:12:14Z")
I don’t want to keep bashing Microsoft, but I saw another one of those Windows Phone 7 ads last night and it was just as bad as all the others. Starts out by showing how the little tiles on the phone dynamically update to show current Twitter feeds and all that. Kind of a cool idea – you don’t have to go into an application to see if you have email. Backs off to show a Dad at a soccer game. “Now I can check my Twitter feeds quickly and get back to the important job of being a Dad, unlike that guy.” (Shows some schlumpy guy haplessly pecking at his phone while unregarded kids flock around him.) Gives me totally the wrong message. If you want to pay attention to your kid’s soccer game, \* turn off your damn phone \*. There’s not an email, blog, Twitter, or Facebook update that’s so important that you have to see it Right Now. Look, you marketing hacks, the tile interface and the dynamic updating of status is mildly cool (although possibly expensive in terms of having to poll a million sites every couple of minutes?) Focus on that. Quit telling me that I’m a busy person who needs to use a phone more efficiently, because if I’m reading Twitter, that’s demonstrably not true. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709/100 "2010-11-19T17:14:16Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > The thing that annoys me about this commercial is they skip right over the part where he writhes on the ground in agony - his face and arms covered in second degree burns because he uncapped a hot radiator. I don’t know shit about cars, and even I know that you don’t open the top of a hot radiator. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Can switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? Do woodchucks chuck wood?” That one works because of Geico’s long-standing tradition of absurdist commercials. Plus…woodchucks chucking wood. Hee! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-more-puzzling-commercials/560709.md?page=6)