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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.