that Peloton ad is causing a hell of a shitstorm online
I don't really buy the idea that it's necessarily sexist or problematic but it is deeply weird, it kinda reminds me of the commercials I grew up with in the 90s that had bad actors and told bizarre stories that clearly weren't focus grouped at all
― frogbs, Friday, 6 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
what's up with the walmart ready player one thing?
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 1 February 2020 08:21 (four years ago) link
i think i figured out the theme: they all have some sort of sci-fi ship. they are trying to make the fact that you have to drive to a walmart cool, when their competitors will just mail the stuff to your door.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 1 February 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
h8 this guy
https://i0.wp.com/bobsullivan.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Cap-One.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 03:01 (three years ago) link
the allstate moon commercial is close to ruining "crusin" forever for me
― ✖, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 04:31 (three years ago) link
The Jill Scott Nationwide commercial is literally satan
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
i wonder if state farm has to pay like double the going rate to get athletes for its painfully dorky ads
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
I don't think so.
https://i.imgur.com/QXTC5eD.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
man i hope jill got paid
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
My gf is rewatching Fringe on IMDB's streaming thing and they play that Nationwide ad during literally every single commercial break. I never thought I'd have occasion to implore Jill Scott to shut the everloving fuck up for the love of christ but, well, here we are.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 02:54 (two years ago) link
It's like if the HR manager at your shitty corporate job Tiktok-ed a musical paean to corporate synergy and it went viral.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
--A talking ass for SeatGeek
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 04:54 (two years ago) link
Liberty Mutual was bad enough when it was just Liberty Liberty Liberty Liiiiberty etcthe limu emu shit though is a plague
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 05:10 (two years ago) link
all the AT&T commercials with Lily make me want to die
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
I feel like the intolerability quotient of advertising would drop by like 90% if it was illegal for insurance companies to make commercials.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
the Dean Winters commercials as "Mayhem" are pretty good. or maybe I just think they're good because they actually have something to do with insurance? like every other company is just doing "you can save a lot on insurance!" and "oh my god, I can't shut the fuck up about insurance!"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
i think commercials in general are getting more annoying and desperate for attention. maybe they have to now that they're competing with "switching to a different tab" and "looking at phone"
― ✖, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
WHY are these BIRDS so ANGRY???
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
also wanna mention the USAA ad where Gronk is trying and failing to buy insurance?? one because he fucking sucks as an actor (surprising!!), two because why are we supposed to believe superstar athletes give a fuck about their home and auto insurance? what is this contrived Trix and the rabbit situation
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
What... what year did you just post this from?
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
The Geico angry birds commercial still airs all the time!! The game is well over a decade old!! As old as Mario 64 was when it first came out!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVjFdaRxoo0
This Ben Moore commercial is just a farce. NOT how you paint.
― Kim, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
The Russian meerkat characters getting cancelled is objectively absurd and somewhat indicative of ugly xenophobia that is already having worse consequences, but can't say I'll miss the little fuckers.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
dunno why they didn't just go "oh Sergei is ukranian of course" tho unless there's some deeper meerkat lore I'm not privy to.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
uhhh the Uber Eats commercial where celebrities drink soap and eat candles?
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 June 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
the youtube tv commercial (i think that's what it's for, some streaming alternative to cable) where the woman keeps moaning and groaning. physical pain to hear it
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 June 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
I do not understand these AT&T Lily commercials at all, every single one comes off like half the dialogue has been removed
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
"I'm Cologuard and I detect altered DNA in your stool"
I know this falls into the rather wide category of ads that are really just trying to get you to pester your doctor or whatever but jesus the ubiquity of this one on any show streaming on Paramount+
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 22 September 2022 08:19 (one year ago) link
also yeah the Lily commercials are very very strange
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 22 September 2022 08:20 (one year ago) link
feel like Rule #1 of writing/directing commercials is knowing that the vast majority of your audience isn't really paying attention. so all this intricately produced stuff that's paced like an Avengers movie is just kinda falling on deaf ears, particularly those which have very little to do with the product itself. back in my day a commercial was just two dude yelling "ZESTY!" at each other
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 September 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
Geico doing a bunch of "TV dad" commercials who I presume from the sweaters is trying to resemble Bill Cosby
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
Think he's supposed to resemble the character he played on Family Matters (the Urkel show)?
Me, I could live without the Cologuard (place that sends you a box you shit in and return to be tested for cancer) commercials that feature a rewritten version of My Way.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
lol ok, didn't watch it so I didn't realize it was the same actor
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link