Commercials

[comfortablynumb]

I love the new WalMart commercials. The one with the two little girls smearing Oil of Olay all over their sleeping grandpa's face ("He'll look like a baby when he wakes up!), and the one where the little girl is using her dad's cell phone for her Barbie (It's her flatscreen TV! She lives in Malibu!). Such cute kids. Cracks me up every time.

[magazinewhore]

Call me a child hater if you must, but I really hate the Values - Pass it On commercials that feature kids.

I saw that ad and said to AM: "beatings, pass them on."

[bklynred]

I hate the Sylvan commercials that run on NBC every morning during the Today Show, although by now I have them memorized. "We've grounded you, got tutors..." "You think I want to fail?" "Saying it and doing it are two different things!" Except in my version, the Sylvan rep says "It's good that you called us. We'll hang your son upside down and electrocute him till he starts bringing home As. You'll see the results!"

[bklynred]

Jun 15, 2011 13:06:52 GMT -4 comfortablynumb said:

I love the new WalMart commercials...and the one where the little girl is using her dad's cell phone for her Barbie (It's her flatscreen TV! She lives in Malibu!). Such cute kids. Cracks me up every time.

The cell-as-flatscreen is hilarious, esp. when he's taking the call at the end.

[chonies]

The State Farm commercial with men buying things with all the money they saved. Superficially, the "hey, a falcon/suit of armor/segway" is kind of amusing, but it looks like it's only men making odd purchasing choices, and today I noticed the wife of the falcon guy is the annoying as hell yogurt lady. "No, I ate a shitload of pie flavored goo, so take the pants in."

[kostgard]

Who is the jackass making the Vagisil commercials?

First we have the ladies who go from color to black and white in shame over their cooter funk, and now they've got one where a lady is out shopping and she turns into the unibomber over her frustration that she can't itch her crotch in public (like the fact that she's staring at her reflection in a store window looking pained with her hands over her cha-cha isn't giving something away).

Thank goodness Vagisil makes feminine itch wipes! Otherwise she'd have to find some dark corner of the department store and hope that the security cameras can't see her scratching herself.

[Witchie]

Jul 1, 2011 13:19:59 GMT -4 kostgard said:

Who is the jackass making the Vagisil commercials?

First we have the ladies who go from color to black and white in shame over their cooter funk, and now they've got one where a lady is out shopping and she turns into the unibomber over her frustration that she can't itch her crotch in public (like the fact that she's staring at her reflection in a store window looking pained with her hands over her cha-cha isn't giving something away).

Thank goodness Vagisil makes feminine itch wipes! Otherwise she'd have to find some dark corner of the department store and hope that the security cameras can't see her scratching herself.

Wow. I... wow!

[ikmccall]

So, according to the Toshiba laptop commercial, spoiled milk leads to the zombie apocalypse??
Makes me laugh each time I see it.

[kostgard]

God, I hate the Jell-o chocolate-flavored foam commercials with the parents who torture their kids for daring to eat their dessert. One is a woman telling a horrible bedtime story to her daughter, promising that awful stuff happens to kids who steal crappy Jell-o desserts, so the little kid gives them up. Then another one has a parent scaring the bejezus out of their kids camping in the back yard so they can get their crappy dessert back, and the couple sits on the porch, cramming it into their faces and congratulating each other while their children presumably huddle inside the house together shivering in terror.

That trend is about as bad as the parents who are terrified of telling their children that the food they are eating contains vegetables or is good for them. Like the ones with the parents who run out of sugary cereal so they feed their kid Fiber One, shaking in fear and refusing to tell him what he's eating. Then they look on, completely stunned, while the kid eats it and actually likes it.

[WitchyPoo]

That cell phone commercial with the tarantula wallpaper and the guy who smashes the phone with his shoe needs to go away. It's on so much. I reach for the remote to turn down the volume before the woman starts shrieking.