Commercials you hate

[chocolate kisses]

Originally Posted by Mad Jay

I saw a car commercial(I think it was Prius) where they have a person made up of several people. One person is the lower arm, another is upper arm, there are several people that make up the face

That's one seriously creepy dude.

Check out the butt that makes up the nose on the face. There is much laughter at our house when we see that commercial.

[Mad Jay]

Oh yeah.. The first time you see it, you don't notice that it's someone's ass. Then all the people start moving away, and you go "His nose is a butt". Then you can't help but seeing the butt.

[GenYus234]

Try not to think to hard about the process of that thing blowing its nose.

[granola shoes]

*shudder* I'm not a fan of the person-made-from-people commercial either. It gives me the creeps!

[Errata]

I thought that was an interesting commercial the first time I saw it, but the problem is I've seen it a lot more than one time now. That's a problem with Hulu, it seems like they only have a few ads in their rotation at a time and they just hammer you with them over and over.

[Kitsune27]

Originally Posted by granola shoes

*shudder* I'm not a fan of the person-made-from-people commercial either. It gives me the creeps!

Stewart made me change the channel when it came on.

[TallGeekyGirl]

Originally Posted by chocolate kisses

Check out the butt that makes up the nose on the face. There is much laughter at our house when we see that commercial.

Originally Posted by Mad Jay

Oh yeah.. The first time you see it, you don't notice that it's someone's ass. Then all the people start moving away, and you go "His nose is a butt". Then you can't help but seeing the butt.

It gives so much meaning to the phrase, "His nose really smells!"

[RivkahChaya]

Originally Posted by Buckle Up

Pine Sol might have a powerful smell, baby, but my ultimate romantic fantasy does not involve a man mopping my floor.

Oh, I dunno. Will he also change the cat litter? If he can cook as well, then he's my prince.

[kitap]

Originally Posted by Buckle Up

Pine Sol might have a powerful smell, baby, but my ultimate romantic fantasy does not involve a man mopping my floor.

My night cleaners mop with Pine Sol every night. I am unhappy that not once has a handsome man popped up and mopped for them. I want to ogle handsome men!

[Arts Myth]

Originally Posted by TallGeekyGirl

It gives so much meaning to the phrase, "His nose really smells!"

Or to "brown-nose"...

[Avril]

There's a commercial for Rosie O'Donnell's new show (on OWN) running now. She seems angry, not happy, and there is pain in her eyes. You get the feeling she's on the edge and any moment she'll go nuts and attack the audience. It ends with her glaring at the camera, no smile. All other smiles present in the ad are very forced. She seems so unhappy about her "fun" show. It's painful to watch.

[rujasu]

That's kind of what I was afraid of. I've never really been a follower of Rosie, but I remember her being generally cheerful and charming during her last successful run as a daytime talk show host, and since then she doesn't seem to be the same person. Her personal conflicts from a few years back seemed to indicate that her mental health was in a poor state. It wasn't just her political views -- those have always been there -- but she just seemed to come across as very unstable. I was hoping she had resolved some of those issues, but from the looks of your post, she's still not doing well. Again, I was never a huge fan or anything, but she seemed like a decent enough person if nothing else, and part of what made her initial show so successful was that she did seem happy. If I'm right about her mental health deteriorating -- and admittedly I'm speculating here -- it's quite a shame.

Also, I have to wonder how much longer OWN is going to be on the air. I understand the ratings are terrible (no really, Discovery Health was doing much better in every major demographic), and they've been promoting Rosie as basically the person to save the channel. If what Avril is describing is true, I don't think that's going to work out terribly well.

[Avril]

I don't know anything about OWN, really. I saw the ads online. Yet I do think it is true that something about Rosie has changed.

Judge for yourself, but that's my impression:

Here.

[candy from strangers]

Rosie's face looks slightly different than it used to, and I can't quite put my finger on why. It's not a "time has passed" thing, because if anything she looks more youthful than she did the last time I saw her.

