Obnoxious advertisements
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In ancient times (pre-remote) they sorta had you captive unless,
You sent your SIGNIFICANT OTHER to CHANGE THE CHANNEL.
However, in those days you only had a few commercials per hour.
Remember Bonanza was sponsored by Chevrolet and they told you that at the beginning of the show and again every 15 minutes?? Maybe 5 minutes of advertisement per hour show.
Now it is about 25 minutes per hour!!
franzas
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I have seen that commercial where the couple ends up in bathtubs, but I don't quite understand why they have separate tubs?
I don't get:
a) what bathtubs have to do with hard-ons
b) who takes baths in front of the ocean or in a forest or whatever
c) how they manage to fill the bathtubs
d) where are these people's clothes/towels
That would be an interesting episode of that beach cops show. Try to explain why you have a bathtub on the beach, no clothes, towels or identification and on top of all that, why there are 3 eyes looking at the officer.
Yeah, and usually followed by... we'll double the offer and send you a second one for "FREE", just pay....
Not my definition of free.
LVSteve
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The funniest thing in that commercial is when the wife says "She sounds hideous", and he replies, "Yeah, well, she's a guy"... like that makes it BETTER?!?!?!
wittmeba
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MOONDAWG
US Veteran
What about car commercials?
Have you ever bought anything from a person who...
"SCREAMED AT UP LIKE YOU WERE DEAF"?
Me neither...
Have you ever bought anything from a person who...
"SCREAMED AT UP LIKE YOU WERE DEAF"?
Me neither...
Dennis The B
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Sometimes the history of the commercial is almost as interesting as its content. In the Dos Equis commercials, Mr. Goldsmith was literally out of sight for a period of time before the commercials were made and aired. When they were aired Mr. Goldsmith assumed an air of mystery, adding to the repertoire of the commercial.
Some of the funniest lines are ones like, "He once parallel parked a train." The superlatives are priceless.
CAJUNLAWYER
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three pages and none of you has figured it out.
These comercials must be working otherwise they would not be spending the money for them. Case in point is three pages of posts spouting off the commercials and what they are promoting. They got 'cha!!!!!!!!
I HATE lawyer advertising with an absolute passion. I think it demeans the profession and refuse to advertise.
That being said, I look at the advertising and hear of lawyers talking about million dollar a year advertising budgets and it suddenly hits me-it must be working I shake my head and wonder if I'm the duffus....Oh well....
These comercials must be working otherwise they would not be spending the money for them. Case in point is three pages of posts spouting off the commercials and what they are promoting. They got 'cha!!!!!!!!
I HATE lawyer advertising with an absolute passion. I think it demeans the profession and refuse to advertise.
That being said, I look at the advertising and hear of lawyers talking about million dollar a year advertising budgets and it suddenly hits me-it must be working
I shake my head and wonder if I'm the duffus....Oh well....
Mcwsky09
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I like Jake, from State Farm - in fact I often use either the phrase "It's uh Jake, from State Farm" or "She sounds hideous" or "Well, he's a guy, so" or even "Uh, khakis" in conversations throughout the day - especially the first one when my wife asks me who was on the phone - cause as often as not it is some sales pitch or charity or the debt collector looking Karen J Hall (and for the record I am not know, nor have I ever been Karen J Hall).
Commercial advertising in general is annoying, especially when it seems to occupy more air time than the content you want to see - DVR is your friend in most cases.
All the Rx commercials are annoying with all their side effects and the one that says talk to your doctor now, 11 million men already have, I think explains why I can never get an appointment with my doctor, but why those 11 million guys would be calling MY doctor I haven't figured our yet.
Especially annoying to me are commercials such as the one years ago for some top tier fuel with additives already in the blend that compared their gas to adding your own fuel additive and showed a guy, apparently with some neuromuscular disorder trying to put the additive is his tank and splashing it all over - the reasons this is annoying are 1 the assumption that I actually need either your product or your competitor's product at all and 2 suggesting that the competitor's product is so hard to use or that customers are so inept that everything would be rainbows and puppy dogs if only you'd switch to their product. Another example of this is the ear vacuum - dunno about you but I have never perforated an ear drum etc using cotton swabs to clean my ears - sure I suppose there is a portion of the population that has far more trouble with wax build up etc or difficulty using cotton swabs properly but the overacting int he commercial makes you think the guy just stabbed himself in the ear with an ice pick.
