Commercials you hate

[kitap]

Those Chevy commercials where the parents do nothing but say "Tonito " as they take care of him. They grate.

[rockland6674]

There's a commercial where male offspring asks supermarket-shopping mother for a treat, "PLEEEEEEEEEEASE?" Mother gives male offspring Fruit Roll-Ups. Male offspring immediately exits, stage right. You're welcome.

[Kallah]

A few minutes ago my roommate and I caught a video advertisement neither of us had seen before, and hopefully won't see again (this is probably a fruitless hope). It was an advertisement for a pen company depicting a man in a mascot-style pen costume, waiting to be interviewed for what I could only assume was a job. First there's a scene of him wandering around, then he's in the waiting room, nervous, with blue "ink" sweat stains under his arms. Finally we see him at the end of the interview, shaking and extremely nervous. The suit-clad interviewer, behind a typical desk, tells the pen-mascot-man that he did a good job in the interview, at which point we hear a gasp, the man in the pen suit shakes, and blue ink splatters across the interviewer's face. Now, right there, I assumed it was my filthy mind getting in the way, but big bold text pops onto the advertisement talking about "performance" and needing a pen that can last. Is it just me, or did they just strongly imply a pen had a premature ink-orgasm?

[Avril]

I have been seeing a Skittles ad lately with a young woman making out with a walrus. It's quite gross. I don't know whose idea it was, but it was bad.

[Swordmaster]

Avril - I had a stomach bug the first time I saw that commercial, and it literally made me sick.

[SplishFish]

Originally Posted by Ryda Wong, EBfCo.

I really am starting to hate the Swiffer commercials based around finishing housework in half the time.

In each commercial, the woman in the "mother" role is so excited by finishing her housework faster because it allows her to drink her coffee on the porch, read a book, take a home spa day.

But in each and every commercial, she has children in the household who are certainly able to do housework. Why in the HECK aren't they chipping in to give mom a break?

It just grates on me and seems to reaffirm that idea that housework is a mom's/woman's job.

They may have redeemed themselves a little bit with the latest installment I saw. Mom and Dad are cleaning and Mom says "I'm done!" and Dad replies in a certain suggestive tone, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Cut to Mom and Dad having a squirt-gun fight in yard.

[JoeBentley]

That one was at least an improvement.

I'll be more impressed when a commercial shows a man doing housework by himself on his on accord without being a bumbling idiot or implying that the product makes it easy enough so "a man can do it."

[WildaBeast]

Originally Posted by JoeBentley

I'll be more impressed when a commercial shows a man doing housework by himself on his on accord without being a bumbling idiot...

Along those same lines, I found the ads that Carl's Jr. ran a few years back that basically said "men can't cook" rather offensive. I'm sure I mentioned it in a previous incarnation of this thread.

Their ads with scantily clad women really aren't any better, either.

[TallGeekyGirl]

Carl's has nothing but annoying ads, it seems. For the reasons stated above, and a third reason: the ads that have guys eating in the most disgustingly noisy, sloppy way possible, slurping and chewing and gulping and ... eeh...

[Mouse]

Carl's Jr. ads are always even more hypermasculine than most beer commercials which always makes me wonder: do they, for some reason, believe that women hate burgers so trying to appeal to that demographic is a waste of time? It's funny because most of the time people market to women because apparently most of the purchases for a household are made by women. It seems stupid that they'd want to shut out half of the population, but I've heard things about the CEO of Carl's that basically says hating women is par the course for him. Can't confirm any of this so maybe I shouldn't slander anyone's character, though.

[WildaBeast]

Originally Posted by Mouse

do they, for some reason, believe that women hate burgers so trying to appeal to that demographic is a waste of time?

Of course. Women only eat things like salads, and yogurt.

[erwins]

The "hand-grown avocados" ads on the radio. What the NFBSK is that supposed to mean? It's meaningless, and it makes me react every time I hear it.

[Avril]

If you could actually grow an avocado in your hand, that would be really impressive!

[Avril]

Originally Posted by SplishFish

They may have redeemed themselves a little bit with the latest installment I saw. Mom and Dad are cleaning and Mom says "I'm done!" and Dad replies in a certain suggestive tone, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Cut to Mom and Dad having a squirt-gun fight in yard.

That's so 1960. Mr. Clean did that fifty years ago. (Well, without suggestive tones and squirt guns, but with the husband and wife cleaning things and then having fun later because they got their jobs done faster.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuPShtmJKbI

[Roadsterboy]

There's a commercial for some cell phone carrier, where a guy in a suit interrupts another man in a restaurant to try and lure him back to his carrier, by offering him a cell phone that does all kinds of ridiculous things except make phone calls.

I get that it's supposed to be some sort of comment on how good their network is but it comes off as a slam against smartphones and their users, which irritates me more because the phone they advertise at the end of the ad is a smartphone.

-RB

[Cervus]

Originally Posted by WildaBeast

Of course. Women only eat things like salads, and yogurt.

Except women rarely actually eat in commercials, and when they do, it's only a spoonful.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Cervus

Except women rarely actually eat in commercials, and when they do, it's only a spoonful.

Actually, Hardee's/Carl's has had commercials with women eating giant burgers, taking quite large bites - IIRC, as they (the women, not the burgers) fixed cars.

ETA: I could not find the one I had in mind.

Well, here are a couple:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvz63nkDcMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHWTc8cUhkw

[kitap]

Originally Posted by JoeBentley

That one was at least an improvement.

I'll be more impressed when a commercial shows a man doing housework by himself on his on accord without being a bumbling idiot or implying that the product makes it easy enough so "a man can do it."

Well, Pine-Sol had one where the male character in the commercial said he had to win back the heart of the woman he loved and he knew how to do it : the next scene showed him mopping the floor and smiling at the Pine-Sol lady.

[Tabbyclaw]

Originally Posted by Amigone201

She talks about her symptoms, and says, "Then you ask yourself: 'How did I get here?'"

I didn't even have to read the rest of your post. I immediately went to the same place.

-Tabby
the princess with claws

[WildaBeast]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

Actually, Hardee's/Carl's has had commercials with women eating giant burgers, taking quite large bites - IIRC, as they (the women, not the burgers) fixed cars.

Somehow I doubt the intent of those ads is to market the burgers to women, though.