Commercials

[ikmccall]

Why is Giuliana Rancic doing a tv spot for Zaxby's?? Something about a buffalo chicken salad but we all know she would only eat the lettuce.

[Carolina]

I'd like to see a Toyota Highlander commercial where that spoiled brat's parents send him to a Victorian workhouse. Until then, I'll comfort myself with the knowledge that I'm on the waiting list for my very own mini lap giraffe like the one from the Direct TV commercials with the Russian oligarch.

[bklynred]

I do like the car ad where the kids' parents are singing "Just call me angel in the morning" and he mouths "Help me" to another kid in a better car.

[mrspickles]

I can't stand the stupid singer for the Truvia commercials. Seriously, in the whole world of singers, they couldn't get one that could, you know, sing? Really? For some reason, she bothers me even more than the one where the folksy type singer is warbling about "blue-berrrrry pa-an cakes" who also, can't seem to sing. At least with that one, though, I can sort of get what they were going for.

[Deleted]

I'm with you on the Truvia hate. The cutesy-poo, girl voiced folksinger trend has to stop.

I'm loathing the Bud Light "I'm In/I'm Out" ad. Like the Toyota Highlander bastard child who ridicules people who drive cars they can afford for not being cool, this commercial seems to totally ignore the economic realities of today. "I'm Out" Guy is uncool because he leaves the bar to presumably get a good night's sleep, leaves for work in the morning, and stays late at the office to work. "I'm In" Guy drink Bud Light while collecting phone numbers, coming out of bars in the morning, and attending wild hotel room parties late at night. There are a lot of unemployed young men today who'd give their right leg to be "I'm Out" Guy, the guy with a freaking JOB.

[magazinewhore]

I really hate the Dodge truck commercial with the guy camping out in the woods who gets up and shoots the noisy creature that was keeping him awake. How sportsmanlike. Ass.

I just saw this ad and RAN here to post about it. How terrible is that? You go out in the wilderness and then you're mad because wild animals are keeping you awake? So you kill it? Besides the fact that, yeah, a real hunter wouldn't be kept awake by that, it's the height of arrogance. I mean, the message is basically that if something is bothering you, you should kill it.

[piscessiren]

May 7, 2011 18:33:02 GMT -4 magazinewhore said:

I really hate the Dodge truck commercial with the guy camping out in the woods who gets up and shoots the noisy creature that was keeping him awake. How sportsmanlike. Ass.

I just saw this ad and RAN here to post about it. How terrible is that? You go out in the wilderness and then you're mad because wild animals are keeping you awake? So you kill it? Besides the fact that, yeah, a real hunter wouldn't be kept awake by that, it's the height of arrogance. I mean, the message is basically that if something is bothering you, you should kill it.

Oddly enough I saw this commercial for the first time today. During the Kentucky Derby.

[kateln]

There's a commercial I'm seeing for Klondike bars called "5 Seconds to Glory" in which a guy has to "actually listen" to his wife for five whole seconds. She isn't shrewish, just having a conversation...but because he pays attention to her...he gets two bimbos dancing with him, and a Klondike bar.

She gets a hurt look on her face, and I'm guessing the divorce lawyer is not far behind.

For this? I won't be buying Klondike bars. Jackasses.

[huntergrayson]

That ad pissed me off as well.

In ads that are actually well-done, all the recent VW ads are perfect. One has a kid whacking a car-shaped pinata to no avail -it then turns and we see the VW Logo on the front. Another has a teen trying to take his dad's car out for a spin - the rear-camera screen shows that in the driveway that dad has written "the mileage is exactly 72346, nice try." Another has a (very very hot) dad agreeing to let his teen drive when they have to stop for gas - cue driving for miles on end because of the awesome gas mileage.

Short, sweet, but most of all, actually demonstrate a great feature of the car itself in an unique & clever way. Advertisers so often forget the last thing - actually making the product itself seem appealing, rather than just an ad that looks cool.

Budweiser made a nice ad that doesn't involve boobs or stupidity. The result? People are freaking and the ad is now "controversial" because if two guys show actually affection and genuinely hug each other, it MUST be a secret gay, don't ask, don't tell subtext.

[kateln]

Why did I have to sign in to see that commercial? What?

They could be brothers, lifelong best friends, lovers, who cares? That was a genuinely sweet and touching commercial. If Budweiser wasn't an awful tasting beer, I'd buy it because of that commercial.