And if you pay attention there are a slew of commercials that suggest thing like you don't want to be the last one on your block to (fill in the blank) or all your friends and neighbors are already using (fill in the blank) - if you swap their product for heroin or cocaine you wouldn't have to change anything else in the ad at all.
Or how about the ads that say things like "conveniently located" or one local car dealer whose tag line is "closer than you think" - phrases that are effectively devoid of any real meaning and are not tangible or measurable and certainly not equal across an entire population. But also insulting that you think I need you to tell me whether or not your location is convenient to me or whether or not I am capable of determining how far it is from where I work, live, or play to your location.
not sure how it is in other parts of the country - but the number and frequency of insurance ads makes me wonder just how much of their customers money is used to run the business vs buy advertising space/time
/rant off
Commercial advertising in general is annoying, especially when it seems to occupy more air time than the content you want to see - DVR is your friend in most cases.
All the Rx commercials are annoying with all their side effects and the one that says talk to your doctor now, 11 million men already have, I think explains why I can never get an appointment with my doctor, but why those 11 million guys would be calling MY doctor I haven't figured our yet.
Especially annoying to me are commercials such as the one years ago for some top tier fuel with additives already in the blend that compared their gas to adding your own fuel additive and showed a guy, apparently with some neuromuscular disorder trying to put the additive is his tank and splashing it all over - the reasons this is annoying are 1 the assumption that I actually need either your product or your competitor's product at all and 2 suggesting that the competitor's product is so hard to use or that customers are so inept that everything would be rainbows and puppy dogs if only you'd switch to their product. Another example of this is the ear vacuum - dunno about you but I have never perforated an ear drum etc using cotton swabs to clean my ears - sure I suppose there is a portion of the population that has far more trouble with wax build up etc or difficulty using cotton swabs properly but the overacting int he commercial makes you think the guy just stabbed himself in the ear with an ice pick.
And if you pay attention there are a slew of commercials that suggest thing like you don't want to be the last one on your block to (fill in the blank) or all your friends and neighbors are already using (fill in the blank) - if you swap their product for heroin or cocaine you wouldn't have to change anything else in the ad at all.
Or how about the ads that say things like "conveniently located" or one local car dealer whose tag line is "closer than you think" - phrases that are effectively devoid of any real meaning and are not tangible or measurable and certainly not equal across an entire population. But also insulting that you think I need you to tell me whether or not your location is convenient to me or whether or not I am capable of determining how far it is from where I work, live, or play to your location.
not sure how it is in other parts of the country - but the number and frequency of insurance ads makes me wonder just how much of their customers money is used to run the business vs buy advertising space/time
/rant off
OP
three pages and none of you has figured it out.
These comercials must be working otherwise they would not be spending the money for them. Case in point is three pages of posts spouting off the commercials and what they are promoting. They got 'cha!!!!!!!!
I HATE lawyer advertising with an absolute passion. I think it demeans the profession and refuse to advertise.
That being said, I look at the advertising and hear of lawyers talking about million dollar a year advertising budgets and it suddenly hits me-it must be working
I don't think you're a duffus CAJ. I would never hire an Attorney who advertised on TV.
I don't look at it like that. Life is hard, if someone catches a break and gets ahead I try to be happy for them. I believe in Karma (which is nothing more that a restatement of the Biblical principle of sowing and reaping).
Yep... the creators of obnoxious commercials sure know what they are doing when they carefully craft them to stick with us... sometimes like a tune or song that takes up residence in your head and you can get it to stop.
It used to be that commercials were remembered for their cleverness or humor, and some became TV classics. Now it's a contest to see how annoying they can be... like this one.
Years ago, there was a commercial running for a feminine under arm deodorant where some bimbo walked down what looked like the streets of New York, wearing a tank top with arms raised in the air showing off her shaved arm pits to various people... I guess to show the effectiveness of the antiperspirant being hawked.
