i think this is relevant to the topic: whats getting my goat with many many commercials is the dangerously high quantities of SMUGness.
There is a difference between 'smiling' and vomit-inducing 'smug' in your face - subway is on right now and she's doing it....hell it's EVERYWHERE!!!
The A&W commercial with that same egg shaped manager and the two ladies eating chicken whatevers and she gets annoyed when he tries to tell them how cheap they are since one treated the other...
Not only is this an awful idea with an extremely annoying Bee-otch actress, but it is unoriginal. Macdonald's did the exact same ad campaign a couple years ago.. people trying to hide the price from the people they just bought the dumpy garbage food for.
How is this acceptable? What do these marketers do when they are in their sweet creativity meetings?
The A&W commercial with that same egg shaped manager and the two ladies eating chicken whatevers and she gets annoyed when he tries to tell them how cheap they are since one treated the other...
Not only is this an awful idea with an extremely annoying Bee-otch actress, but it is unoriginal. Macdonald's did the exact same ad campaign a couple years ago.. people trying to hide the price from the people they just bought the dumpy garbage food for.
How is this acceptable? What do these marketers do when they are in their sweet creativity meetings?
You're at A&W! How much do you think she paid for lunch there that you would, in fact, "owe her one"? Your friend spending $10 on you instead of $5 would have been the deal breaker? What a crock of ####.
Could they have possibly made that "splinter" look any less like it was going through his arm? You can buy a $5 knife-through-the-head Halloween costume that looks more realistic than that.
Could they have possibly made that "splinter" look any less like it was going through his arm? You can buy a $5 knife-through-the-head Halloween costume that looks more realistic than that.
Seriously, they should have based it more on this:
Scotiabank Mortgage - why is Sophie's first clue that something is up is the marching band coming out of her garage? Not the camera in her face in the car? #staged
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That new Iphone commercial where they gloat about their phones taking more crappy pictures in the last decade than any other camera or phone.
Seriously, you gotta be proud that some turd burglar took a picture of their eggs benny that their mom made with your phone? Fits the apple crowd just nicely I suppose.
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That new Iphone commercial where they gloat about their phones taking more crappy pictures in the last decade than any other camera or phone.
Seriously, you gotta be proud that some turd burglar took a picture of their eggs benny that their mom made with your phone? Fits the apple crowd just nicely I suppose.
with Samsung making commercials about the things their phones do that the competition doesn't, I guess Apple can always just go back to the well with "we have more customers than everyone else currently, so yay?!"
and since when did Spence ads become self aware? "You hate the commercials...but you'll love our store." well that's no fun, when the company says outright that they've been trolling us all this time.
and since when did Spence ads become self aware? "You hate the commercials...but you'll love our store." well that's no fun, when the company says outright that they've been trolling us all this time.
They've admitted it before. Every two or three years they run a commercial admitting that their commercials suck. I guess enough people continue to buy there, rather than punish them for being so incessantly annoying. If you've bought something at Spence, you're part of the problem.
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Did anyone else just about rip off their face during that Oreo's commercial they played between periods during the San Jose - LA game last night? It was at least a minute (seemed like an hour) long, with some hippie psychedelic artwork and this guy singing/rapping about vampires and the big bad wolf and other such inanities, as if Oreo cookies tamed monsters.
It was absolutely the worst commercial I've seen in years. Decades, maybe.
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Did anyone else just about rip off their face during that Oreo's commercial they played between periods during the San Jose - LA game last night? It was at least a minute (seemed like an hour) long, with some hippie psychedelic artwork and this guy singing/rapping about vampires and the big bad wolf and other such inanities, as if Oreo cookies tamed monsters.
It was absolutely the worst commercial I've seen in years. Decades, maybe.
I watched the game pvr'd so saw no commercials, but I;m sure I'll see this soon, Now I can't wait for it.
Hah, last night, I flipped on CBC, thinking the LA game was on it -the TV came on to this commercial. After about 15 seconds I thought "Nope, this has to be some wierd NFB crap on CBC" and flipped over to TSN. Not more than a minute later, TSN shows the commercial. I sat there and watched it, thinking "WTF?"
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I can't come into the thread without mentioning that stupid "smallenfreuden" commercial again. Dear lord, I hate that commercial. Is it just me or is Mr. Patterson (Patterson? Robinson? The smallenfreuden husband) doing the wife of the envious couple? That's the only way I interpret those freaky looks between the two.
I can't take the ad for the pedi-sander, or whatever it's called. As in literally have to leave the room. It's like a sanding belt for your feet. Or pedi-paws for people. Or something. It's not the product that makes me bananas. It's the feet! Horrible, horrible crusty, hoof-like feet with thick pads of calluses. Eww. I've sat through indignities like random surprise anus inspections and "Enjoy the go!!", the 12 meter chair push and negligent monsters of TV parents who think 12 hours between diaper changes is a selling point and an endless barrage of Olay being all up in my face to take some bull#### challenge or an other. But this foot scraping thing commercial just makes me want to run away screaming. No exaggeration, I'd rather watch a live tonsillectomy.
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Ugh, came into post exactly about this. Urge to kill rising as soon as this comes on....and it just goes on and on and on.
I can't stand the whole recent trend of these animated commercials with some animated elements with some cutesy hipster singing. There's one with a Prius, and I think Subaru had one not long ago.
That Volkswagon commercial with the chick at the butcher shop annoys the hell out of me. The chick looks and talks like some kind of female pedophile, and the entire commercial just creeps me out.
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That Volkswagon commercial with the chick at the butcher shop annoys the hell out of me. The chick looks and talks like some kind of female pedophile, and the entire commercial just creeps me out.
Heh, that's my wife's absolute favorite commercial. I've got no strong feelings about it, but whenever it comes on she pretty-much stops conversing and watches until it's over.
