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It is inevitable that there are commercials (not the same ones for years, but they rotate for weeks) that will play at exactly the same time every freakin' day while we're getting ready and that freakin' jingle will go through my head my entire trip to work! (and no - it makes no sense to mute the TV during this - we're getting ready and not watching, but listening).
This is why I changed the radio station on my clock radio, only it wasn't the same commercials at the same times (that I noticed, at least), it was the same damn songs at the same times every morning. Rotate your playlist a little more often than once a month, for crying out loud.
For the record, I actually kinda like the Highlander commercials. The kid is cute.
I like the clever commercials, and the more artsy ones. There's one for a hotel in Vagas with the slogan "The right amount of wrong", that I always have to watch because it's pretty and there's kittens! Somewhere on the internets, too, is a commercial for an ice cream place in L.A., I think, which is just a kitten eating a teeny ice cream cone and then wandering off. Commercials can be done well, and make the consumer actually like the company!
But then I hear the ones for Bob's Discount Furniture, and I want the Zombie Apocolypse to come and wash everything away, because if I hear "Buy Bob's Bob-o-pedic! And Bob's Lazy-Bob! From Bob! BAAAAB!" one more time, I'm hunting Bob down and punching him in the mouth. I will gladly pay twice as much to avoid ever buying anything from that evil, evil man. And yeah, that's a real company. And basically the gist of all of their commercials, which advertise cleverly named knock-offs of other furniture. (And it is, from what I gather, supposed to be pronounced "Baab". That's how he always screams it. ALWAYS.)
And one today made me raise an eyebrow. It was an ad for work with a radio company, which was fine and all, except at the end, when they said they were an equal oppurtunity employer. That's obviously not the issue I took. It was the fact that after that disclaimer, the announcer says, in an EXTREMELY enthused voice, "Minorities and FEMALES are welcome!" (emphasis his) Uh, thanks? I don't know why that offends me, it just seemed unnessecary. Like, "we totally don't decriminate! We even hire FEMALES! And brown people, too!" That should really not have to be clairified, especially after you already told me you were a EEE.
As a (gross!) side note , someone mentioned earlier the commercial for the pills/suppliments that are supposed to clear out the 'fecal matter' from your intestines, those are really gross and fake. They contain the clay from kitty litter inside the capsule, so when it dissolves in your intestines, the stuff expands and you end up with a really creepy rubbery... er, snake. Which is supposed to be the super unhealthy blockage, which the pills can never sure, since they're the cause. I'm sorry from the TMI, but I read an article on it and cannot keep it to just myself.
We have one here for a local cell phone store. This lady comes up to a guy behind the counter wearing sunglasses, and trenchcoat, and a pervy smile, and asks him if he can flash her phone. So he lays it on a chair behind him and, with his back to the camera, proceeds to "flash" the phone. He hands it back to her nodding his head and grinning and she says, "Thank you!"
It was kind of funny the first time. 2 billion times later, not so much.
I can think of only two at the moment that have caused me to actively boycott the companies. Both are from 10+ years ago, but I still refuse to buy the merchandise. The first one was Quizno's Sandwich shops, with their screeching sprog monkies, or whatever they were called, and the other is Sprite with their little ethnically oriented dolls.
There are a few other companies I boycott for personal reasons, but no need to go into that here.
Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.
The first one was Quizno's Sandwich shops, with their screeching sprog monkies,
The spongmonkeys are the only reason I ever ate at Quiznos. I can remember seeing the advert for the very first time and laughing so much i nearly wet myself, and then asking DH, "is there one of those Quiznos places near here? I HAVE TO SEE THE PEPPER BAR!"
Sadly, the pepper bar in the Quiznos in Milton Keynes is not worth the visit. The subs are nice, though.
A person who is nice to you, but not nice to the waiter is not a nice person
- Dave Barry
The first one was Quizno's Sandwich shops, with their screeching sprog monkies, or whatever they were called, and the other is Sprite with their little ethnically oriented dolls.
I can't remember the sponge monkeys (and don't want to, thanks), but the commercial that turned me off of Quiznos forever was the one where some guy wanders past a public trash can and pulls out a wrapper and licks it! Disgusting!
.... the worst part is that we don't even see the wrapper deposited, so there's no telling how long it's been there collecting nasty public trash can germs. And that freaky-ass baby didn't help my opinion of the chain, either.
Nor did the "we're totally better than Subway" commercials - if you're really better than Subway, you wouldn't have to tell me you're totally better than Subway.
Oh, fun fact: Used to have a Quiznos by my work. That space is now occupied by.... Subway!
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Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
a few years ago my mom (a florist, now retired) boycotted Hershey's
"I'd rather get chocolate for Valentines, than flowers, cause flowers just say 'oh, hope you feel better' and chocolate says I love you".
In her shop, mom sold Hershey's chocolates, with her flowers, (and any other upgrades) at Valentines... She contacted Hershey's about it, and they basically said "sorry you're offended that we're disparaging your product to promote ours, but we don't see it that way, not gonna change it, kthnxbai"
so for 2 years - she didn't buy Hershey's products - do you know how many sup-companies there are to Hershey? A LOT! She even requested that other people not bring it over to our house...
I am well versed in the "gentle" art of verbal self-defense
Once is an accident; Twice is coincidence; Thrice is a pattern.
I think it is a Chef Boyardee commercial, but I could be wrong.
A woman is offering samples of the new pasta product in a grocery store. There is a stack of cans containing the product beside her. A woman and her young son comes up and the demonstrator offers the product to the son. He takes it, tries it, and then the demonstrator tries to say that the product contains a serving of fruits and/or vegetables (I can't remember). The mom tries to get the demonstrator to stop talking and ends up shoving her cart into the stack of cans, knocking them down before dragging her son away. The demonstator remarks that this is the third time it has happened today (or something like that).
Must be a local commercial, as I have no idea what casino you're talking about!
Yeah, it's Pechanga, in California.
To be fair, with a lot of products, the disclaimers are necessary, and since there aren't really regulations about the speed of said disclaimers, advertisers will often just rattle them off at breakneck speed to be able to say they put on those disclaimers in case of any future litigation.
I think it is a Chef Boyardee commercial, but I could be wrong.
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The mom tries to get the demonstrator to stop talking and ends up shoving her cart into the stack of cans, knocking them down before dragging her son away. The demonstator remarks that this is the third time it has happened today (or something like that).
That one ticks me off.
Ooooooh, I haven't even seen it and I hate it! That goes for any commercial that encourages that kind of behavior, like that bitch in the Aleve commercial who just drops the handbasket of stuff she doesn't want on the floor!
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