Commericals I hate: Those Truvia ads with the woman singing slightly off key and playing a little song on an acoustic guitar. So obnoxious, especially when they happen once a commercial break.

Also, I don't exactly hate this one, but it inspired a debate. The ad where the kid says he traded his bicycle and when the dad asks what for the kid looks at the popsicle he's holding, which is as big as his head.

I made some comment about what kind of ice cream man was tricking kids out of their property and candyman was like "What? Ice cream man? I think he got the popsicle from a smarter kid." I argue that the popsicle was hardly melted (aside from where the kid must have been licking it, but the bottom was still frozen looking and not dripping) and it was larger than a popsicle from a package a kid would have in their house. To me this suggests that it was from an ice cream truck because it would have to have been fresh out of the freezer when the kid got it to not be more melted, and I think an ice cream truck is more likely to have such a comically large popsicle.

It now occurs to me that if he got it from a neighbor kid it wouldn't have melted too much by the time he walked home. I still don't think a random kid's family would have had gigantic popsicles like that in their freezer though because 1) Who allows their child such a large popsicle? and 2) They would take up so much freezer space.

Maybe the family has a large freezer in addition to the one attached to the refridgerator. In that case though, I think that a family with a separate freezer of comically large popsicles that their child has unlimited access to is likely to have already gave their kid a bike though.

[GenYus234]

Wow, I thought I was bad about overanalyzing commmercials.

[Foxy Lady]

Given her screen name, I think she has sweets on the mind!

[Foxy Lady]

Originally Posted by Avril

Dannon Oikos Greek yogurt with John Stamos (or a lookalike--but I think it's John Stamos). Several problems with it:

1. When people bring stuff over as a hostess present, you do not judge its quality. The constant, "Best in the world!" and the, "Really?" that follows make me sure I never want to be friends with such a woman.

2. Whether it's the "best in the world" or not, you don't give yogurt as a present. Which means I also don't think I want to be friends with John Stamos.

Like the old saying goes, beware of Greeks bearing gifts! Their gifts are not always what they seem!

Of course, in this case, it's just yogurt, but I enjoy the play on his culture (get it?).

[Ryda Wong, EBfCo.]

Originally Posted by candy from strangers

Commericals I hate: Those Truvia ads with the woman singing slightly off key and playing a little song on an acoustic guitar. So obnoxious, especially when they happen once a commercial break.

Last night, my roomie wanted to watch Big Bang Theory* and I didn't feel inclined to read as I normally do, so I actually saw prime-time network commercials. There were three in a row that just cooked my goose. The worst offender was a Truvia ad where the woman was all happy about how much of a difference in her life it made to be able to sweeten her coffee and fresh berries and such without risking TEH FATZ.

Really? You are SOOOO concerned about your weight you begrudge a teaspoon of sugar in your am caffine?

*Another disappointment. If you have to explain your jokes to ensure your audeince understands them, it's the wrong audience. Also, Sheldon's totally repugnant personality and the random fat jokes about that one dude's mom were just offputting.

[candy from strangers]

Ugh, yes. I'm pretty sure it's the same one that inspired me to finally post my annoyance with them. I'd seen one or two others that were grating, but the line "You made my butt fat" (or similar) was so obnoxious, especially in the singer's chirpy little over-enunciating voice, irritated me. And the woman frantically eating a cheesecake or something and her man returns with two mugs and looks at her all aghast. If you have such an eating disorder that you are compelled to shove two servings worth of dessert into your face in 5 seconds even though you know someone is on the way back to share it you're probably not going to get much benefit from a low-calorie sweetener anyway.

Also, she says something about enjoying the sweetness without "grief". FFS, it was bad enough for the commercials to all state that women must feel guilt for eating anything other than yogurt, but now we're meant to grieve over it as well?

[mouse goddess]

There's one for a car that features a special snowflake couple after their wedding, going on their honeymoon, which is camping in a tent in the woods that gets rained out.

It's just so hipster-y, it makes me grit my teeth.