# "You're soaking in it", and other commercial oddities **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613 "2002-07-31T00:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fish42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@Fish42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish42)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/41 "2002-08-01T13:37:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kantalooppi \* > \*\*There’s this one commercial in Finnish TV. It’s a toothpase commercial, for Pepsodent, I think. It goes like this: > > _cheerful music in the background_ > > _animation of a woman getting a massage with massager standing on top of woman’s back_ > > Narrator: Happiness is… A good and… > > _The woman opens her mouth and the massager sticks her foot there, apparently massaging her gums_ > > Narrator: …throughout massage. > > And then the name of the toothpaste comes up. > > … > > WHAT THE HELL? Why would a toothpaste commercial want to associate a toothpaste with FEET IN MOUTH? I ask you! \*\* Perhaps they’re trying to convey the message, “Our toothpaste is so strong, it will even deal with feet in your mouth.” Or maybe they’re trying to corner the fetishist market. My pick for a commercial to add to the list: The [LendingTree.com](http://LendingTree.com) commercial, where the announcer says, “When banks compete for your business, you win”[or something like that]. This is accompanied by a couple looking for a loan dismissing various bankers with the comment “Your rates are too high” and a laugh. I always notice that by the end of the commerical, this couple doesn’t have their loan yet. So apparently, [LendingTree.com](http://LendingTree.com) is great if you want to laugh at bankers, only so-so if you actually need a loan. PS: Are there any real people who think “Geico” and “gecko” sound the same? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/42 "2002-08-01T13:41:31Z")
They sounded the same the first time I saw the commercials - now, they sound amazingly dissimilar! And regarding LendingTree - I kind of like those in that they show the customer actually getting an upper hand in the whole loan process. Most of the time, the loan officer can go on such a power trip… ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/43 "2002-08-01T14:40:49Z")
Scrubbing bubbles scare MachV. Oh, and I must have had that fifth dentist when I was younger. In his reception area there was a candy jar that was hand painted with the message, “Eat more candy, chew more gum!” ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/44 "2002-08-01T17:12:16Z")
Trident sugerless gum. Like, doesn’t that mean ‘three teeth’ ? What is it with Dentyne and Trident? Both of their commercials are in some fuzzy logic land somewhere. One’s pushing Three-teeth brand gum and one get’s only an 80% approval rating from dentists. Older stuff- “Honeycombs big…yeah,yeah, yeah, it’s not small, no, no, no!” …and then they hold it up to a ruler and it’s all of .5 inches. Real big. Cookie Crisp could cloak a Honeycomb. And Fruity Pebbles. ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH! THAT is NOT Fred Flintstones voice. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/45 "2002-08-01T18:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\*The best was the SNL commercial parody “Oops! I Crapped My Pants!”: > > “Imagine this pitcher of iced tea is a gallon of your liquid feces.” > > 😃 \*\* Best. SNL Commercial. Ever. “Say, how come _you_ know so much about Oops I Crapped My Pants?” “Because I’m wearing them…and I just did!” ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/46 "2002-08-01T20:03:24Z")
1). The Mentos commercial where the couple is being ignored by the waiter and so the guy goes and gets their own drinks. He didn’t want to serve you and now he doesn’t have to. Oh yeah, that’ll teach that waiter a lesson :rolleyes: 2). There is some local, low budget late at night commercial that starts out with “Has your phone been disconnected?”. Then prattles on about a prepaid home phone service and ends with a “pick up the phone and call now!”. Picking up the phone and calling now won’t do much good if the phone’s been disconnected will it? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/47 "2002-08-01T20:17:25Z")
Unless you also have a cell phone. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/48 "2002-08-01T21:46:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Anyways, there are some male dancers to entertain a few women. The women cannot even be bothers to watch the guys do their stuff cause they are busy with dipping food into Straight Mayo. Male dancers…dipping food… wait a minute – **are you sure that’s mayonaisse?** Jesus Christ! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/49 "2002-08-01T21:49:55Z")