Along the way she talks to a Hotel Doorman, she stops at a parked cop car with two officers in it, facing the front of the car with arms raised she declares "I'm innocent officers"... barf.
At some point in the commercial, arms still raised, she takes a whiff of one of her arm pits and declares "Oooh!! I'm fresh!!".... really?
Also most in unison, my wife and I shook our heads and looked at each other and said "sure glad this isn't a commercial for some kind of feminine hygiene spray..... snort, "Oooh... I'm fresh".
I'll go take my meds now and go quietly back to my corner.
It used to be that commercials were remembered for their cleverness or humor, and some became TV classics. Now it's a contest to see how annoying they can be... like this one.
Years ago, there was a commercial running for a feminine under arm deodorant where some bimbo walked down what looked like the streets of New York, wearing a tank top with arms raised in the air showing off her shaved arm pits to various people... I guess to show the effectiveness of the antiperspirant being hawked.
Along the way she talks to a Hotel Doorman, she stops at a parked cop car with two officers in it, facing the front of the car with arms raised she declares "I'm innocent officers"... barf.
At some point in the commercial, arms still raised, she takes a whiff of one of her arm pits and declares "Oooh!! I'm fresh!!".... really?
Also most in unison, my wife and I shook our heads and looked at each other and said "sure glad this isn't a commercial for some kind of feminine hygiene spray..... snort, "Oooh... I'm fresh".
I'll go take my meds now and go quietly back to my corner.
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The absolute worst ones to me are the ones that claim to get you off from tax debt. I pay may taxes however reluctantly and hope that all pay their fair share. To me these reek of calling those of us who follow the law idiots. If it were up to me I............................Ah, I would probably get banned if I finished.
george minze
Member
My favorites are....His Mother has a tattoo that says SON, The only person that ever aced the Rorschach test. When he drives a car off of the lot it increases in value. Cuba imports cigars from him, and my favorite is... Misquotes won't bite him out of respect.
Usually I don’t pay a lot of attention to the commercials but there is one type that gets my goat every time they come on, the commercials for the For Profit “Colleges”.
There’s one running now about a certain “college” that’s offering 6 million dollars in “good neighbor scholarships” if you qualify (IOW if you can float the loan). What they’re actually doing is bumping the price of their tuition from 30,000$ to 31,000$ and giving 18,000 people a 1000$ “scholarship”.
What they don’t tell you is that the wages in the “career fields” they teach are so low that you’ll never pay off the student loan. They also don’t tell you that 90% of their graduates end up right back at their old job flipping burgers after graduating.
There’s one running now about a certain “college” that’s offering 6 million dollars in “good neighbor scholarships” if you qualify (IOW if you can float the loan). What they’re actually doing is bumping the price of their tuition from 30,000$ to 31,000$ and giving 18,000 people a 1000$ “scholarship”.
What they don’t tell you is that the wages in the “career fields” they teach are so low that you’ll never pay off the student loan. They also don’t tell you that 90% of their graduates end up right back at their old job flipping burgers after graduating.
vito
US Veteran
I worked for a big advertising agency when I first graduated college about a million years ago (OK, it was only 49 years ago!) but I don't claim to understand the motivation of so many of today's commercials. They are obviously aimed at women since they often portray men as total idiots, but almost never portray women that way.
One type of ad that always makes me laugh at the apparent stupidity of the customers of the product is car ads that imply how adventurous and macho you are if you drive that brand car, such as where it shows motorcycles cruising down the highway and then the car. I guess if you want old rich guys to buy the car so that they can think of themselves as bad *** bikers it might work.
For what it is worth, my wife really hates the ads where you see a gorgeous woman all of about 35 years old saying how the product helps her with her looks despite her "aging".
One type of ad that always makes me laugh at the apparent stupidity of the customers of the product is car ads that imply how adventurous and macho you are if you drive that brand car, such as where it shows motorcycles cruising down the highway and then the car. I guess if you want old rich guys to buy the car so that they can think of themselves as bad *** bikers it might work.
For what it is worth, my wife really hates the ads where you see a gorgeous woman all of about 35 years old saying how the product helps her with her looks despite her "aging".
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