Might be funnier if I spelled “mayonnaise” correctly. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/50 "2002-08-01T21:54:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > \*\* > > Male dancers…dipping food… wait a minute – **are you sure that’s mayonaisse?** Jesus Christ! \*\* No, it’s Miracle Whip, which is, according to some posters, Satan’s Semen. You do the math. 😛 For the record, I like Miracle Whip. And are we still allowed to say “semen”? ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/51 "2002-08-01T22:00:30Z")
the advert i’m liking at the moment is the one for foster’s beer with the robot house cleaner. japanese guy unpacks robot, tells it to clean house. leaves. on his return hears make-out music coming from the bedroom, finds robot in bed with vacuum cleaner…and microwave. robot pours fosters into a slot on it’s chest. slogan appears. “he who drinks australian, thinks australian” really, it’s funny. advert i’m hating. for mcdonalds. surprise surprise. black&white small boy having grass rubbed into his hair by a bigger kid, being kissed by elderly relatives, having vaccinations etc etc. eating a happy meal. smiling as his mother wipes his face with a spit soaked hanky. slogan “happy meals, compensation for being six” i find that REALLY creepy. can’t put my finger on why other than the child-bribery-with-fatty-food aspect. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/52 "2002-08-01T22:28:26Z")
There is a local ad for some phone reconnection service (not quite sure what this is) called DPI. It features a neon green background with a guy walking around talking about the wonders of DPI, and making sure that every other word is DPI. At one point, the guy sticks his face right into the camera and yells, “DP…IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII”. I guess you had to see it to understand how weird it is. Last Easter, a Raleigh Ford dealer used the phrase “Praise the Lord, buy a Ford” in one of his commercials. There is a commercial for some kind of liquid fabric softener that features a woman placing a basket of towels on top of her car and driving out to the country to hang out her towels to dry. (We know she’s out in the country because we see a cow. :rolleyes:) The whole concept of the commercial is lost to me–since the basket is not strapped to the car, she never should have made it to the country with the towels in the first place! ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/53 "2002-08-01T22:43:14Z")
Jeep’s Phoenix, I think the whole point of that liquid fabric softener commercial is that the softener will give your laundry the soft, fresh feeling that drying on the clothesline will. That saves you the trouble of getting in your car and driving to find an empty clothesline to hang your laundry. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/54 "2002-08-01T23:00:45Z")
Why was the Breakstones guy so pissed off? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613/55 "2002-08-07T03:10:19Z")
Oh jeez. I was the kid who believed everything I saw in a commercial. When I was in elementary, I saw an ad for tinfoil that claimed you could use it to make Christmas ornaments. They showed hands (I love the hand thing, too: they can pay a hand model so much less than they have to pay an actor) wrapping tinfoil around a cardboard star. “Neat!” thought I. I carved a star out of cardboard with a box cutter. No easy task, but I got it done. Then I tried to cover it with foil. Now I swear to you, the commercial showed the anonymous hands **folding** the foil over the edges of the cardboard, with perfect ease. So that’s what I tried to do. “Why does it keep tearing?” Then there was the ad for a pudding-in-the-mix cake mix. Newlywed couple finishing dinner. Wife brings in cake…in two pudding dishes. “Honey, why is the cake in pudding dishes?” “Because it’s so moist, it almost belongs in a [TING!] pudding dish!” (Twice, during the course of the playlet, she snapped her finger against the dish, with a resounding TING!) We had stemmed pudding dishes not unlike those! So the next time I made cake, I cut a slice and tried to put it in a [TING!] pudding dish. Instead of going TING! it went SPLAT! And I’ll never forget the heartbreak I suffered when Friendly’s expanded from an ice-cream shop to a full-service restaurant. The cheerfully rotund spokesperson expressed such delight on biting into his juicy, succulent burger! I pleaded with my mom until she finally took me to the new, expanded Friendly’s. Imagine my dismay when I was presented with a dried-up patty and a crusty bun, like I could have gotten from any cafeteria for a lot less bother. **World Eater** : You mean that guy? “So whaddya want, a medal?” My classmates and I thought he was hilarious. He also did the Roach Motel ads, if I’m not mistaken. “Roaches check in…but they don’t check out!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-soaking-in-it-and-other-commercial-oddities/121613.md?page=2)